Best New Band 2016: The Ballots

Every year, in the spirit of transparency—and to make it perfectly clear that Best New Band is a poll, not an arbitrary list—we publish the ballots of every Best New Band voter. What follows is that list of voters names, titles and the bands or artists that they casted votes for. If the votes are numbered, that is because the voter chose to rank their nominees. If they are not numbered, the voter chose to weight each vote equally. We offer voters the opportunity to conceal their identity, which is the reason some ballots are listed as "anonymous."

In an effort for even fuller disclosure, I have included the full text of the instructions sent to each voter, to give you an idea of how the poll is tabulated. If you are a voter and notices any mistakes pertaining to your particular ballot, please let me know by emailing bestnewband [at] wweek.com.

Thanks for reading and, if you're name is on the list below, for your participation!

THE LETTER

Dear Esteemed Member of the Portland Music Community,

Congratulations! You have been selected to take part in Willamette Week's Best New Band Poll 2016, where the Portland music community looks back over the last year and crowns one group, solo artist or DJ the greatest new talent in town.

That's right, we're doing it a few months early this year. But the rules remain the same. Here's what we need from you (please read all this carefully, especially the bolded parts):

Clink the following link, which will take you to our Google form and follow the directions carefully: [POLL CLOSED]. DO NOT VOTE BY RESPONDING TO THIS EMAIL. Also, this is not a public poll. DO NOT SHARE THAT LINK ON SOCIAL MEDIA.

As always, you can vote for any music-making entity, be it a band, solo performer, DJ, producer or an MC. You can rank them one through five, or give no rankings if you want to spread your points equally. If you can't think of five new acts that have made an impact on you in the last year, then just send us however many you like, whether it's four, three, two or just one. "New," obviously, is relative (just like "band" and even "best"). Don't stress out on the wording too much. BUT DO STRESS ON REPLYING BY THE DEADLINE: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1 at 11:59 PM.

When all the ballots have been collected, we will assign points for each band you voted for based on how you ranked them. (No. 1 = 5 pts., No. 2 = 4 pts., No. 3 = 3 pts., etc.) If you don't rank your votes by numbering each band, the points will be divided and distributed equally among your selections. We will then add up the points from all the ballots and come up with a Top 10, which will be published in an upcoming issue of Willamette Week along with profiles and photos and other such fanfare. The number one band will appear on the cover of the paper and, if available, will headline WW's Best New Band showcase.

You can vote for any band you like, as long as it is NOT a band you play in (you can vote for bands you work with—as long as you're voting as a TRUE FAN and not just a profiteer).

We also need your full name and your role in the music community. IF YOU DO NOT INCLUDE YOUR NAME AND TITLE IN YOUR FORM, YOUR VOTES WILL NOT BE COUNTED. Your votes will be published online, but if you would like your votes to remain anonymous, we can do that. Just let us know by responding to this email.

DO NOT VOTE FOR THESE PAST WINNERS. This is a list of bands that have already won and are thus ineligible. I repeat: DO NOT VOTE FOR THE FOLLOWING BANDS.

Aan

AgesAndAges

Ah Holly Fam'ly

Alan Singley and Pants Machine

Alela Diane

And And And

Atole

Blind Pilot

Blitzen Trapper

Blouse

Brainstorm

Climber

Clorox Girls

Copy

DJ Beyonda

Dat'r

Deelay Ceelay

Derby

Divers

Dolorean

Dragging An Ox Through Water

Explode Into Colors

Eyelids

Fist Fite

Gaytheist

Genders

Grammies

Grandparents

Grouper

Guidance Counselor

Hey Lover

Horse Feathers

Hosannas

Jared Mees

Kelli Schaefer

LKN

Laura Gibson

Lifesavas

Like a Villain

Lion Fever

Loch Lomond

Lost Lander

Lovers

Magic Fades

Magic Mouth

Mascaras

Menomena

Minden

Miracles Club

Modern Kin

Monarques

Myke Bogan

Natasha Kmeto

New Blood

Nick Jaina

Norfolk & Western

Nurses

Old Believers

Old Light

Onuinu

Operative

Paint By Numbers

Please Step Out of the Vehicle

Point Juncture WA

Psychomagic

Pure Bathing Culture

Pure Country Gold

Purple and Green

Radiation City

Rasheed Jamal

Red Fang

Reva Devito

Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside

Sama Dams

Shy Girls

Siren's Echo

Sons of Huns

Starfucker

Summer Cannibals

Sun Angle

Swan Island

Talkative

Talkdemonic

The Builders & The Butchers

The Domestics

The Ghost Ease

The Kingdom

The Minds

The Nice Boys

The Ready

The Shaky Hands

The Snuggle Ups

The Thermals

The We Shared Milk

Tiburones

Tope

Tractor Operator

Tu Fawning

TxE

Typhoon

Unknown Mortal Orchestra

Ural Thomas & the Pain

Valet

Vinnie Dewayne

Viva Voce

Wampire

Weinland

Wet Confetti

White Fang

White Rainbow

Wild Ones

Wooden Indian Burial Ground

Woolen Men

World's Greatest Ghosts

Y La Bamba

Fine print:

— If you received this email at more than one email address, please only respond once, with one set of votes.

— If this ballot arrived at a general email address for a record store, recording studio, bar, band, etc., feel free to pass it around within your company/organization, but again, please note: This is not a public ballot. Do not send the link to the Google form to random friends, your parents, etc. We want to avoid ballot stuffing as much as possible. If we receive a ballot from a name or organization we do not recognize, it will not be counted. If you have any questions about this, or anything else regarding these instructions, please email msinger@wweek.com.

Thanks so much! We get really excited at the chance to put local music on the cover of our paper each year, and we discover a lot of new music thanks to your votes. Thanks for all you do, all year-round, to strengthen this wonderful music community.

Now, let's introduce Portland to a bunch of new music!

Sincerely,

Matthew Singer

Music Editor, Willamette Week

THE BALLOTS

RANKED RESPONSES:

Aaron Sharpsteen

Freelance/SSG Music

1. Blowout

2. Backbiter

3. TOIM

4. Sioux Falls

5. My Body

Alex Steininger

In Music We Trust

1. Hearts of Oak

2. My Brothers And I

3. Left Coast Country

4. RAKES

5. Mouth Painter

Alex Wideman

Talent Buyer for McMenamins

1. The Stubborn Lovers

2. Rogue Giant

3. Dirty Revival

4. There Is No Mountain

5. Hutson

Amy Miller

Aladdin Theater Marketing

1. Bitch'n

Anna Andersen

Monqui

1. Hurry Up

2. The Stops

3. Reverberations

4. The Furies

Anthony McNamer

McNamer & Company

1. My Brothers & I

2. The Suicide Notes

3. Hook & Anchor

4. Vanilla ISIS

Arya Imig

Valentine's

1. Rod

2. Mo Troper & the Assumptions

3. Sabonis

4. Sioux Falls

5. Ali Muhareb

Benjamin P Parrish

Kill Rock Stars

1. Lavender Flu

2. Lithics

Bim Ditson

And And And/Mayoral Candidate

1. Boone Howard

2. Little Star

3. Ice Queens

4. Kyle Craft

5. Nasalrod

Blake Hickman

Good Cheer Records, XRAY FM, Porchland PR

1. Little Star

2. Sabonis

3. Sioux Falls

4. Elton Cray & The Pariahs

5. The Last Artful, Dodgr

Brianne Mees

Tender Loving Empire

1. Chanti Darling

2. Willis Earl Beal

3. New Move

4. bed.

5. Snowblind Traveler

Bruce Poinsette

We Out Here Magazine

1. Mic Capes

2. The Last Artful, Dodgr

3. Blossom

4. Fountaine

5. Load B

Bud Wilson

Aan

1. Cat Hoch

2. Boone Howard Band

3. Abronia

4. Ice Queens

5. Laura Palmer's Death Parade

Cary Clarke

Executive Director, Young Audiences of Oregon & SW Washington

1. Dylan Stark

2. Months

3. Last Artful, Dodgr

4. Helen

5. Muscle & Marrow

Casey Jarman

Party Damage Records

1. Last Artful, Dodgr

2. Chanti Darling

3. Little Star

4. Boone Howard

5. Blossom

Chris Martell

Band Manager – Cedar Teeth/The Jackalope Saints

1. The Hill Dogs

2. Redray Frazier

3. Annalisa Tornfelt

4. Tahira Memory

5. Weather Machine

Chris Young

Vortex Music Magazine

1. Thanks

2. Cat Hoch

3. Tre Redeau

4. Grace Mitchell

5. Dirty Revival

Connie Wohn

Party Animal

1. Rev. Shines

2. Cool Breeze

3. Houndstooth

4. The Weather Machine

5. Hello Morning

Cool Nutz

Musician/Radio

1. Mikey Vegaz

2. Mic Capes

3. Chris Lee

4. Drae Steves

5. Stevo The Weirdo

David Rose

The Know

1. public eye

2. andy place and the coolheads

3. bobby peru

4. private room

5. the stops

David Mosher

Vortex Music Magazine

1. Jackson Boone and the Ocean Ghosts

Dewey Mahood

Guitarist with Spectrum Control, Owner Mothership Music

1. Danava

2. Pierced Arrows

3. Lithics

4. Numbered

5. Paradise

Dustin Mills

Owner/Creative Director, Eleven PDX Magazine

1. Bed.

2. Cat Hoch Band

3. Boone Howard

4. Souvenir Driver

5. Candace

Eric Ambrosius

PALS Clubhouse

1. Ali Muhareb's Mujahedeen

2. Laura Palmer's DEATH PARADE

3. Candace (Formerly Is/Is)

4. Hustle and Drone

5. HANDS IN

Gina Altamura

Holocene

1. Chanti Darling

2. The Last Artful Dodgr

3. Sara Jackson-Holman

4. Blossom

5. Amani

Grant Stolle aka Verbz

DJ & host of Crate Diggers

1. Blossom

2. Mic Capes

3. Stewart Villain

4. Cassow

5. Fountaine

Ian Anderson

Guidance Counselor

1. everclear

2. floater

3. mel

4. pond

5. modest mouse

Ibeth Hernandez

Promoter

1. Amine'

2. TyUS

3. Tre Redeau

4. Cassow

5. Artful Dodgr

J. Michael Kearsey

Music Producer

1. lovejoy

2. taxpayers

3. fountaine

4. mister bones

5. l.i.a.r.

James Deegan

Divers- Bass & Eye Rolls

1. BLOWOUT

2. DEAD CULT

3. STEEL CHAINS

4. ABRONIA

5. DAME D.O.L.L.A.

James Dineen

Sessions From The Box

1. Coco Columbia

2. Is/Is (Candace)

3. Swansea

4. Thanks

5. Months

James Helmsworth

Willamette Week

1. Mope Grooves

2. Long Knife

3. Jackson Boone

4. Sabonis

5. Golden Hour

Jen Olesen

Strange Babes

1. Hurry Up

2. White Glove

3. Lavender Flu

4. Dreamboat

5. Heavy Breather

Jesse Tranfo

KPSU, Banana Stand

1. Little Star

2. Helens

3. Muscle and Marrow

4. Sioux Falls

5. U SCO

Jon Barron

Musician/Booker

1. Honey Bucket

2. Patsy's Rats

3. Warpfire

4. The Goobs

5. Ladywolf

Jordan Rasmussen

KPSU

1. Little Star

2. Our First Brains

3. Sabonis

4. Helens

5. Mr. Bones

Kaspar Szumlak

Holy Mountain

1. The Lavender Flu

Keegan Meyer

XRAY.FM DJ (From The Garage)

1. Little Star

2. Months

3. Public Eye

4. Bashface

5. Blossom

Kenny Fresh

Fresh Selects

1. The Last Artful Dodgr

2. Mic Capes

3. New Move

4. Grape God

5. Jackson Boone

Lanny Lieu

KPSU

1. Cemeteries

2. Azul Toga

3. Cloud Ellyn

4. Alexei Shishkin

5. Arrange

Lisa Lepine

Lisa Lepine Promotion

1. Moody Little Sister

2. Three For Silver

3. Wil Kinky

4. Alexa Wiley & The Wilderness

5. Jacob Westfall

Louise McDonald

Portland'5 Centers for the Arts

1. Bitch'n

Matt Dabrowiak

GALLONS, Dat'r, Menomena

1. Orquestra Pacifico Tropical

2. Bearcubbin'

3. Moorea Masa

4. Blesst Chest

Matthew Ross

Filmmaker

1. Haley Hendrickx

2. A Volcano

3. Sheers

4. The Fourth Wall

5. Sunbathe

Mitch Wilson

Rhythm Traders

1. LiquidLight

2. There Is No Mountian

Myke Bogan

Artist

1. Foreign Talks

2. Dodgr

3. Kid Indigo

4. Neill Von Tally

5. Blossom

Nathan Walker

Riot Act Media

1. Bitch'n

2. Guantanamo Baywatch

3. Jackson Boone

4. Cat Hoch

5. Orquestra Pacifico Tropical

Nicole Knutson

Crystal Ballroom

1. Bitch'n!

2. The Coastline

3. The Weather Machine

4. Old Wave

5. Hemingway

Noah Bernstein

GRAMMIES

1. Johanna Warren

2. U SCO

3. The Weather Machine

4. Catherine Feeny & Chris Johnedis

5. I'd Rather Not Talk About It

Papi Fimbres

Musician

1. bitch'n

2. boone howard

3. mujahedeen

4. ice queens

5. rhythm force

Peter Vaughan Shaver

Attorney, Sound Advice, LLC

1. Holy Grove

2. Long Knife

3. The Lovesores

4. bed.

5. Black Pussy

Reva Devito

Artist

1. Chanti darling

2. Moorea masa

3. Blossom

Robert Komets

The Know – Stop/Start Studio

1. Tiny Knives

Ryan Dornfeld

CEO, ELEVEN PDX

1. Chanti Darling

2. bed.

3. Cat Hoch

4. Ice Queens

5. Balto

Ryan Feigh

Freelance Music Writer

1. Slick Devious

2. Fountaine

3. Soopah Eype

4. Grape God

5. Mat Randol

Ryan Messick

Tour Manager for Phantogram + Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros

1. Lesser Bangs

2. My Body

3. Alajuela Choir

4. The Hill Dogs

5. Houndstooth

Scott McLean

Holocene / Nature\\Nurture

1. Chanti Darling

2. Sara Jackson-Holman

3. Dylan Stark

4. Amani

5. Cat Hoch

Shelley Bowers

Touring crew at Cato Music

1. Pushy

2. Bitch'n

3. RIP

4. Roselit Bone

Spencer Doran

Operative / Holocene

1. Massacooramaan

2. Chanti Darling

3. Strategy

4. Golden Retriever

5. US Hard

Steve Schroeder

States Rights Records / Marmoset Music

1. bed.

2. Neka and Kahlo

3. Coast2C

4. Moon By You

5. Dirty Revival

Steven Fusco

Psychomagic

1. Mope Grooves

2. Honey Bucket

3. No Lala

4. cat hoch

5. sculpture gardens

Terry Currier

Music Millennium

1. Annalisa Tornfelt

2. There Is No Mountain

3. Ernest Lovers

4. Metts- Ryan-Collins

5. Little Star

Todd Walberg

Photographer

1. Fog Father

2. Helvetia

3. Candace (formerly Is/Is)

4. Boone Howard

5. Sunbathe

TOPE

Artist

1. Blossom

Veronica Medici

Veronica Booking (Music Booking & Marketing)

1. LiquidLight

2. There Is No Mountain

3. LEO aka Megan McGeorge

4. Lola Buzzkill

Walker MacMurdo

WW Freelancer

1. Leviathan

2. The Body

3. Eight Bells

4. Graves at Sea

Whitey McConaughy

Director

1. Patsy's Rats

2. White Glove

Wyatt Schaffner

WW Freelancer

1. Golden Donna

2. Opaline

3. Visible Cloaks

4. Mini Blinds

5. Ant'lrd

Zaph Mann

KFFP

1. Haley Heynderickx

2. Carcrashlander

UNRANKED RESPONSES:

Aaron Meola

Dropping Gems / Hard Land Management

Chanti Darling

IBQT

Grape God

Rap Class

Gulls

Aaron Ross

Host of "Who's the Ross?"

Laura Palmer's Death Parade

Boone Howard

Kyle Craft

Rio Grands

Rare Diagram

Alan Singley

Musician

Rio Grands

Killed By Health

Bitch'n

The Resolectrics

The Oregon Symphony

Allyson Fief

Red Star Merch

Bitch'n

Ana Ammann

Oregon Music News

Edna Vazquez

Leo Islo

Del Phoena

Hurry Up

Lubec

Andrea Rodriguez

CD Baby

Damn Family

Andrew Kelley

DJ Pretty Ugly of XRAY FM's Ballin' the Jack

Criminal Guitars

The Reverberations

High Horse

Lost Cities

Long Knife

Andy Fix

The Haute Garbage Podcast

Cat Hoch

Mane Of The Cur

The Hill Dogs

Foxy Lemon

Bitch'n

Annie Ostrowski

Riot Act Media/PDX Pop Now!

Landlines

Chanti Darling

A Volcano

The Fur Coats

Cat Hoch

Anonymous

Candace

A Volcano

Ladywolf

Golden Hour

Sad Horse

Auggie Camacho Rebelo

Everyday Music Store Manager

Ancient Heat

Lithics

Ex-Debs

EMS

The Moonshine

Barret Stolte

Ash Street Booker

Elton Cray and the Pariahs

Free! Mason Jar

The Wilds

The Critical Shakes

Ugly Tarantino

Ben Hubbird

Party Damage / XRAY / CD Baby

Fog Father

The Last Artful, Dodgr

Little Star

New Move

Chanti Darling

Ben Salmon

Portland Mercury Freelancer

Little Star

Johanna Warren

Tre Redeau

Eight Bells

Rod

Benjamin Tyler

Member of Small Skies, music educator

Gold Casio

Fringe Class

Fourth Wall

Ali Muhareb

Fog Father

Bobby D

XRAY FM / Night School / Sex Life

Lamar Leroy

Ancient Heat

Ripley Snell

Rev Shines

Phone Call

Boone Howard

Talent Buyer Rontoms // Rocker

Ice Queens

Hustle and Drone

Cat Hoch

Brandon Nikola

Booker at Valentines, Drummer in Ice Queens

Bed.

Cat Hoch

Blowout

Candace

Havania Whaal

Brandon Widder

WW Freelancer

Hip Hatchet

Telephant

Jackson Boone

Mimicking Birds

The Last Artful, Dodgr

Bryce Woodcock

Music Journalist

Lubec

Mope Grooves

Honeybucket

Lunch

Cameron Crowell

Co-Founder of Witch Haus PDX Zine / Portland Mercury Contributor

Golden Hour

Sioux Falls

Little Star

Blowout

Mic Capes

Carlos Segovia

Máscaras/Orquestra Pacifico Tropical/AliMuhareb

Sabonis

Bitch'n

Cat Hoch Band

Months

Sunbathe

Casey Minatrea

DJ beyondadoubt

Hurry Up!

Chantidarling

The Last Artful Dodger

Ripley Snell

Cat Jones

Freelance Writer

Pushy

A Volcano

Holy Grove

High Praise

Cambrian Explosion

Chase Varga

Engine Driver Presents

Steady Riot

Dalton

Device Grips

Chris Andersen

Alberta Street Pub

Crow and the Canyon

Scratchdog Stringband

The Domestics

Rio Grands

pigWar

Chris Bigalke

Showdeer

Little Star

Us Lights

Cat Hoch

Consumers

Candace

Chris Cantino

Director/Creative

TYuS

Soul Ipsum

C++

Karmelloz

Coast2c

Chris Stamm

WW Freelancer

Pass

Sweeping Exits

Blowout

Patsy's Rats

Sad Horse

Chris Trumpower

High Water Mark

Hands of Thieves

Nightfell

Mangled Corpse

Triumvir Foul

Daemoniis ad Noctum

Coco Madrid

SNAP!/Act Right/Sanctuary Sunday

Chanti Darling

Dolphin Midwives

Hot16

Ant'lrd

Northern Draw

Colin Hudson

NorthWest Music Scene

The Best Dancers

Colin Sanders

Aging Punk

Tensor

Steve

Femmeroids

Franky

Microaggressions

Cris Lankenau

WW Freelancer

Haley Heynderickx

Months

Daniel Bryant

DJ, San Remo 1985, on XRAY FM

Cat Mummies At The Louvre

Golden Retriever

MSHR

Lavender Flu

Visible Cloaks

Daniel Eichler

Mississippi Pizza Pub/Atlantis Lounge

Dirty Revival

Moorea Masa

Two Planets

El Vy

POPgoji

Danny "neo g yo" D-P

Futro Records

Chanti Darling

The Last Artful, Dodgr

Lamar LeRoy

Grape God

Phone Call

Dave Cantrell

XRAY FM

Arctic Flowers

LUNCH

Vice Device

Spirit Host

Shadowhouse

Dave Gulick

Derby

New Move

December Carson

Siren Nation / Portland'5

Lenore

Double Clicks

Bitch'n

Siren and the Sea

Joseph

DJ Both Josh

X RAY FM

White Glove

Strange Babes (DJs)

Hurry Up

Lavender Flu

Honey Bucket

DJ Klyph

XRAY FM

Mic Capes

Blossom

Theory Hazit

Vursatyl

Speaker Minds

Dylan Magierek

Badman Recording Co. / Type Foundry Studio

bed.

Fremont

Dao Strom

Greylag

Old Wave

Emily Overstreet

Ticketing for True West Presents

Bed.

Dreckig

Grand Lake Islands

Volcanic Pinnacles

Ezra Meredith

Deer Lodge

Sarah Gwen

Mouth Painter

Rakes

Bad Assets

Drunken Prayer

Felisha Ledesma

Bob Desaulniers

Coast2c

Golden Donna

Guzo

Lebenden Toten

Gus Elg

Sky Onion Mastering

The Wave Collector

The Lower 48

Rare Diagram

The Dovecotes

Fog Father

Gustav

KNRK

Bermuda Love Triangle

Gold Casio

Bibliothek

My Brothers & I

Patternist

Hilary Saunders

WW Freelancer/Paste Magazine

Joseph

Sunbathe

Snowblind Traveller

Liz Vice

Hollister Dixon

Faces on the Radio

Sabonis

Rod

Mr. Bones

The Last Artful Dodgr

Muscle & Marrow

Ingrid Renan

Music Aficionado

Nasalrod

Boone Howard

Thanks

Kyle Craft

Chanti Darling

Jan Epstein

XRAY FM DJ

Beyond Veronica

Little Star

The Reverberations

Jared Mees

Tender Loving Empire Label Manager

Chanti Darling

Sunbathe

Willis Earl Beal

The Fourth Wall

New Move

Jason Quigley

Music Photographer

Blowout

Annalisa Tornfelt

Mic Capes

Months

Chanti Darling

Jason Rivera

Gaytheist/High Praise

A Volcano

Humours

Full Creature

Pynnacles

Drunk Dad

Jason Urick

XRAY DJ

(Visible) Cloaks

Coast2c

Sean Sumler

Location Services

Guzo

Jef Drawbaugh

XRAY DJ/Synthesizer Music Maker

Jenny Don't And The Spurs

Vice Device

Tender Age

Cat Hoch

ASSS

Jem Marie

The Ghost Ease

Sun Bathe

Deathlist

Heavy Breather

Little Star

Months

Jeni Wren Stottrup

Gritty Birds Podcast

Coco Columbia

Chanti Darling

Blossom

Cat Hoch

Candice

Jenni Moore

Writer/Photographer at WOHM

Mikey Fountaine

Blossom (Keisha Chiddick)

Glenn Waco

Mount Joy

Mic Capes

Jennifer Wallace

Duff's Garage Owner

The Sportin' Lifers

The Dallharts

Knuckleheads

High Cotton Boys

Jenny Logan

XRAY.FM Founder/Board President

Sioux Falls

Is/Is (Candace)

Laura Palmer's Death Parade

Months

Dead Tropics

Jerad Walker

opbmusic

Wishyunu

Bed.

The Tamed West

Big Haunt

Houndstooth

Jeremy Petersen

XRAY-FM (former afternoon music coordinator; host of Hooray For Tuesday)

Charts

New Move

Sabonis

Little Star

Jackson Boone

Jeremy Wilson

Musician / The Jeremy Wilson Foundation

Fernando

Sam Densmore

Pretty Gritty

Lynn Conover

Freak Mountain Ramblers

Jess Pierson

Studio Manager at Jackpot! Recording Studio

Swansea

bed.

The Last Artful, Dodgr

Muscle & Marrow

Young Elk

Jessica Boudreaux

Summer Cannibals + New Moss Records

Hurry Up

Blowout

Deathlist

Cat Hoch

Jimmy Armstrong

Twilight Cafe and Bar Booking

Blowout

Fire Nuns

Mr.Bones

Raw Dog and the Close Calls

Fuzzy Dice

John Pomietlasz

Pumpernickel Records

Public Eye

New Move

Rio Grands

John Shepski

Fluff and Gravy Records

Jeffrey Martin

The Hilldogs

Vacilando

Anna Tivel

Sama Dams

John-Paul Harrison Rapp

Divers

Abronia

Drunken Palms

Blowout

Animal Throat

Jon Horrid

Fan

Smoke Rings

Dead Cult

[product]

Dead Hunt

Spellcaster

Josh Spacek

Needle Drop Co.

Boone Howard Band

Haley Heynderickx

New Move

Joel Magid

PWRHAUS

Joshua James Amberson

Music Journalist

Golden Hour

Aboriginal Flowers

Lithics

IBQT

Good Woman

Katey Marr

XRAY

Chanti Darling

Femmeroids

Havana Whaal

We are Like Spider

Kathy Foster

The Thermals / Hurry Up / Strange Babes

Sex Crime

Bed.

Candace

Criminal Guitars

Hot Victory

Kenric L. Ashe

dBMonkey

Breaker Breaker

Cat Hoch

Ice Queens

The Reverberations

Vegetable Revival Project

Kevin Scullin

XRAY DJ, Strike of Death

Dark/Light

Rabbits

Nasalrod

Cockeye

Fruit of the Legion of Loom

Lamar Leroy

DJ, XRAY

Ripley Snell

Grape God

Pleasure Curses

Pop goji

Neo G Yo

Larry Crane

Jackpot! Recoding Studio

bed.

Moon By You

Last Giant

Dirty Revival

Lucia Fasano

Leigh Feldman

LifeisaParty

Chanti Darling

TYuS

The Last Artful, Dodgr

Neil Von Tally

Theory Hazit

LeRoy Jerome Griffin

CDBaby

Criminal Guitars

The Last Artful, Dodgr

Fog Father

Force Publique

Cat Hoch

Lex Chase

Ex-Mercury Music Intern/Community Member

Chanti Darling

Grape God

Mic Capes

Phillip Grass

The Last Artful, Dodgr

Lincoln Heath

Alchemy Events / On The Sly Agency

Chanti Darling

A S S S

Vektroid

Rap Class

Wav Fuzz

Lisa Adams

SAMA DAMS

Haley Heynderickx

Coco Columbia

The Crenshaw

Boone Howard

Jackson Boone

Louie Herr

Banana Stand

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Cat Hoch

Ladywolf

Candace

Kyle Craft

Luke Buser

XRAY

Visible Cloaks

Vice Device

Maggie Morris

Genders/Sunbathe/Deathlist

Sabonis

Top Parts

Ali Muhareb

Tamed West

Marc Swart

Ex Summer Cannibals

Hurry Up

Deathlist

Ice Princess

Dog Heart

Cat Hoch

Mark Lore

Freelance Writer, Portland Mercury

The Lavender Flu

Grand Head

Moon Debris

Dusty Santamaria

Moondrake

Matt Brown

Bunk Bar

Cat Hoch

Ice Queens

Ice Princess

Sioux Falls

Boone Howard

Matt Kalinowski

Publicist, Noctilucent Arts

Three For Silver

Chervona

Mbrascatu

Jacob Miller & the Bridge City Crooners

Roseland Hunters

Matt Moore

The Domestics

Ali Muhareb

Bleach Blonde Dudes

Little Star

Sunbathe

Fog Father

Matt Singer

Willamette Week Music Editor

Last Artful Dodgr

Mic Capes

Jackson Boone

Blowout

Boone Howard

Matthew Casebeer

DJ at opbmusic, Founder/Curator www.RockRinseRepeat.com

Boone Howard

The Dovecotes

Charts

New Move

Houndstooth

Matthew McLean

Monqui Presents

Cat Hoch

Liz Vice

Bed.

Kyle Craft

Roselit Bone

Matthew Schonfeld

WW Freelancer

The Last Artful, Dodgr

Cassow

Fog Father

Mic Capes

TSpoon

Mayhaw Hoons

Spookies

Little Star

Meagan Ruyle

Artistic Director @ PDX Pop Now!

The Last Artful, DODGR

Landlines

Mope Grooves

Usnea

Patsy's Rats

Megan Andricos

Chanti Darling

Unicorn Domination

Blossom

We Be Spiders

Acid Farm

Mehran Azma

DJ Barrows of Past Haunts on XRAY.FM / Past Haunts Events

Tender Age

Toxic Slime

Adhere to Form

Meringue

Satsuma

Michael Mannheimer

Willamette Week freelancer/former editor

The Last Artful Dodgr

Cat Hoch

Bed.

Dylan Stark

Tyus

Michael McKinnon

Natural Magic, Champ Discs, Potato Champion

Etbonz

Wav Fuzz

Coast2c

Golden Donna

Apartment Fox

Michael Rowan

Charts

Lady Wolf

Fog Father

New Move

Cat Hotch

Rio Grands

Mike Baden

opbmusic

Kool Stuff Katie

Houndstooth

The Lower 48

Big Haunt

Jackson Boone

Mike Grabarek

Magic Fades

Soul Ipsum

Karmelloz

C Plus Plus

Coast2C

Commune

Morgan Troper

Co-Founder Good Cheer Records

Rod

Sioux Falls

Alien Boy

Drunken Palms

Chugger

Nalin Silva

Revolver Studios, Kelly's Olympian, Federale, Mississippi Studios…

The Shivas

Boone Howard

The Lower 48

Talkative

Tender Age

Nasty Nate

Haute Garbage Podcast

Jenny Don't & the Spurs

Hound the Wolves

Whim

Foxy Lemon

Hot Won't Quit

Natalie Eagan

Mississippi Studios

Alien Boy

Golden Hour

Little Star

Drunken Palms

Blowout

Natasha Kmeto

Natasha Kmeto/Chanti Darling

Grape God

Rap Class

Philip Grass

Sappho

Coast2C

Nathan Baumgartner

Member of And And And

Ice Queens

Fog Father

Boone Howard

The Tamed West

Kyle Craft

Neill Von Tally

EYRST

Chanti Darling

Slick Devious

The Last Artful, Dodgr

Dj Lamar Leroy

Grape God

Nicholas Johnson

Portland Winter Light Festival

Nice Nice

Strength

Strategy

Junkface

Dylan Stark

Parker Hall

Willamette Week/Jackson Boone

Sinless

The Tamed West

Beach Blonde Dudes

Neighbor Wave

Mister Tang

Rachelle Schmid

KPSU Radio, PDX Pop Now

Blossom

Coco Columbia

Chanti Darling

Bike Thief

Just Lions

Radiation City

Band

Moon By You

Jackson Boone

Cat Hoch

August Light

Jurassica

Raf Spielman

Woolen Man

Lithics

Landlines

Honey Bucket

Mope Grooves

Wave Action

Rob Cullivan

Portland Tribune

The Hugs

Speakerminds

Liz Vice

Mitch Kashmar

When We Met

Robert Ham

Portland Mercury, Paste, FACT, Rolling Stone

ALTO!

Dolphin Midwives

Lavender Flu

The OO-Ray

Spellcaster

Ryan J. Prado

Music Writer – Portland Mercury, Vortex Music Magazine, Paste, PDX Pop Now

Rare Diagram

Jackson Boone

Houndstooth

Hurry Up

Snowblind Traveler

Ryan Meagher

Programming Director, Montavilla Jazz Festival

Grammies

Shy Girls

Swan Lake

Ural Thomas & the Pain

Sons of Huns

Ryan Sollee

The Builders and the Butchers

Boone Howard

Mother Tapes

There Is No Mountain

Siren & The Sea

Bashface

Sallie Ford

Artist

Weezy Ford

Bitch'n

Cat Hoch Band

Sam Densmore

Firkin Booker/Musician

Boone Howard

Outer Space Heaters

Tribe Mars

Cambrian Explosion

Fog Father

Sarah Kinney

Marketing Manager, Mike Thrasher Presents

Sioux Falls

Haley Heynderickx

Little Star

Fruition

Disemballerina

Scott Derr

Turn! Turn! Turn!

Lavender Flu

Sir Richard Bishop

Marisa Andersen

Michael Hurley

The White Shark

Seth Rapp

Divers

Blowout

Abronia

Months

Skyler Norwood

Producer

Bitch'n

My Brothers & I

Rare Monk

The Phantom Ships

Months

Sophia June

WW Freelancer

The Shivas

The Memories

Stephanie Viegas Dias

Portland'5 Centers for the Arts

Bitch'n

St. James's Gate

Joey Porter's Tribute to Stevie Wonder

Talia Gordon

Needle Drop Co.

Chanti Darling

New Move

LEO

Moorea Masa

PWRHAUS

Tanya Smith

XRAY

Blesst Chest

Lavender Flu

DRC 3

Archangels Thunderbird

Rakes

Taylor Dutton

President of EYRST

Neill Von Tally

The Last Artful, Dodgr

Blossom

Lamar LeRoy

Eastghost

Terry Groves

Pickathon

Jackson Boone

Edna Vazquez

Joseph

Liz Vice

Moon Duo

Theo Craig

XRAY FM

Lithics

Chanti Darling

Is/Is

Sabonis

Mini Blinds

Theodore Thieman

Cat Hoch

Tony Prato

Bunk Bar

Cat Hoch

Lithics

White Glove

Eight Bells

Candace

Travis Leipzig

Noise & Color PDX, Aan, Boone Howard Band, The We Shared Milk

Little Star

Candace

Jackson Boone

Hands In

The Last Artful, Dodgr

Vinnie Dewayne

Artist

Mic Capes

Tre Redeau

Manny Monday

Spoon

Stewart Villian

Wild Ones

Band

Little Star

Yousef Hatlani

Faces on the Radio

Rod

Sabonis

Months

Chugger

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Willamette Week

Best New Band 2016: The Ballots

A peek at music-based democracy in action.