Here are your 2024 Listen Up nominees! The voting process has begun for the 2024 Listen Up Awards and it’s your vote, your choice! This year’s ceremony takes place on March 24th at Putnam Place in Saratoga Springs, NY with doors opening at 2pm. Aside from the awards, there will also be multiple live musical performances which will be announced very soon.Thank you for doing your part in helping nominate this year’s artists. The nomination process wraps up February 29th at 11:59pm ET. Vote for your favorite Capital Region bands/artists by clicking here or below:
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2024 Nominees:
Favorite Solo/Duo:
- Sirsy
- James Mullen
- Matty D
- Acoustic Inc.
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Favorite Solo/Duo Covers:
- Acoustic Inc.
- Gus Unplugged
- Jason Irwin
- Matty D and Ky McClinton
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Favorite Party Band:
- Hit-N-Run
- Lucid Street
- Off The Record
- The Refrigerators
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Favorite Country Artist:
- Kristian Montgomery
- Tame the Rooster
- Skeeter Creek
- Grit and Whiskey
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Favorite Rock Cover Band:
- Harmony Rocks
- Hit-N-Run
- Lucid Street
- Out of Office
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Favorite Americana Artist:
- Kristian Montgomery
- Northern Borne
- Little Saints
- James Mullen and the Strangers
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Favorite Pop Artist:
- IRod and the Auxiliary
- Phil Orsini
- Sydney Worthley
- Shannon Roy
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Favorite Rock/Hard Rock:
- The William Deuel Band
- Same Old Rat
- The Broken View
- The Hard Luck Souls
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Favorite Alt/Indie Artist:
- Nickopotamus
- No Such Things as Ghosts
- Galene
- Anacortez
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Favorite Folk/Bluegrass:
- Northern Borne
- Shannon Tehya
- Jim Gaudet
- Carolyn Shapiro
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Favorite Jazz Artist:
- Billy Buono
- Joe Barna
- Keith Pray
- Ian MacDonald
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Favorite Punk Garage:
- Feral Meryl
- The Erotics
- The Hauntings
- VinTri Hill
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Favorite Metal/Hardcore/Extreme:
- Gozer
- Frozen Sun
- Brick By Brick
- Alloy Reign
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Favorite Jam Band:
- Dead Man’s Waltz
- Glass Pony
- Hilltop
- Ampevene
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Favorite Blues Artist:
- Dealt The Blues
- Matt Mirabile
- Soul Sky
- Berkstar
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Favorite RB/Soul/Funk:
- Oobleck
- Donna Tritico Band
- Aplo
- The Nolanauts
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Favorite Electronica/Experimental Artist:
- Portyl
- UnRendered
- I’m Getting The Skeleton
- Comfort Frequency
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Favorite Performing/Recording DJ:
- DJ Goodlyfe
- DJ HOLLYW8D
- DJ John Brown
- DJ Irod
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Favorite Reggae/World Artist:
- Mixed Roots
- Embe Esti
- Dr Jah & The Love Prophets
- Jordan Taylor Hill
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Favorite Irish Artist:
- Get Up Jack
- Kilashandra
- Triskele
- Hair of the Dog
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Favorite Hip-Hop Artist:
- Bletzin
- Bonus
- JB!! Aka Dirty Moses
- Reczy
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Favorite Grateful Dead Cover Band:
- The Deadbeats
- Neon Avenue
- The Wheel
- Gratefully Yours
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Favorite Prog Rock Artist:
- Ampevene
- Nickopotamus
- Shadow Estate
- TV Doctors
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Best Hair and Makeup:
- Cait Tizzone
- Joanna Off The Record
- Emo Sea Monster
- Josh Mosh
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Most Likely To Fall Off Stage:
- Brother T
- Caitlin Tizzone
- Ryan Matter
- Tommy Love
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Best Dressed:
- Caitlin Tizzone
- Kevin Brandow
- Kristian Montgomery
- Norman Fraim
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Most Likely To Owe The Club Money:
- Brother T
- David Halprin
- Johnny Morse
- Ryan Matter
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The Listen Up Awards is a peoples choice music award ceremony celebrating local talent in the Capital Region created by Mirth Films and Radio Radio X. Your Vote, Your Choice. The inaugural Listen Up Awards was hosted on June 17th, 2022 at Lark Hall in Albany, NY opening the doors to hundreds of fans and musicians. In 2023, The award ceremony was hosted at the Cohoes Music Hall in Cohoes, NY with over 38 thousand Capital Region music fans voting for who they wanted to win.
To go along with the awards, each year features multiple live performances. Even with this being a people’s choice style award show, we have gone even farther to keep things fair. Winners of a Listen Up award can not be nominated the next year and the live performers cannot be an act that is nominated for that selected year.
A little bit about the people behind the Listen Up Awards:
Mirth Films is a music news/entertainment outlet that specializes in live music coverage, original video content and podcasting. We are based out of New York State with news coverage ranging across the whole United States. Head over to Mirth-Films.com to stay up to date with all things live music.
Since we have a wide variety of topics we cover, it reflects in a diverse original video catalogue and news topics we can cover. Our video content consists of live music videos, artist interviews, documentaries, podcasts, video/photo tips, sketch comedy and festival recaps and of course, original series. Our article content is more than just your standard news articles. We also have exclusive interviews, recaps of the latest concerts including high resolution photo galleries and much more.
RadioRadioX.com is an online radio station that has been around for 4 years now and has become the #1 favorite with the People’s Choice Awards for three consecutive years now. Xperience is a monthly print publication that focuses only on music, art and culture. For all inquiries, feel free to contact Art Fredette at info@radioradiox.com or Frankie Cavone at Frankie@mirth-films.com.
