Year after year, our website is very privileged to reward those talented artists that have particularly impressed worldwide audiences either through their live performances or through the release of a hugely inspired studio record.
Our Awards are, as usually, split into two different categories, Artist Of The Year and Best Live Act, with an additional Career Award aimed to recognize and reward the outstanding career of an artist that has been highly inspirational and influential throughout the decades on an international level.
The nominees for 2025 for Artist Of The Year are the following:
Anna Von Hausswolff
Bobby Rush & Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Yumi Ito
The nominees for 2025 for Best Live Act are the following:
Sigur Ros
Suzanne Vega
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
The winners of both categories will be announced on 27th November on our website and through the major Social Network's platforms.
The winner of the Lifetime Career Award for this 2025 goes to an authentic pioneer of musical Minimalism, the American composer and performing artist Terry Riley who, coincidentally, this year celebrated 90 years of age and 65 years in the music industry. Among the most celebrated bodies of work created by Riley, we like to remember his albums In C (1968), Church Of Anthrax (1971), Descending Moonshine Dervishes (1975), Lazy Afternoon Among The Crocodiles (1997) and many more.
A special Career Award has been also assigned to the Italian Alternative Art Collective called Bastardons, whose body of work made of Spoken Word, Alternative Poetry and Music has been hugely powerful in the Italian 80's society, providing an important artistic platform to the counterculture of the country of Italy for two decades.
Very well done to all the hugely talented artists part of this year's Nominees of the Bluebird Reviews Awards.
