The four-day Indie Week (June 17-20) will be held at the New York Law School in Tribeca. Tickets are available here.
Below, browse the full list of nominees for the 2019 Libera Awards:
Album of the Year (sponsored by The Orchard)
• Mitski - Be The Cowboy (Dead Oceans)
• IDLES - Joy as an Act of Resistance. (Partisan Records)
• serpentwithfeet - soil (Secretly Canadian)
• Yves Tumor - Safe In The Hands Of Love (Warp Records)
• Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth (Young Turks)
Best Live Act
• King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard (ATO Records)
• Mitski (Dead Oceans)
• BADBADNOTGOOD (Innovative Leisure)
• Run the Jewels (RTJ Music, Inc.)
• Kelela (Warp Records)
Best American Roots/Folk Album
• Calexico - The Thread That Keeps Us (ANTI Records)
• Richard Thompson - 13 Rivers (New West Records)
• John Prine - The Tree of Forgiveness (Oh Boy Records)
• I'm With Her - See You Around (Rounder Records)
• Dom Flemons - Black Cowboys (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)
Best Blues Album
• Shemekia Copeland - America's Child (Alligator Records)
• Boz Scaggs - Out Of The Blues (Concord Records / Concord)
• Fantastic Negrito - Please Don't Be Dead (Cooking Vinyl)
• Deva Mahal - Run Deep (Motema Music)
• Cedric Burnside - Benton County Relic (Single Lock Records)
Best Classical Album
• Niklas Paschburg - Oceanic (7k!)
• Henrik Schwarz & Metropole Orkest - Scripted Orkestra (7k!)
• Jean-michel Blais - Dans ma main (Arts & Crafts Productions Inc.)
• London Symphony Orchestra - Fuchs: Piano Concerto "Spiritualist" (Naxos American Classics)
• Oliver Coates - John Luther Adams - Canticles of the Sky (RVNG Intl.)
Best Country/Americana Album
• Phosphorescent - C'est La Vie (Dead Oceans)
• Mary Gauthier - Rifles and Rosary BeadsI (n the Black / CD Baby)
• John Prine - The Tree of Forgiveness (Oh Boy Records)
• Jim Lauderdale - Time Flies (Yep Roc Records)
• Alejandro Escovedo - The Crossing (Yep Roc Records)
Best Dance/Electronic Album (sponsored by Symphonic Distribution)
• Leon Vynehall - Nothing Is Still (Ninja Tune)
• Jon Hopkins - Singularity (Domino Recording Co. Ltd.)
• SOPHIE - Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides (Future Classic)
• Oneohtrix Point Never - Age Of (Warp Records)
• Yves Tumor - Safe In The Hands Of Love (Warp Records)
Best Hip-Hop/Rap Album (sponsored by Songtrust)
• August Greene - August Greene (August Greene)
• Awkwafina - In Fina We Trust (Awkwafina Records / AWAL)
• Myke Bogan - Joe Fontana (EYRST / CD Baby)
• Blueface - Famous Cryp (Fifth Amendment, Inc / Entertainment One)
• Junglepussy - JP3 (Junglepussy)
Best Jazz Album
• Onyx Collective - Lower East Suite Part Three (Big Dada / Ninja Tune)
• Esperanza Spalding - 12 Little Spells (Concord Records / Concord)
• Julian Lage - Modern Lore (Mack Avenue Music Group)
• Tia Fuller - Diamond Cut (Mack Avenue Music Group)
• Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth (Young Turks)
Best Latin Album
• Cuco - Chiquito (Cuco / AWAL)
• Orquesta Akokán - Orquesta Akokán (Daptone Records)
• El Alfa - El Hombre (El Jefe Records / CD Baby)
• Bad Bunny - X 100PRE (Rimas Entertainment)
• Mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles - Mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)
Best Metal Album
• Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love (ANTI Records)
• High on Fire - Electric Messiah (Entertainment One)
• Underoath - Erase Me (Fearless Records)
• Thou - Magus (Sacred Bones Records)
• Sleep - The Sciences (Third Man Records)
Best Outlier Album
• Khruangbin - Con Todo El Mundo (Dead Oceans)
• Kero Kero Bonito - Time 'n' Place (Polyvinyl Record Co.)
• serpentwithfeet - soil (Secretly Canadian)
• Yves Tumor - Safe In The Hands Of Love (Warp Records)
• Oneohtrix Point Never - Age Of (Warp Records)
Best R&B Album
• Charles Bradley - Black Velvet (Daptone Records)
• Durand Jones & The Indications - Durand Jones & The Indications (Dead Oceans)
• Blood Orange - Negro Swan (Domino Recording Co. Ltd.)
• Kadhja Bonet - Childqueen (Fat Possum)
• serpentwithfeet - soil (Secretly Canadian)
Best Re-Issue Album
• Pixies - Come On Pilgrim...It's Surfer Rosa (4AD)
• Tom Waits - Small Change (ANTI Records)
• Bauhaus - The Bela Session (Leaving Records/Stones Throw Records)
• Liz Phair - Girly-Sound To Guyville: The 25th Anniversary Boxset (Matador Records)
• Hiss Golden Messenger - Devotion: Songs About Rivers and Spirits and Children (Merge Records)
Best Rock Album
• Mitski - Be The Cowboy (Dead Oceans)
• Shame - Songs of Praise (Dead Oceans)
• Snail Mail - Lush (Matador Records)
• Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel (Mom+Pop)
• IDLES - Joy as an Act of Resistance. (Partisan Records)
Best Sync Usage
• Gillian Welch "The Way It Will Be" in THIS IS US (Acony Records)
• Shigeto - "Ann Arbor Pt 1"— "Lady Misaki:" Japan's Decorated Trucks — Shot on iPhone — Apple (Ghostly International)
• Perfume Genius - "Eighth Grade" Trailer (Matador Records)
• Alice Merton - No Roots (Mini Cooper Sync) (Mom+Pop)
• Run the Jewels - x Black Panther (RTJ Music, Inc.)
Best World Album
• Gilberto Gil - OK OK OK (Gege Produções)
• Femi Kuti - One People One World (Knitting Factory Records)
• Angelique Kidjo - Remain in Light (Kravenworks)
• Bombino - Deran (Partisan Records)
• Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 - Black Times (STRUT)
Breakthrough Artist/Release (sponsored by Ingrooves)
• Snail Mail - Lush (Matador Records)
• Lucy Dacus - Historian (Matador Records)
• Sunflower Bean - Come For Me (Mom+Pop)
• Caroline Rose - Loner (New West Records)
• IDLES - Joy as an Act of Resistance. (Partisan Records)
Creative Packaging
• Various Artists - Brainfeeder X (Brainfeeder)
• Charles Bradley - Black Velvet Deluxe Box (Daptone Records)
• Mitski - Be The Cowboy (Dead Oceans)
• John Maus - Vinyl Box Set (Ribbon Music)
• Kamasi Washington - Heaven and Earth (Young Turks)
Independent Champion
• Caroline
• CD Baby
• NPR
• Redeye
• SoundExchange
Label of the Year (Big) (sponsored by ADA)
• Dead Oceans
• Domino Recording Co. Ltd.
• Polyvinyl Record Co.
• Rough Trade Records
• Warp Records
Label of the Year (Medium)
• Bloodshot Records
• Mom+Pop
• Partisan Records
• Saddle Creek
• Yep Roc Records
Label of the Year (Small)
• Brainfeeder
• Daptone Records
• Hardly Art
• Innovative Leisure
• Oh Boy Records
Marketing Genius
• King Gizzard Reissues Campaign (ATO Records)
• Khruangbin - Con Todo El Mundo (Dead Oceans)
• IDLES - Joy as an Act of Resistance. (Partisan Records)
• Reggae Month - Studio One (Studio One)
• Aphex Twin - Collapse EP (Warp Records)
Video of the Year
• Mitski - "Nobody" (Dead Oceans)
• Moses Sumney - "Quarrel" (Jagjaguwar)
• John Prine - "Summer's End" (Oh Boy Records)
• Aphex Twin - "T69 Collapse" (Warp Records)
• Kamasi Washington - "Street Fighter Mas" (Young Turks)
