ONE WAY RICHMOND 2010 YEAR END MUSIC AWARDS...

Best Band: The Diamond Center

Best All Around Musician in Richmond: Nate Rappole (Gull and Snack Truck)

Best Jazz Musician/Band: Glows in the Dark

Best Blues Band: The Dirty Truth

Best Piano/Keys: Marlysse Simmons of Bio Ritmo and Miramar

Best Guitar: Cliff Boyd of Sports Bar

Best Drummer: Nate Rappole (Gull)

Best Bass: Eddie Prendergast of Amazing Ghost and Bio Ritmo

Best Utility/Multi-Instruments: Bill Porter of Bermuda Triangles and Women of Rock

Best Vocals: Brandi Price of The Diamond Center

Best Vocals/Frontman: J. Dean Owen of Bay of Pigs (RVA), Iggy Plop and Thelma Shook

Best Singer/Songwriter: Herschel Stratego

Best Hip Hop Group/Collective: Just Plain Sounds

Best MC/Rapper: (tie) Barcodez of Photosynthesizers and Nickelus F

Best Producer/MC/Hype Man/Entertainer: Noah O

Best Party DJ: All the DJ’s from the Audio Ammo Crew

Best Original/Techno/House/Breaks/ Glitch/Dubstep/Etc. DJ:
PLF DJs (Conway Mr. Jennings/John Reinhold)

Best Experimental DJ: Ohbliv

Best Drum and Bass DJ: Joanna O

Best Noise/Pedals/Other Odd Musical Objects: Gary Stevens of Head Molt and Mutwawa

Best Acoustic/Unplugged Band: The Whiskey Rebellion

Best Up and Coming Musician or Band: (tie) the bands Nick Coward & The Last Battle and Black Girls

Best Music Related Business in Richmond: Black Iris Music

Best Musician/Band Not Everyone in Richmond Knows About, but Should: RUIN (The Southside Supastar)

The Hardest Working Person in Richmond’s Music Scene:
Jason Hodges of CNP Records and the bands - Mutwawa, Bermuda Triangles, and Suppression

Best Local Record Label: CNP Records

Best Record/Music Store: Deep Groove Records

Best Musical Equipment Store: Kapeller Violins

Best Theatre (plays, musicals, other): Firehouse Theater

Best Jukebox: Big John's Grill

Best Show Flyer/Poster Artist: Joe Legzz

Best Venue: (local acts) Strange Matter & (national acts) The National

Best Club: Fallout

Best Weekly Event: RVALUTION

Best Monthly Event: 'Clash Party' presented by HollyWood Cemetery Records/Collective

Best Place To Play As A Street Musician: Carytown

Best Venue Sound: (tie) Cary St. Cafe and Wonderland

Best Recording Studio: RVA Studios

Best Record Producer/Studio Engineer: John Morand of Sound of Music Studios

Best Show Sound/Mixer/Engineer: Jonathan Kassalow of Strange Matter/The Bike Lot/Gallery 5/Other

Show of the Year:
(Major)(3way tie)

DEVO at The National
A Place To Bury Strangers @ Strange Matter
Erykah Badu @ Kanawha Plaza Parking Lot

(Local)(tie)

Spindrift, The Diamond Center, The Young Sinclairs
@ Strange Matter
Municiple Waste, Suppression @ Strange Matter

Best Official/Yet Underground Party: WONDERLAND 2010 (warehouse event)

Best Richmond Music Scene Media Source: RVA Magazine and Website

Best Local Radio Station: WRIR 97.3

Best Local Radio DJ: (tie) Mike Rutz and Michael Miracle of WRIR

Best Music Calendar of Events: (tie) Mike Rutz’s ACTIVATE! Weekly Music Calendar @ wrir.com and The Weekly Rant @ Weeklyrant.com

Best Non-Music Show (radio or live in person):
Open Mic Comedy Night every other Monday at Café Diem
Wordy Birds (Interviews with writers by Liz Humes from WRIR)
Comedian David Marie Garland

Best Local Music/Band Documentary: The Silo Effect’s "The Treehouse Sessions"

Best Multiple Day Music Event: Best Friends Day

Best Outdoor Concert Series: Fridays at Sunset

Best Indoor Concert Series: The Listening Room Series

Best Musical Selections By A Local Bartender: Jason Hodges of Avalon Restaurant and Bar

Best Richmond Music Scene Photographer: PJ Sykes

Best Place in Richmond to Get News On What Bands Are Up To: Strange Matter

Best Neighborhood for Richmond Musicians to Live In: Church Hill

Best Blog Site About the Richmond Music Scene: rvaplaylist.wordpress.com

Best Place to See A Local Musician When He or She is Not Playing: Any local restaurant’s kitchen/bar

Cecil B. DeMiller and Rhodes Richmond Music Scene Lifetime Achievement Award:
Joanna O and Jesse Split of Turnstyle (new music and apparel) as well as local DJs

Best Video: (tie)

NICKELUS F - Agressive Content Directed by: Will Bryan



JAESEN K (feat. Juan Huevos) - Get Fucked Up Directed by:
Ian Newell



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Local Musicians In Memoriam: Ross Harman of the band
The Gaskets
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Shot Outs to places, people, and organizations that contributed to the 2010 Richmond Music Scene: Byrd Theater, Gods of The Bobble Heads Radio Show, Crossroads (Jackson Ward), Richmond Symphony, 821, The Mosque (Landmark Theater), Andrew Necci, Shannon Cleary, R. Anthony Harris, Student Hip-Hop Organization at VCU, Brown’s Island, Belle Isle, VCU School of Music-Art-Film-Photography-Theater, Slaughterama, The Camel, Cary St. Café, Bamboo Café, Avalon, Sprout, Charged Up Ent., Chocolate Milk, Hollywood Cemetery Records, Godfrey’s, Hat Factory, Canal Club, Commercial Taphouse, Balliceaux, Ghostprint Gallery, Reference Gallery, Café Diem, Legend Brewery, Bogarts, Richmond.com’s Scene + Heard, Richmond Jazz and Blues Society, People’s Blues of Richmond, Gallery 5, Spaghetti Project, Really-Really Free Market, Ada Gallery, Forcefield Records, Weekly Rant, Lonnie B, CenterStage, Cellar Door, City of Charlottesville, Tea Bazaar, Caliente, The Southern, Musictoday.com, WNRN, WDCE, WVCW, WVNZ, Virginia Union, City Dogs, Xscape Club, Club 534, VCU Ram Band, VCU Gold Rush Dancers, Every area high school band, Cous Cous, Plaza Bowl, Cotton Club, Bunny Hop Bike Shop, Food Not Bombs, Illegal underground house/space venues, Any small yet extremely inspirational gospel group in the area, Lift, Velocity Comics, PLF, House of Real Toys, Various dishwashers, cooks, chefs, and bartenders, The Wingnut, The Black Hand, Crossroads Coffee, Get Money Green Brothers, Face Jay Ent., A-Money Promotions, RVAFreaks.com, Sound guys at all the local venues, The Bike Lot, Kevin Willoughby, rvashows.proboards.com, Facebook, Street performers, Chris Bopst, U of R’s Tyler Haynes Commons, Richmond Flying Squirrels, EQ, Da Spot, Milestone Jazz Club, Triple Stamp Records, The Bucket Boys all around town, Richmond Coliseum, Modlin Center for the Arts, McCormack’s, First Fridays Art Walk, All involved in the Folk Festival and Two Street Festival, James Talley, Silver Persinger, Ward Tefft, Shelley Briggs, Venture Richmond, Rumors Boutique, Fridays at Sunset, The Various Cultural & Nationalities Independent One Day Festivals, Bill Reid, High school music teachers, The Showplace, Ipanema, The 14 ‘Head Shops’ in Metro Richmond, Grace St., Robinson St., Broad St., Fulton Hill Neighborhood Resource Center, Open High, Record Finders, Turnstyle, Vinyl Conflict Records, Steady Sounds Records, Plan 9, BK Music, Witchmond, Rat Ward, Smooth Dirty Productions, Richmond Music Center, Metro Sound, Mojo’s, Chop Suey Books, Sound of Music Studios, Etching Tin Studios, Empire, All the rehearsal spaces around town, Video Fan, Eric E. Stanley, The Biograph, GWAR, Lamb of God, mechanics who fix band vans, and all the others...Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!