Polyvinyl Record Company and a few artists on the label — Jay Som, Julia Jacklin, and American Football — have been nominated in the 2020 A2IM Libera Awards, Billboard reports this morning. The C-U hometown label is nominated as a part of Indie Week, which they elaborated on a bit more in the article:
Indie Week, an international conference for the independent music industry, takes place for four days every summer in New York City, culminating in the Libera Awards, which honor accomplishments in the independent music sector.
Even though the conference is now taking place virtually, it’s nice to see this crew and some acts they work with get this recognition. Credit goes to Polyvinyl’s Janelle Abad for pointing this out on Twitter. Here are the categories the label and a few of their artists are nominated for (designated in bold):
Label of the Year (Large) (sponsored by ADA)
- Warp Records
- Jagjaguwar
- Domino Recording Co
- Polyvinyl Record Co.
- Partisan Records
Best Punk/Emo Album
- Amyl and The Sniffers – Amyl and The Sniffers (ATO Records)
- The Menzingers – Hello Exile (Epitaph Records)
- Empath – Active Listening: Night On Earth (Fat Possum Records / Get Better Records)
- American Football – American Football (LP3) (Polyvinyl Record Co.)
- Bad Religion – Age Of Unreason (Epitaph Records)
Breakthrough Artist/Release (sponsored by Ingrooves)
- Sudan Archives – Athena (Stones Throw Records)
- Black Pumas (ATO Records)
- Fontaines D.C. (Partisan Records)
- Orville Peck (Sub Pop Records)
- Julia Jacklin (Polyvinyl Record Co. (US))
Best Indie Rock Album
- Crumb – Jinx (Crumb Records)
- (Sandy) Alex G – House of Sugar (Domino)
- Jay Som – Anak Ko (Polyvinyl Record Co.)
- Weyes Blood – Titanic Rising (Sub Pop Records)
- Charly Bliss – Young Enough (Barsuk Records)
Best Folk/Bluegrass Album
- Bedouine – Bird Songs of a KillJoy (Spacebomb Records)
- Patty Griffin – Patty Griffin (Thirty Tigers)
- Julia Jacklin – Crushing (Polyvinyl Record Co.)
- Jake Xerxes Fussell – Out of Sight (Paradise of Bachelors)
- Jessica Pratt – Quiet Signs (Mexican Summer)
Photo from Polyvinyl Records’ Facebook page.
