Best of Nashville 2014 for Emerging Artists, FINAL RESULTS: 1. ELEL, 2. BASECAMP, 3. Wings of Apollo

Deli Nation,

Our Year End Poll for Emerging Nashville Artists was – as usual – a painstaking (and somewhat excruciating) process, but we pulled it off with remarkable flair!

Kudos to ELEL for winning The Deli NASHVILLE’s Artist of the year! The new Mom + Pop signees are poised to release their debut EP into the world on March 3rd. The 8-piece supergroup dish out some big, world-flavored indie pop, and their live show can be classified as one of the happiest places on earth. If you haven’t heard "40 Watt" yet, then for Chrissakes, here it is!

Electronic collaborators BASECAMP came in second. The trio have been building a following of their emotionally-charged, sparsely-produced music for the past few years. They recently have announced "Gradient" a live concert/dance series of all original music with local dance troupe Found Movement Group. More details and tickets are available HERE.

Wings of Apollo came in third in the overall vote in addition to sweeping our Reader’s Choice Poll. The trio released their epic "By Force" EP earlier in 2014, and are channeling their heavy metal talents into a new album this year.

Here is how it all went down: first, we let the local bands submit their music (for free), and got our Deli editors to pick the nominees. Then we polled a list of Nashville scene experts (our jury is listed under the chart) and asked them to nominate 3 more bands of their choice each. Then we polled our writers, then we polled our readers. We tried to keep things open for each single genre, from Indie Rock to Roots Music to Hip Hop.

If you are a geek interested in all the subtleties related to how this poll works, you can read its rules here (happy reading!). But if all you care about is the awesome new music Nashville produced in the year 2014, this list is all you need. Enjoy!

BEST OF 2014 POLL FOR EMERGING NASHVILLE ARTISTS ****** FINAL RESULTS ******

ARTIST   J OS R TOT   1 ELEL   7   0 7 2 BASECAMP   5   0.017 5.017 3 Wings of Apollo   3   2 5 4 Tetherball   4   0.006 4.006 5 Chrome Pony   3 1 0.003 4.003 6 Jawws   4   0.001 4.001 7 Bentley Caldwell   2   1.5 3.5 8 Goodbye June   3   0.5 3.5 9 Anthony Adams & the Night Owls   3   0.059 3.059 10 All Them Witches   3   0.01 3.01 11 Gold Dash   3   0.009 3.009 12 Creature Comfort   3   0.007 3.007 13 Music Band   3   0.003 3.003 14 Steelism   3   0.003 3.003 15 The Future   3   0.003 3.003 16 Gunther Doug     3 0.002 3.002 17 Sol Cat   3   0.002 3.002 18 Turbo Fruits   3   0.002 3.002 19 Bully   3   0.001 3.001 20 Chessboxer   3   0.001 3.001 21 The Dead Deads   2   1 3 22 Jung Youth   3   0 3 23 Forlorn Stranger   2   0.066 2.066 24 David Newbould   2   0.026 2.026 25 Red Wine Hangover   2   0.022 2.022 26 The Lees of Memory   2   0.021 2.021 27 Tower Defense   2   0.011 2.011 28 Vinyl Thief     2 0.007 2.007 29 BZRK   2   0.004 2.004 30 Daniel Ellsworth and the Great Lakes   2   0.003 2.003 31 Thelma and the Sleaze   2   0.003 2.003 32 Shy Guy   2   0.002 2.002 33 Natural Child   2   0.001 2.001 34 Tristen   2   0.001 2.001 35 Evan P. Donahue   2   0 2 36 The Harmaleighs     1.5 0.034 1.534 37 I’m an Island     1 0.5 1.5 38 Chalaxy   1   0.068 1.068 39 Thom Donovan   1   0.067 1.067 40 Smooth Hound Smith     1 0.047 1.047 41 Kim Logan   1   0.038 1.038 42 Year of October   1   0.032 1.032 43 The Tip   1   0.03 1.03 44 Charlie Whitten   1   0.029 1.029 45 The Cold Stares   1   0.022 1.022 46 Linear Downfall   1   0.015 1.015 47 The Cunning     1 0.015 1.015 48 Brandon Calhoun   1   0.008 1.008 49 Moseley   1   0.007 1.007 50 Forest of Tygers   1   0.004 1.004 51 Ranch Ghost   1   0.003 1.003 52 Honey Locust   1   0.002 1.002 53 Deep Fried 5   1   0.001 1.001 54 Quichenight   1   0.001 1.001 55 RIcHIE   1   0.001 1.001 Legend: J = Jurors, W = Deli Writers, R = Deli Readers, OS = Open Submissions

Jurors List: Mike Grimes (Grimey’s) Grimey’s Staff, Matt Hall (No Country for New Nashville), Jesse Baker (Exit/In) Wes Davenport (Echo Avenue), Stephen Tragdser (Nashville Scene) Andy Herrin (102.9 The Buzz), Jay Gregory (Sad Spaceman Productions), Jeremy MaCanulty (2 Jung 2 Dye), Robert Bragdon (Break on a Cloud), Michael Eades (We Own This Town), Seth Lowe (Cannery Row), Tyler Walker (Queen Art Collective), Staff (Sofar Sounds Nashville), Amber Davis (photographer), Jason Piffer (Do615), Jared and Kristyn Corder (East Nashville Underground), David Oakleaf (The Building), Terra James-Jura (Deli Nashville)

Hope you’ll find some awesome new artists you weren’t aware of!

The Deli’s Staff