2018 Winners
- Album of the Year (Presented By The Orchard)
Slowdive – Slowdive (Dead Oceans) - Best American Roots & Folk Album
Aimee Mann – Mental Illness (SuperEgo Records) - Best Blues Album
Benjamin Booker – Witness (ATO Records) - Best Classical Album
Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin (conductor) – Copland: Symphony No. 3 & 3 Latin American Sketches (Naxos) - Best Country/Americana Album
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – The Nashville Sound (Southeastern Records/Thirty Tigers) - Best Dance/Electronic Album (Presented by Symphonic Distribution)
Sylvan Esso – What Now (Loma Vista Recordings) - Best Hip-Hop/Rap Album (Presented by Fox Rothschild LLP)
Shabazz Palaces – Quazarz: Born on a Gangster Star (Sub Pop Records) - Best Jazz Album
Kamasi Washington – Harmony of Difference (Young Turks) - Best Latin Album
Chicano Batman – Freedom Is Free | ATO Records - Best Live Act
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Bad Seed LTD - Best Metal Album (Presented by Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP)
Converge – The Dusk In Us | Epitaph Records - Best Outlier Album (Presented by Songtrust)
Moses Sumney – Aromanticism | Jagjaguwar
- Best R&B Album
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – Soul of a Woman (Daptone Records) - Best Re-Issue
Elliott Smith – Either/Or: Expanded Edition (Kill Rock Stars) - Best Rock Album
The National – Sleep Well Beast (4AD) - Best Sync Usage (Presented By DISCO)
Cigarettes After Sex – The Handmaid’s Tale on Hulu (Music Supervision: Jessica Dolinger) (Partisan Records / Spanish Prayers) - Best World Album
Ibeyi – Ash | XL Recordings - Breakthrough Artist (Presented By INgrooves)
Princess Nokia – 1992 Deluxe | Rough Trade Records - Creative Packaging
Bob’s Burgers – The Bob’s Burgers Music Album | Sub Pop Records - Independent Champion
Merlin - Label of the Year (Big) (Presented By ADA)
Dead Oceans - Label of the Year (Small) (Presented By Spotify)
Daptone Records - Marketing Genius
Run the Jewels – Call Ticketron! – 646.846.RTJ3 (www.1215.runthejewels.com)
(Marketing Lead: Amaechi Uzoigwe & Lee Martin) | Run the Jewels, Inc. - Video of the Year
Perfume Genius – Die 4 You (Matador Records)
