WYCE programmers are headed to the ballot box to select the best local and regional music of 2016! Winners will be announced at WYCE Jammie Awards XVIII, a fundraiser for community radio coming to The Intersection on Friday, February 10th.
Vote for Jammies XVIII Listener Choice Awards!
Below is the official ballot that our volunteers are considering:
BEST ALTERNATIVE ALBUM
Bong Mountain – You’re Doin’ Great! (for the record)
Book of Symbols – Painted Lights
Charlie Darling – quorum sensing
Cheap Emotion – Hospital Talk
Coffin Problem – Coffin Problem
Devin & The Dead Frets – Devin & The Dead Frets
Emma Loo – Ancient
Ghost Orchard – bliss
Glassfield – Unwrought Atlas
Great Black Night – Lift Those Hands
Heaters – Baptistina
Holloway – The Feeble Hearts of Man
I Believe in Julio – An Episodic Memory
Lost System - No Meaning No Culture
Paucity - Meal
Peach Faygeaux – heartside
Seth Bernard – eggtones for peace
Suzies – Bub
Tail from the Crypt – Tail from the Crypt
The Howlers – Out of Sight, Out of ind
The Preservers - The Preservers
The War Between – Goth Beach
Thomas Gunn - You Probably Won't Listen to This
BEST AMERICANA ALBUM
Bigfoot Buffalo – Thanks, Y’all
Boulevard Billies – Boulevard Billies
Cousin Avery - Steady
Eric Engblade – Eric Engblade
Eyes Unclouded – Eyes Unclouded
Greensky Bluegrass - Shouted, Written Down & Quoted
Gunnar & The Grizzly Boys – Good Rhythm
Joe Shields – Rocks & Toads
Kari Lynch – Little Games
Lapdogs – There You Live
May Erlewine - Lean Into the Wind
May Erlewine - The Little Things
Nathan Kalish & The Lastcallers – Continental Breakfast of Champions
Nicholas James & The Bandwagon – Tall, Tall Tales
Plain Jane Glory – Grace of Hours
Rachel White – Destination Sunday
Red Tail Ring – Fall Away Blues
RJ Nordlund & The Nomad Assembly – Nomads Assemble
Stovepipe Stover – Love in the Time of Satanic Panic
Strawberry Heritage - Overgrowth
The Appleseed Collective - Tour Tapes
The Change - Fight or Flight
The Ragbirds - The Threshold & The Hearth
The Whiskey Charmers - The Whiskey Charmers
Turbo Pup - Are We Lost Yet?
BEST BLUES/SOUL ALBUM
Alexander Lynch – Love Lives
Benjamin James – Growing Pains
Blue Soul Express – This Little Love
Harper - Show Your Love
Out of Favor Boys - It All Comes Back
The Mainstays – Another Way
The Sauce – The Sauce
Thornetta Davis - Honest Woman
BEST CONTEMPORARY FOLK ALBUM
Angela Predhomme - Will
Brett Martin Hoerner - Somewhere in Sonoma
Channing & Quinn – Up North
Chris Bathgate – Old Factory
Chris DuPont - Outlier
Christopher Sloan – Gathering the Ghosts
Claire Fisher - Claire Fisher and Friends
Dale Wicks – Only Passing Through
Deep Greens & Blues – Chasing Horizons
Elroy Meltzer – Hang A Tale
Friends with the Weather – Friends with the Weather
Jacob Bullard - Bugs
Jonny Carroll – Leaving on the Light
Lynn Thompson Band – Flying Friend
Mark Harrell - Onward From Here
Matt Plessner – Forest Blue
Miriam Pico – Travel Happy
Rachele Eve - Our Love is Imagined
Sally Rogers and Claudia Schmidt - We Are Welcomed
Sewn – Songs from Home
Stepladders - Stepladders
Strange Honey Valley - Hold Tight
The Accidentals – Parking Lot
The Aquaerials – Strange Bird / Stuck Inside / The Lion and the Lamb
The Muteflutes – Hideaway Love
They Were Thieves - Almost Always On a Mend
Tony Nawrocki - Ladyslipper
Wheelhouse - The Dingoes at our Record
Zachary James – The Stars I Stripe
BEST ELECTRONIC ALBUM
Airjob & Jaws that Bite - TACca
Airjob & Sawtooth - Tollo
Darkly – Prints of the Past
Jaws that Bite - Chill Lair (Music for People to Have Conversations To)
Jeremy Ensley - 2016
Norty – We Were Nearly There
Nunca Duerma - Ven Ahora
PARTS – 3 Parts Dead
Pastel Arsenel - Fields
Peace to Mateo - Bouquet
Wasaaga - Eevee
BEST HIP HOP ALBUM
DeLMnT – The First Day
Obese Ghost Children - Spoke
Rick Chyme and Nixon - Bald Since Birth
Shamar Alef – On Earth As It Is In Heaven
Sligh – Sligh Boulevard
Stony Ocean - Expo
The Great Ones – The Great Ones
The SEVENth – Weekend Sin
WuZee - Music Video EP
BEST JAZZ ALBUM
Connell-Brewer Jazz Band
Corey Kendrick Trio - Rootless
Dante Cope - Jasmine and the Voodoo King
Dante Cope – Jasmine in the Brave New World
Melanie Marod - I'll Go Mad
Patrick Booth - On the Shoulders of Giants
Randy Napoleon - Soon
SYTS - A Timeless Memory
The Incredible Odds – The Incredible Odds
The Macpodz - Underwater Encounter
The Underground Circus – Lion Vs. Clown
BEST ROCK OR POP ALBUM
All is Well – Nocturnes
Andrew Starr & The Hobo Scene – Dead Lighters Go to Heaven
Bello Spark – Among the Lights
Bermudas – Sour
Big Dudee Roo – Dudee Free
Blanca Luz - Be Serious
Boy from School – Northern Cities Shift
Conrad Shock & The Noise – Red skys & Pyrrhic Minds
Empty Houses - Daydream
Falterboy - Blasphemy
Fawnn - Ultimate Oceans
Five by Five - Episodes
Flushed – Care Less
Four Lincolns – Four Lincolns
Hi-Ker – Weird Plastic
Jake Kalmink & Furthur Closer – Modern Condition
Kerosene Stars – Burn the Evidence
Lambo - Lambo
Liance – The Golden Flesh
Lloyd Braun – New Age Hooey
Melophobix - EP
Michael Dause – The Sound of Self-Destruction
Phil and Lu - Mood Rock
Public Access – Public Access
Red Legs – Influencer
Shores - Netherwise
Silverstiles – A Long Time To Be Gone
Sky & Signal - Seed and Beast
The Crane Wives – Foxlore
The Darling Oranges – The Darling Oranges
The Fever Haze – Dear Fate
The Go Rounds – I Promise I Won’t Get Hurt
The Icicles – Trees Touch Skies
The Legal Immigrants – Panacea
The Lippies – The Lippies
the Soil + the Sun – Actual Replica, Vol. 1
The Zannies - Wannabe
Trash Hounds – Ear Muzik
Ttypes - Three EP
Watching for Foxes – Undone Bird
BEST ROOTS / REVIVAL ALBUM
David Fable – Short Stories
Diff & Dudley – Diff & Dudley
Jesse Ray & The Carolina Catfish - Angry
Soul Patch - Dirty Work
The Bootstrap Boys - All Roots Aboard
The Concussions – Newaygo Sound Machine
The Jetbeats – Mach ‘64
The Ragbirds - The Threshold & The Hearth
The Red Sea Pedestrians – See Through the Eyes of Osiris!
THE TRADITIONS! AWARD
Axel Quinlan – Above Covered Skies
Billy Strings - EP
Crossbow - Crossbow
K. Jones & The Benzie Playboys – Morning Train
Michigan Mafia String Band - Michigan Mafia String Band
Premo & Gustavsson – I Walked Abroad
Soltre - Wherever You Are
The Codgers - Lichfield
The Moxie Strings - Outlet
BEST ALBUM BY A NEW ARTIST
Alexander Lynch – Love Lives
All is Well – Nocturnes
Andrew Starr & The Hobo Scene – Dead Lighters Go to Heaven
Axel Quinlan – Above Covered Skies
Benjamin James – Growing Pains
Blanca Luz - Be Serious
Blue Soul Express – This Little Love
Bong Mountain – You’re Doin’ Great! (for the record)
Book of Symbols – Painted Lights
Boulevard Billies – Boulevard Billies
Brett Martin Hoerner - Somewhere in Sonoma
Charlie Darling – quorum sensing
Cheap Emotion – Hospital Talk
Chris DuPont - Outlier
Coffin Problem – Coffin Problem
Conrad Shock & The Noise – Red skys & Pyrrhic Minds
Cousin Avery - Steady
Crossbow – Crossbow
Darkly – Prints of the Past
David Fable – Short Stories
DeLMnT – The First Day
Devin & The Dead Frets – Devin & The Dead Frets
Diff & Dudley – Diff & Dudley
Elroy Meltzer – Hang A Tale
Emma Loo – Ancient
Eyes Unclouded – Eyes Unclouded
Five by Five - Episodes
Flushed – Care Less
Friends with the Weather – Friends with the Weather
Ghost Orchard – bliss
Glassfield – Unwrought Atlas
Great Black Night – Lift Those Hands
Holloway – The Feeble Hearts of Man
Jake Kalmink & Furthur Closer – Modern Condition
Jeremy Ensley – 2016
Joe Shields – Rocks & Toads
Kerosene Stars – Burn the Evidence
Kidsonfire - Kidsonfire
Lambo – Lambo
Lapdogs – There You Live
Lloyd Braun – New Age Hooey
Lost System - No Meaning No Culture
Melophobix - EP
Michael Dause – The Sound of Self-Destruction
PARTS – 3 Parts Dead
Peach Faygeaux – heartside
Public Access – Public Access
Rachel White – Destination Sunday
Red Legs – Influencer
RJ Nordlund & The Nomad Assembly – Nomads Assemble
Sewn – Songs from Home
Shamar Alef – On Earth As It Is In Heaven
Shores - Netherwise
Silverstiles – A Long Time To Be Gone
Sky & Signal - Seed and Beast
Sligh – Sligh Boulevard
Stepladders - Stepladders
Strange Honey Valley - Hold Tight
Suzies – Bub
SYTS - A Timeless Memory
Tail from the Crypt – Tail from the Crypt
The Aquaerials – Strange Bird / Stuck Inside / The Lion and the Lamb
The Change - Fight or Flight
The Darling Oranges – The Darling Oranges
The Fever Haze – Dear Fate
The Incredible Odds – The Incredible Odds
The Preservers - The Preservers
The Sauce – The Sauce
The SEVENth – Weekend Sin
The Underground Circus – Lion Vs. Clown
The War Between – Goth Beach
The Zannies – Wannabe
They Were Thieves - Almost Always On a Mend
Tony Nawrocki - Ladyslipper
Trash Hounds – Ear Muzik
Ttypes - Three EP
Turbo Pup - Are We Lost Yet?
Wheelhouse - The Dingoes at our Record
Zachary James – The Stars I Stripe
SONG OF THE YEAR
Abandoners - I'm Too Late
Alexander Lynch - Missing Me
All is Well - Deus Ex Machina
BELVE (B.Sykes) - Watchu Think ft. E-Will
Bermudas - Chew (edit)
Big Dudee Roo - Nothing Good Today
Billy Strings - Takin' A Slow Train
Bootstrap Boys - Poverty Line
Boy From School - Freetime
Channing & Quinn - Up North
Coffin Problem - Ghosts of Ourselves
Conrad Shock and the Noise - Murphy's Law
Dante Cope - Conjury
Darkly - Impossible
DeLMnT - Hooked
Devin and the Dead Frets - Edna
Emma Loo - Poison
Empty Houses - Rope
Flushed - Only One
Four Lincolns - 80 Years
Greensky Bluegrass - Past My Prime
Heaters - Centennial
Hi-Ker - #10
I believe in Julio - Home
Jaws that Bite - Waiting For The Shadow
Jeremy Ensley - Ily
Jesse Ray and the Carolina Catfish - Two Face Talkin'
Joe Shields - Sinkin' Too
Jonny Carroll - Painted Jars
K. Jones & The Benzie Playboys - Morning Train
Kari Lynch - Sweetheart
Kids on Fire - Kids on Fire
Lapdogs - To the End of the Universe
Liance - Ellie Takes a Bath
Lynn Thompson Band - One Last Stand
May Erlewine - Many Miles
Melanie Marod - Dance Me To The End Of Love
Melophobix - Tortuga
Nathan K - A Sign from God
Nathan Kalish and the Lastcallers - Richmans Tool Then Die
Nicholas James Thomasma and the Bandwagon - Eighteen
Norty - We Were Nearly There
Obese Ghost Children - Guts ft. Red Pill
Parts - Pieces
Peace to Mateo - Yellow Jacket
Peach Faygeaux - Last Chance to Lose Yr Edge
Plain Jane Glory - Petoskey
Premo & Gustavvson - Stay All Night
Public Access - Niala Boodhoo
Rachele Eve - Black Magic
Red Tail Ring - Fall Away Blues
Rick Chyme and Nixon - Praise Unworthy feat. Griff
Serita's Black Rose - Keep On
Seth Bernard - Eggtones For Peace
Shamar Alef - Blu (feat. Marley Ariyahu)
Shores - Hale & Hearty
Sligh - Sligh Boulevard
Stepladders - Easy Way
Strawberry Heritage - Bound To Separate
Suzies - Martha
The Accidentals - Michigan and Again
The Bootstrap Boys - Poverty Line
The Change - Blind Eye
The Concussions - Whack Job
The Crane Wives - I Talk in My Sleep
The Go Rounds - Cage Divine
The Great Ones - Do it for the Love
The Howlers - Outta Sight, Outta Mind
The Icicles - Trees Touch Skies
The Jetbeats - Need A Little Luck
The Legal Immigrants - Today's Catastrophe
The Macpodz - Bouncin' Off Of Satellites
The Mainstays - Greatest Sin
The Moxie Strings - Elzic's Farewell
The Muteflutes - Might You Reconsider
The Ragbirds - Lemon Grove
The Red Sea Pedestrians - Sleepwalk Dreamin'
The SEVENth - On The Table ft. Waldo & Joose The Conqueror
The Soil and the Sun - Throughout The Night
Thornetta Davis - I Gotta Sang The Blues
Trash Hounds - Images
Ttypes - Leslie
Turbo Pup - VIdeo Queen
Watching for Foxes - Two Lovers
WuZee - Chillin
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Airjob & Jaws That Bite - TACca
Airjob and Sawtooth - Tollo
Alexander Lynch - Love Lives
All is Well - Nocturnes
Analogue Earth - Analogue Earth
Andrew Starr & the Hobo Scene - Dead Lighters Go to Heaven
Angela Predhomme - Will
Ape, Not Kill Ape - Risky Move (Safe Lady)
Axel Quinlan - Above Covered Skies
Bad Tattoo - Bad Tattoo
Bello Spark - Among The Lights
Benjaman James - Growing Pains
Bermudas - Sour
Big Dudee Roo - Dudee Free
Bigfoot Buffalo - Thanks Y'all
Billy Strings - Billy Strings EP
Blanca Luz - Be Serious EP
Blue Soul Express - This Little Love
Bong Mountain - You're Doin' Great! (For the Record)
Book of Symbols - Painted Lights
Boulevard Billies - Boulevard Billies
Boy From School - Northern Cities Shift
Brett Martin Hoerner - Somewhere In Sonoma
Channing & Quinn - Up North
Charlie Darling - quorum sensing
Cheap Emotion - Live! At Casserole House
Cheap Emotion - Hospital Talk
Chris Bathgate - Old Factory
Chris DuPont - Outlier
Christopher Sloan - Gathering The Ghosts
Claire Fisher - And Friends
Coffin Problem - Coffin Problem
Compilations - Young Heavy Skulls
Connell-Brewer Jazz Band - Eddie's Here
Conrad Shock and the Noise - Red Skys & Pyrrhic Minds
Corey Kendrick Trio - Rootless
Cousin Avery - Steady
CrossBow - Crossbow
Dale Wicks - Only Passing Through
Dante Cope - Jasmine in the Brave New World
Dante Cope - Jasmine and the Voodoo King
Darkly - Prints of the Past
David Fable - Short Stories
Deep Greens & Blues - Chasing Horizons
DeLMnT (Darius Baldwin) - the First Day
Devin and The Dead Frets - Devin And The Dead Frets
Diff & Dudley - Featuring the Big Sirs
Elroy Meltzer - Hang A Tale
Emma Loo - Ancient
Empty Houses - Daydream
Eric Engblade - Eric Engblade
Eyes Unclouded - Eyes Unclouded
Falterboy - Blasphemy
Fangs and Twang - 2016 digital single series
FAWNN - Ultimate Oceans
Five by Five - Episodes
Flushed - Care Less
Four Lincolns - Four Lincolns
Friends with the Weather - Friends With The Weather
Ghost Orchard - bliss
Girls Rock Grand Rapids - GR!GR 2015
Glassfield - Unwrought Atlas
Graffiti - Writings On The Wall
Great Black Night - Lift Those Hands
Greensky Bluegrass - Shouted, Written Down & Quoted
Gunnar and the Grizzly Boys - Good Rhythm
Harper - Show Your Love
Heaters - Baptistina
Hi-Ker - Weird Plastic
Holloway - The Feeble Hearts of Man
Hush Lane - What Becomes of Us
I Believe in Julio - An Episodic Memory - EP
Jacob Bullard - Bugs
Jake Kalmink & Further Closer - Modern Condition
Jaws That Bite - Chill Lair (Music for People to Have Conversations To)
Jena Irene Asciutto - Innocence
Jeremy Ensley 2016 Q1 Report
Jeremy Ensley 2016 Q2 Report
Jeremy Ensley 2016 Q3 Report
Jesse Ray & the Carolina Catfish - Angry
Joe Shields - Hellbound for Gloria
Jonny Carroll - Leaving On The Light
K. Jones & The Benzie Playboys - Morning Train
Kari Lynch - Little Games
Kerosene Stars - Burn the Evidence
KidsonFire - KidsonFire
Lambo - Self-Titled
Lapdogs - There you Live
Liance - The Golden Flesh
Lloyd Braun - New Age Hooey
Lost System - No Meaning No Culture
Lynn Thompson Band - Flying Friend
M.I.C Book of Foot Clan – Chillin’
Mark Harrell - Onward From Here
Matt Plessner - Forest Blue
Matt Ulery's Loom / Large - Festival
May Erlewine - Lean Into the Wind
May Erlewine - The Little Things
Melanie Marod - I'll Go Mad
Melophobix - EP
Michael Dause - The Sound Of Self-destruction
Michigan Mafia String Band - Michigan Mafia String Band
Mike Galbraith - Finster
Miriam Pico - Travel Happy
Monica Giles - Paying Rent
Nathan Kalish & the Lastcallers - Continental Breakfast of Champions
Nicholas James and the Bandwagon - Tall, Tall Tales
Nikki James - The Album
Norty - We Were Nearly There
Nunca Duerma - Ven Ahora
Obese Ghost Children - Spoke
Out of Favor Boys - It All Comes Back
PARTS - 3 Parts Dead EP
Pastel Arsenal - Fields
Patrick Booth - On the Shoulders of Giants
Paucity - Meal
Peace to Mateo - Bouquet
Peach Faygeaux - heartside
Phil and Lu - Mood Rock
Plain Jane Glory - Grace of Hours
Premo & Gustavsson - I Walked Abroad
Public Access - Public Access
Rachel B - I'm The Boss
Rachel White - Destination Sunday
Rachele Eve - Our Love Is Imagined
Randy Napoleon - Soon
Red Legs - Influencer
Red Tail Ring - Fall Away Blues
Rick Chyme and Nixon - Bald Since Birth
Rival Maps - Echoes
RJ Nordlund & The Nomad Assembly - Nomads Assemble
Sally Rogers and Claudia Schmidt - We Are Welcomed
Seth Bernard - Eggtones For Peace
Sewn - Songs From Home
Shamar Alef - On Earth As it is In Heaven
Sharon McMahan - Somebody Else
SHORES - Netherwise
Silverstiles - A Long Time To Be Gone
Sky & Signal - Seed And Beast
Sligh - Sligh Boulevard (edited)
Soltre - Wherever You Are
Soul Patch - Dirty Work
Stepladders - Stepladders
Stony Ocean - Expo
Stovepipe Stover - Love In The Time Of Satanic Panic
Strange Honey Valley - Hold Tight
Strawberry Heritage - Overgrowth
Suzies - Bub ep
SYTS - A Timeless Memory
Tail From the Crypt - Tail From the Crypt
The Accidentals - Parking Lot
The Appleseed Collective - The Tour Tapes
The Aquaerials - Strange Bird
The Aquaerials - Stuck Inside
The Aquaerials - The Lion and the Lamb
The Bootstrap Boys - All Boots Aboard
The Change - Fight or Flight
The Codgers - Lichfield
The Concussions - Newaygo Sound Machine
The Crane Wives - Foxlore
The Darling Oranges - The Darling Oranges
The Fever Haze - Dear Fate
The Go Rounds - I Promise I Won't Get Hurt
The Great Ones - The Great Ones (Lady Ace and JRob)
The Howlers - Out of Sight, Out of Mind
The Icicles - Trees Touch Skies
The Incredible Odds - The Incredible Odds
The Jetbeats - Mach '64
The Legal Immigrants - Panacea
The Lippies - The Lippies
The MacPodz - Underwater Encounter
The Mainstays - Another Way
The Moxie Strings - Outlet
The Muteflutes - Hideaway Love
The Preservers - The Preservers
The Ragbirds - The Threshold & The Hearth
The Red Sea Pedestrians - See Through The Eyes Of Osiris!
The Sauce - The Sauce
The SEVENth - Weekend Sin EP
the Soil & the Sun - Actual Replica Vol. I
The Underground Circus - Lion vs. Clown
The War Between - Goth Beach
The Whiskey Charmers - The Whiskey Charmers
The Zannies - Wannabe
They Were Thieves - Almost Always on a Mend
Thomas Gunn - You Probably Wont Listen to this
Thornetta Davis - Honest Woman
Tony Nawrocki - Ladyslipper
Trash Hounds - Ear Muzik
Triumph Music Academy - Instructors Compilation
Ttypes - Three EP
Turbo Pup - Are We Lost Yet?
Wasaaga - Eevee
Watching For Foxes - Undone Bird
Wheelhouse - The Dingoes Ate Our Record
Wu Zee - Never Die Alone
Zachary James - The Stars I Stripe