And the 2010 Nominees are...

Best Pop Album
A.J. Croce - Cage of Muses
Greg Gibson – Black Glass
Justin James – Perfect Sometimes
Metrofique - Swinging for Fences
Neon Cough – Walking Shadow
The Heavy Guilt – Lift Us Up From This
The Modlins – Shoot the Moon
The Silent Comedy - Common Faults

Best Rock Album
Circa Now - Hotter Than A Pistol
Creepy Creeps - Fink About It
Dirty Sweet - American Spiritual
Heavy Glow - The Filth And the Fury
Lualta - Nobody Loves You When You're Down
Primitive Noyes - Ideation
The Loons - Red Dissolving Rays of Light
Transfer - Future Selves

Best Alternative Album
Fight Fair - California Kicks
Hotel St. George – Fun, Shine, Line
Lion Cut – s/t
New Archaic - Movers and Shakers
Pierce The Veil - Selfish Machines
Rafter - Animal Feelings
Republic of Letters - Painted Hour
The Dabbers - And I Was Like, And They Were All

Best Hard Rock Album
A City Serene - The Art of Deceiving
All Leather - When I Grow Up…
As I Lay Dying - The Powerless Rise
Bitter Frost - s/t
Burning the Masses – Offspring of Time
Canobliss - Man is The Enemy
Carnifex – Hell Chose Me
Mower - Make It A Double

Best Hip Hop Album
Black Resume - Bar-Barian Music
Bully Blinders - City of Dirt
Higher Minds – 2012 The Burning City
Jimmy Powers - Califoreigner
Lil Uno - The Diagnosis
Outta Control – Daily Dose
Touch of Cas – The Real
Vokab Kompany – The New Kong

Best Blues Album
Chet & the Committee – I’ll be Down in San Felipe
Delta Heat – Lets Have A Party!
Fuzzy Rankins - Take A Brotha Home
Patrick Yandall - One Hour Blues
Robin Henkel - With Horns
Sue Palmer – After Hours
The Burnsville Band - Give Me A Job
Zapf Dingbats – s/t

Best Jazz Album
Chase Morrin - Solo Jazz Piano
Gypsy Swing Allstars - Les Nouveaux Bohemiens
Holly Hoffman – Three’s Company
Ian Tordella - Magnolia
Karin Carson – The Time is Now
Mikan Zlatkovich - Come Together
Steph Johnson - Mysterious Feminine
Wayne Riker - Full Soul Ahead

Best World Album
David Maldonado – Angels & Almas
Mariachi Champana Nevin – Nuestra Navidad
High Tide - The Rooted
Irving Flores – Recuerdos
Karlos Paez – Music Culture Love
Monette Marino Keita – Coup d’Etat
Otro Mundo - s/t
Skelpin - A Trip to Skye

Best Americana Album
Behind the Wagon – 11 Songs
Gregory Page - Heartstrings
Jesse LaMonaca and The Dime Novels – Until The Stars Come Out
John Meeks - Old Blood
Mojo Nixon - Whiskey Rebellion
Sara Petite - Doghouse Rose
The Mark Jackson Band – A Real Charmed Life
The Riders - Crown City Sessions

Best Local Recording
Astra Kelly – Battling the Sun
Cathryn Beeks - Mood Swing
Christy Bruneau – Somewhere in the Middle
Dave Humphries - Hocus Pocus on Joker Lane
Hocus – Better than You
Tracy Johnson – Maybe It's The Rain
White Apple Tree – Velvet Mustache
Wirepony – Right Hook of Love

Album of the Year
Delta Spirit – History from Below
Dum Dum Girls - I Will Be
Jason Mraz’s Beautiful Mess: Live on Earth
Rafter - Animal Feelings
Steve Poltz – Dreamhouse
Switchfoot – Hello Hurricane
The Soft Pack – s/t
Wavves – King of the Beach

Best New Artist
D/Wolves
El Monte Slim
Grand Tarantula
Heavy Hawaii
Little Hurricane
Midnight Rivals
The Nervous Wreckords
The Neverout

Artist of the Year
Crocodiles
Dum Dum Girls
Jason Mraz
Sara Watkins
Slightly Stoopid
Switchfoot
The Soft Pack
Wavves

Song of the Year
Angels & Airwaves – Hallucinations
Crocodiles - Sleep Forever
Delta Spirit – Bush League Blues
Dum Dum Girls - Jail La La
Sara Watkins – Too Much
Switchfoot – Mess of Me
The Soft Pack – Come On
Waaves - King of the Beach