Its that time of the year again, election season! And what election could be more important than the one in which as a music scene we all get together and vote for our own bands and our friends’ bands and the bands on our labels in order to figure out who is “picked to click?” That’s right, its time for the City Pages annual new band contest (“new”perhaps should be in quotation marks). Last year’s winner was Lizzo (in fact she’s won the last two years in a row). Who will it be this year? We are each making some guesses to try and see who can come closest to predicting the scene’s new king/queen. Come late October we’ll be able to see who was right, who was wrong, and which local bands will be profiled in the CP’s annual music issue.

Josh

Picks	Predictions
1. Allan Kingdom	1. Lizzo 2 Click (new Lizzo band so she can get the three-peat like MJ)
2. Toki Wright and Big Cats!	2. Tiny Deaths
3. Dead Gurus	3. Izzlo (actually just Lizzo again)
4. Steve Palmer	4. Lizzo’s performance on David Letterman
5. Breakaway	5. Allan Kingdom
6. Comb Boats	6. The Current telling us they made Jeremy Messersmith out of their secret public radio 3D printer and that he owes all of his success to them
7. Frankie Teardrop	7. The Hard Rock Cafe in the MOA
8. White Boyfriend	8. Top 10 lists
9. Tiny Deaths	9. Sarcasm; or why I couldn’t think of a funny way to say The Jayhawks/The Replacements/Atompshere
10. Zuluzuluu	10. Lizzo

Jon

Picks	Predictions
1. Breakaway	1. The Replacements (2014 Lineup)
2. Steve Palmer	2. Prince’s Legacy
3. White Boyfriend	3. 3rd Eye Girl
4. Yingthi	4. The Replacements (1984 Lineup)
5. The Pen Test	5. The 400 Bar (MOA lineup)
6. Rabbit Holes	6. Magical “Skyway” Singalong
7. Comb Boats	7. Little Known facts about Bob Dylan’s Second Cousin
8. Dead Gurus	8. 30th Anniversary of Let it Be
9. Sun Gods To Gamma Rays	9. This Cat listened to Gravedancers Union played backwards. You won’t believe what happened next!
10. Mute Swan/Sweetz P	10. Mecha Hip Hop/Britpop/Folk/EDM Band

Adam

Picks	Predictions
1. Uranium Club	1. ah
2. Frankie Teardrop	2. crap
3. Catbath	3. i
4. New Wave Hookers	4. forgot
5. Comb Boats	5. to
6. Dead Gurus	6. study
7. Breakaway	7. what
8. Swimsuit Area	8. people
9. Mute Swan	9. like
10. Bloodeath	10. now