# AIR Awards of 2013

The AIR Awards of 2013 (or Carlton Dry Independent Music Awards of 2013) is the eighth annual Australian Independent Record Labels Association Music Awards (generally known as the AIR Awards) and was an award ceremony at Revolt Art Space, in Melbourne, Australia, on 9 October 2013. The event was sponsored by Australian brewing company, Carlton Dry.
In 2013, the award for Best Independent Classical Album was introduced, as was the Carlton Dry Global Music Grant; a $50,000 cash prize to an emerging independent artist or band in order to provide a major boost to their profile internationally, the finances designed to be used to give the winner a leg up in the international market. In a press release, the AIR said "The Carlton Dry Global Music Grant has been created to ensure that current and future generations of emerging Australian artists have the opportunity to take their music careers abroad. Conditions for entry are that the band or artist must be emerging, Australian, self released or released by an independent label, and that the prize money must be used exclusively to help tour, showcase, record, or relocate overseas to further their careers."

## Performers

Perferormers at the ceremony were:
* Violent Soho
* Archie Roach
* Big Scary
* Rüfüs
* Saskwatch
* Seth Sentry

## Nominees and winners

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface; other final nominees are listed alphabetically.
| Best Independent Artist | Best Independent Album |
| Flume Big Scary Dick Diver Jagwar Ma The Drones | Flume – Flume (Future Classic) Big Scary – Not Art (Pieater) Dick Diver – Calendar Daus (Chapter Music) Jagwar Ma – Howlin' (Future Classic) The Drones – I See Seaweed (MGM) |
| Best Independent Single/EP | Breakthrough Independent Artist of the Year |
| Vance Joy – God Loves You When You're Dancing Big Scary – "Luck Now" Courtney Barnett – "History Eraser" Flume – "Holdin On" Jagwar Ma – "Man I Need" | Vance Joy Courtney Barnett Kirin J. Callinan Seth Sentry The Rubens |
| Best Independent Blues and Roots Album | Best Independent Classical Album |
| Paul Kelly – Spring and Fall Mama Kin – The Magician's Daughter Mia Dyson – The Moment Tim Rogers – Rogers Sings Rogerstein The Cat Empire – Steal The Light | Amy Dickson – Catch Me if You Can Benaud Trio – Bohemian Rhapsody Melbourne Symphony Orchestra & Nigel Westlake – Missa Solis: Requiem for Eli Paul Dean and Stephen Emmerson – The Romantic Clarinet Siobhan Stagg and Amir Farid – Hymne à l'amour |
| Best Independent Country Album | Best Independent Dance/Electronica Album |
| Catherine Britt – Always Never Enough Baylou – Go To Hell and I Love You Karl Broadie – A Side B Side Seaside The Sunny Cowgirls – What We Do Lee Kernaghan – Beautiful Noise | Flume – Flume Collarbones – Die Young Jagwar Ma – Howlin' ShockOne – Universes Yolanda Be Cool – Ladies and Mentalman |
| Best Independent Dance/Electronica or Club Single | Best Independent Hard Rock or Punk Album |
| Flume – "Holdin On" Charles Murdoch featuring Oscar Key Sung – "Dekire" Flight Facilities featuring Christine Hoberg – "Clair de Lune" Jagwar Ma – "Man I Need" Rüfüs – "Take Me" | King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – 12 Bar Bruise Kingswood – Change of Heart Parkway Drive – Atlas The Mark of Cain – Songs of the Third and Fifth The Smith Street Band – Sunshine and Technology |
| Best Independent Hip Hop/Urban Album | Best Independent Jazz Album |
| Seth Sentry – This Was Tomorrow Bliss n Eso – Circus in the Sky Illy – Bring it Back Spit Syndicate – Sunday Gentlemen Urthboy – Smokey's Haunt | Jonathan Zwartz – The Remembering and Forgetting of the Air Allan Browne Trio – Lost in the Stars Christopher Hale – Sylvan Coda Magnet – Magnet Trichotomy – Fact Finding Mission |
| Best Independent Label | Carlton Dry Global Music Grant |
| Future Classic Liberation Records Milk! Records Sweat It Out Two Bright Lakes | King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Big Scary Jagwar Ma Mia Dyson Rüfüs |