AB Original, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, RVG and Clowns are just a few of the acts announced as nominees for this year's The Age Music Victoria Awards.
Taking place during Melbourne Music Week on 22 November at 170 Russell, the ceremony will celebrate and acknowledge its musicians, venues and festivals, with public voting open now.
While acts such as AB Original and RVG have picked up four nominations each, Cable Ties have scored five nods, including Best Band and Best Album.
"Victorian music boasts such strong diversity, it's important to shine a light on the best genre acts and releases of the year at The Age Music Victoria Awards," Music Victoria CEO, Patrick Donovan, said.
"But in a sign that genre music is no longer marginalised, many of the genre acts have been nominated for the more mainstream public awards. We encourage you to vote for your favourite acts, venues and festivals in the public awards."
Public voting closes on 10 November; for more details, click here.
See all of 2017 categories and nominees below.
public voting:
best album
AB Original — Reclaim Australia
Big Smoke — Time Is Golden
Cable Ties — Cable Ties
Jen Cloher — Jen Cloher
RVG — A Quality Of Mercy
best band
AB Original
Cable Ties
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
RVG
The Teskey Brothers
best song
AB Original — January 26
Cable Ties — Say What You Mean
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard — Rattlesnake
RVG — A Quality Of Mercy
The Smith Street Band — Death To The Lads
best female
Ali Barter
Freya Josephine Hollick
Jen Cloher
Meg Mac
Tash Sultana
best male
DD Dumbo
Dan Sultan
Paul Kelly
REMI
Tim Rogers
best emerging act
Alexander Biggs
Amyl & The Sniffers
Cable Ties
RVG
The Teskey Brothers
best live act
AB Original
Cable Ties
Cash Savage & The Last Drinks
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
Peep Tempel
best venue — under 500 capacity
The Curtin
The Gasometer
Howler
The Old Bar
The Tote
best venue — over 500 capacity
170 Russell
The Corner Hotel
Croxton Band Room
The Forum
Melbourne Recital Centre
best festival
Boogie Festival
Golden Plains
Laneway
Meredith Music Festival
Sugar Mountain
best regional venue — under 50 gigs per year
The Bridge Hotel (Castlemaine)
Meeniyan Town Hall (Meeniyan)
Music On The Hill (Red Hill)
Pier Bandroom (Frankston)
Theatre Royal (Castlemaine)
best regional venue — over 50 gigs per year
Baha Tacos (Rye)
Barwon Club (Geelong)
The Eastern Hotel (Ballarat)
Karova Lounge (Ballarat)
Workers Club (Geelong)
best regional act
Benny Walker
Coda Chroma
Cosmic Psychos
D.D Dumbo
Freya Josephine Hollick
industry voting:
best country album
Big Smoke — Time Is Golden
Freya Josephine Hollick — The Unceremonious Junking Of Me
Matt Joe Gow — Seven Years
Raised By Eagles — I Must Be Somewhere
Small Town Romance — Small Town Romance
best electronic act
Client Liaison
Dom Dolla
Harvey Sutherland
The Journey
KLLO
best experimental/avant garde act
Byron Scullin
James Hullick
Miyuki Jokiranta
Nat Grant
Winter Sound School / Bridget Chappell
best folk or roots album
Jed Rowe — A Foreign Country
Jordie Lane & The Sleepers — Glassellland
Leah Senior — Pretty Faces
The Mae Trio — Take Care Take Cover
Sophie Koh — Book of Songs
best global/reggae act
Amaru Tribe — Amaru Tribe
The Bombay Royale — Run Kitty Run
George Telek, David Bridie & Musicians of the Gunantuna — A Bit Na Ta
Lamine Sonko and the African Intelligence — Afro Empire
Papa Chango — The Lost Moon Of Bellaris
best heavy album
Batpiss — Rest In Piss
Clowns — Lucid Again
Divide & Dissolve — Basic
Dødknell — Hatred. Absolute
Mammoth Mammoth — Mount The Mountain
best hip hop album
AB Original — Reclaim Australia
Birdz — Train Of Thought
Must Volkoff — Aquanaut
Pez — Don't Look Down
Remi — Divas & Demons
best jazz album
Brenton Foster — The Nature Of Light
Fem Belling — Now Then
Paul Grabowsky/Mirko Guerrini/Niko Schauble — Torrio!
Senegambian Jazz Band — Senegambian Jazz Band
Speedball — We Have Moved
best soul, funk, rnb & gospel album
Cookin’ On 3 Burners — Lab Experiments Vol 1
Lance Ferguson — Raw Material
The Meltdown — The Meltdown
Silver Linings — So Good To You
The Teskey Brothers — Half Mile Harvest
best aboriginal act
AB Original
Archie Roach
Benny Walker
Birdz
Dan Sultan
best blues album
Benny & The Fly By Niters — Watch Yourself
Dan Dinnen — Keep on Stirrin’ The Pot
Fiona Boyes — Professin The Blues
Lloyd Spiegel — This Time Tomorrow
White Lightnin’ — Mongrel Blood
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