The nominees for the 8th edition of the Jack Daniel’s Rock awards have been announced. This year veteran rockers Indus Creed have been nominated in seven categories for their 2012 release Evolve. The Jack Daniel’s Annual Rock Awards ceremony will take place on the 22nd of February at Mehboob Studios in Mumbai. Voting is now open to public and can be done at www.jdrockawards.com
Nominees for JD Annual Rock Awards are:
Best Band / Artist
Papon
Rabbi
Indus Creed
Swarathma
Advaita
Split
Sridhar/Thayil
Thermal And A Quarter
The Ska Vengers
Best Album
Papon – The Story So Far
Thermal And A Quarter – Three Wheels 9 Lives
Advaita – The Silent Sea
Split– Counting Perfume
Indus Creed – Evolve
Agam – The Inner Self Awakens
Sridhar/Thayil – STD
The Ska Vengers – The Ska Vengers
Swarathma – Topiwalleh
Best Song
Papon – “Boitha Maro Re”
Rabbi – “Ganga”
Thermal And A Quarter – “For The Cat”
Swarathma – “Topiwalleh”
Blek – “Fog + Strobe”
Advaita – “Gamapanipa”
Skyharbor – “Maeva”
Indus Creed – “Dissolve”
Sridhar/Thayil – “This Be The Beat”
Best Metal Band
Skyharbor
Providence
1833 AD
Dark Helm
Best Female Vocalist
Sulk Station – Tanvi Rao
Sridhar/Thayil – Suman Sridhar
The Ska Vengers – Samara C
Vivienne – Vivienne Pocha
Gowri – Gowri Jayakumar
Big Bang Blues – Ipshita Roy
Best Male Vocalist
Papon – Angaraag “Papon” Mahanta
Rabbi – Rabbi Shergill
Indus Creed – Uday Benegal
Advaita – Chayan Adhikari, Ujwal Nagar, Suhail Yusuf Khan
Swarathma – Vasu Dixit
Split – Garreth D’Mello
Thermal And A Quarter – Bruce Lee Mani
Best Guitarist
Indus Creed – Mahesh Tinaikar
Split– Aviv Pereira, Melroy D’Mello
Baiju Dharmajan – Baiju Dharmajan
Thermal And A Quarter – Bruce Lee Mani
Skyharbor – Keshav Dhar
Agam – Praveen Kumar Thiagarajan
Best Bassist
Swarathma – Jishnu Dasgupta
Blakc – Roop Thomas
The Ska Vengers – Tony Guinard
Split– Shekar Mohite
Advaita – Gaurav Chintamani
Best Drummer
Indus Creed – Jai Row Kavi
Thermal And A Quarter – Rajeev Rajagopal
Split– Varoon Aiyer
Agam – Ganeshram Nagrajan
Advaita – Aman Singh
Best Keyboardist
Jason Zac Band – Jason Zachariah
Indus Creed – Zubin Balaporia
Allegro Fudge – Jason Zachariah
The Ska Vengers – Stefan Kaye
Advaita – Anindo Bose
[ Source: Rolling Stone India ]