Music Victoria Awards of 2013

The Music Victoria Awards of 2013 are the eighth Annual Music Victoria Awards and consist of a series of awards, culminating on 20 November 2013. Previously known as The Age EG Awards, 2013 was the first year under the title Music Victoria Awards.

Music Victoria Awards of 2013
Date	20 November 2013 (2013-11-20)
Venue	Billboards, Melbourne, Victoria
Most awards	The Drones, Paul Kelly (2)

Hall of Fame inductees

• Renée Geyer and Michael Gudinski

Renée Geyer was the first solo female artist to be inducted into the Music Victoria Hall of Fame. Geyer said "As a Melbourne girl, getting inducted into the Hall of Fame by Music Victoria and the best newspaper in Australia means a lot to me."

Michael Gudinski was inducted by Molly Meldrum as a recognition of Mushroom Records's 40th anniversary and to acknowledge his enormous contribution to the Victorian music industry.

Award nominees and winners

All genre Awards

Winners indicated in boldface, with other nominees in plain.

Best Album	Best Song
Paul Kelly - Spring and Fall Adalita - All Day Venus Dick Diver - Calendar Days The Drones - I See Seaweed Big Scary - Not Art	Vance Joy - "Riptide" Standish/Carlyon - Nono/Yoyo King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - "Head On/ Pill" Courtney Barnett - "History Eraser" Cash Savage and the Last Drinks - "I'm in Love"
Best Male	Best Female
Paul Kelly Archie Roach David Bridie Gotye Mikelangelo	Adalita Courtney Barnett Evelyn Morris (Pikelet) Jen Cloher Kylie Auldist
Best Band	Best Emerging Artist
The Drones Clairy Browne & The Bangin' Rackettes Dick Diver King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Saskwatch	Hiatus Kaiyote Andras Fox Brighter Later Damn Terran Fraser A. Gorman
Best Live Band	Best Venue
The Drones Bombay Royale Clairy Browne & the Bangin' Rackettes Harmony Money for Rope	The Corner Hotel The Caravan Club The Forum The Old Bar The Toff in Town
Best Regional Venue	Best Regional Act
Theatre Royal, Castlemaine Karova Lounge, Ballarat Meeniyan Town Hall, South Gippsland The Barwon Club, Geelong The Bridge, Castlemaine	Stonefield Gold Fields Hunting Grounds Quarry Mountain Dead Rats Yacht Club DJs
Best Festival
Meredith Music Festival All Tomorrow's Parties / I'll Be Your Mirror Boogie Golden Plains Festival Sugar Mountain

Genre Specific Awards

Best Blues Album	Best Country Album
Three Kings - Three Kings Chris Russell's Chicken Walk - Shakedown Chris Wilson & Geoff Achison - Box of Blues Nick Charles - Into the Blues Russell Morris - Sharkmouth	Dan Waters - La Vita E'Bella Doug Bruce - Made That Way Nigel Wearne - Black Crow Raised By Eagles - Raised By Eagles Sweet Jean - Dear Departure
Best Soul, Funk, R'n'B and Gospel Album	Best Jazz Album
Kylie Auldist - Still Life Hiatus Kaiyote - Tawk Tomahawk Judex Rose - Afro Soul Power Sweethearts - Bar Roma The Cactus Channel - Wooden Boy	Allan BrowneTrio - Lost in the Stars Andrea Keller - Family Portraits Menagerie - They Shall Inherit Murphy's Law - Big Creatures and Little Creatures Origami - Karaoke
Best Hip Hop Album	Best Electronic Act
Fraksha - My Way Dr. Flea - Keep on Moving Flu - FluSeason Known Associates - Ashes to Dust Must Volkoff - White Russian	Nick Thayer Client Liaison Dune Sunshine Tornado Wallace (aka Lewie Day)
Best Heavy Album	Best Indigenous Act
King Parrot - Bite Your Head Off Apart From This - In Gloom Batpiss - Nuclear Winter Ooga Boogas - Ooga Boogas White Walls - White Walls	Crystal Mercy Archie Roach Dan Sultan Kutcha Edwards Yung Warriors
Best Global or Reggae Act	Best Experimental/Avant-Garde Act
Melbourne Ska Orchestra Afrobiotics Airileke Ingram The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra Zulya and the Children of the Underground	Judith Hamann Aviva Endean Dave Brown Mark Groves Nik Kennedy
Best Folk Roots Album
Archie Roach - Into the Bloodstream Shane Howard - Other Side of the Rock The Idle Hoes - Tomorrow Morning The Mae Trio - Housewarming Tinpan Orange - Over the Sun

External links

• Official website