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Staff Writer

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The nominations for the Carlton Dry Independent Music Awards [CDIMAs] Best Independent Label and $50,000 Global Music Grant have been announced this morning, finalising the nominations for 2013.

Future Classic, Liberation, Milk! Records, Sweat It Out and Two Bright Lakes have all be recognised in the independent labels category, while Big Scary, Jagwar Ma, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard and Rufus are the inaugural nominees in the Carlton Dry grant.

The grant is designed to help one of the acts nominated for a CDIMA establish themselves oversees and the nominee list has been chosen after band were asked to make a submission regarding what they'd use the grand for. More info on the grant here.

Label nominee Future Classic is home to the likes of Flume and Jagwar Ma, who topped the nominations with five each, while Liberation's Vance Joy scored a Best Single of EP nomination. Milk! Records is home to nominee Courtney Barnett and Sweat It Out, the label of the late DJ Ajax, is home to nominees RUFUS and Yolanda Be Cool. Melbourne collective Two Bright Lake's sole nominee this year is Collarbones.

Taking place at Melbourne's Revolt space Wednesday 9 October, Australia's premiere independent music awards ceremony will feature performances by Archie Roach, Violent Soho, Saskwatch, Big Scary, Seth Sentry and RÜFÜS.

Today's nomination announcements:

CARLTON DRY GLOBAL MUSIC GRANT

Big Scary
Jagwar Ma
King Gizard & The Lizard Wizard
Mia Dyson
Rufus

BEST INDEPENDENT LABEL

Future Classic
Liberation
Milk! Records
Sweat It Out
Two Bright Lakes

The previously announced nominations are below:

BEST INDEPENDENT ARTIST

Big Scary
Dick Diver
Flume
Jagwar Ma
The Drones

BEST INDEPENDENT ALBUM

Big Scary – Not Art (Pieater)
Dick Diver – Calendar Daus (Chapter Music)
Flume – Flume (Future Classic)
Jagwar Ma – Howlin (Future Classic)
The Drones – I Sea Seaweed (MGM)

BREAKTHROUGH INDEPENDENT ARTIST OF THE YEAR

Courtney Barnett
Kirin J Callinan
Seth Sentry
The Rubens
Vance Joy

BEST INDEPENDENT SINGLE OR EP

Big Scary – Luck Now (Pieater)
Courtney Barnett - History Eraser (Milk! Records)
Flume – Holdin' On (Future Classic)
Jagwa Ma – Man I Need (Future Classic)
Vance Joy – God Loves You When You're Dancing (Liberation Music)

BEST INDEPENDENT HIP HOP ALBUM

Bliss n Eso – Circus In The Sky (Illusive)
Illy – Bring It Back (Obese Records)
Seth Sentry – This Was Tomorrow (High Score Records)
Spit Syndicate – Sunday Gentlemen (Obese Records)
Urthboy – Smokey's Haunt (Elefant Traks)

BEST INDEPENDENT COUNTRY ALBUM

Baylou – Go To Hell And I Love You (ABC Music)
Catherine Britt – Always Never Enough (ABC Music)
Karl Broadie – A Side B Side Seaside (WJO)
The Sunny Cowgirls – What We Do (WJO)
Lee Kernaghan – Beautiful Noise (ABC Music)

BEST INDEPENDENT BLUES AND ROOTS ALBUM

Mama Kin – The Magician's Daughter (MGM)
Mia Dyson – The Moment (MGM)
Paul Kelly – Spring And Fall (Gawd Aggie Recordings)
Tim Rogers – Rogers Sings Rogerstein (Four | Four)
The Cat Empire – Steal The Light (Two Shoes Record)

BEST INDEPENDENT HARD ROCK, HEAVY OR PUNK ALBUM

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – 12 Bar Bruise (Flightless)
Kingswood – Change Of Heart (Capgun Kids)
Parkway Drive – Atlas (Resist Records)
The Mark Of Cain – Songs Of The Third and Fifth (Feel Presents)
The Smith Street Band – Sunshine And Technology (Poison City Records)

BEST INDEPENDENT JAZZ ALBUM

Allan Browne Trio – Lost In The Stars (Jazzhead)          
Christopher Hale – Sylvan Coda (Which Way Music)
Jonathan Zwartz – The Remembering And Forgetting Of The Air (Planet)
Magnet – Magnet (Magnet Sounds)
Trichotomy – Fact Finding Mission (Jazzhead Records)

BEST INDEPENDENT DANCE, ELECTRONICA ALBUM

Collarbones – Die Young (Two Bright Lakes / Remote Control)
Flume – Flume (Future Classic)
Jagwar Ma – Howlin (Future Classic)
ShockOne – Universes (OneLove)        
Yolanda Be Cool – Ladies And Mentalman (Sweat It Out)

BEST INDEPENDENT DANCE, ELECTRONICA OR CLUB SINGLE

Charles Murdoch – Dekire featuring Oscar Key Sung (Future Classic)
Flight Facilities – Clair De Lune featuring Christine Hoberg (Independent / AWAL)
Flume – Holdin On (Future Classic)
Jagwar Ma – Man I Need (Future Classic)
RUFUS – Take Me (Sweat it Out)