Sunday, December 25, 2011

2011 ImpOp Awards: Fair To Midland, Marc Maron, Mila Kunis, & Much More!



Song Of The Year: Fair To Midland “Amarillo Sleeps On My Pillow”
 F2M shocked and awed with their epic concept album "Arrows & Anchors" winning album and song of the year honors. A complicated and fascinating journey awaits the listeners of their progressive metal music.

Album Of The Year: Fair To Midland “Arrows & Anchors”

Rock Song Of The Year: Man Man “Shameless”

Rock Album Of The Year: Puscifer “Conditions Of My Parole”
Punk Song Of The Year: Frank Turner “If Ever I Stray”
 One of the great "finds" of the year yielded this amazing musician from England.
Punk Album Of The Year: Rise Against “Endgame”
Country Song Of The Year: Dolorean “Country Clutter”
Country Album Of The Year: Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit “Here We Rest”
Hip Hop/Rap Song Of The Year: Evidence, Slug, & Aesop Rock “Late For The Sky”
Hip Hop/Rap Album Of The Year: MC Chris “Race Wars”
Indie Song Of The Year: The Decemberists “All Arise”
Indie Album Of The Year: The Decemberists “The King Is Dead”
 So much great "Indie" music was out this year but it is nearly impossible to compete with the extraordinary Decemberists and their amazing music.
Heavy Metal Song Of The Year: Trivium “In Waves”
Heavy Metal Album Of The Year: Bury Your Dead “Mosh N’ Roll”
Comedy Song Of The Year: The Lonely Island & Michael Bolton “Jack Sparrow”
 Weird Al Yankovic had an album out but could not compete with the legendary Michael Bolton hooking up with Hip-Hop hilarity.
Blues Song Of The Year: Mark Schottinger “Goin’ To Baja”
Pop Song Of The Year: Blitzen Trapper “Love The Way You Walk Away”
 A rapidly rising band with a myriad of influences and styles came close to "indie album of the year."

Movie Of The Year: Transformers “Dark Side Of The Moon”

Horror Movie Of The Year: Insidious
Comedy Movie Of The Year: Horrible Bosses
Fantasy Movie Of The Year: Thor
Documentary Of The Year: Knuckle
TV Show Of The Year: Boardwalk Empire


Man Of The Year: Marc Maron
 WTF! exploded the popularity of the grumpy Marc Maron a brilliant comedian who has been doing the "big work" for years and years and has finally got some deserved success.


Woman Of The Year: Mila Kunis
 Sweet Mila stole the show and our hearts in Black Swan and still voices the hapless Meg on Family Guy. Plus she's kinda hot.

Artist Of The Year: Bart Sears
 Comic Books are back in a big way and the greatest comic book artist of all time and personal favorite is Bart Sears. The "powerful" artist is known for his work on X-O Manowar, Turok, JLE, Weapon-X, Brute & Babe, and Ominous Press his personal studio.

Comedian Of The Year: Anthony Jeselnik
Comedy Album Of The Year: Patrice O'Neal: Elephant In The Room

Special thanks to all the great music of the year that did not win awards including:

Portugal The Man., Foster The People, Seether, Dropkick Murphys, Flogging Molly, Sublime With Rome, The Mountain Goats, Mike Doughty, Fake Problems, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs, New Found Glory, Pully, Real Estate, Tab Benoit, They Might Be Giants, Angels & Airwaves, Every Time I Die, The Explorers Club, Five Finger Death Punch, Great Big Sea, The Joy Formidable, Local H, Machine Head, Middle Brother, Waters, Wavves, Sean Hayes, The Subways, Band Of Skulls, Murs, Noel Gallagher, Okkervil River, The Parlor Mob, Wagons,


AWOLNation, Cults, First Aid Kit, The Roots, Alice Cooper, Apathy, Places & Numbers, The Vaccines, The Wood Brothers, I’m From Barcelona, Chimaira, Gorillaz, Noah & The Whale, Withered Hand, Trampled By Turtles, The Dwarves, Sad Daddy, Childish Gambino, Motopony, Seasick Steve, Tres Mts., The Young Evils, Ages&Ages, Buddy Miller, Rumspringa, Tyler The Creator, Dawes, Face To Face, Hayes Carll, Elbow, Black Stone Cherry, Mastodon, Streetlight Manifesto, 311, Strung Out, The Black Keys, T.J. Miller, The Dreaming, Steel Panther, Korn, Blink-182, Jasta, Jedi Mind Tricks, Theory Of A Deadman, The Beastie Boys, and the Civil Wars.

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