Local Natives are The Deli's Best Emerging LA Band of 2009!
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After weeks of voting and calculating we finally have the winner of our LA Best of 2009 Poll for emerging artists. Local Natives topped our final chart thanks to a very strong consensus amongst our Jurors - mostly composed of local venue promoters, independent radio DJs, record store staff etc. (list coming soon). Because of this the band will be rewarded with the cover of the Spring Issue of The Deli Magazine! Hurrah!
This is their new video of the single Airplanes - coincidentally released today!
Here's the Final Overall Chart of our Best of LA Poll 2009 for emerging artists:
Artist
Jury
Writers
Readers
Total
1
Local Natives
9
1
0.026
10.026
2
Fitz & The Tantrums
4
1
0.044
5.044
3
Crash Kings
4
1
0.024
5.024
4
Warpaint
3
1.5
0.021
4.521
5
Mississippi Man
2
2
0.102
4.102
6
Emily Wells
3
1
0.011
4.011
7
Nosaj Thing
3
1
0.008
4.008
8
Robert Francis
3
1
0.004
4.004
9
Globes on Remote
3
1
0.002
4.002
10
Light FM
1
3
4
11
Evan Voytas
3
0.047
3.047
12
Audra Mae
3
0.003
3.003
13
Jump Clubb
3
0.001
3.001
14
My Imaginary Friends
0.75
2
2.75
15
Chasing Kings
2
0.347
2.347
16
Professor Calculus
2
0.07
2.07
17
Edward Sharpe & The...
2
0.021
2.021
18
The Growlers
2
0.01
2.01
19
Happy Hollows
2
0.009
2.009
20
Foreign Born
1
1
0.005
2.005
21
Slo-mo Erotic
2
0.002
2.002
22
Gaslamp Killer
2
0.001
2.001
23
Lemon Sun
1
1
2
24
Spindrift
1.5
0.003
1.503
25
KillKillKill
1
0.093
1.093
26
Active Child
1
0.062
1.062
27
Dirt Dress
1
0.047
1.047
28
Dawes
1
0.011
1.011
29
Best Coast
1
0.008
1.008
30
Afternoons
1
0.007
1.007
As we are sure you'll be wondering how the point system works, each juror was asked to vote for 3 LA based emerging artists (best band gets 3 points, 2nd best gets 2 and 3rd best gets 1 point); Deli writers also had 3 choices, but they only counted 1 point each. Reader's vote counted 3 points for the winner, 2 for second place, 1 for 3rd place, 0.001 per vote for all the other artists. Open Contest points (here added to the writers' column) counted 1 point for the winner, 0.75 for 2nd place and 3rd for 3rd place. If you want to get even more confused check out the poll's rules here. It's just a little complicated, but extremely transparent!
This chart of course doesn't represent the "truth" about the emerging LA scene, but we did our best to create a system that has some kind of validity. For us this poll is really just a fun way to give exposure to (and also get to know some new) emerging local artists, keep in touch with what's going on in the scene and waste a lot of time organizing 9 (nine) of these polls in each city we cover.
An exhausted Deli's Staff.
Published on January 27, 2010
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