Milwaukee bands I’m Not A Pilot and Kings Go Forth picked up two of the top awards in WYMS-FM (88.9)'s fourth annual RadioMilwaukee Music Awards.
Here's the list of winners, picked by listeners in an online survey:
- Album of the Year: "The Outsiders Are Back" by Kings Go Forth
- Band of the Year: I'm Not A Pilot
- Song of the Year: "Like A Cigarette" by The Wildbirds
- Solo Artist of the Year: Ethan Keller
- Earwig Award (Catchiest Song): "Sambawete" by Herman Astro
- Best CD Artwork: "Faux Fir" by Faux Fir
- Best Music Video: "Astrovan" by Fatty Acids
- Most Memorable Live Show: Prophetic at Summerfest
- Blog of the Year: Muzzle Of Bees (muzzleofbees.com)
- Saturday Session Set of the Year: DJ SLYM
- Best Disc We Missed: "In My Mind" by OYE!
- Best Local Benefit Show: 2010 Pablove Benefit Concert (selected by station staff)
- Milwaukee Music Ambassador Award: Vic Thomas (selected by station staff)
Mp3s, video and links to the winning bands are available at the Radio Milwaukee Web site.
Tim Cuprisin is the media columnist for OnMilwaukee.com. He's been a journalist for 30 years, starting in 1979 as a police reporter at the old City News Bureau of Chicago, a legendary wire service that's the reputed source of the journalistic maxim "if your mother says she loves you, check it out." He spent a couple years in the mean streets of his native Chicago, and then moved on to the Green Bay Press-Gazette and USA Today, before coming to the Milwaukee Journal in 1986.
A general assignment reporter, Cuprisin traveled Eastern Europe on several projects, starting with a look at Poland after five years of martial law, and a tour of six countries in the region after the Berlin Wall opened and Communism fell. He spent six weeks traversing the lands of the former Yugoslavia in 1994, linking Milwaukee Serbs, Croats and Bosnians with their war-torn homeland.
In the fall of 1994, a lifetime of serious television viewing earned him a daily column in the Milwaukee Journal (and, later the Journal Sentinel) focusing on TV and radio. For 15 years, he has chronicled the changes rocking broadcasting, both nationally and in Milwaukee, an effort he continues at OnMilwaukee.com.
When he's not watching TV, Cuprisin enjoys tending to his vegetable garden in the backyard of his home in Whitefish Bay, cooking and traveling.
