album of the year
- Royal Headache — High
- Ben Salter — The Stars My Destination
- Courtney Barnett — Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
- Blank Realm — Illegals In Heaven
- Built To Spill — Untethered Moon
- Dollar Bar — Hot Ones
- Dick Diver — Melbourne, Florida
- Twerps — Range Anxiety
- Titus Andronicus — The Most Lamentable Tragedy
- Robert Forster — Songs To Play
song of the year
- The Ocean Party — Real Life
- Modest Mouse — The Best Room
- Jason Isbell — 24 Frames
- Dave Rawlings Machine — The Weekend
- Adam Gibson & The Ark-Ark Birds — The Years When Nobody Cared What You Did
artist of the year
- Royal Headache
- Parquet Courts
- Courtney Barnett
- Violent Soho
- Thigh Master
International artist Performance
- Greg Cartwright
- Parquet Courts
- The Clean
- Stephen Malkmus
- The Milk Carton Kids
Australian artist Performance
- Courtney Barnett
- The Sunnyboys
- Violent Soho
- Ben Salter
- Thigh Master
top tv show
- Bob's Burgers
- Key & Peele
- The Brink
- South Park
- Inside Amy Schumer
top movie
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- Straight Outta Compton
- Kurt Cobain: Montage Of Heck
- Trainwreck
top website
- The Music
- Cracked
- AV Club
- Saintsational
- Crawlspace
2015 highlight of the year
Seeing Parquet Courts four times in five days, finally catching Amy Schumer and Noel Fielding live, watching the Saints' young guns find their feet, my border collie Zowee recovering from meningitis, and opening new record shop Sonic Sherpa in Brisbane (shameless plug).
prediction for 2016
Federal election called and whole nation donkey votes, semi-ironic US Civil War II breaks out over gun control, St Kilda's rebuild fast-tracked, League Of Gentlemen reunion becomes reality, one festival folds and four more spring up.
