Okay, Portland. Here it is. Your 2009 Best New Band Poll Results. We could go on for days about this stuff. In fact, we wrote like five thousand words about it. Now we’re getting drunk to celebrate. The issue comes out tomorrow morning, so you’re the first people to know. Check wweek.com for all our stories in the morn’. For now, here’s your conversation starter. Oh, and if you don’t know how the points break down (it’s a little complicated, read last year’s breakdown of how it all works).

1. Explode Into Colors – 80 points
2 (tie). Nurses – Tied for second 66 points
2 (tie). Blind Pilot – Tied at 66 points
4. Grouper – 65 points
5. White Fang – 48 points
6. Y La Bamba – 38 Points
7. Ah Holly Fam’ly – 33 points
8. Guidance Counselor – 31 points
9. The Old Believers – 30 points
10. Jared Mees 28 points

And the voters…

Aaron Hall (Holocene)
Inside Voices
Explode into Colors
Dirty Mittens
(DJ) Dun Diggy
Ah Holly Family

Adam Gnade (musician and former Mercury music editor)
1. White Fang
2. Grouper
3. Rob Walmart
4. Tunnels
5. The Better to See You With

Adam Shearer (from former BNB member Weinland)
Mbilly
Justin Power
The Portland Cello Project
Musee Mecanique
A Weather
Matt Sheehy

Al James (singer-songwriter for Dolorean)
1. Red Fang
2. Pierced Arrows
3. Grails
4. Holy Sons
5. The Bugs

Alex Steininger (In Music We Trust)
1. Blind Pilot
2. The Dimes
3. Ravishers
4. Oh Darling
5. Y La Bamba

Alicia J. Rose (Booker at Mississippi Studios, musician and photographer)
1. BLIND PILOT
2. MATT SHEEHY
3. HOLCOMBE WALLER
4. Y LA BAMBA
5. RUN ON SENTENCE

Kevin Robinson (Viva Voce)
1. Y la bamba
2. Shelly Short
3. Ages
4. Red Fang

Amy McCullough (former WW music editor currently sailing the high seas)
1) Blind Pilot
2) Jared Mees & the Grown Children
3) Carcrashlander
4) Blue Giant
5) Rauelsson

Andrew Tonry (Mercury freelancer writer)
Nurses

Andrew Stern (King of Hearts Records, bass player about town)
Old Believers
Jared Mees & the Grown Children
Eskimo & Sons (RIP)
Blind Pilot
Nurses

Angelo De Ieso II (Pop Tomorrow!)
Dear Ether
Wishyunu
Moment in Static
The Vanishing Kids
Black Mercies

Anne Koch (Business & Entertainment Attorney)
Blind Pilot
Ohmega Watts (even though he’s not new, he deserves more local recognition)
Blue Giant
Sharpening Markers
Ah Holly Fam’ly

Anthony McNamer (Expunged Records)
1) Blind Pilot
2) Chicharones
3) Sandpeople
4) Dr. Theopolis
5) Breakfast Club

Arya Imig (Host of KPSU’s Sound Judgment, man about town)
1. The Rainy States
2. Nurses
3. The Whines
4. Y La Bamba
5. The Shivas

Heather (Booking/FOH Engineer/Promotion, Ash St. Saloon)
The Days The Nights
Diamond Liars
WATER & bodies

Ben Hubbird (CD Baby/Ordinary Times)
1) Blind Pilot
2) Rainy States
3) Church
4) Peter Broderick
5) Jared Mees

Ben @ Kill Rock Stars
1. explode into colors
2. eat skull
3. hornet leg

Brandon Seifert (Freelance Music Journalist)
1. Run On Sentence
2. The Chicarones
3. Andy Combs and the Moth
4. Jared Mees and the Grown Children
5. Dirty Mittens

P Portlock (Asst. Jr. Exec. of Assoc. Affairs | Bridgetown Breaks)
1) Blue Giant
2) Illmaculate
3) DJ Nature
4) Mr. Jeigh
5) DJ Evil One

Brian Mumford (Dragging an Ox Through Water)
1. the Cysts
2. Grouper
3. Why I Must Be Careful
4. Budweiser Sprite
5. Sad Horse

Cary Clarke (PDX Pop Now! Board Member, Portland Mercury Local Music Columnist, At Dusk – Musician)
1) Explode Into Colors
2) Grouper
3) White Hinterland
4) What’s Up
5) Eat Skull

Hank Failing (Failing Records)
1. southern belle
2. dykeritz
3. bark hide and horn
4. guidance counselor
5. the taxpayers

Scott McLean (Holocene)
1. Grouper
2. Explode Into Colors
3. Red Fang
4. White Fang
5. Inside Voices

Casey Jarman (WW music editor)
Blind Pilot
Mimicking Birds
Luck One
Chicharones
Explode Into Colors

Chad Crouch (Hush Records)
1. Run On Sentence
2. Peter Broderick
3. Church
4. Heatherwoods
5. Ah Holly Fam’ly

Chris Hnat (Publicist at 230 Publicity)
Red Fang
Oh Captain My Captain
Resin Hits
Mean Jeans
Y La Bamba

Chris Funk (member of the Decemberists, Blue Giant, etc.)
1. Y La Bamba
2. Red Fang
3. Grouper
4. From Words to Blows
5. Hanz Araki

Coco Madrid (PRA)
1. Dirty Mittens
2. Dr. Adam
3. Explode into Colors
4. Megachurch
5. The Rude Dudes (Solomon,Dj and Dj Rad)

Corinna Repp/Joe Haege (Tu Fawning)
Explode Into Colors
Inside Voices

Curtis Knapp (Marriage Records)
1. white fang
2: atole
3: dash!
4: explode into colors
5. what’s up

DARREN RUSSELL BRIDENBECK THE FIRST (Potlatch Presents, Boy Gorilla Records Promotion)
1) Adrian Orange & Her Band
2) Breakfast Mountain
3) A Ghost Face Two Inches from Your Own Face
4) Guidance Counselor
5) AAN

Dave Depper (Loch Lomond, Norfolk & Western, man about town)
1. Musee Mecanique
2. Peter Broderick
3. Blue Giant
4. Rauelsson
5. Blind Pilot

David Chandler (DJ Broken Window)
#1 – Atole
#2 – Evolutionary Jass Band
#3 – Strength
#4 – Paint & Copter
#5 – Smoke & Mirrors

Deena Barnwell (KBOO radio)
1. Sapient
2. Luck One
3. Tony Ozier
4. Boy Eats Drum Machine
5. King Fader!

Denver Warner (Sorority House)
-the cysts
-tunnels
-yellow crystal star
-little claw
-as/ss

Dirtnap Records
Mean Jeans
Eeegos
Salted City
Leaders
Caregiver

DJ Wicked
Mic Crenshaw
DJ Wels
Animal Farm
Rafael Vigilantics
Serge Severe

Douglas Martin (singer/songwriter and blogger for Fresh Cherries from Yakima)
1. Grouper
2. White Fang
3. Benoit Pioulard
4. Grey Anne
5. Eat Skull

Dylan Magierek (Badman Records)
1. Justin Power
2. M Billy
3. Portland Cello Project
4. Church
5. Carcrashlander

Em Brownlowe (blogger)
Kusikia
symmetry/symmetry
That’s What She Said

Emily Vidal (Portland musician/video producer)
Nurses
Dirty Mittens
The Future Historians
Blue Horns
Yeltsin (Eugene/Portland band–not new at all, but they are great!)

Eric Mast (Audio Dregs)
1. White Fang
2. Atole
3. Explode into Colors
4. Guidance Counselor
5. Flaspar

Erik Abel (President, Focused Noise Productions)
1. Animal Farm
2. Serge Severe
3. DJ Wels
4. Luck One Conscious
5. Lowenbad

Erik Bader (WW freelancer)
Grouper
Eat Skull
Ilyas Ahmed
The Whines
The Better To See You With

Craig Marquardo (founder of the Portland Music Awards & Music Spectator magazine)
Boy Eats Drum Machine
Oh Darling
The Slants
Blind Pilot
Tea For Julie

Zaeron a.k.a Goldini Bagwell of Sandpeople/Clockwerk (Emcee, NW Hip-Hop Tactician, president of the anti skinny jeans movement)
1. Reva Devito
2. Ragen Fykes
3. Tony Ozier
4. Dain
5. Alphabet stew

Gina Altamura (Booking and Publicity for Holocene, and also Booking for Lewis & Clark College’s KLC Radio)
1) Nurses
2) White Hinterland
3) The Slaves
4) Grouper
5) Inside Voices

Goldie Nicole Davich (Creator, Crappy Indie Music The Blog)
The Harvey Girls
AristeiA
Rush-N-Disco
A Cautionary Tale
The Douchey Douches

Greg Borenstein (PDX Pop Now! board member)
1. Mint Chicks
2. Blue Cranes
3. Explode Into Colors
4. What’s Up
5. Ah Holy Fam’ly

Gus Elg (Recording & mastering engineer @ Sky Onion Studio)
1. Nurses
2. Chores
3. Quiet Countries
4. Sallie Ford
5. Hide & Go Hustle

Hannah Carlen (Role: Radio Promoter, Tiny Record Label Owner, Enthusiast)
Blind Pilot
Church
Dirty Mittens
Doubledutch
Grouper

Haytham Abdulhadi (Roseland theater)
1. Mic Crenshaw
2. Adrian H & The Wounds
3. Lilla D’Mone and the Brazilian Lions
4. Jared Mees and the Grown Children
5. Gratitillium

Tera Beth (Hey Lover)
the Bugs

Jen Olesen (Valentine’s Booking and Curating)
1. Grouper
2. Sad Horse
3. Mattress
4. Lost Lockets (formerly known as The Garland Ray Project)
5. Inside Voices

Jason Quigley (Music Photographer)
Y La Bamba
Blind Pilot
Liv Warfield
The Old Believers
The SubArachnoid Space

Jason Simms (Freelancer for the Oregonian, Content Director @ English, baby!, blogger – simmantics.com, house show host, co-founder of localcut.com, member of The Metal Shakespeare Company)
The Better To See You With
Y La Bamba
Purple Rhinestone Eagle
Dirty Mittens
New York Rifles

Jeremy Judy (musician and booking/owner Red Room)
1) Trophies
2) Auburn
3) The Subrerranean Howl
4) Red Dakota Revival Show
5) Qwong

Joan Hiller-Depper (Riot Act Media)
1. Peter Broderick
2. Leonard Mynx
3. Misc.
4. Sabertooth
5. All Smiles

Joseph Bowden (co-owner Bladen County Records)
Nurses 1
Red Fang 2 (new?)
Morning teleportation 3
Y La Bamba 4
Brothers Young 5

Jon Ragel (Boy Eats Drum Machine)
1. Jared Mees and The Grown Children
2. Chicharones
3. Sandpeople
4. Y La Bamba
5. Golden Holy

Jonathan Sielaff (president, The Creative Music Guild. also, I play bass clarinet and guitar in Mouthpieces and Au and here and there with a bunch of other local bands)
Why I Must Be Careful
Some Weird Sin
Ah Holly Fam’ly
Guidance Counselor
Explode Into Colors

Jordan Dykstra (Marriage Records)
1. White Fang
2. What’s Up?
3. Explode Into Colors
4. Atole
5. Why I Must Be Careful

Josh Hodges (Starfucker)
1)DYKERITZ
2)Guidance Counselor
3)Experimental Dental School
4)Chrome Wings
5)Recess Time!!!

Justin Ringle (Horse Feathers)
1. Ah Holly Fam’ly
2. Old Believers
3. Justin Power
4. Musee Mecanique
5. Benoit Pioulard

Katrina Nattress (Willamette Week music intern)
Lovers
Nurses
Inside Voices
Boy eats drum machine
Blind Pilot

Kaytea (XO publicity)
3 blue skies for black hearts
2 greater midwest
4 caves
1 prize country

Bobby “Fatboy” Roberts (Afternoons, 101.1 KUFO-FM)
The Angry Orts
The Lonely Forest
Invisible Orchestra
New York Rifles
Wilder Schmaltz

Kurt Prutsman (Sometimes I bartend at Dunes, Branx and Satyricon. I play guitar in The Intelligence. I throw house show parties at The Peach House. I also have a music blog called Perv Bird Music)
Explode Into Colors
Stag Bitten
Syrup
Fuck You Safari
Chrome Wings

Connie Wohn (musical refinement stylus503, MFNW)
1. the fix with DJ’s: Kez, Dundiggy, Rev.Shines & Ohmega Watts
2. explode into colors
3. ragen fykes (M64 w/ ohmega watts)
4. y la bamba
5. contacts

Laura Gibson (Aspiring Hip-Hop artist and Past Best New Band Winner)
1. Musee Mecanique
2. White Hinterland
3. Kele Goodwin
3. Ah Holly Fam’ly
5. Rauellson

Leigh Feldman (Spectre music)
Caves
Guidance Counselor
Taxpayers
Reverse Dotty
Alpaca

Lisa Lepine (promotions queen)
1. Holcombe Waller
2. Chervona
3. HaleLupe
4. James Faretheewell
5. Hans Araki Band

Luke Wyland (leader of past BNB band Au)
1. Ah Holly Fam’ly
2. Why I Must Be Careful
3. Saw Whet
4. Sarah Winchester
5. Sustentacula

Marius Libman (Copy—former BNB winner, Atole)
Breakfast mountain
Flaspar
Guidance counselor
Mattress
Lips and ribs

Mark Baumgarten (former WW music editor)
1. Peter Broderick
2. Portland Cello Project
3. Hockey
4. Run On Sentence
5. Lovers

Matt Dabrowiak (Dat’r, man about town)
Guidance Counselor
Dirty Mittens
Nurses
Atole
Eskimo and Sons

Matt King (MFNW / Berbati’s / Potlatch)
Grouper
Ah Holly Fam’ly
Morning Teleportation
Doubledutch
Gratitillium

Matthew McLean (Talent Buyer—Monqui Presents)
1. Blind Pilot
2. Jared Mees & The Grown Children
3. Bark Hide & Horn
4. The Dimes
5. Y La Bamba

Matthew Roley (Buffalo Gap)
1. Rogue Motel
2. Domonic Castillo
3. Kirk Duncan
4. Brandon Chandler
5. Celilo

Matt Slessler (Pabst Blue Ribbon)
1. Rapids
2. The Mean Jeans
3. Blind Pilot

Megan Holmes (Holocene Booker)
Grouper
Explode Into Colors
Old Believers
Lovers
Rush ‘N Disco

Michael Mannheimer (WW assistant music editor)
- Church
- Inside Voices
- Nurses
- Explode Into Colors
- Blue Horns

Michael Newman (The Waypost)
1. Here Comes A Big Black Cloud
2. Pentagon
3. Orange Jam
4. Stumptown Sawyers
5. Pink Widower

Mike McKinnon (Drummer in Reporter)
May Ling
Breakfast Mountain
Wampire
Mattress
Church

Miranda King (Booking and Events, Backspace)
1. Blue Horns
2. Grouper
3. St. Frankie Lee
4. Jared Mees and the Grown Children
5. Nurses

Nalin Silva (Kelly’s Olympian)
1. federale
2. pony village
3. paper brain
4. we’re from japan
5. amadan

Nathan Carson
1. Lost Lockets
2. Hot Victory
3. Party Killer
4. LicKiTy
5. Dude Lord

Nick Johnson (PDX Pop Now! board member, former KPSU host)
Nurses
Church
Inside Voices
Blue Horns
The Old Believers

Nick Jaina (former BNB member)
1. ¡Pancake Breakfast Singers!
2. Run On Sentence
3. Shoeshine Blue
4. Musée Mecanique
5. Nurses

Nilina Mason-Campbell (blogger, photographer, writer, Lost Gospel)
1. Explode Into Colors
2. Nurses
3. Old Believers
4. Magic Johnson
5. Deelay Cellay

Noel Richmond (The Jolly Roger)
1. Excellent Gentlemen
2. The Manimals
3. Will Bradley
4. Dennis Dove
5. Jesse and the Night

Peter Vaughan Shaver (Entertainment Attorney – Sound Advice, LLC, PDX Pop Now! board member)
1. BLACK ELK
2. PORTLAND CELLO PROJECT
3. ETHAN ROSE
4. CHRIS ROBLEY & THE FEAR OF HEIGHTS
5. THE STRANGE EFFECTS

Pete Swanson (musician formerly of yellow swans, now solo, label owner—freedom tospend, mastering dude)
1. GROUPER – hardlly “new” but worth recognizing Liz’s successes this year.
2. SCOTT GOODWIN
3. EAT SKULL
4. KNELT ROTE
5. THE CYSTS

Plan B
1. Superbad
2. Dopesmoker
3. Mongoloid Village
4. Anon Remora
5. Stoneburner

Colin Grigson (Plan R)
1. Vivid Sekt
2. Nerveskade
3. The Accomplices
4. Tom Peterson’s Arme
5. Lebanon

Rob Jones (Jealous Butcher Records)
#1 Blue Giant
#2 The Mighty Ghosts of Heaven
#3 Wow & Flutter
#4 Pony Village
#5 Black Prairie

Robert Ham (freelancer writer for WW, the Oregonian, Pampelmoose, etc.)
1. Blind Pilot
2. Justin Power
3. Eat Skull
4. Experimental Dental School
5. Shoeshine Blue

Ryan Feigh (FOUNDER OF LUCKY MADISON RECORDS/DYKERITZ MEMBER (we’re coming big in 2011!)/LOCAL MUSIC AFICIONADO/PRA DJ/BLOGGER @ CRAPPYINDIEMUSIC.BLOGSPOT.COM)
#1 – Sandpeople
#2 – White Fang
#3 – Y La Bamba
#4 – Colin Jones
#5 – Travis Wiggins
#6 – Nicolas Batum

Saffron Peters (Portland Radio Authority Station Manager and PDX Pop Now! Board of Directors Member)
Explode Into Colors
Deelay Ceelay
Root Beer and French Fry
Blue Giant
Grouper

Sam Soule (Slabtown)
The Whines
The Mean Jeans
The Worthless Children
Therapists
Organized Sports

Seth Kaufman (PDX Pop Now! board member)
1. Liv Warfield
2. The Mint Chicks
3. Ohmega Watts

SP Clarke (writer)
1. Blind Pilot
2. Grey Anne
3. Ethan Rose

Steve Schroeder (States Rights Records)
1. White Fang
2. Flaspar
3. Dash
4. Mean Jeans

Kevin O’Connor (Member of former BNB winnter Talkdemonic, Lucky Madison
Label Manager)
1. Ah Holly Fam’ly
2. Old Believers
3. Double Dutch
4. Atole
5. Grouper

Terry Currier (Music Millenium)
#1 Old Believers
#2 Love Trucker
#3 Kate Davis
#4 Strange Effects
#5 Troubled Boots

Aaron Shepherd (The Artistery)
1. White Fang
2. Explode Into Colors
3. …worms
4. Why I Must Be Careful
5. Wolf Choir

Scott Carver (Producer, The Penny Jam)
1) Blind Pilot
2) The Ascetic Junkies
3) Portland Cello Project
4) A Weather
5) Dirty Mittens

Theo Craig (Founder & Agent, Indiecon Booking, Adjunct Karmic Adviser, Potlatch Presents)
1 – Y La Bamba
2 – Matt Sheehy
3 – Guidance Counselor
4 – MEGA*CHURCH
5 – Leather Tom and the Dirty Dudes

Todd Fadel (MEOW MEOW, owner 2000-2005)
1) Kelli Schaefer
2) 31 Knots
3) Panther
4) Alexis Gideon
5) Upsidedown Cat

Tom Humphrey (WW art department)
Eat Skull
Grouper
Ah Holly Fam’ly
Whines
Here Comes a Big Black Cloud

Tony Prato (Host of KPSU’s Irregular Frequencies, PDX Pop Now! booking committee member, man about town)
Explode Into Colors
Leather Tom and the Dirty Dudes
Nurses
Church
The Polyps

Travis Wiggins (member of former BNB Please Step Out of the Vehicle, bro about town)
1. Chores
2. Bodhi
3. Run On Sentence
4.Ahnli
5.Pancake Breakfast

Trevor Solomon (MFNW director)
Blind pilot
Grouper
Mimicking birds
Nurses
Explode into colors

Whitney Hawke (WW Freelancer)
1. The Old Believers
2. A Weather
3. Root Beer & French Fry
4. Doubledutch
5. Dirty Mittens

zebulOn.dak (hip-hop super producer)
1 – Luck One
2 – Tony Ozier & The Doo Doo Funk All Stars
3 – Alphabet Stew
4 – Only One of Sandpeople
5 – Reva Devito

Anonymous:
1. white fang
2. rob walmart
3. grouper
4. ZZ tape
5. terry and tina

Anonymous
1. Magic Johnson
2. Stag Bitten
3. Meth Teeth
4. Nucular Aminals
5. Purple Rhinestone Eagle

Anonymous
1. Jared Mees and the Grown Children
2. Nurses
3. Boy Eats Drum Machine
4. Dirty Mittens
5. Church

Anonymous
-Nurses
-Glass Teeth
-Red Fang
-Guidance Counselor
-Double Dutch

Anonymous
1) Explode Into Colors
2) Little Claw
3) Eat Skull
4) Humara
5) Lips and Ribs

Manny Reyes, Curator/DJ/Musician
Breakfast Mountain,
Guidance Counselor
Hedford Vachal
Mattress
Jeffrey Jerusalem

Rocky Tinder, ex-Hush booker and “togetherness facilitator”
1. explode into colors
2. grouper
3. panther
4. nurses
5. church

Mike Jones, Cravedog/CD Forge
Blue Giant
DJ Futurehorse
James Low
White Fang
Blind pilot

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