Schizophonics, Trouble in the Wind, Joshua White among top San Diego Music Awards nominees

The Schizophonics and Trouble in the Wind are the leading contenders to win multiple honors at the 2018 San Diego Music Awards with three nominations each.

Led by husband-and-wife guitarist and drummer Pat and Lety Beers, the garage-rock-championing Schizophonics are nominated in the Best Rock, Best Live Performer and Artist of the Year categories.

Trouble in the Wind, whose music draws from rock, country and folk, is also nominated for Artist of the Year and Best Live Performer, as well for Best Country or Americana Album.

Close behind, with two SDMA nominations each, are jazz keyboard dynamo Joshua White, singer-songwriters Sara Petite and Ariel Levine, and the bands Little Hurricane, Buckfast Superbee and B-Side Players.

The winners will be announced at the 27th edition of the annual awards show on March 19 at downtown’s House of Blues, the event’s home for the second consecutive year. Confirmed performers for the show include P.O.D., Trouble in the Wind, Berkley Hart, Whitney Shay, Surefire Soul Ensemble and Parker Meridien.

The list of all of the nominees can be viewed below and online at sandiegomusicawards.com/nominees. Votes can be cast online through Feb. 23 at dosd.com/p/sandiegomusicawards.

The public can vote online in a majority of the 23 SDMA categories. Votes for the Album of the Year categories — which include jazz, blues, rock, hip-hop and other categories — can only be voted on by the 28 members of the San Diego Music Academy, which includes concert promoters, talent buyers, radio station veterans and other industry professionals

Tickets for the March 19 awards show are available online at ticketmaster.com, at the House of Blues box office and by phone at (800) 745-3000.

Proceeds from the awards fete will benefit the nonprofit San Diego Music Foundation’s Taylor Guitars for Schools program, which over the past three decades has provided free instruments and lessons for more than 55,000 students across San Diego County. The previous 26 editions of the show have raised $595,600, according to SDMA founder Kevin Hellman.

Artist of the Year

Casey Hensley Band

Parker Meridien

Gilbert Castellanos

The Redwoods Collective

The Schizophonics

Trouble in the Wind

Album of the Year

Cindy Lee Berryhill, “The Adventurist”

Jack Tempchin, “Peaceful, Easy Feeling”

Joshua White, “13 Short Stories”

Ariel Levine, “Let the Machine Get It”

Little Hurricane, “Same Sun, Same Moon”

Parker Meridien, “Fists Like Gott”

Song of the Year

Ariel Levine, “Sunshine Part 2: On My Color TV”

Aviator Stash, “Lazy Summer Days”

Buckfast Superbee, “Sex It Sells”

Little Hurricane, “OTL”

P.O.D., “Soundboy Killa”

Switchfoot, “If the House Burns Down Tonight”

Best New Artist

Belladon

Jumbotron

Sights & Sages

Well Well Well

Stephanie Brown & the Surrealistics

The Goldettes

Best Singer-Songwriter

Grampadrew

Jimmy Ruelas

Lindsay White

Sarah Rogo

Lee Coulter

Shane Hall

Best Jazz

Danny Green

Euphoria Brass Band

Jason Hanna

Montalban Quintet

Nathan Hubbard

Sue Palmer & Her Motel Swing Orchestra

Best Blues

Bill Magee Blues Band

Black Market III

Mercedes Moore

Missy Andersen

Stoney B Blues Band

Whitney Shay

Best Country or Americana

Berkley Hart

Morgan Leigh Band

Nena Anderson

Sara Petite

Shawn Rohlf

The Moves Collective

Best Hip-Hop/Rap

DJ Pnutz

Odessa Kane

C-Hecc

Riston Diggs

TC Doe

Vokab Kompany

Best Indie/Alternative

Authentic Sellout

Bad Kids

Buckfast Superbee

The Bassics

The Heavy Guilt

The Verigolds

Best Pop

Birdy Bardot

Ki

The Ordeal

Tolan Shaw

The Phantoms

The Midnight Pine

Best Rock

Bossfight

Earthless

The Farmers

The Oxen

The Routine

The Schizophonics

Best World Music

B-Side Players

Doornob Collective

Hirie

Split Finger

Todo Mundo

Tribal Theory

Best Live Performer

Joshua White

Mrs. Henry

Surefire Soul Ensemble

The Creepy Creeps

The Schizophonics

Trouble in the Wind

Artist of the Year

Casey Hensley Band

Parker Meridien

Gilbert Castellanos

The Redwoods Collective

The Schizophonics

Trouble in the Wind

Best Jazz Album

Dave Scott, “One Big Beautiful World”

Lori Bell & Ron Satterfield, “Blue(s)”

Matt Smith Neu Jazz Trio, “I Am Calm”

Patrick Yandall, “A Journey Home”

Rebecca Jade & Peter Sprague, “Planet Cole Porter”

Wayne Riker, “Soulfully Sliding”

Best Blues Album

Chickenbone Slim, “The Big Beat”

Fuzzy Rankin, “The Blues”

Robin Henkel, “Slippery Like a Watermelon Seed”

John January & Linda Berry, “Chemistry 101”

Mohavi Soul, “Hometown Blues”

Nathan James, “What I Believe”

Best Country or Americana Album

Jeff Berkley, “Whore House, Hot Sauce & Souvenirs”

Nancarrow, “Hot Chicken”

Ryan Hiller, “Big Medicine”

Sara Petite, “Road Less Traveled”

Tim Flannery, “Last of the Old Dogs”

Trouble in the Wind, “Pineapple Moon”

Best Hip Hop/Rap Album

1019 The Numberman, “Solus Superstes”

Audio Cord, “Stanz the Six 9teener”

Biggie Babylon, “Hash Tag Hip Hop N Dance”

Bloodstone, “Rapolutionary”

No1MC, “Conditional Struggle”

Saviorself, “Nasty City”

Best Indie/Alternative Album

Aviator Stash, “Aviator Stash”

Grizzly Business, “Spanish Old Fashioned”

Imagery Machine, “Skydriver”

Sights & Sages, “Double Plus”

Skyterra, “Over the Edge”

Splavender, “Hallucinations & Hospitalizations”

Best Pop Album

Marie Hadad, “Stories From Atlantis”

Nina Francis, “Between Dreams”

Astra Kelly, “Chasing the Light”

Michael Tiernan, “Love & a G”

Sister Speak, “The Stand”

Steven Ybarra, “The American Dream”

Best Rock Album

Electric Mud, “Dangerous Promises”

Mittens, “Endlessly”

Superunloader, “Twice in Half”

Taken by Canadians, “Taken by Canadians”

The Paragraphs, “It’s Always Never”

Dirty Sweet, “Once More Unto the Breach”

Best Local Recording

Ambassadors of Soul, “Just Make It Funky”

Comanche Moon, “Derailed”

Sham Saints, “Out of Tune”

The G. Burns Jug Band, “The Fever”

Veronica May, “Awakened”

Wish & the Well, “Darling Darling”

Best World Music Album

B-Side Players, “California Brown”

Mango Habanenro, “Live”

Marujah, “Marujah Rising”

Mike Pinto, “Hotel Rendezvous”

Strictly Skunk, “Strictly Skunk”

Tribal Seeds, “Roots Party”

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