First round nominations for the 2012 J Awards have been announced today, with Tame Impala amongst the nominees for Australian Album of the Year and Goyte nominated for Australian Music Video of the Year.
Tame Impala
The J Awards are held as part of triple j’s Ausmusic Month and are designed as a way to define the year in music and to celebrate the outstanding musical output of our homegrown artists.
Embodying triple j’s philosophy of developing emerging Australian artists, the The J Awards include Australian Album of the Year, Australian Music Video of the Year and Unearthed Artist of the Year.
Certainly this year’s nominees do reflect much of the local music scene at the moment, with all nominees for Australian Album of the Year playing one or more of the upcoming summer festivals, including Laneway and Homebake, with Tame Impala, Hermitude and Flume also recently at Parklife.
Judges for the awards include the triple j Music Director, Program Director and presenters.
Nominees for Australian Album of the Year 2012 (first round)
Alpine ‘A Is For Alpine’
Ball Park Music ‘Museum’
Hermitude ‘Hyper Paradise’
The Rubens ‘The Rubens’
Tame Impala ‘Lonerism’
The remaining J Award Australian Album of the Year nominees will be announced on Thursday 15 November during the triple j breakfast program.
Nominees for Australian Music Video of the Year 2012
Alpine – Hands
Gotye – Easy Way Out
Flight Facilities – Foreign Language
Kirin J Callinan – Way II War
Bertie Blackman – Boy
Hilltop Hoods – Rattling the Keys to the Kingdom
Nominees for Unearthed Artist of the Year 2012
Flume
The Rubens
Chance Waters
Kingswood
Thelma Plum
Previous winners of the Australian Album of the Year include Wolfmother, Hilltop Hoods, The Panics, The Presets, Sarah Blasko, Tame Impala and Gotye.
Winners will be announced at the J Awards in Melbourne on Friday 23 November, broadcast live on triple j from 5pm.
Several nominees have dropped by Noise11.com for interviews and to perform recently. Check out Alpine, Ball Park Music, The Rubens and Bertie Blackman below.
Interview with Phoebe and Lou from Alpine at Noise11.com
Interview with Phoebe and Lou from Alpine at the Jagermeister Independent Music Awards
Interview with Sam and Jen from Ball Park Music
Session at the Noise11.com studio with Ball Park Music
Interview with brothers Sam and Elliott Margin from The Rubens
Rare acoustic session at the Noise11.com studio with The Rubens
Interview with Bertie Blackman
