Scott Stambaugh
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11/10/2018 7:22:24 PM
Golden Kayak Awards 2018, everybody please read this thread.
The 2018 Golden Kayak Awards are here! Please read, everybody..
ok the first thing you need to know about the 2018 Golden Kayak Awards is we're basically doing it identically to how we did it before, except we may add some extra security to the actual casting of ballots. Also, another change, we will also be including Indie Song of the Year to the final ballots, picked from the top hits on Kayak Big 25.
Some of the genres like before are combined due to a smaller amount of songs in their categories and because we don't want the awards show to go on forever. :)
I'll say upfront that just as it is patriotic to participate when your country has a national election, I implore you to do your part for indiekind. It may not be the most pleasant thing for you to contemplate who amongst your peers had good songs in this past year but we ask you to spend a little energy, whatever you can spare, chiming in for this worthwhile cause. As far as we know it's the only indie awards show of this kind and I feel it's the best and most real one because the results are generated by the artists themselves, along with the active listeners, a society we call the IAIA - International Academy of Independent Artists.
Eligibility - Anyone who was a member up to the time this was published/emailed can send one nomination email (and one vote email once the ballot comes out). If you have multiple pages you can still only send one of each. It helps if you use the email listed as your contact email to send so we can verify. We're also sending a bulk email out on this with basically the same info contained in this post.
Songs eligible are those that were uploaded between 11-11-17 and 11-10-18. You can tell if a song is eligible by going to that song's songpage and to the right it will say when the song was created on the site. If you nominate songs that are outside the eligibility period, those songs will not be eligible to make the final ballot. Please take a minute to check this with every song you nominate.
Anyway you can nominate one item in each of 26 categories, Cut and paste the list below and put your member name at the top so we can easily check eligibility. No member name, we don't process. You can't nominate any song you took part in creating and any song I'm involved in is ineligible as well. We ask that you don't fill your nominations with a list of your friends but rather let quality of song be the criteria. Put the name of song and the name of artist in the appropriate genre. In combined categories like Ambient and Classical, you can nominate one song for either category but not both. You can leave some of the categories blank if you want in your nominations email. One thing/stipulation we're adding this year: If we get any of these nomination sheets where somebody basically sent it to nominate one act, we're throwing those out, it's not real participation from our vantage point. People get their friends to nominate all their songs and any super-halfassed effort like this will not be included. This is not about selfish interests but about musical posterity so be true to the music please.
Also if you want to ask folks to nominate you or someone else you're a fan of on the pipeline, you can do that, no problem at all.
Send your nominations email to indiemusicpeople2@gmail.com, they must be in by 12 AM PST 12-11-18.
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Cut and paste this part between the lines
member name (required) -
(no more than one song per genre/category)
Alternative -
Alternative Modern Rock -
Alternative Pop Rock -
Alternative Retro and Psychedelic -
Ambient and Classical -
Blues -
Christian/Spiritual -
Classic and Progressive Rock, and Guitar Instrumental -
Country -
Easy Listening/Soft Rock -
Electronic and Dance -
Folk/Acoustic Rock/Americana -
Hard Alternative - Industrial/Beat Rock - Punk/Emo/Ska -
Hard Rock -
Hip Hop/Rap -
Jazz -
Metal/Hardcore -
Miscellaneous and Comedy -
Pop -
R&B/Soul -
Rock -
World -
Best Band -
Best Male Artist -
Best Female Artist -
Station Manager of the Year -
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Send your nominations email to indiemusicpeople2@gmail.com, they must be in by 12 AM PST 12-13-17. Please get the email address right on this cause last year we ended up finding several emails sent to the wrong address.
Genres used must be main genres that artist chose. If you see an odd genre, hold cursor over that and you'll see the main genre you're working with.
When nominations are all in (by Dec 13th), a ballot will be created, probably by 1-1-19. Musicology Dept. will help with this as there will be many songs with just one nomination. If categories have minimal nominations we may not include them. Each category on the ballot will have 4 to 7 songs in it. Then you will have 2 weeks to vote for whoever.
Any weird shit like songs where the artist changes genres in the middle or ballots we can't verify and so on will be thrown out of the competition.
If there is a final tie in the voting (on final ballot), there's no tie-breaker, both or all 3 songs will get the Kayak.
When competition is done there will be an awards radio show to announce the winners which will also be provided to our affiliate stations. There are no prizes except for a banner on your page and a permanent listing on the Golden Kayak Wall of Fame. The results and radio show will deliver a substantial amount of exposure to the winners. The tentative date for the awards show is January 10th but that is subject to change.
Any questions?
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Holworks
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12/13/2018 10:34:14 AM
Done! There are a lot of great songs I listened to during this process. I learned a great deal about genres because of you, all the Indie folks who make such diverse quality music, . . .the instrumental songs caught my ear as almost every one I listened to revealed the story within the note. I sang along. Best of luck to all!
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