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Best New Band: Sakes Alive!!
(honorable mention: how dare you, anchor arms, get bent)
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Best Live Band: The Fest
We asked for one, you gave us the whole shebang!
(honorable mention: Hot Water Music)
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Best Album: Off With Their Heads “From The Bottom”
(honorable mention:� Dillinger Four “C I V I L� W A R,” Paint It Black “New Lexicon,” LaGrecia “On Parallels”)
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Best Album Art/Packaging: Dead to Me “Little Brother,”– art by drummer Ian Anderson
(honorable mention: Torche “Meanderthal,” Glass And Ashes “Glass And Ashes,” Polar Bear Club “Sometimes Things Just Disappear.”)
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Biggest Breakup Bummer: The Ergs!
(honorable mention: Modern Life Is War, LaGrecia, New Mexican Disaster Squad, Chinese Telephones)
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Best Band for Stage-Dives and High-Fives: Paint It Black
(honorable mention: New Mexican Disaster Squad, Comadre)
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Best Lookin’: Dillinger Four (specifically Paddy)
(honorable mention: Tiltwheel, Off With Their Heads, Lemuria, Bridge And Tunnel)
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Band That Should Have Played The Fest This Year: Hot Water Music
(honorable mention: Defiance Ohio, Dead To Me, Thorns Of Life)
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Best Fest Performance: Paint it Black
(honorable mention: Leatherface, Able Baker Fox, Coalesce, None More Black)
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Best Venue:� FailSafe Records Warehouse, Gainesville
(honorable mention: Snake Pit in Clemson (RIP), Transitions in Tampa, The Atlantic and Common Grounds in Gainesville)
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Best Website: http://www.nationalunderground.org
thank you so much!!!
(honorable mention: IfYouMakeIt.com, Vinyl Collective.com, last.fm)
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Best Sing a Long: Dillinger Four “Gainesville”
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Best Song: Off With Their Heads “I Am You”
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Best Label/Distro: Vinyl Collective
(honorable mention: FailSafe, Suburban Home, Kiss Of Death, No Idea)
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Best Band Photographer: Brian Kelleher (readysteadyjedi)
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Most Anticipated Album in 2009: Thorns Of Life
(honorable mention:Bouncing Souls, Shook Ones, None More Black, Young Livers, Propagandhi)
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Thanks for a great year, and congrats to Lukas Hauser (lifetimerule)–our winner! 🙂
National Underground 
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