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
A2IM Lifetime Achievement Award Brett Gurewitz – Founder (Epitaph/Anti-)
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)