Diesel U Music Round 3

The 3rd installment of the Diesel U Music awards has kicked off with the first round of nominations including Robbers On High Street, The Alchemist, The Books, The Bravery, and The Dears. Full list below along with more details.

In its 3rd year, Diesel-U-Music US has been dramatically re-imagined as a showcase for emerging talent, signed and unsigned. Diesel-U-Music relies on a board of music industry
insiders, who select and nominate up-and-coming bands, artists and producers to vie for the headlining slot at the 2005 Diesel-U-Music Awards show taking place in May 2005 in New York, as well as a $10,000 music video production grant.

The Diesel-U-Music board consists of industry heads from Vice Recordings, Caroline Distribution, The Metro (Chicago), MTV News, PitchforkMedia.com, InSound.com, FluxBlog.com, Rolling Stone, Q101 in Chicago, Power 106 in LA, etc; as well as artists
ranging from Saul Williams to 9th Wonder to Talib Kweli. The nominations are broken into three categories: Hip-Hop/Soul, Rock and Electronic and there will be 2 rounds of nominations. At the end of the five-month program, one winner will be chosen
in each category based on Board member votes.

1st round nominations include:

Bear Vs. Shark
Busdriver
Inouk
Kenn Starr
Knifehandchop
Lusine
Robbers On High Street
Sa Ra Creative Partners
Tadd Mullinix
The Alchemist
The Books
The Bravery
The Changes
The Dears
Xavier