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# NME Award Nominees 2014 Announced
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/nme-award-nominees-2014-announced/
- Published: 2014-01-15T08:17:00.000Z
- Updated: 2014-01-15T08:17:00.000Z
- Description: NME has announced its 2014 award nominees. As with other UK based honors, there's a bit more snark than we find in the states. As much as we might wish. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2014/01/nme-award-nominees-2014-announced.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
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NME has announced its 2014 award nominees. As with other UK based honors, there's a bit more snark than we find in the states. As much as we might wish they did, can you imagine the Grammys having a category for worst band. And then there's the sponsor, the city of Austin, Texes and the strange resulting name: “[NME Awards with Austin, Texas](%20https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2014/01/nme-award-nominees-2014-announced-.html)”.

**Best British Band**

- Arctic Monkeys
- Foals
- Palma Violets
- Biffy Clyro
- Disclosure
- Two Door Cinema Club

**Best International Band supported by Austin, Texas**

- Haim
- Arcade Fire
- Queens Of The Stone Age
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
- Phoenix
- Vampire Weekend

**Best Solo Artist**

- Lorde
- Lily Allen
- Jake Bugg
- Paul McCartney
- Kanye West
- David Bowie

**Best New Band supported by Mossimo**

- Drenge
- Swim Deep
- Chvrches
- Jagwar Ma
- Wolf Alice
- Courtney Barnett

**Best Live Band**

- Arctic Monkeys
- Palma Violets
- Biffy Clyro
- Haim
- Queens Of The Stone Age
- Savages

**Best Album**

- *AM* \- Arctic Monkeys
- *…Like Clockwork* \- Queens of the Stone Age
- *In Love* – Peace
- *Yeezus*  \- Kanye West
- *Silence Yourself* \- Savages
- *Drenge* – Drenge

**Best Track supported by Blackstar Amplification**

- "Do I Wanna Know?" – Arctic Monkeys
- "Hard Out Here" – Lily Allen
- "White Noise" – Disclosure
- "Reflektor" – Arcade Fire
- "2013" – Primal Scream
- "Get Lucky" – Daft Punk

**Best Music Video**

- "Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?" – Arctic Monkeys
- "Happy" – Pharrell Williams
- "Reflektor" – Arcade Fire
- "Hard Out Here" – Lily Allen
- "Nerve Endings" – Eagulls
- "Falling" – Haim

**Best Festival**

- Glastonbury
- Reading & Leeds
- T In The Park
- Latitude
- Bestival
- V

**Best TV Show**

- Breaking Bad
- Fresh Meat
- Sherlock
- Game Of Thrones
- Misfits
- Doctor Who

**Best Music Film**

- Muscle Shoals
- Made Of Stone
- Sound City
- The National: Mistaken For Strangers
- Good Vibrations
- Muse

**Best Reissue**

- In Utero: 20th Anniversary Edition - Nirvana
- Sound System - The Clash
- The Regal Years: 1997–2004 - The Beta Band
- LSXX (Last Splash 20th Anniversary Edition) - The Breeders
- Bootleg Series, Vol. 10: Another Self Portrait (1969-1971) - Bob Dylan
- White Light/White Heat 45th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition - The Velvet Underground

**Best Band Blog Or Twitter**

- Jehnny Beth, Savages
- Albert Hammond Jr
- Alana Haim, Haim
- James Blunt
- Theo Hutchcraft, Hurts
- Grimes

**Best Book**

- Autobiography - Morrissey
- Creation Stories - Alan McGee
- Yeah Yeah Yeah - Bob Stanley
- The Beatles: All These Years: Volume One: Tune In - Mark Lewisohn
- Song Reader - Beck
- I Dreamed I Was A Very Clean Tramp - Richard Hell

**Best Small Festival**

- Rockness
- Y Not
- Kendall Calling
- Swn
- Green Man
- Festival Number 6

**Best Fan Community**

- Hurts
- Haim
- Arctic Monkeys
- Muse
- Peace
- Morrissey

**Music Moment Of The Year**

- Pussy Riot are freed
- Arctic Monkeys headline Glastonbury
- Noel and Damon come together for Teenage Cancer Trust
- Rolling Stones headline Glastonbury
- Morrissey's autobiography is released
- Kanye West brings Jesus on stage

**Worst Band**

- One Direction
- The Wanted
- The 1975
- Imagine Dragons
- 30 Seconds To Mars
- Muse

**Hero Of The Year**

- Alex Turner
- David Bowie
- Este Haim
- Russell Brand
- Pussy Riot
- Lou Reed

**Villain Of The Year**

- Miley Cyrus
- Robin Thicke
- Harry Styles
- David Cameron
- Vladimir Putin

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