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We have had an incredible year. Over 150 bands have performed for us, some on multiple occasions. We've organized 9 festivals with 30+ bands on each! 90% of the bands we've booked have never played Tobacco Road. We have given so many bands the opportunity to play a legendary 96 year old bar known for Live Music, in front of a huge crowd of people. A bar that was voted "Best Rock club" by the Miami New Times Readers Choice awards and recently voted "BEST BURGER IN AMERICA" by Playboy Brazil Magazine! I am confident in saying no other promoter in the history of South Florida's local music scene has done what we have done. We have set the STATUS QuO. This is the new name of any show put together by DJ Oski & Queen Of The Scene. To kick off the start of this production company we want to celebrate the amazing year we've had by honoring some of the best bands we've had the pleasure of working with.

This one's for YOU!

The Status QuO Award Show!

We compiled a list of all the bands that have done a Festival with us. From this list, we've Nominated our top picks for each category. Every Band who had played one of our festivals was listed in at least one category! It was up to YOU, The fans, Friends & Families to Vote.
This is not based on the Scene as a whole, This is not based on All the bands who have ever played for us. This is ONLY based on bands who have performed at one of our Festivals.
If you want to be included in our Award Show next year, Just be sure to contact us for a Festival Booking in the future.



HERE'S WHO YOU VOTED FOR:









































Best Show
1. Revolution
2. Coffee House Gypsies
3. Bitchfire
4. AKA
5. Jahfe
6. Madsic
7. The Morning Flesh Project
8. Zombies! Organize!
9. (Tied)...Local 34, City Of God & Mutevox
10. (Tied)...Mug & Alice's Wonder
11. Mess Anger
12. Bachaco



Best Name
1. Coffee House Gypsies
2. 1000 Pounds of Thrust
3. BitchFire
4. (Tied)... Zombies! Organize! & The Morning Flesh Project
5. Pretty on Paper
6. City Of God
7. Brink of Something Beautiful
8. Jahfe
9.(Tied)... Boy Prostitute, Bully Pussy & Liquid Courage
10. (Tied)... Raging Geisha, Strange Particles & Steven Jude
11. (Tied)... Mess Anger & Hyimn



Best Female Vocal
1. Alex Norris (Coffee House Gypsies)
2. Carmen Tauler (Pretty on Paper)
3. (Tied)... Joce & Lori (AKA)
4. Esther Fortune (Jahfe)
5. Reina (Three In One)
6. (Tied)... Erica Sommer (Raging Geisha) & Vanessa (Starving Artist Tour)
7. Hilary McRae
8. Stephanie Sarkissian (Urban Fruit)
9. (Tied)... Steph Taylor (Steph Taylor and the state of...), Leitza (The Latest Fear) & Angie Day
10. Sol
11. (Tied)... Mirs (Origen), Megan Lipsky (We Might As Well), Melodik, Kristin Cappiello, Sunshine Hahn & Lianne Ojito



Best Male Vocal
1. Albert Mata (Coffee House Gypsies)
2. Mike (1000 Pounds of Thrust)
3. Jacob (January)
4. Coke (MadSic)
5. Gery (Revolution)
6. (Tied)... Rey King (Upheaval) & Emanual (Caution Automatic)
7. Roger Izaguirre (Nimencia)
8. Tristan (Tristan & The Juice)
9. (Tied)... Eddy (Bachaco), Rayko, Dan (Ghost Stroke), Mike Sharp (ShuFly), Robert Goodman, Peter Melaragno & Ivan (The Kut)


Best Promotion
1. Coffee House Gypsies
2. 1000 Pounds Of Thrust
3. Riot Agents
4. (Tied)...The Morning Flesh Project & Echoes Of Chaos
5. Revolution
6. (Tied)... Local 34 & Mendacity
7. (Tied)... Big Poppa E & Starving Artist Tour
8. (Tied)... Steven Jude, In Habit & The 9th Pawn
9. (Tied)... Bachaco, Nimencia & Mess Anger
10. (Tied)... Serpenthorn & Steph Taylor and the State Of...



Best SOLO act
1. The Fly Kingdom
2.(Tied)... Big Poppa E & Jill Hartmann
3. Fernando Perdomo
4. Sparky G.
5. Megan Lipsky
6. (Tied)... Sol, Kristin Cappiello & Petros
7. (Tied)...Benjamin Bear, Takis, Eric Vick, Melodik & Sujo



Best Acoustic act
1. Shufly
2. Big Poppa E
3. Viajeros
4. Sol
5. Eric Vick
6. Sunshine Hahn
7. Peter Melaragno



Best out of town band
1. Making Movies
2. Sparky G.
3. (Tied)... Viajeros & Benjamin Bear
4. Acho Brother



Best band to break-up, move away or change names
1. Shufly
2. (Tied)... Mug & Father Bloopy 3. Caution Automatic
4. Rhetoric
5.(Tied)... Bletzung & Lianne Ojito



Best Dressed
1. January
2. Trax
3. Zombies! Organize!
4. Riot Agents
5. Joce
6. the Morning Flesh Project
7. Local 34
8. (Tied)... Fernando Perdomo, Starving Artist Tour & The Latest Fear
9. Sex Prophets
10. (Tied)... City of God, Mess Anger, Boy Prostitute, Big Grizzly & Steven Jude



Best POP
1. Coffee House Gypsies
2. Tristan 7 The Juice
3. Joce
4. January
5. (Tied)...Hilary McRae & The Latest Fear
6. Supersonic
7. (Tied)... Radio Clip, Ex Norwegian, Chapter IV, Mug & Urban Fruit
8. The Real Easy



Best HIP HOP
1. Trax
2. Melodik
3. Benjamin Bear
4. (Tied)... Rayko KRB & Dialect
5. City Of God
6. Big Grizzly
7. Solo MC



Best AVANTE-GUARD
1. Zombies! Organize!
2. Adament
3. Petunio
4. In Habit
5. (Tied)... Viajeros & Strange Particles
6. Prostitots
7. (Tied)... OSO & Petros
8. Acho Brother
 Best HARD ROCK
1. 1000 Pounds of Thrust
2. Ghost Stroke
3. BitchFire
4. three In One
5. The Kut
6. Mendacity
7. Nimencia
8. Rebel
9. Vizeral



Best PUNK
1. Riot Agents
2. Boy Prostitute
3. AKA
4. MUG
5. Bully Pussy
6. Radar O'Reilly
7. Last Gang In Town
8. Blitz Brewjo



Best R&B
1. Urban Fruit
2. Samantha Natalie
3. Takis
4. Sujo



Best Latin/Spanish
1. Bully Pussy
2. Local 34
3. (Tied)... Mi Plan Secreto & Cuarto Cuarto
4. (Tied)... Ephniko, Radio Clip, Nimencia & Origen
5. Vizeral
6. (Tied)... SuperSam & Hyllus



Best METAL
1. Hate Machine
2. Brink Of Something Beautiful
3. Upheaval
4. MadSic
5. Revolution
6. The 9th Pawn
7. Alitheia
8. Serpenthorn
9. (Tied)... Dissever, Hindsight & Blood By Dawn
10. Kalakai



Best Reggae
1. Jahfe
2. MUG
3. Tristan & the Juice
4. Hyllus



Best Instrumental
1. The Fly Kingdom
2. Mutevox
3. The Morning Flesh Project
4. Phisonica



Best Cover Band:
1. Coffee House Gypsies
2. MUG
3. The Five Nines



Best of FEMMEFEST
1. BitchFire
2. AKA
3. (Tied)... Three In One & Fantastic 5
4. Zombies! Organize!
5. Joce
6. Angie Day
7. Hilary McRae
8. Angie Day
9. Megan Lipsky
10. (Tied)... Rayko KRB, Takis, Melodik, Lianne Ojito -&- Ana Kanpa


Best of Kryptonite Metal Fest
1. BitchFire
2. (Tied)... MuteVox, MadSic
3. Riot Agents
4. Serpenthorn
5. Three In One
6. (Tied)...Adament & Boy Prostitute
7.(Tied)... Upheaval & Mendacity
8. (Tied)... Kalakai, Funeral For A Clown, Bloody By Dawn & Dark Paradigm
9.Radar O'Reilly
10. (Tied)... Demenxia, Hindsight, Storm The Satellites, Deceiver


Best of The Rock’s 3 year 420 blowout
1. Coffee House Gypsies
2. 1000 Pounds Of Thrust
3. Jahfe
4. Rayko KRB
5. BadAss
6. Bully Pussy
7. Nimencia
8. (Tied)... Sol & Ghost of Gloria
9. (Tied)... Melodik, Inside Eye & Robert Goodman
10. (Tied)... Hunters Moon, Mug & Supersonic


Best of Cultura fest
1. January
2. The Fly Kingdom
3. ShuFly
4.Local 34
5. (Tied)...Caution Automatic & Mess Anger
6. (Tied)... Raging Geisha, Bully Pussy, Mi Plan Secreto & Big Poppa E
7. (Tied)...Nimencia
8. (Tied)... Griffin Anthony & Vizeral
9. (Tied)... Origen, Bachaco, Big Grizzly & Making Movies


Best of Super Summer Jam
1. Ghost Stroke
2. The Fly Kingdom
3. Revolution
4. Jahfe
5. Echoes of chaos
6. Riot Agents
7. (Tied)... In Habit & The Real Easy
8. The Kut
9. (Tied)... The Five Nines & The Robert Goodman Band
10. (Tied)... Big Poppa E, Last Gang In Town, Sol, Benjamin Bear, Ozium & To Be Hated


Best of Lil BIG Fest
1. Coffee House Gypsies
2. Jahfe
3. The Fly Kingdom
4. Riot Agents
5. City Of God
6. Echoes of Chaos & The Morning Flesh Project
7. Fernando Perdomo
8. (Tied)... Local 34 & The Starving Artist Tour
9. (Tied)... The 9th Pawn, Nimencia, Steven Jude, Mess Anger 7 The Silent System
10. The Five Nines
11. (Tied)... January, Unreal Me, Sunshine Hahn & SuperSam


Best of Colossal Fest
1. Coffee House Gypsies
2. Trax
3. 1000 Pounds Of Thrust
4. The Morning Flesh Project
5. The Oski Foundation
6. (Tied)... Urban Fruit & Brink Of Something Beautiful
7. (Tied)... Revolution & The Starving Artist Tour
8. January
9. The Latest Fear