Queen City Music Hall seats about 900 comfortably, and for last night’s Panthy Awards, the newly opened downtown venue was about 75 percent full with nominees in the Weekly’s 16th Annual Music Awards and guests. We received in excess of 125,000 votes over the course of about a month this year, and the big winners were Quaker City Night Hawks, taking home Artist of the Year honors as well as Best Band, Rock Album of the Year (Honcho), Rock Song of the Year (“Fox in the Hen House”), Best Live Band, Best Guitarist (David Matsler), and Best Drummer (Matt Mabe). The Hanna Barbarians also won a couple Panthys, for Best Rock Band and for EP of the Year (Spaceway Sessions, Vol. 1), Scott Copeland took home honors for Best Singer-Songwriter and Texas Music, and perennial favorite Josh Weathers won every category he was nominated in: Best Blues/Soul, Best Male Vocalist, Song of the Year (“Big Night in the City”), and Album of the Year (Big Night in the City). Below are the rest of the winners, with some awesome photos from staff photog Vishal “The Hindu Hammer” Malhotra. ’Til next year.
New Artist
We’reWolves
Americana/Roots Rock
Whiskey Folk Ramblers
Hard Rock
The Phuss
Hardcore
Cadillac to Mexico
Heavy Metal
Southern Train Gypsy
C&W
The Paychecks
Avant Garde/Experimental
Slumberbuzz
Pop
Lindby
Punk
War Party
R&B/Rap
Rivercrest Yacht Club
Jazz
Gunga Galunga
Acoustic/Folk
Tripp Mathis
Semi-Local Band
Whiskey Folk Ramblers
Cover/Tribute Band
Big Mike’s Box of Rock
Female Vocalist
Sam Wuehrmann (Animal Spirit)
Bassist
Jeremy Hull (Holy Moly, Mills & Co.)
Record Label
Dreamy Soundz Records
Booking Agency
Blackbox Presents
Venue
Lola’s Saloon
Producer
Jordan Richardson and Steve Steward
Indie-Rock Album of the Year
Skeleton Coast by Skeleton Coast
Hall of Fame
Casey James
Ken Shimamoto
Heavy Metal nominees Tri-County Terror.
Hard Rock nominees The Dangits.
Indie prog-rockers Cleanup.
Heavy Metal nominees Sweetooth.
Heavy Metal winners Southern Train Gypsy.
Best band nominees Pinkish Black.
Heavy Metal nominees Orthodox Fuzz.
Punk nominees Not Half Bad.
Hip-hop nominee Nice Major.
Hip-hop nominees Mt. Olympus.
Indie-rockers Missing Sibling.
Pop winners Lindby.
Americana nominees Left Arm Tan.
The KTCU crew.
Pop nominees Kites and Boomerangs.
Best Blues/Soul winner Josh Weathers.
Singer-songwriter nominee Jody Jones and life partner Akisha.
James Hinkle and his drummer, Lucas White.
Best Rock winners The Hanna Barbarians.
Texas Music nominees Green Light Pistol.
Avant Garde/Experimental nominees Gonzo City.
Avant Garde/Experimental nominees Drift Era.
Heavy Metal nominees Cosmic Trigger.
Avant Garde/Experimental nominees Constant Seas.
Big thanks to North Texas Chevy Dealers for their continued support.
Rock nominees Year of the Bear.
The Dreamy Soundz/Lo-Life crew.
The crowd piles into Queen City.
We’ll call these guys The White Panthers, the house band assembled at the last minute for the after-party and featuring (from left to right) saxophonist and keyboardist Jeff Dazey, bassist Andrew Skates (Telegraph Canyon), drummer Matt Mabe (Quaker City Night Hawks), and guitarist Kris Luther (The Hanna Barbarians).
The Panthys await their owners.
Casey James accepts his Hall of Fame award.
Big Mike and his Box of Rock accept their Panthy for best cover/tribute band.
Tripp Mathis and company accept their Panthy for best acoustic/folk.
Gunga Galunga accept their Panthy for best jazz.
Rivercrest Yacht Club accept their Panthy for best R&B/hip-hop.
Josh Weathers won a handful of awards last night.
War Party won for best punk.
Southern Train Gypsy accepts their Panthy for best heavy metal.
Cadillac to Mexico won the Panthy for best hardcore.
Quaker City Night Hawks won several Panthys last night.
Phuss frontman Josh Fleming accepts their Panthy for best hard rock band.
Skeleton Coast accepts their Panthy for best indie-rock album.
Stan Richardson accepts a Panthy on behalf of his son, Jordan Richardson, who was voted best producer with Steve Steward.
Lola’s Brian Forella accepts the Panthy for best venue.
Blackbox’s Jamie Kinser and Aaron Knight accept the Panthy for best booking agency.
Dreamy Soundz’ Robby Rux accepts the Panthy for best record label.
Holy Moly’s Jeremy Hull accepts his Panthy for best bassist.
Matt Mabe was voted best drummer for the third year in a row.
Sam Weuhrmann was voted best female vocalist by Weekly readers.
Acoustic/Folk nominees Big City Folk.
New Artist nominees Animal Spirit.
Ken Shimamoto accepts his Hall of Fame award.
New Artist nominees The Williams.
Whiskey Folk Ramblers won for best Americana and Semi-Local Band.
Excellent! I hate that I missed the awards ceremony and after party but I heard it was awesome…and packed! Good job to everyone who worked on this and the voters and congrats to nominees and winners!
Excellent! I hate that I missed the awards ceremony and after party but I heard it was awesome…and packed! Good job to everyone who worked on this and the voters and congrats to nominees and winners!