The 2013 Pier Award Nominees

The 2013 Pier Award Nominees


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Welcome to the 2013 Pier Award Nominations

The nomination process include 5 categories with 10 nominees per category. The 10 nominees were selected & voted on by The Pier Family. The Pier has a staff that includes 15 members in 10 states. After working within the scene this last year, between covering new albums, tours & live events spanning the nation, we unanimously voted on the 10 selected nominees to be considered for The 2013 Pier Awards.

In this first round, your votes will select the Top 5 of the 10 listed nominees in each section. The Top 5 artists selected per category, will then move on to the next round of voting. Round 2 will take place from December 16th – December 22nd, where you will then vote for the top artist per category. The votes from each category will then be tallied & a single winner per category will be announced on December 23rd.

Scroll below to find each nominee’s website & Facebook links, a long with the 10 music videos up for nomination. Enjoy the feature and celebrate the hard work of each group, let’s recognize these artists for their musical contribution of 2013!

Nomination Process Has Ended – Place Your Vote HERE!

The Voting For Top Artist Per Category Can Be Found HERE

We understand there may be some groups not nominated, that you feel deserve recognition. Feel free to drop a comment below with who you feel should have been considered for nomination & include a link to check out their music! We want to use these awards as an opportunity to create awareness & attention for the bands that had a great year with their art & contribution. Selecting these 10 nominees was very difficult and it’s a tribute to the evolving depth of great artists doing big things with their music.

To Be Considered: Artist of the Year…

In most cases, a nominee for Artist of the Year can just as easily be nominated for any of the other categories, but that’s not fair. So, the ten nominees for this category hold a certain weight of influence over the scene with their art and contribution, especially in 2013. This is the most difficult category to nominate groups for, but we feel the selected ten groups had an outstanding 2013 with an impact & influence felt throughout the entire community. The Nominees to be considered are:

  • 311:
    Website / Facebook

  • The Green:
    Website / Facebook

  • Pepper:
    Website / Facebook

  • Tribal Seeds:
    Website / Facebook

  • Passafire:
    Website / Facebook

  • Fortunate Youth:
    Website / Facebook

  • Dirty Heads:
    Website / Facebook

  • Fat Freddy’s Drop:
    Website / Facebook

  • Rebelution:
    Website / Facebook

  • Morgan Heritage:
    Website / Facebook

    To Be Considered: Album of the Year…

    There were a ton of great albums released in 2013 and we could easily nominate 20 in this category, but we kept it to the top 10 based on reviews & general feedback from the year. Sure, some albums have really good songs that stay with you for awhile, but we nominated albums that we feel will stay with you in its entirety, from start to finish. From production to creativity, originality to its likability, we focused on ten albums, all of which received the highest star rating in our reviews earning at least 3.5 out of five stars. (EPs have been excluded from this category). Read ALL of our Album Reviews!. The Nominees to be considered are:

  • John Browns Body – Kings and Queens:
    Website / Facebook

  • Iration – Automatic:
    Website / Facebook

  • The Green – Hawai’i 13:
    Website / Facebook

  • Passafire – Vines:
    Website / Facebook

  • The Hip Abduction – The Hip Abduction:
    Website / Facebook

  • Alborosie – Sound The System:
    Website / Facebook

  • Ballyhoo! – Pineapple Grenade:
    Website / Facebook

  • Slightly Stoopid – TRI Studios:
    Website / Facebook

  • Fortunate Youth – Its All A Jam:
    Website / Facebook

  • Gentleman – New Day Dawn:
    Website / Facebook

    To Be Considered: Live Artist of the Year…

    Any artist can stay at home, record music and throw a project up on iTunes, promoting only with a crazy internet marketing, while playing sparingly at local venues. But to get in a van and perform most of the year at a new venue in a new city, each night, isn’t easy. There are challenges that go into organizing a tour with the members not only surviving one another, but the harsh realities (and liabilities) of being on the road. It takes time, patience, networking & a lot of sacrifice to suffice a tour. You have to leave an impact when you take the stage with your live presence, crowd control and sound. Even still, when the stage is clear for them to play, regardless of the capacity or who showed up, they slay the venue with their high energy, stage presence & face-melting musical art. The ten nominees in this category brought some of the best live energy to more than just their hometown and are worthy of their live presence to be nominated for Live Artist of the Year for 2013. The Nominees to be considered are:

  • SOJA:
    Website / Facebook

  • Mike Pinto:
    Website / Facebook

  • Fear Nuttin Band:
    Website / Facebook

  • Anuhea:
    Website / Facebook

  • Rootz Underground:
    Website / Facebook

  • J Boog:
    Website / Facebook

  • Natural Vibrations:
    Website / Facebook

  • Ballyhoo!:
    Website / Facebook

  • Stick Figure:
    Website / Facebook

  • The Movement:
    Website / Facebook

    To Be Considered: Break-Out Artist of the Year…

    Each year, there are bands that seem to be carrying a weight of momentum that can’t be ignored. Maybe due to a new album or they’re showing up on constant festivals and being added to various seasonal tours. Sometimes these are artists that are either emerging as a ‘new unknown from out of nowhere’ or a re-emerging artist making new waves from networking, to releasing new music and revitalized touring. Maybe these groups weren’t nominated for Album of the Year, or they didn’t have enough of an impact to be Artist of the Year, but the following groups certainly had a Break-Out year, setting the tone for years to come with their presence. These ten selected groups figured it out and have worked their tail off earning them a spot as a Breakout Artist in 2013. The Nominees to be considered are:

  • Wheeland Brothers:
    Website / Facebook

  • New Kingston:
    Website / Facebook

  • Kimie:
    Website / Facebook

  • Nahko & Medicine For The People:
    Website / Facebook

  • Big B:
    Website / Facebook

  • Krooked Treez:
    Website / Facebook

  • Daniel Bambaata Marley:
    Website / Facebook

  • Thrive:
    Website / Facebook

  • Ethan Tucker:
    Website / Facebook

  • Aer:
    Website / Facebook

    To Be Considered: Music Video of the Year…

    For those of you who don’t know, music videos have not gone away. They may appear to be less relevant without the vintage outlet of MTV or VH1, but they’re still being done and they’re being done well! Some bands have put in crazy production into their videos, some using actors/actresses and it’s a cherry on top to a professional sound, to include a professional music video. We feel that if you’re a group and you decide to do a full production music video, then it should be recognized. Plus, music videos are rad when quality production is used to compliment a new song. There are ten solid music videos nominated for Music Video of the Year, and we hope you watch each one before just simply voting for the band you’re most familiar with. The Nominees to be considered are:

    Ballyhoo! – “No Good”

    Fayuca – Por Que Seguir”

    Pepper – “FKARND”

    SOJA – “When We Were Younger”

    Pacific Dub – “Tightrope”

    Anuhea & Tarrus Riley – “Only Man in the World”

    Etana – “Reggae”

    Slightly Stoopid – “Don’t Stop”

    Spiritual Rez – “Agapoula Mou”

    Morgan Heritage – “Perfect Love Song”