SXSW 2012: Quiet Company Cleans Up at Austin Music Awards (As We Predicted)

Last year after The Bright Light Social Hour was the big winner at the Austin Music Awards, an annual celebration of the city's music scene that takes place each year during South By Southwest, we asked for comments on the following question: "An opinion on who will be the next band to break out, Mother Falcon or Quiet Company?"  Well, it was Quiet Company who you should have put your money on, as the local quintet cleaned up the awards last week.  In addition to Band of the Year, Album of the Year for We Are All Where We Belong and song of the year for "You, Me & the Boatman," the band's members were all big winners too.  QC front man Taylor Muse took home top prize in three big categories (Male Vocals, Songwriter and Musician of the Year) while fellow member Matt Parmenter won in the Producer category and was runner-up for Bass, Jeff Weathers won Drums, and Tommy Blank was runner-up to the deserving Gary Clark Jr. for Electric Guitar. Mother Falcon didn't do too poorly either, winning in the Avant-Garde/Experimental category.

So what about 2013?  Well, one safe bet would be the Wheeler Brothers, the 2012 Best New Band winner and a top ten finisher in many categories.  And how big will Quiet Company get?  They have been featured on the grooveshark.com front page for a while now.  That's a good sign.

While you think about these and other important questions, here's a video of Quiet Company performing winning song "You, Me & the Boatman" backstage at the 2012 Austin Music Awards.  And below, listen to this year's top ten finishers in the Song of the Year category.  Congratulations from FBtA to all of this year's winners.  And if you're thinking of getting tickets for next year's awards show and are wondering what sort of thing might go down, read this prior post for another video featuring Alejandro Escovedo, Joe Ely, and some other guitar player from Jersey.