Motorcityrocks 2008 All Star Team

Thank you to the thousands of Metro Detroiters who voted, here are your winners:

Best Local Album: The Pop Project: Stars of Stage and Screen
alternate: The Dirtbombs: We Have You Surrounded

Best All Around Band: The Muggs
alternate: the Von Bondies

Best New Detroit Band: Silverghost
alternate: Friendly Foes

Best Comeback: The Von Bondies
alternate: The Meatmen

We’ll Miss The Most: Nathaniel Mayer
alternate: 313 Jacoby’s

Best Ballz Out Band: Child Bite
alternate: Terrible Twos

Best Punk Band: Mazinga
alternate: Human Eye

Best Pop Band: Friendly Foes
alternate: The Pop Project

Best Rock Band: The Muggs
alternate: The Hard Lessons

Best Electro Band: Champions of Breakfast
alternate: Deastro

Best Folk Rock Band: Great Lakes Myth Society
alternate: Scarlet Oaks

Best Dressed Band: Gepetto Files
alternate: Electric Six

Best Local Music Festival: Hamtramck Blowout
alternate: Cityfest

Best Local Music Venue: PJ’s Lager House
alternate: Magic Stick

Best Whatever You Can Come Up With:
Best Live Band: A Mayonnaise Graveyard
Best Album Cover: Electric 6 – Flashy
Best Beard In Town: Phreddy Wischuesen (Crofoot)
Best Beer To Drink At Show: Miller High Life
Best Audio-Visual Torturers: Los Minstrels Del Diablo
Best Bar: The Elbow Room
Best Body: Rachael Nagy (Detroit Cobras)
Best International Presence: Electric 6
Best Japanese Transplant: Hiroki Oba (Snakewing)
Best Live Personality: Dick Valentine (Electric Six)
Best Looking Band: BUMP
Best Musician: Danny Methric (Muggs)
Best Songwriters: Harlow/Krautner (The Go)
Best Movie: Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Best Place To Eat: Union Street
Best Record Label: Cass Records and Bellyache Records (tie)
Best Metal Band: Mound Road Engine
Best County Prosecutor: Kym Worthy
Best Local Gadfly: Gorilla
Best Podcast: Timpoplive!
Best Side Of The Freeway Garbage: the rotting box of tangerines that has been at the crotch of I-94 and I-75 for the last six months.