AltWeekly Awards
2008 Music Criticism Above 55,000
1st Place: Hot Hot Heat, The Disorientation of Lauryn Hill and The Fey Highwayman by Rob Harvilla , The Village Voice
2nd Place: Freaks Come Out at Night
by Jonathan Cunningham
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New Times Broward-Palm Beach
3rd Place: Hug Life, People, People, Why are They Fighting? and Half the Man He Used to Be
by Sarah Godfrey
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Washington City Paper
Honorable Mention: Forgiving the Past Through Elliott Smith, It's So Easy Being Green and Jack Kerouac's Writing is Still Influential for Rock Icons 50 Years After On the Road
by Jennifer Maerz
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SF Weekly
2008 Music Criticism Below 55,000
1st Place: The Unbearable Lightness of Paul (PDF), Police Report (PDF) and Haley's Comet (PDF) by Gilbert Garcia , San Antonio Current
2nd Place: It's a Rap, Bad-Vibe Bands and Johnny Cash's Block Party
by Chris Herrington
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The Memphis Flyer
3rd Place: Weird Sisters (PDF), Melancholy Man (PDF) and The Feminine Mystique (PDF)
by Rene Spencer Saller
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Illinois Times