Yesterday theMusiccom.au caught up with some of the biggest artists at the ARIA Awards Nominations event at the Art Gallery of NSW, sounding them out about the this year's awards.

360 topped the pile with six ARIA nominations. While he's stoked to be leading the 'Grand Finals' of Aussie music, he expects that Gotye will still dominate the awards. It's been a big year for the up-and-coming rapper, who says his 'life has been turned upside-down' by his breakout success.

Josh Pyke's racked up a few ARIA nominations in his time. Even as an old hand with four nominations under his belt, it's still an 'honour' to get picked up for this year's round.

Lanie Lane thinks it's 'wild' that she got five nominations. While she was originally recording her next album this week, she'll be going 'to be still for a while' and take some time off from touring. When it 'feels right', she'll head back into the studio.

Havana Brown, while very excited about her platinum success in the US, is still humbled by her ARIA nomination for Best Dance Release because Australia is 'where the home is and where the heart is'.

After a big year, Alpine have scored their very first ARIA nomination. Being part of this year's festivities is 'right up there' with hitting SXSW earlier in 2012 and dropping their album.

But possibly the best thing to come out of yesterday's ARIA nominations was from Dappled Cities, who made a webcam video of their song Waves, a key track of their album Lake Air which has been nominated for Best Independent Release. When your drummer is hitting a column heater and a garbage bin with a banana and a pen, you know you've struck viral gold.