Genesis Owusu, Cub Sport Among Winners at 2024 AIR Awards

Genesis Owusu, Cub Sport and Jem Cassar-Daley have been within the winner’s circle on the 2024 AIR Awards, the annual celebration of Australia’s impartial music sector.

As he has finished so usually in recent times, Owusu collected silverware, this time nabbing greatest impartial hip-hop album or EP for STRUGGLER, his sophomore LP which cracked the ARIA high 10 in 2023.

On this event, his help community shared within the glory. Ourness, The Annex and AWAL snagged the AIR Award for impartial advertising group of the 12 months, and Andrew Klippel’s Ourness gained the coveted impartial label of the 12 months.

Final 12 months, STRUGGLER scooped a hattrick on the 2023 ARIA Awards, persevering with an excellent run of type for the Canberra-raised artist whose increasing assortment consists of the J Award for Australian album of the 12 months, the Australian Music Prize, an APRA Award, and first prize within the Vanda & Younger World Songwriting Competitors.

Additionally on the 2024 AIR Awards, held Thursday, Aug. 1 on the Queens Theatre Adelaide, Brisbane digital pop outfit Cub Sport have been double winners, scooping greatest impartial dance or electronica album or EP for his or her ARIA No. 1 album Jesus At The Homosexual Bar, and impartial music video of the 12 months for “Hold Me Secure” (Adam Munnings).

Different key winners on the night time included Royel Otis (breakthrough impartial artist of the 12 months), RVG (impartial album of the 12 months for Mind Worms) and Jem Cassar-Daley (impartial music of the 12 months for “King of Disappointment”).

Now in its 18th 12 months, the AIR Awards are a celebration of the perfect and brightest from Australia’s impartial music group, and are organized by the Australian Unbiased Document Labels Affiliation (AIR).

This 12 months’s version ushered in two new classes, recognizing greatest impartial music video and greatest impartial producer, and welcomed a world growth. AIR used the platform of the ceremony to verify an additional two years’ funding to carry its Awards and Indie-Con Australia convention in Adelaide, and introduced that the commerce physique will solely host A2IM’s Australian Version of Indie-Week convention along side its occasions from 2025.

“We’re honored and excited to deliver A2IM Indie Week’s first-ever worldwide occasion to Adelaide, Australia’s UNESCO designated Metropolis of Music” feedback Lisa Hresko, A2IM, normal supervisor. This occasion “guarantees to be a world hub for impartial music, fostering a dynamic group of trade leaders and sharing future-shaping concepts that can propel music ahead.”

The South Australian Music Growth Workplace is main sponsor for the annual AIR awards. 

Go to air.org.au/air-awards for the complete listing of winners.