# Music Victoria Awards of 2016

The Music Victoria Awards of 2016 are the 11th Annual Music Victoria Awards and consist of a series of awards, presented on 16 November 2016, during Melbourne Music Week. For the first time this year, the Best Venue award was separated into of over and under 500 capacity.

## Hall of Fame inductees

* Triple R
Chair of Board of Directors, former long-term broadcaster, and Triple R first music coordinator Geoff King said, "I'm really proud of the contribution Triple R has made to our musical and intellectual life so it's great to have such a public celebration in its 40th year. The Music Victoria Hall of Fame induction is a powerful way of recognising Triple R's achievements when placed alongside earlier inductees, particularly the likes of Stan Rofe and Bill Armstrong, without whom Melbourne would not have developed such a strong music scene."

## Award nominees and winners
### All genre Awards

Winners indicated in boldface, with other nominees in plain.
| Best Album | Best Song |
| King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity Camp Cope – Camp Cope The Drones - Feelin Kinda Free NO ZU – Afterlife Olympia – Self Talk | The Drones – "Taman Shud" Cable Ties – "Same for Me" Camp Cope – "Jet Fuel Can't Melt Steel Beams" Alex Lahey – "You Don't Think You Like People Like Me" Teeth & Tongue – "Dianne" |
| Best Male | Best Female |
| CW Stoneking Briggs Al Montfort Remi Henry Wagons | Alex Lahey Kylie Auldist Jess Cornelius Olympia Ella Thompson |
| Best Band | Best Emerging Artist |
| King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Camp Cope Dorsal Fins The Drones Gold Class | Camp Cope Cable Ties Alice Ivy Alex Lahey Loose Tooth |
| Best Live Band | Best Festival |
| King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard King Parrot The Drones Eddy Current Suppression Ring The Peep Tempel | Meredith Music Festival Boogie Festival Cherry Rock Paradise Music Festival Sugar Mountain |
| Best Venue (Over 500 Capacity) | Best Venue (Under 500 Capacity) |
| Corner Hotel, Richmond 170 Russell The Croxton Bandroom Forum, Melbourne Melbourne Recital Centre | The Tote, Collingwood The Curtin The Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood The Old Bar, Fitzroy Howler |
| Best Regional Venue | Best Regional Act |
| The Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine The Barwon Club Hotel, Geelong Karova Lounge, Ballarat Meeniyan Town Hall, Meeniyan The Loft, Warrnambool | The Drones D.D Dumbo The Murlocs Orb C.W. Stoneking |

### Genre Specific Awards

| Best Blues Album | Best Country Album |
| Nick Charles – The River Flows Mike Elrington – Two Lucky Stars Pugsley Buzzard – Skin and Teeth Steve Boyd's Rum Reverie – Healers and Howlers The New Savages – Goin' Over the River | Tracy McNeil & The Goodlife – Thieves Bill Jackson – The Wayside Ballads Vol. 2 Matt Joe Gow – Seven Years Sal Kimber & The Rolling Wheel – Southern Light Sean McMahon & The Moonmen – Shiner |
| Best Soul, Funk, R'n'B and Gospel Album | Best Jazz Album |
| Kylie Auldist – Family Tree 30/70 – Cold Radish Coma Billy Davis – Bad Ending Deep Street Soul – Come Alive! The Sugarcanes – The Sugarcanes | Peter Knight – Way Out West ATM 15 – Human Music Brenton Foster – Two Cities Luke Howard Trio – The Electric Night Descends Mike Nock and Tony Gould – Monash Sessions |
| Best Hip Hop Album | Best Electronic Act |
| Plutonic Lab – Deep Above The Noise Discourse – Megalomaniac Dylan Joel – Authentic Lemonade Milwaukee Banks – Deep into the Night Scotty Hinds – Hindsight | Harvey Sutherland András Client Liaison NO ZU Sui Zhen |
| Best Heavy Album | Best Indigenous Act |
| Be'lakor – Vessels Acolyte – Shades of Black King – Reclaim the Darkness Shepparton Airplane – Shepparton Airplane Tyranamen – Tyranamen | Benny Walker Dave Arden Emma Donovan Kutcha Edwards Lady Lash |
| Best Global or Reggae Album | Best Experimental/Avant-Garde Act |
| Melbourne Ska Orchestra – Sierra Kilo Alpha Bashka – Fihi ma Fihi Black Jesus Experience – Cradle of Humanity Malcura – Malcura San Lazaro – La Despedida | Inland (Alex Garsden and Rohan Drape) Harriet Morgan Joel Stern Nik Kennedy Robin Fox |
| Best Folk Roots Album | |
| Oh Pep! - Stadium Cake John Flanagan – There's Another Way to Where You're Going Dan Parsons – Valleywood Leah Senior – Summer's On the Ground Tinpan Orange – Love Is a Dog | |