MAKING VINYL AWARDS
CELEBRATING THE BEST VINYL RECORD ART
2017 Making Vinyl Winners & Runners-up in 8 Vinyl Categories
Detroit — Nov 6th, 2017
The 2017 Making Vinyl Awards (formally known as the Alex Awards) announced the following finalists, runners-up and winners and of the best vinyl packaging at a ceremony at the Westin Book Cadillac Hotel.
BEST ILLUSTRATED LP COVER
• Aimee Mann, Mental Illness – WINNER
• Father John Mistry, Pure Comedy
• Gillian Welch, The Harrows, and the Harvest
• Queens of the Stone Age, Villains
• Record Store Day Celebrates Leonard Cohen
—Runner-up: Father John Mistry
BEST PHOTO LP COVER
• Alejandro Escovdeo, Burn Something Beautiful
• Common, The Light
• The Protomen, A Night of Queen
• Waxahatachee, Out in the Storm – WINNER
• Willie Nile, Positively Bob
—Runner-up: Common
BEST 45 SINGLE PACKAGE
• Alice Cooper, Live From the Astroturf – WINNER
• Chris Un Tina, Incognito
• Jack White, Love Is The Truth
• Margo Price, Weakness
• Sun Ra, El Is A Sound of Joy
—Runner-up: Margo Price
BEST GATEFOLD
• Dead Weather, Live at the Mayan
• Polyvinyl Plays Polyvinyl
• The National, Sleep Well Beast
• UNKLE, The Road, Part 1 – WINNER
• Yaz Ahmed, La Sabouteus
—Runner-up: The National
BEST RECORD ART
• Blowfly, Forever Fly
• The Monks, Hamburg Recordings 1967 – WINNER
• My Chemical Romance, Welcome to the Black Parade
• Weather Warlock
• Yautja, Dead Soil
—Runner-up: My Chemical Romance
BEST REISSUE PACKAGE
• Andromeda Strain Soundtrack – WINNER (TIE)
• John Cale, The Academy in Peril – WINNER (TIE)
• Rolling Stones, Their Satanic Majesties Request
• T.Rex, Electric Warrior
• The White Stripes
— Runner-up: The White Stripes
BEST BOXED SET
• Blondie, Pollinator
• Kate Bush, Before the Dawn
• Rolling Stones, Their Satanic Majesties Request
• Voyager, 40th Anniversary Edition – WINNER
• White Stripes, Vault 33, X, Icky Thump
—Runner-ups Tie: Blondie & White Stripes
BEST OVERALL PACKAGE
• AKATRE, BLCK RCK – WINNER (TIE)
• Alejando Escovedo, Burn Something Beautiful
• Margo Price, Live at the Hamilton
• Pet Symmetry, Vision – WINNER (TIE)
• White Stripes, Vault 33, X, Icky Thump
—Runner-up: Margo Price