AIR Awards of 2015

AIR Awards of 2015
Date	22 October 2015 (2015-10-22)
Venue	The Meat Market, North Melbourne, Australia
Hosted by	Dylan Lewis
Most awards	Courtney Barnett (3)
Most nominations	Courtney Barnett and Hermitude (4)
Website	https://air.org.au/air-awards/

The AIR Awards of 2015 (or Carlton Dry Independent Music Awards of 2015) is the tenth annual Australian Independent Record Labels Association Music Awards (generally known as the AIR Awards) and was an award ceremony at The Meat Market, North Melbourne on 22 October 2015. The event was again sponsored by Australian liquor brand, Carlton Dry. The Carlton Dry Global Music Grant award was removed this year, after two previous appearances.

Courtney Barnett won Best Independent Artist and Best Independent Single for the second consecutive year.

Performers

• Bad//Dreems
• Airling
• Dead Letter Circus
• Harts and John Butler

Nominees and winners

AIR Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface; other final nominees are listed alphabetically.

Best Independent Artist	Best Independent Album
Courtney Barnett #1 Dads Chet Faker Hermitude Vance Joy	Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit Number 1 Dads – About Face Flight Facilities – Down to Earth Hermitude – Dark Night Sweet Light Vance Joy – Dream Your Life Away
Best Independent Single or EP	Breakthrough Independent Artist of the Year
Courtney Barnett – "Depreston" Bad//Dreems – "Cuffed & Collared" Courtney Barnett – "Pedestrian At Best" Hermitude featuring Mataya & Young Tapz – "The Buzz" Vance Joy – "Fire and the Flood"	Number 1 Dads Briggs Client Liaison Japanese Wallpaper Totally Mild
Best Independent Blues and Roots Album	Best Independent Classical Album
C. W. Stoneking - Gon' Boogaloo Fraser A. Gorman – Slow Gum Gurrumul – The Gospel Album Marlon Williams – Marlon Williams Paul Kelly - The Merri Soul Sessions	Australian Brandenburg Orchestra – Brandenburg Celebrates Alicia Crossley – Alchemy Amir Farid – Amir Farid Plays Javad Maroufi: Golden Dreams and Other Works Amy Dickson and Sydney Symphony Orchestra – Island Songs Zubin Kanga – Piano Inside Out
Best Independent Country Album	Best Independent Dance/Electronica Album
Frank Yamma – Uncle Amber Lawrence – Superheroes Jim Lawrie – Eons Raised By Eagles – Diamonds in the Bloodstream Troy Cassar-Daley – Freedom Ride	Flight Facilities – Down to Earth Collarbones – Return Hermitude – Dark Night Sweet Light Seekae – The Worry Ta-ku – Songs to Break Up to
Best Independent Dance, Electronica or Club Single	Best Independent Hard Rock, Heavy or Punk Album
Hayden James – "Something About You" Collarbones – "Turning" Generik featuring Nicky Van She – "The Weekend" Nicky Night Time featuring Nat Dunn – "Gonna Get Better" Rüfüs – "You Were Right"	King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – I'm in Your Mind Fuzz British India – Nothing Touches Me Northlane – Node The Peep Tempel – Tales The Smith Street Band – Throw Me in the River
Best Independent Hip Hop Album	Best Independent Jazz Album
Seth Sentry – Strange New Past Baro – 17/18 Briggs – Sheplife Citizen Kay – Demokracy One Day – Mainline	Barney Mcall – Mooroolbark Allan Browne Quintet – Ithaca Bound Gian Slater – Still Still Mike Nock Octet – Suite Sima Sarah Mckenzie – We Could Be Lovers
Best Independent Label
Milk! Records

See also

• Music of Australia