MUSIC AWARD FINALISTSongwriter of the Year. David Milam info. Song of the Year. Stephany Walk Away info. Band of the Year. Mohave info. Duo of the Year. Ssa music awards. Old vintage and collectible farm and adjustable wrench auction by The Wrenching News. Cake stylized CAKE is an American alternative rock band from Sacramento, California. Consisting of singer John McCrea, trumpeter Vince DiFiore, guitarist Xan. Troubled Children Info. Female Solo Act of the Year. Amy Steinberg info. Male Solo Act of the Year. Jeremy Mix info. Unique Style of the Year. The Transfers info. Recording Artist of the Year. Acousti. Con info. Creative Writer of the Year. Michael Barry info. Female Vocalist of the Year. Melinda Campbell info. Male Vocalist of the Year. Matt Mac. Kelcan info. Vocal Group of the Year. Left of Gray info. Lyricist of the Year. Dan Walters info. Touring Act of the Year. Alston info. CD of the Year from Shak Nasti From The Belly info. CD of the Year from a Solo Artist. Shawn Fisher Identity info. Band Front Person of the Year. Weszt Weszt info. Emotional Song of the Year. Invisible Ink To Be Like You info. Spiritual Song of the Year. Tina Gordon Im Not Worthy info. Love Song of the Year. Orlando Rock Band I Found You info. Profound or Poetic Song of the. Year. Brad Payne Lost Fish info. Comical Song of the Year. Bastard Sons of Bob Dylan Donald Trumps Hair info. Narrative Song of the Year tells. David Milam Livin Out My Dream info. Melodic Song of the Year. Jenna Different For Me. Political or Patriotic Song of. Yearfunkus Everybodys Right info. Instrumental Writer or Group of. Year. Charlie Gear info. Multi Instrumentalist of the Year. Carl Immeke One Sun. Guitarist or Bassist of the Year. Teague Stefan The Teague Stefan Band info. DrummerPercusionist of the Year. JD Fosse Mohave info. PianistKeyboardist of the Year. Ed Mc. Curdyinfo 2. Music. Award Recipients. Songwriter of the Year Johnny Mc. Kenzie. Song Of The Year Metric System Why. Band of the Year Fireflight. Duo of the Year Acousti. Con. Female Solo Act of the Year Elizabeth Roth. Male Solo Act of the Year Jeff Coffey. Most Unique Style of the Year Mohave. Recording Artist of the Year Dan Walters. Spiritual Writer of the Year Lisa Firestone. Creative Writer of the Year Monica Rabino. Female Vocalist of the Year Shawn James. Male Vocalist of the Year Lawrence App. Vocal Group of the Year Gailforce. Lyricist of the Year Shoney Lamar. Touring Act of the Year PRC 7. CD of the Year from a Band Mel the Chronics Mel the Chronics. CD of the Year From A Solo Artist Jeffery Todd Grace Over Pressure. Band Front Person of the Year Joe Haile Sleeping With Sybil. Emotional Song of the Year Sharon Resnikoff Flying With The Angels Love Song of the Year Gail Carson 2. Yrs of LoveSpiritual Song of the Year James Horning I Believe. Profound or Poetic Song of the Year Amy Steinberg Simplistic Logistics of Existence Comical Song of the Year Dan Gribbin Lickin My Jelly Knife. Narrative Song of the Year Rick Steffen Pinching My Penny. Melodic Song of the Year Logans Run Losing The Signal. Political Song of the Year Pizza Bob Ground Zero. One Line Lyric of the Year Atticus Black from Road Kill. Multi Instrumentalist of the Year Doug Halper. Guitarist of the Year Mike OBrien Burlington Breeze Project. Pianist of the Year Geoff Meeks Instrumental Writer or Group of the Year Roger Zimish 2. Award Recipients. Songwriter of The Year. Amy Steinberg. Song of the Year. Jeff Coffey. Carousel. Band of the Year. The Vocatio. Duo of the Year. Gailforce. Female Solo Act of the Year. Lorynn. Male Solo Act of the Year. Stephen Currence. Most Unique Style of the Year. Troubled Children. Female Vocalist of the Year. Serina Jung. Male Vocalist of the Year. Logan Belle. Vocal Group of the Year. Consider This. Lyricist of the Year. Dan Walters. SSA Radio Artist of the Year. The Alice Project. CD of the Year from a Band. Milka Fire In the Sky. CD of the Year from a Solo Act. Elizabeth Roth Like. David. Band. Front Person of the Year. Matt Carver M Pulse. Dedicated. Musicians of The Year. Rich The Sales Guy. Emotional Song of the Year. Michael Barry Grateful. Love. Song of the Year. Johnny Mc. Kenzie All I Could See Was You. Spiritual. Song of the Year. Shawn James Rapture. Profound. or Poetic Song of the Year. Local Ju. Ju Mirror Game. Comical. Song of the Year. Funk. Us Whats Wrong With. You. Narrative. Song of the Year. Halifax Country Band Bad Billy. Political Song of the Year. Fylo Zoet What Happened To The M Melodic. Song of the Year. Stephany Tonight. Best. One Line Lyric of the Year. Josh Brockoff the past is so much sweeter when I sip it alone from Still. Around. Multi. Instrumentalist of the Year. Brad Sayre Acousti. Con. Instrumental Writer of The year. Charlie Gear. Solo. Act Guitarist of the Year. Mark Chiriboga. Solo. Act Pianist of the Year. Lisa Firestone. Band. Guitarist of the Year. Joe King of Joe King The Big American Gurus. Band Pianist of the Year. David Holley of Expresso Jazz. Recipients SMT photos. Chuck Harns. 20. 02 Songwriter of the Year. Dan Walters. 20. 02 Song of The Year. Shawn James Give Me Back My Heart2. Best Male Solo Act. Logan Belle. 20. 02 Best Female Solo Act. Amy Steinberg. 20. Best Performance From A Band. Milka. 20. 02 Best Performance From A Duo. Bandees. 20. 02 Best Instrumental WriterGroup. Acousti. Con2. 00. Best Writing Team. Bandees 2. 00. Best Front Person In A Band. Joel Crusada of Sol Season Mike Lasage of Beautiful Mess. Best Female Vocalist. Amy Steinberg. 20. Best Male Vocalist. Jeremy Mix 2. 00. Best Vocal Group. Bandees. 20. 02 Best CD From A Solo Act. Dan Walters Eternal Nerve 2. Best CD From a Band or Duo. Casual Folklor Little Mary2. Most Unique Style. Pugsley Sinclair 2. Best Lyricist Overall. Dan Walters. 20. 02 Best Solo Guitarist. Stephen Currence. Best Solo Piano. Amy Steinberg. Best Guitar Player in a Band. Brad Sayre Acousti. Con. 20. 02 Best Piano Player In A Band. David Yancey. 20. Best Multi Instrumentalist. Mark Chiriboga. 20. Recording Artist of the Year. Michael Makepeace. Most Improved Artist. Unworthy. 20. 02 Best Emotional Song in a Performance. Michele Lane Straight Jacket Fashion Best Narrative Song 2. Cyd Ward Whats It Like In Maine Best Love Song 2. Tracey Piergross Beautiful Wish Most Spiritual or Soulful Song 2. Linda Flynn Ravens Wing. Serina Jung He Is There Most Profound or Poetic Song 2. Pugsley Sinclair Alien Mind Most Melodic Song 2. Acosti. Con Willlow2. Best Political Song 2. John Korbel Stand Tall For America2. Best Comical Song 2. Chuck Culbertson Come SpotBest One Line Lyric 2. Lisa Firestone Susie. CoolJust be your self Its all the same at your funeral lets eat from Just. Be YourselfBest Rendition of A Cover Song. Lorynn Me and Bobby Mc. GeeOther acts2. Jason Domulot the Sonic Mole Chasers. Char. Lee. Crickette. Fylo Zoet Gold Miners. Rich Aldinger. Stephany The Muck Fires. Finale and you thought the show was over. The Awards Presenters. Tammy Beck and Jeff Pierson of. Backstage Pass Magazine. Sarah Hoffman. Leesa Mari Benz of WELE Rusty Hamil Deland Art. Festival Rick De. YampertDaytona Beach News. Journal Patricia Madden Independent Writer. Grahm. Phil Dana. After Show Party Phil, Dana Rodney Phil, Dana Jeff Phil, Debbie Dana. Phil, Crickette Dana 2. SSA MUSIC AWARDSSongwriter of the Year Logan Belle. Song Of The Year Sam Jaffe. Day By DayBest Male Solo Act Jeremy Mix. Best Female Solo Act Shawn James. Best Performance From A Band Casual. Folklor. Best Performance From A Duo Char. Lee Louie. Best Solo Guitarist Sam Pacetti. Best Instrumental Writer. Mark Chiriboga. Best Female Vocalist Lorynn. Best Male Vocalist Jim Walter. Best Vocal Group Black Bird. Abbeyat sound checkBest Front Person In a Band Milka of MILKA Best CD From A Solo Act. Shawn James FreeBest CD From A Band or Duo. Acousticon Journey To. Damascus Best Lyricist Overall Geoff West. Best Audience Rapport Mike La. Sage of Beautiful. Mess. Most Unique Style Award Michelle Lane. Most Improved Artist Jeff Merrill. Best SSA Theme Song Love For the Tune Logan Belle. Yankees Suck Yankees Suck odd Wilson didnt know these guys. But he didnt usually handle the setups for the drug deals it was an associate who typically made the connections someone who had dated an Italian girl with an older sister who was tapped into Bostons druggy Euro scene. Wilson and his partner, Larry Jenkins, moved small amounts of marijuana and mushrooms together, mostly acting as middlemen between distributors and low level dealers. It was easy enough Boston was a college town, overrun with fresh transplants looking to make money off their dorm buddies. Small stakes stuff. This time, though, Wilson was moving up. He was friendly with a next door neighbor in Mission Hill who connected him with some friends from the neighborhood. They were looking to make a sizable purchase. Without meeting face to face, Wilson and the buyers had agreed on a price. For 2. 0,0. 00, Wilson and his associates would provide five pounds of marijuana. The exchange was to be carried out in the bedroom of Wilsons apartment. It was the fall of 2. Wilson, 2. 2, was enrolled as an engineering student at nearby Northeastern University. When he wasnt in class, Wilson ran in the citys hardcore music scene. A tougher, faster evolution of punk, hardcore had flourished in Washington, D. C., and New York in the 8. Boston. Bands like Bane and Reach the Sky couldnt have cared less about the radio They had hundreds of sweat drenched kids in VFW halls screaming their anthems furious songs about unity and perseverance right back at them. Wilson earned his drug seed money from an unlikely source bootleg T shirts. A friend of his from the scene, Ray Le. Moine, had spearheaded the operation. They capitalized on the Boston Red Soxs infamous rivalry with the New York Yankees. Simple white tees in a blue font, they sported a combustible two word phrase Yankees Suck. They were sold outside Fenway Park for 1. Wilson and Le. Moine contend they had more money than they knew what to do with, and all of it was cash in hand. Looking to diversify his portfolio and grow his bankroll, Wilson began to spend some of his share in low level drug deals. But this one was different by his usual standards, this one was ambitious. There were four buyers, all wearing blue jeans and dark hoodies. When they arrived, they went upstairs and paced around Wilsons room. Everything seemed normal at first. Then they pulled out the duct tape. After that came the Uzis. Wilson and Jenkins were forced to the ground, and their wrists were bound. Jenkins had a foot on his neck and the barrel of a gun in his mouth. He was terrified and unable to process what was happening. He lay frozen, waiting for this siege to be over. The gunmen grabbed the giant Ziploc bags full of marijuana. Then they decided they wanted more the safe. Im not opening the safe, Wilson remembers thinking. I refuse to open the safe. It was a high quality Brinks model, where he kept the earnings from his burgeoning T shirt empire. It was more than that, though. All the fucking blood Todd had spilled through bad karma and theft and darkness was contained within that gold chest, Jenkins says. It represented all of it. His livelihood. Wilson didnt have time to think. He just knew he wasnt letting them in. So Todd had some superhuman thing, Jenkins says. He broke out of the duct tape and went fucking Hulk on these dudes. Pulling his hands free, Wilson leaped to his feet and charged forward. Bang. The bullet entered clean into Wilsons mouth. It exited out of his right cheek, then zinged down and pierced his neck. The blood started spraying immediately, neat and strong out of the side of the vein that had just been ruptured. One spray per breath. One spray per breath. One spray per breath. The bullet crash landed on the pillow of Wilsons bed. The triggerman was stunned into silence. His friends took off, scrambling so fast they nearly forgot the product. At first the triggerman stood still, his hand shaking. So Wilson took a couple of steps forward and knocked the gun out of his hand. Then the triggerman took off, too. I dont think they planned to shoot anyone, Jenkins says. It would have been a clean robbery. If Wilson had played along, everything would have gone according to plan. But Todds not a guy you wanna fight. Hell rip a limb off you before he dies. Fenway Park vendors. Le. Moine a voluble guy who knew everyone in the hardcore scene was the first to figure out you could make good money selling Cracker Jack and baseball helmet bowl ice cream inside the park. Im selling ice cream, Wilson says of one fall day. Its September, its cold. No ones fuckin buying ice cream. So Im sitting there, eating my own ice cream. Calibration Software For Sony Xperia Tipo Dual Price. And it comes across the Jumbo. Tron Yankees clinch the division. And none of the fans were leaving. And they start chanting. Yankees suck Yankees suck I remember thinking, Fuck this ice cream. Cut to October 1. Its Game 4 of the ALCS, just one day after Pedro Martinez definitively outpitched the loathed Roger Clemens and led his Sox to victory. Ten Yard Fight one of Bostons seminal hardcore bands is playing its last show. The venue is Karma Club, on Lansdowne Street, almost close enough to Fenway for a home run ball to ding off its front wall. There had always been a jocks vs. But Boston punks still proudly repped their sports teams. Al Barile from the beloved band SS Decontrol would often wear a Bruins jersey onstage. Ten Yard Fight used old timey football imagery on its album covers. And those groups werent the only ones to borrow from sports One of the hardcore scenes founding acts was the hockey obsessed Slapshot. Back then, Boston sports was defined by a fraught, hardscrabble energy. It had been a long time since the glory days of the 8. Celtics, and fans of the citys teams especially the Red Sox had grown dejected and bitter. Back then, rooting for the Sox was punk. This was a collective state of mind when Le. Moine printed up shirts commemorating the last Ten Yard Fight show. Le. Moine was a DIY veteran He never played music himself, but he put on some of the citys most memorable hardcore shows. He booked the Roxbury YMCA and the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of New England and most of the other semilegal venues, too. Le. Moine knew a guy in Sayreville, New Jersey, who ran the screen printing business that made shirts for all the hardcore bands. On a whim, he ordered a small batch of shirts Ten Yard Fight on the back, Yankees Suck emblazoned on the front. The night of Game 4, he headed to Fenway. The T shirts were an instant smash. In 9. Boston was buzzing off the Soxs appearance in the ALCS, and the streets were packed. The shirts started flying, not just to the hardcore kids waiting to say goodbye to their favorite band but to the masses heading into the park or spilling out of the bars of Lansdowne. They couldnt tell you the first thing about Ten Yard Fight, but they knew that phrase, in that harsh sing song cadence Yan kees Suck Yan kees Suck Twenty four hours later, the Soxs season was over. The Yankees won the series in five games and went on to repeat as World Series champions. But Le. Moine was certain he was onto something. He sunk a couple thousand dollars into a small stock of shirts. And for the Soxs home opener in 2. In line with hardcores aesthetics, the shirts were bare bones. The phrase appeared in big block text in Berthold City Bold, the same font used by SS Decontrol. Effectively, it was the same logo as that of the hardcore zine Boiling Point. This time, the shirt featured just two words Yankees Suck. Courtesy of Anthony Pappalardo The sellers on the bridge L R Wesley Eisold standing on railing, Brian Essenter, Jamie Manza, Eric Ferentz, Darren Doc Jones behind Ferentz, Jesse Gustafson, A. J. Mc. Guire behind Gustafson, Chris Wrenn, Brian Masek behind Wrenn, Anthony Pappalardo, Tim Mailloux, Todd Wilson, Ray Le. Band In A Box 2004 Cracker© 2017