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Top Pop Band |
Status Green |
Anthony Fiumano & The Medicine Chest
Readymade Breakup
Status Green
A Love Like Pi
Miss TK And The Revenge
Like Trains and Taxis
The Fave
The Mill Stone |
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Top Rock Band |
Last Perfect Thing |
The Milwaukees
Smoking Aces
One False Move
Tunnels to Holland
Cutlass
The Afterbangs
One Stormy Minute
XOL Azol Band
Black Clouds |
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Top Indie Rock Band |
The Obvious |
Screaming Females
Scott Liss & The Sixty Six
Last Days Of Empire
Grand Alto
Terminal Reynaldo
Bubble Gum
Full Of Fancy
Delft
The Vanities |
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Top Live Performance |
Status Green |
Turtle Soup
Maybe Pete
Screaming Females
Green Tag Sale
Cutlass
Last Perfect Thing
Chris Batten & The Woods
Axel Foley
The Milwaukees |
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Top Heavy Rock Band |
Sekond Skyn |
Divinity Destroyed
A Day Of Pigs
Last Days Of Empire
Through the Grey
Dalloway
End Of An Era
The Man With The Dynamite
Hands |
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Top Young Band (under 21) |
Outside The Box |
Ministry Of Pain
Mystical Fudge
Bleed The Arsonist
Hollander
Lost In Society
Catalyst
Lemon Juice
Amskray
Irie Sound |
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Top Punk / Ska Band |
Sex Zombies |
Lost In Society
Trip South
Lousy Break
The Wretched Ones
The Bandits
Awful Waffle
Explosive Sheep
Before The After Party |
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Top Jam Band |
Green Tag Sale |
Turtle Soup
Lemon Juice
Karmic Juggernaut
Amber Blues
Atmosferics
Soup Sandwich
BuzzUniverse
Kathouse Rhythm |
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Top Americana |
Arlan Feiles & The Lone Howdys |
Victory Gin
Eryn Shewell Band
Joe Harvard Band
Divine Sign
The Basement Musicians
Michael Patrick & The Suburban
Hillbillies |
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Top Groove Band |
Turtle Soup |
Aquavibe
Big Baby Ernie
Jazz Pollution
Xol Azul Band
Axel Foley
B Side Alliance
Flight School
The Soul Project
Brown |
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Top Avante-Guarde Act |
Colie Brice & New Age
Blues Experience |
A Diary Of Need
The Do Dads
Chemtrail
Calamity Menagerie
Mothguts
Virago
Sex Zombies
Delft
Lunar Ensemble |
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Top Blues Band |
Outside The Box |
Chuck Lambert Band
Jo Wymer & The Itty Bitty Band
Eryn Shewell Band
The Afterbangs
Jim Hayes & The Buddha Brains |
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Top Jersey Roots Band |
Maybe Pete |
Bob Polding Band
Cool Days End
Vini Lopez & Steel Mill
Chris Batten & The Woods
Green Underground |
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Poet Laureate |
Jessi Smith |
Greg G. Brown
Tony Panzica
Dan Weeks
Mark Baird
Patrick "Professor" Vile
Chad Anderson
Donald Arrington
Nicole Homer
La B |
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Top Music Website To
Support Live Original Music |
AsburyMusic.com |
Chorusandverse.com
jerseyshore.metromix.com/music
Jersey Jamcast (usdin.net/jjcblog)
Blowupradio.com
phanphest.com
Jerseybeat.com
AsburyMusician.ning.com
jerseytoddshow.com |
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Top Male Acoustic Act |
Keith Kenny |
Tony Tedesco
Keith McCarthy
Bob Denson
George Wirth
Anthony Fiumano
Quincy Mumford
Domenick Carino
Sam Sims
Tommy Strazza |
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Top Female Acoustic Act |
Divine Sign |
Amanda Duncan
Joanna Burns
Virago
Aster Pheonyx
Kelly Carvin
Mash McClain
Beth Arentsen
Sheli Aarden |
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Top Male Vocalist |
Lou Montesano (Status Green) |
Paul Rosevear (Readymade Breakup)
Michael Depko (Last Days of Empire)
Dylan St. Clark (The Milwaukees)
Frankie McGrath (Maybe Pete)
Chris Harris (Like Trains & Taxis)
Jeff Cafone (Outside Of The Box)
Chris Batten (Chris Batten & The Woods)
Alex Brumel (The Mill Stone)
Anthony Fiumano (Anthony Fiumano &
The Medicine Chest) |
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Top Female Vocalist |
Kerry McNulty (Divine Sign) |
Joanna Burns
Janel Elizabeth (The Mill Stone)
Eryn Shewell (Eryn Shewell Band)
Miss TK (Miss TK And The Revenge)
Jo Wymer (Jo Wymer & The Itty Bitty Band)
Erin Hays (Full Of Fancy)
Angie Sugrim (The Obvious)
Jerzy Jung (Jerzy Jung) |
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Top Guitarist |
Jeremy Korpas
(Green Tag Sale) |
Keith Kenny
Dan Ridenour (Chemtrail)
Kelly McGrath (Maybe Pete)
Jeff "Mudd" Mahajan (Turtle Soup)
Marrissa (Screaming Females)
Pat Ruh (Eryn Shewell Band)
Joe Harvard (Joe Harvard Band)
James McCaffrey (Karmic Juggernaut)
Doug Mikula (The Domino Effect/Woodfish) |
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Top Bassist |
Jay Walker (Colie Brice & The New Age Blues Experience) |
Billy Vegas (Green Tag Sale)
Russell Tolas (Status Green)
Gianni Scalise (Scott Liss & The Sixty Six)
J.Maggio (Chemtrail)
Mike McDermott (Turtle Soup)
Alex Blitz (Atmosferics)
Matt Chicole (Grand Alto)
Chris Shann (Delft)
Paul Gaita (Juggling Suns) |
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Top Drummer |
Andrew Lenaghan (Green Tag Sale / Juggling Suns) |
Chris Donofrio (Last Perfect Thing)
James Griffith (Scott Liss and the Sixty-Six)
Mike Montalto (Status Green)
Chris Lukens (Chemtrail)
Johnny Macko (Maybe Pete)
Billy Burke (Grand Alto)
Fran Azzarto (The Fave) |
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Top Keyboard Player |
Arlan Feiles (Arlan Feiles & The Lone Howdys) |
Ben Feld (Turtle Soup)
Hodge (A Love Like Pi)
Chris Harris (Like Trains and Taxis)
Jerzy Jung (Jerzy Jung)
Mark Masefield (Outside The Box)
Jim Panels (Green Tag Sale)
Joanne Burns (Joanne Burns)
Beth Arentsen (Beth Arentsen)
Jason Bruner (Last Days Of Empire) |
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Song Of The Year |
"Firebomb" (Status Green) |
"Begin" (Tunnels To Holland)
"Lucky Numbers" (Anthony Fiumano)
"Sudden Fiction" (The Brixton Riot)
"Sunday Morning" (Arlan Feiles)
"Cry Like I Do" (Divine Sign)
"Let Me Down" (Quincy Mumford)
"A Little Bit More" (The Mill Stone)
"Perfect" (One Stormy Minute)
"Another Cigarette" (Maybe Pete) |
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Top Journalist In Support
Of Live Music |
John Pfeiffer
(Aquarian Weekly/ECR) |
Dom Gregoria (The Rag)
Stephen Bove (Asbury Park Press)
Chris Jordan (Home News Tribune)
Jay Lustig (Star Ledger)
Ed Condran (Asbury Park Press)
Jim Testa (Jersey Beat)
Richard Skelly (U.S. 1/Asbury Park Press)
Mary O’Connor (The Rag)
Gary Wien (AsburyMusic.com) |
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Top News Publication In Support Of Live Music |
Aquarian Weekly/ECR |
The Rag
Asbury Park Press
The Pulse
Jersey Beat
The Islander
Tri-City News |
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Top Local Release |
"Come Sunday Morning"
(Arlan Feiles) |
"Alive On The Vine" (Readymade Breakup)
"Wishin Well" (The Black Clouds)
"Quincy Mumford" (Quincy Mumford)
"Window Pane" (Eryn Shewell)
"Straight To Red" (Maybe Pete)
"Limit Is The Sky" (Keith Kenny)
"Definitely Overdue" (Divine Sign)
"A Perfect Reality" (Mike Montrey)
"When Strangers Say Hello"
(Anthony Fiumano) |
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Top Radio Personality To Support Live Music |
Jeff Raspe (90.5 The Night) |
Steve Hook (95.9 The Rat)
Erin Vogt (GRock Radio 106.3/106.5)
Lazlo (blowupradio.com)
Rich Robinson (90.5 The Night)
Keith Roth (95.9 The Rat)
Jared Midgen (88.7 WRSU-FM)
Jersey Todd (JerseyToddShow.com)
Gary Wien (ThePenguinRocks.com) |
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Top Radio Station To
Support Live Music |
90.5 "The Night"
(Brookdale Public Radio) |
ThePenguinRocks.com
105.7 "The Hawk"
GRock Radio 106.3/106.5 FM
Blowupradio.com
WRAT 95.9 "The Rat"
88.7 WRSU (Rutgers University)
"The X" 88.9 "Modern Rock With An
Edge" (Monmouth University) |
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Best Thing To Happen in 2007/2008 |
"A Night In Progress Series"
Hosted By Rick Barry |
• Live Nation Comes to Asbury Park, NJ
• Parlor Mob becomes a National Tours Act
• Asbury Park Boardwalk Rocked the Shore Line this Summer
• Guinness Oyster Festival Huge Success
• Val Emmich gets nationwide spotlight on "30 Rock" and "Ugly Betty"
• Tim McLoone’s Supper Club Opens on the Asbury Park Boardwalk
• Grand Arcade Opens in Convention Hall
• The Gay Blades are signed to Triple Crown Records
• Jody Joseph performed with 45 of her students and raised over $12,000 For Pediatric Cancer Research at Stone Pony 12/16/07 |
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Living Legend 2008 |
Kyle Brendle |
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James M. MacDonald Musician’s Lifetime Achievement Award |
Billy McKelvey |
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