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The winners will be named during a ceremony at the Highline Ballroom on June 25.
2015 Libera Award Nominees
Marketing Genius Award- 311 'STER3OL1TH1C' PledgeMusic album release campaign (marketing lead: Rich Lyne) (311 Music)
- Aphex Twin 'Syro' album release campaign (marketing lead: Steven Hill) (Warp)
- Little Dragon '1-800-NABUMA' campaign (marketing lead: Adam Farrell) (Loma Vista)
- Run the Jewels 'Meow the Jewels / Tag the Jewels' (marketing lead: Run the Jewels) (Mass Appeal)
- Various Artists 'Or Thousands of Prizes: Merge 25' Campaign (marketing lead: Becky Mormino) (Merge)
- Various Artists 'Ten Bands One Cause: Pink Vinyl' (marketing lead: Alex Brody) (RED)
- William Onyeabor 'William Onyeabor Box Set' campaign (marketing lead: Eric Welles Nystrom) (Luaka Bop)
- Andy Grammer (S-Curve)
- Father John Misty (Sub Pop)
- Future Islands (4AD)
- Pop Evil (eOne)
- Run the Jewels (Mass Appeal)
- Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings (Daptone)
- Steve Earle (New West)
- Family of the Year "Hero" (usage: 'Boyhood') (Nettwerk)
- FKA Twigs "Video Girl" (usage: Google Glass Commercial) (Young Turks)
- Hudson Mohawke "Chimes" (usage: Apple MacBook Air Ad: 'The Notebook People Love') (Warp)
- Nick Waterhouse "Times All Gone" (usage: Lexus Commercial) (Innovative Leisure)
- Passenger "Let Her Go" (usage: Budweiser Puppy Bowl) (Nettwerk)
- Syl Johnson "I'm Talking About Freedom" (usage: Nike Free SB Commercial) (Numero Group)
- tUnE-yArDs "Water Foundtain" (usage: Sonos Commercial) (4AD)
- Woody Guthrie "This Land Is Your Land" (usage: 'Sonic Highways') (Smithsonian Folkways)
- Bandcamp
- The Orchard
- PledgeMusic
- Rdio
- Record Store Day
- Spotify
- Synchtank
- KEXP
- Merlin
- NPR
- Pandora
- SiriusXM
- SoundExchange
- WFMU
- Aphex Twin 'Syro' (Warp)
- As Tall As Lions 'As Tall As Lions' (Triple Crown)
- Belle and Sebastian 'Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance' (Matador)
- Ibeyi 'Ibeyi' (XL)
- Leadbelly 'The Smithsonian Folkways Collection' (Smithsonian Folkways)
- Panda Bear 'Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper' (Domino)
- Various Artists 'Warfaring Strangers: Darkscorch Canticles' (Numero Group)
- Azealia Banks 'Broke With Expensive Taste' (Prospect Park)
- Benjamin Booker – Benjamin Booker (ATO)
- Caribou 'Our Love' (Merge)
- FKA Twigs 'LP1' (Young Turks)
- Flying Lotus 'You're Dead!' (Warp)
- John Luther Adams 'Become Ocean' (Cantaloupe Music)
- Run the Jewels 'Run the Jewels 2' (Mass Appeal)
- Dr. John 'Ske-Dat-De-Dat: The Spirit of Satch' (Concord Records)
- Lucinda Williams 'Down Where The Spirit Meets the Bone' (Highway 20 Records/Thirty Tigers)
- Miles Davis 'Prestige 10" LP Collection, V.1' (Prestige/Fantasy)
- Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens 'Cold World' (Daptone)
- Nikki Lane 'All of Nothin' (New West)
- Shovels & Rope 'Swimmin Time' (Dualtone)
- Sturgill Simpson 'Metamodern Sounds in Country Music' (High Top Mountain/Thirty Tigers)
- Alvvays (Polyvinyl)
- Chet Faker (Downtown)
- Kygo (Ultra)
- Mac Demarco (Captured Tracks)
- MisterWives (Photo Finish)
- Sturgill Simpson (High Top Mountain/Thirty Tigers)
- Viet Cong (Jagjaguwar)
- Die Antwoord "Ugly Boy" (Zef Records/Kobalt Label Services)
- FKA Twigs "Two Weeks" (Young Turks)
- Flying Lotus "Never Catch Me" (feat. Kendrick Lamar) (Warp)
- Jungle "Time" (XL)
- OK Go "I Won't Let You Down" (BMG Rights Management)
- tUnE-yArDs "Water Fountain" (4AD)
- Aphex Twin 'Syro' (Warp)
- Ex Hex 'Rips' (Merge)
- Father John Misty 'I Love You, Honeybear' (Sub Pop)
- FKA Twigs 'LP1' (Young Turks)
- Run the Jewels 'Run the Jewels 2' (Mass Appeal)
- Sleater-Kinney 'No Cities to Love' (Sub Pop)
- Spoon 'They Want My Soul' (Loma Vista)
- Taylor Swift '1989' (Big Machine)
- Tycho 'Awake' (Ghostly International)
- The War on Drugs 'Lost In the Dream' (Secretly Canadian)
- Dangerbird Records
- Daptone Records
- Ghostly International
- Kill Rock Stars
- Innovative Leisure
- Lindseystomp Music
- Loma Vista Recordings
- Mass Appeal Records
- 4AD
- Big Machine
- Concord
- Hopeless Records
- Partisan Records
- Secretly Canadian
- Sub Pop
- Thirty Tigers
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