2023 Libera Awards

2023 Libera Awards
2023 Libera Awards
Date	June 15, 2023
Location	Town Hall, New York City
Hosted by	Hannibal Buress
Most nominations	Wet Leg (6)
Website	liberaawards.com

The 2023 Libera Awards will be held on June 15, 2023, to recognize the best in independent music of 2022 presented by the American Association of Independent Music. The ceremony will take place at the Town Hall in New York City and will be broadcast on YouTube.[1] American comedian Hannibal Buress is set to host the ceremony.[2]

The nominations were announced on March 22, 2023, with British duo Wet Leg leading the nominations with six, followed by Sudan Archives, Allison Russell, Fontaines D.C. and Soul Glo, all with three each.[3] Four new categories were introduced: Best Remix, Best Short-Form Video, Best Singer-Songwriter Record and Best Soul/Funk Record. Additionally, three categories were renamed: Best World Record was renamed into Best Global Record, Best Americana Record into Best American Roots Album, and Best Folk/Bluegrass Album into Best Folk Album.

Winners and nominees

The nominees were announced on March 22, 2023.[4]

Record of the Year	Self-Released Record of the Year
Blue Rev – Alvvays Stumpwork – Dry Cleaning I Walked with You a Ways – Plains Diaspora Problems – Soul Glo A Light for Attracting Attention – The Smile Wet Leg – Wet Leg	"Cool Kids (Our Version)" – Echosmith Jersey Girl – Jessie Baylin Rita Wilson Now & Forever: Duets – Rita Wilson Two Sisters – Sarah Davachi When the Lights Go – Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
A2IM Humanitarian Award	Best Alternative Rock Record
Allison Russell Björk Hopeless Records Killer Mike Margo Price Tegan and Sara	Blue Rev – Alvvays Stumpwork – Dry Cleaning Laurel Hell – Mitski Painless – Nilüfer Yanya Wet Leg – Wet Leg
Best American Roots Record	Best Blues Record
Fortune Favors the Bold – 49 Winchester Big Time – Angel Olsen El Mirador – Calexico The Man from Waco – Charley Crockett This Is a Photograph – Kevin Morby Denim & Diamonds – Nikki Lane	Bloodline Maintenance – Ben Harper Outdated Emotion – Delbert McClinton Set Sail – North Mississippi Allstars Done Come Too Far – Shemekia Copeland I Need A Job...So I Can Buy More Auto-Tune – Swamp Dogg
Best Classical Record	Best Country Record
Pigments – Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn We Will Live On – Deru memorie – doeke Invisible Forces – James Heather At the Crest – Jonas Colstrup Lost & Found – Sean Shibe	"Cypress Hills and the Big Country" – Colter Wall Run, Rose, Run – Dolly Parton Neon Blue – Joshua Hedley Blackberry Rose – Lavender Country "Change of Heart" – Margo Price I Walked with You a Ways – Plains Jerry Jeff – Steve Earle and The Dukes
Best Dance Record	Best Electronic Record
"Water" – Bicep "Good Times/Problemz" – Jungle "Happy Ending" – Kelela "Can't Stop Thinking About" – Logic1000 "Strong" – Romy featuring Fred Again... "DJ Kicks" – Theo Parrish	Fragments – Bonobo Topical Dancer – Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul I Love You Jennifer B – Jockstrap Let's Turn It Into Sound – Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith The Last Goodbye – Odesza Nymph – Shygirl No Rules Sandy – Sylvan Esso
Best Folk Record	Best Heavy Record
Age of Apathy – Aoife O'Donovan Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You – Big Thief Quitters – Christian Lee Hutson Pre Pleasure – Julia Jacklin Quiet the Room – Skullcrusher	The Death of Peace of Mind – Bad Omens "Riptide" – Beartooth Hellfire – black midi Gnosis – Russian Circles Trouble the Water – Show Me the Body Diaspora Problems – Soul Glo
Best Hip-Hop/Rap Record	Best Jazz Record
Cheat Codes – Danger Mouse and Black Thought Melt My Eyez See Your Future – Denzel Curry Louie – Kenny Beats RTJ Cu4tro – Run the Jewels Few Good Things – Saba As Above, So Below – Sampa the Great	Where I'm Meant to Be – Ezra Collective "The Garden Path" – Kamasi Washington Anyhow – Leland Whitty Living Sky – The Sun Ra Arkestra New Standars Vol. 1 – Terri Lyne Carrington, Kris Davis, Linda May Han Oh, Nicholas Payton, and Matthew Stevens
Best Latin Record	Best Outlier Record
Boleros Psicodélicos – Adrian Quesada IRE – Combo Chimbita Quietude – Eliane Elias If You Will – Flora Purim "Ya No Estoy Aquí" – Helado Negro Estrela Acesa – Sessa Marchita – Silvana Estrada	Time Skiffs – Animal Collective Matisyahu – Matisyahu Jazz Codes – Moor Mother COMETA – Nick Hakim Please Have a Seat – NNAMDÏ Glitch Princess – yeule
Best Pop Record	Best Punk Record
Fossora – Björk Two Ribbons – Let's Eat Grandma Second Nature – Lucius Muna – MUNA Stay Proud of Me – NoSo Hold the Girl – Rina Sawayama Crybaby – Tegan and Sara	Back Home – Big Joanie Endure – Special Interest Growing Up – The Linda Lindas The Hum Goes on Forever – The Wonder Years Loggerhead – Wu-Lu
Best R&B Record	Best Re-Issue
Let Me Down Easy: Bettye LaVette in Memphis Sun Records 70th / Remastered 2022 – Bettye LaVette "Texas Sun" – Khruangbin and Leon Bridges Natural Brown Prom Queen – Sudan Archives S/T – Thee Sacred Souls Remember Your North Star – Yaya Bey	Bon Iver, 10th Anniversary Edition – Bon Iver Fela with Ginger Baker Live! – Fela Kuti In My Own Time, 50th Anniversary Editions – Karen Dalton Words & Music, May 1865 (Deluxe Edition) – Lou Reed Nancy & Lee – Nancy Sinatra Wild Creatures – Neko Case A Message from the People – Ray Charles
Best Rock Record	Best Singer-Songwriter Record
When the Wind Forgets Your Name – Built to Spill Skinty Fia – Fontaines D.C. Fear of the Dawn – Jack White Sometimes, Forever – Soccer Mommy Lucifer on the Sofa – Spoon	Warm Chris – Aldous Harding "You're Not Alone" – Allison Russell featuring Brandi Carlile Weather Alive – Beth Orton Boat Songs – MJ Lenderman And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow – Weyes Blood
Best Soul/Funk Record	Best Spiritual Record
Sentimental Fool – Lee Fields Live in Stockholm 1972 – Ray Charles Love & Algorhythms – Seratones The Alien Coast – St. Paul and The Broken Bones I Need A Job...So I Can Buy More Auto-Tune – Swamp Dogg	And Now Let's Turn to Page... – Brent Cobb Worship Anywhere: Live from Camp NewBreed – Israel & New Breed Church Clothes 4 – Lecrae JAMIE – Montell Fish Look Up! – The Harlem Gospel Travelers
Best Sync Usage	Best Global Record
"Go Home" by Angel Olsen in Empire of Light film trailer "Water No Get Enemy" by Fela Kuti "Don't Lose Sight" by Lawrence in Microsoft ad "Drink Before the War" by Sinéad O'Connor in Euphoria "A Flower Called Nowhere" by Stereolab in Atlanta	En Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog – Dungen Electricity – Ibibio Sound Machine Let the Festivities Begin! – Los Bitchos Afrique Refait – Mdou Moctar "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi" – Rodrigo y Gabriela Kel Tinariwen – Tinariwen Ali – Vieux Farka Touré and Khruangbin
Breakthrough Artist/Release	Creative Packaging
Allison Russell Charlotte Sands Soul Glo Sudan Archives The Linda Lindas	Ants from Up There – Black Country, New Road 2020 Collectors' Set – Jack White Words & Music, May 1965 (Deluxe Edition) – Lou Reed Laurel Hell – Mitski Circuital (Deluxe Edition) – My Morning Jacket Dopesmoker, Weedian High-Fi Edition – Sleep
Independent Champion	Label of the Year (Big)
Aaron Axelsen Bandcamp FUGA Redeye Secretly Distribution TuneCore	ATO Records Hopeless Records Merge Records New West Records Ninja Tune Partisan Records Sub Pop Records Third Man Records Warp Records
Label of the Year (Medium)	Label of the Year (Small)
Captured Tracks City Slang Daptone Records Glassnote Records Saddle Creek Yep Roc Records	Don Giovanni Records Fire Talk Innovative Leisure Oh Boy Records Topshelf Records
Best Live/Livestream Act	Best Remix
Bartees Strange – Live at the Getty Black Pumas – Colors Live at Abbey Road Studios Idles – Live on From the Basement King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard at Red Rocks Low Live Phoebe Bridgers – Glastonbury 2022 Wet Leg – US 2022 Tour	"Do It to It" (Tiësto Mix) – ACRAZE + Tiësto "Wretched" (keiyaA Remix) – Bartees Strange "Cliché" (Soulwax Remix) – Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul "Nothing Is Safe" (Remx) – Clipping "Get Sun" (Georgia Anne Muldrow Remix) – Hiatus Kaiyote "Midnight Sun" (Sampha remix) – Nilüfer Yanya "Too Late Now" (Soulwax Remix) – Wet Leg
Video of the Year	Best Short-Form Video
"Hawk for the Dove" – Amanda Shires "Jackie Down the Line" – Fontaines D.C. "Thank You" – Jaywood "Parasites" – NoSo "Ur Mom" – Wet Leg "Spitting Off the Edge of the World" – Yeah Yeah Yeahs	"Scooter" – Belle and Sebastian Hellfire TikTok Promotion – Black Midi The Runner – Boy Harsher "Pistol" – Cigarettes After Sex Louie 001 Instagram vignette series – Kenny Beats Mahal TikTok series – Toro y Moi
Marketing Genius	Special awards
Skinty Fia – Fontaines D.C. (Partisan Records) IMPERA – Ghost (Loma Vista Recordings) Natural Brown Prom Queen – Sudan Archives (Stones Throw Records) Wet Leg – Wet Leg (Domino Recording Co.) Cool It Down – Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Secretly Canadian)	To be announced

References

Aniftos, Rania (March 22, 2023). "Wet Leg Leads Nominations for 2023 Libera Awards". Billboard. Retrieved March 22, 2023.
"ANNOUNCING THE 2023 LIBERA AWARDS PERFORMERS!". Libera Awards. May 3, 2023. Retrieved May 7, 2023.
Aswad, Jem (March 22, 2023). "Wet Leg Leads Nominations for A2IM's Indie Libera Awards". Variety. Retrieved March 22, 2023.
"2023 LIBERA AWARDS NOMINEES". Libera Awards. Retrieved March 22, 2023.

External links

Official website

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[1] Aniftos, Rania (March 22, 2023). "Wet Leg Leads Nominations for 2023 Libera Awards". Billboard. Retrieved March 22, 2023.

[2] "ANNOUNCING THE 2023 LIBERA AWARDS PERFORMERS!". Libera Awards. May 3, 2023. Retrieved May 7, 2023.

[3] Aswad, Jem (March 22, 2023). "Wet Leg Leads Nominations for A2IM's Indie Libera Awards". Variety. Retrieved March 22, 2023.

[4] "2023 LIBERA AWARDS NOMINEES". Libera Awards. Retrieved March 22, 2023.

Libera Awards
Major awards	Record of the Year Best Live Act Best Breakthrough Artist Best Sync Usage Marketing Genius Label of the Year Video of the Year Best Americana Record Best Blues Record Best Classical Record Best Dance/Electronic Record Best Hip-Hop/Rap Record
Ceremony year	2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Related	American Association of Independent Music