BMAs // Punk
A guide to the 2024 Boston Music Awards
The 2024 Boston Music Awards is at Big Night Live on December 11.
Hump Day News was nominated for Best Music Publication.
You can vote for all the nominees here.
To honor our glorious symbolic inclusion and insufferable clout chasing, we’re rolling out the BMAde Betterz series for 2024. In this series we send the nominees through the meat grinder to yield three main categories of sodium-enriched meat byproducts.
The “New To Us”
Never heard of them, or at least never heard them. But they’re on the list, so let’s have a listen.
The “House Specials”
We’ve covered these acts, we treasure these acts, we 100% get why they’ve been nominated.
The “New To You”
These artists didn’t make the list, but they should have!
Punk/Hardcore Artist of the Year // Nominees
Already Dead // Dropkick Murphys // Fiddlehead // Gut Health // Hell Beach // Knock Over City // Miracle Blood // One Fall // Rebuilder // The Promised End
Love the stereophonic sound on opening track “Sullenboy” of Fiddlehead’s LP Death Is Nothing To Us. And noise punkers Miracle Blood create their own universe of sights & sounds, top to bottom.
Already Dead’s politically-charged punk rock is a welcome rebuttal to a country that just elected a fascist to be the next president. Gut Health’s post hardcore shenanigans make every live show special. And surf punks Hell Beach are riding high on their latest LP Beachworld.
Never seen a boring Hammered Saint show. They’re bonkers. Same goes for Jiddo, who laid down eight glorious tracks of post hardcore on their LP They Can't Keep Getting Away With This in late 2023 too.