The Mumbai rock band win Best Band, Keyboardist and Drummer of The Year, Delhi's Advaita and Papon also snag two awards each
Drummer Jai Row Kavi and Navin Deshpande of MixTape accepting Band Of the Year award on behalf of Indus Creed from Radhakrishnan Nair, Editor-in-Chief of Rolling Stone India and Yukta Mookhey
Drummer Jai Row Kavi and Navin Deshpande of MixTape accepting Band Of the Year award on behalf of Indus Creed from Radhakrishnan Nair, Editor-in-Chief of Rolling Stone India and actor/model Yukta Mookhey Photo: Prashin Jagger
To quote Uday Benegal, frontman of Indus Creed: “There couldn’t be a better time to make rock ’n roll in the country.” The eighth edition of JD Annual Rock Awards was indeed a celebration of original Indian music with the Rolling Stone Jam Sessions where artists from various bands got together to cover some of the best-known (and not-so-well known) Indian tracks including Zero’s “Lucy,” Junkyard Groove’s “Imagine” and Workshop’s “Pudhe Sarka.” The annually reuniting band, Zero’s bassist Bobby Talwar said, “Indian bands covering other Indian bands. We couldn’t have imagined this a few years ago.”
Rohit “P-Man” Pereira kept the house in splits as always, as Sameer “Daddy” Malhotra held the stage together as the host for the evening. A few categories saw more than one winner and it was a close competition in the other categories as well, considering the caliber of artists nominated this year.
List of winners
Best Band: Indus Creed
Best Album: The Silent Sea by Advaita
Best Song: “Boitha Maro Re” by Papon
Best Female Vocalist: Vivienne Pocha
Best Male Vocalist: PaponÂ
Best Guitarist: Bruce Lee Mani of Thermal And A Quarter
Best Drummer: Jai Row Kavi of Indus Creed
Best Bassist: Tony Guinard of The Ska Vengers
Best Keyboardist: (Tie) Jason Zachariah of Jason Zachariah Band & Zubin Balaporia of Indus Creed
Best Metal Band: Skyharbor
Best Emerging Artist: Â Blek
Best Live Music Venue: Â Blue Frog, Mumbai
Best Producer: Â Shantanu Hudlikar
Best Album Art: (Tie) The Silent Sea by Advaita and Topiwalleh by Swarathma
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