Orgy, Black Eyed Peas Lead L.A. Music Awards Noms

04/30/1999 4:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Midnight Jones

(4/30/99, 1 p.m. PDT) - More than 100 bands and performers were nominated for the 1999 LA Weekly Music Awards in 20 categories, with Orgy, Nels Cline, Black Eyed Peas, and Queens Of The Stone Age leading the pack with two nods each.

The show, which will be hosted by Elvis impersonator El Vez, will feature live performances by a diverse batch of local musicians, and include presentations by surprise guests from the music, film and television worlds. The event will be held June 29 at the Palace in Hollywood, Calif.

The awards are part of the LA Music Week 1999, which also includes concerts across town in several venues, seminars, specialty radio programming, dance lessons, and Bowl-A-Rama. An updated list of events can be obtained at www.lamusicweek.com.

A complete list of nominations follows:

Best new artist: Black Eyed Peas, Queens Of The Stone Age, Los Super Elegantes, Medusa & Feline Science, and Miss Spiritual Tramp Of 1948.
Best rock band: The BellRays, The Muffs, Mother Superior, Wayne Kramer, and Hangmen
Best hard rock/ metal band: Orgy, Queens Of The Stone Age, Backbiter, Fear Factory, and Downset
Best pop/ rock band: Baby Lemonade, Possum Dixon, the Negro Problem, the Sugarplastic, and Wondermints
Best punk/ hardcore band: The Vandals, Betty Blowtorch, L7, Grownups, and Leaving Trains
Best rap/ hip-hop artist: Black Eyed Peas, Divine Styler, Aztlan Underground, Alkoholiks, and Kid Frost
Best jazz artist: Vinny Golia, Bobby Bradford, B Sharp Quartet, Brad Mehldau, and Nels Cline
Best country artist: Rosie Flores, Rick Shea, Brantley Kearns, Kathy Robertson, and Groovy Rednecks
Best contemporary blues/ R&B artist: Etta James, Cafe R&B, Joe Houston, Big Jay McNeely, and Leo Nocentelli
Best salsa/ Latin artist: Ricardo Lemvo & Makina Loca, Bobby Matos, Afro-Cuban Jazz Ensemble, Son Mayor, Johnny Polanco, and Poncho Sanchez
Best instrumental band: Davie Allan & the Arrows, Satan's Cheerleaders, the Black Widows, the Bomboras, and Double Naught Spy Car
Best new-genre/ uncategorizable artist: Nels Cline, Kraig Grady, Anna Homler, Brad Laner/ Electric Company, and Solid Eye
Jazz eminence award: Billy Higgins, Buddy Collette, Wadada Leo Smith, Vinny Golia, and Nels Cline
Rock/ pop lifetime achievement award: Hadda Brooks, Dick Dale, the Cramps, Arthur Lee, and Mike Watt
Best world music/ recombinant artist: John Bergamo, Zakir Hussein, Ricardo Lemvo & Makina Loca, Ozomatli, and Adam Rudolph
Best DJ: (mixmeisters): Cut Chemist, Beat Junkies, Doc Martin, Michael Sanchez, and Marques Wyatt
Best DJ: (selectors): Rodney Bingenheimer, Joseph Brooks, Jason Lavitt, Mike Messex, and Richie Rich.
Best radio show: Alma del Barrio (KXLU), Kurtis Blow's Old School Show (Power 106), Blues Hotel (KXLU), KXLU's Demo Listen, and Garth Trinidad's "Chocolate City" (89.9 KCRW)
Best rock/ pop songwriter/ composer: Beck, E (the Eels), Eleni Mandell, Andy Prieboy, Stu (the Negro Problem).
Best dance artist: Cirrus, the Crystal Method, Gearwhore, Hepcat, and 00 Soul
Outstanding classical ensemble/ artist: L.A. Philharmonic's New Music Ensemble, CalArts New Century Players, California E.A.R. Unit, Long Beach Opera, and Esa-Pekka Salonen

Features on Orgy, Wayne Kramer, the Muffs, the Negro Problem, the Cramps, Mike Watt, Ozomatli, the Eels, and Andy Prieboy are available now on LAUNCH.com.