By Blood Alone won TWO awards in last night’s Portland Music Awards. (Best Category Defying Act and Best Female Vocalist.) We weren’t even nominated, but voters wrote us in. A million thanks to everyone who voted!

And congrats to some other winners:

OCEAN: best album
HATCHETFACE AND THE VIPERS: best new act (a write in)
COVERED IN BEES: best punk act
OGRE: best metal act
BRZOWSKI: best hip hop act

While everyone in the Portland scene is very talented and it’s an honor to even be considered amongst them, it’s also really affirming to see so many of Portland’s harder and less mass-consumable acts get the recognition they deserve.