India’s biggest and most prestigious annual rock awards, Jack Daniel’s Annual Rock Awards is back with its 7th edition to show honoring original music produced during the preceding twelve months.
THE NOMINEES OF JACK DANIELS ANNUAL ROCK AWARDS 2011:
Best Band:
1. Indian Ocean
2. Menwhopause
3. Pentagram
4. Peter Cat Recording Co.
5. Undying Inc
Best Album:
1. Dischordian – The Feni Farm Riot
2. Indian Ocean – 16/330 Khajoor Road
3. Menwhopause – Easy
4. Pentagram – Bloodywood
5. Undying Inc – Aggressive World Dynasty
Best Song:
1. Eccentric Pendulum – Mathematicians Of Ambient Waters
2. Indian Ocean – Darte Ho
3. Menwhopause – Easy
4. Pentagram – Tomorrow’s Decided
5. Peter Cat Recording Co. – Clown on the 22nd Floor
6. Sky Rabbit – I Become I
7. The Circus – F.O.P.S.
8. Undying Inc – Xenophobe
Best Vocalist [Male]:
1. Kishore Krishna – Adam & The Fish Eyed Poets
2. Garreth D’Mello – Dischordian
3. Siddharth Basrur – Goddess Gagged
4. Vishal Dadlani – Pentagram
5. Raxit Tewari – Sky Rabbit
6. Shashank Bhatnagar – Undying Inc
Best Vocalist [Female]:
1. Subhadra Kamath – Fire Exit
2. Pragnya Wakhlu
3. Suchitra Pillai
4. Samara C – The Ska Vengers
Best Guitarist:
1. Arjun Mulky & Faheemul Hasan – Eccentric Pendulum
2. Prashant Shah – Exhumation
3. Anup Kutty – Menwhopause
4. Randolph Correia – Pentagram
5. Biswarup Gupta – Undying Inc
Best Bassist:
1. Ruell Barretto – Bombay Bassment
2. Randeep Singh – Menwhopause
3. Makarand Mane – Pentagram
4. Siddharth Shah – Sky Rabbit
5. Abhinav Chaudhary – The Circus
Best Drummer:
1. Vibhas Venkatram – Eccentric Pendulum
2. Hemendra Nath- Menwhopause
3. Shiraz Bhattacharya – Pentagram
4. Harsh Karangale – Sky Rabbit
5. Yuvraj Sen Gupta – Undying Inc
Best Keyboardist:
1. Jason Zachariah – Allegro Fudge
2. Akshat Taneja – Arcane Deception
3. Vikram Ashok – Franks Got the Funk
4. Jonathan Lewis – Slain
5. Stefan Kaye – The Ska Vengers
The Jack Daniel’s Annual Rock Awards ceremony will take place on the 23rd of February at Mehboob Studios in Mumbai. Log on to http://jdrockawards.com for more details.
Photo Credits: Rolling Stone Magazine