2025 PRN Award Nominees!
Winners will be announced at the Awards Show, Saturday, October 4, 2025 at The Melody Inn
WINNERS will be in ORANGE!
This year YOU can vote in every category AND in the People’s Choice Video category!
Vote links coming soon
Note: to be fair, people on the awards committee are not allowed to nominate their own acts (only other committee members can nominate them) nor can they vote in categories in which they are nominated.
To be considered for a nomination, the act must have performed at a Punk Rock Night Indy show between Sept 14, 2024 and Sept 4, 2026. Albums considered for Best Release must have been released between September 2024 and September 2025 and the band must have performed at a PRN show between the dates above.
If you won, you have one year to claim your trophy – best way to get it is to attend the awards show or book another show with us and we will present it to you on stage.
Best Performance
Leather & Mace, The Oxys, Anti-Queens, Authority Zero, Mephiskapheles, The Darts, S.E.R.V.I.C.E.
Best Local Punk Act
Grimey, The Run Up, The Involuntary’s, Sonora, Gay Black Republican, Mr. Clit and the Pink Cigarettes, Safety Off
Best Non-Local Punk Act
Irish Sunglasses, Electric Frankenstein, Chiba Dowa, Vang, Boof, Misunderstood, The Steves
Best Local Rock Act
Kinzie Sikz, Wet Denim, Cheap Suitors, 9th Circle Symphony, Dillynn Salazar Band, Lousy Sue, Stackhaus
Best Non-Local Rock Act
The Oxys, Southbound Beretta, Thelma & the Sleaze, Belushi Speed Ball, Soraia, Mr. Denton on Doomsday, Norcos Y Horchata
Best Hardcore Act
Indomitable, Crisis Actor, Slur, DUI, Patron Saint of Violence, Come out Fighting, No Means, Kiritsis
Best Horror Act
Lurking Corpses, Nülydedz, Bonedaddy, The Jasons, Children of October, Lords of October, Pretty with the Lights out
Best National Act
Sloppy Seconds, Authority Zero, Dropkick Murphys, Bad Religion, Buzzcocks, Richard Lloyd Group of TELEVISION, The Darts
Best New Band
Fat Top, Danger Room, The Half Hours, La Vida Arcana, QEZ, Live Dissection, Kiritsis
Best Pop Punk Act
Lustkill, Alex K & the Board of Directors, deadfoot, Hayley & the Crushers, Anti-Queens, The Lovesick Junkies, Without MF Order
Stunning Soloists, Dynamic Duos
TEO, Fucked Out Brains, Dog Party, Sex Mex, Voice of Dissent
Best Tribute Act
NOTFX, Spinal Tap, The Hymans (Ramones), Lockstep (The Clash), Thunderbolt Grease-Slapper, The Replays as Blink 182, The Enders (The Clash)
Most Missed Band
Soy City Stranglers, Leather & Mace, Bonedaddy, Sick the Ripper, Shit Truck, Machine Guns & Motorcycles
Sleeper Act
Glazy Boys, The Boreouts, The Oxys, The Foleys, Boomstick, Irish Sunglasses, Big Guy
Stage Presence Award
Lurking Corpses, S.E.R.V.I.C.E., Nülydedz, The Darts, 9th Circle Symphony, Electro Cult Circus, Sabertooth Gary
Surf Rock or Rockabilly
Viceroy Kings, Naptown Hepcats, The Rocketz, The Surfrajettes, Black Widows, Bonedaddy, Nülydedz
Best Ska or Skapunk Act
Tone Zone Skam, Bite Me Bambi, Coolidge, Orangetree, Stacked Like Pancakes, Mephiskapheles, Something to Do
WTFWT?
The Meteors vs Jordan, Kinzie Sikz, Hans Gruber & the Die Hards, Bass Amp & Dano, Without MF Order, Peelander-Z, Leather & Mace
Best Local Release
I Got Worms “Worms Unleashed”
Pilots “Pretty Boss”
Gay Black Republican “Tax & Destroy”
The Remote Controls “Too Tough”
Crisis Actor “Long Live the New Flesh”
EVERROAD “Abuse Of Power”
Dillynn Salazar “Rose-Colored”
Best Non-Local Release
The Oxys “Casting Pearls Before Swine”
Alex Kasznel & the Board of Directors “Flightless”
Misunderstood “The Untold Story Of An Underdog”
Cursed Rosie “Hollow”
Boomstick “Adorable Party Monster”
Peoples Choice Video
Cheap Suitors “Off the leash!”
Misunderstood “Underdog!”
I Got Worms “I’ve Got a Feelin’”
Alex Kasznel & the Board of Directors “Re-elect Don Marisconi”
Pilots “Solar Array”
The Remote Controls “Be anywhere else”
Cursed Rosie “Hollow”
Mr. Clit and the Pink Cigarettes “Night Night, Baby”
Faithful Fan award
Special award No nominees
Lifetime Achievement
Special award No nominees
Special 25 Year Awards
Special awards!