AIR Awards of 2025

2025 AIR Awards
Date	31 July 2025
Venue	Adelaide Town Hall, Australia
Website	https://air.org.au/air-awards/

The 2025 AIR Awards is the upcoming nineteenth annual Australian Independent Record Labels Association Music Awards ceremony (generally known as the AIR Awards), scheduled to take place on 31 July 2025 in Adelaide. The 2025 AIR Awards will introduce a new category; the Independent Mix, Studio or Mastering Engineer of the Year.

Performances

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Nominees and winners

Nominations opened up to AIR members on February 4 and closed on March 10. The nominations were revealed on 13 May 2025.

Independent Album of the Year	Independent Song of the Year
Amyl and the Sniffers - Cartoon Darkness Emily Wurramara - Nara King Stingray - For the Dreams Royel Otis - Pratts & Pain The Dreggs - Caught in a Reverie	Alice Ivy (featuring Josh Teskey) - "Do I Need To Know What Love Is?" Amyl And The Sniffers - "U Should Not Be Doing That" Jem Cassar-Daley - "Big Container" Ocean Alley - "Tangerine" Sycco - "Meant to Be"
Breakthrough Independent Artist of the Year	Best Independent Blues and Roots Album or EP
3% Gut Health Miss Kaninna Queenie The Dreggs	Emma Donovan - Til My Song Is Done Little Quirks - Little Quirks Mia Dyson - Tender Heart Queenie - New Moult Steph Strings - Cradle Mountain
Best Independent Children's Album or EP	Best Independent Classical Album or EP
Bunny Racket - Power Emma Memma - Twirly Tunes Teeny Tiny Stevies - The Green Album The Quokkas - Songs for Silly Billies The Wiggles - The Wiggles Sound System: Rave of Innocence	Australian Chamber Orchestra - Memoir of a Snail Electric Fields & Melbourne Symphony Orchestra - Live in Concert Katie Noonan & Karin Schaupp - Songs of the Southern Skies Vol 2 Nat Bartsch - Forever Changed Simon Mavin - Some Days EP
Best Independent Country Album or EP	Best Independent Dance or Electronica Album or EP
Henry Wagons - The Four Seasons Kasey Chambers - Backbone Lane Pittman - Lane Pittman Michael Waugh - Beauty & Truth The Whitlams Black Stump - Kookaburra	1tbsp - Megacity1000 Alice Ivy - Do What Makes You Happy Confidence Man - 3AM (La La La) Ninajirachi - Girl EDM Pnau - Hyperbolic
Best Independent Dance, Electronica or Club Single	Best Independent Heavy Album or EP
Alice Ivy (featuring Josh Teskey) - "Do I Need to Know What Love Is?" Confidence Man - "I Can't Lose You" Haiku Hands - "Kicks" Moktar - "Haraka ’حركة’" Odd Mob (featuring Ed Graves) - "Vertigo"	Northlane - Mirror's Edge Ocean Grove - Oddworld Redhook - Mutation The Amity Affliction - Let the Ocean Take Me (Redux) The Southern River Band - D.I.Y.
Best Independent Hip Hop Album or EP	Best Independent Jazz Album or EP
3% - Kill the Dead Dobby - Warrangu: River Story Lithe - What Would You Do? Miss Kaninna - Kaninna Ziggy Ramo - Human?	Claire Cross - Sleep Cycle Lucy Clifford - Between Spaces of Knowing Molly Lewis - On the Lips Parvyn - Maujuda Sam Anning - Earthen
Best Independent Pop Album or EP	Best Independent Punk Album or EP
Annie Hamilton - Stop and Smell the Lightning Asha Jefferies - Ego Ride Emma Russack - About the Girl Good Morning - Good Morning Seven Sheppard - Zora	Don't Thank Me, Spank Me! - Don't Thank Me, Spank Me! Dune Rats - If It Sucks, Turn It Up Gut Health - Stiletto Radio Free Alice - Polyester Regurgitator - Invader
Best Independent Rock Album or EP	Best Independent Soul/R&B Album or EP
Amyl and the Sniffers - Cartoon Darkness King Stingray - For the Dreams Party Dozen - Crime in Australia Royel Otis - Pratts & Pain The Rions - Happiness in a Place It Shouldn't Be	Beckah Amani - This Is How I Remember It Don West - Don West Ella Thompson - Ripple On the Wing Milan Ring - Mangos Radical Son - Bilambiyal
Independent Marketing Team of the Year	Independent Publicity Team of the Year
ABC Music and The Annex for Emily Wurramara, Nara Future Classic, The Annex for Sycco, Zorb GYROstream for Lithe, Fall Back I Oh You and Mushroom Music for Confidence Man, 3AM (La La La) Ourness and The Annex for Royel Otis Pratts & Pain	I Oh You and Mushroom Music for Confidence Man 3AM (La La La) Liz Ansley for Emily Wurramara Nara Super Duper for Radio Free Alice Polyester Thinking Loud for Royel Otis Pratts & Pain Twnty Three PR for The Rions Happiness in a Place It Shouldn't Be
Independent Producer of the Year	Independent Music Video of the Year
Alice Ivy for Alice Ivy Do What Makes You Happy Bonnie Knight for Coldwave The Ants/italia '06 Dave Hammer for Lime Cordiale Enough of the Sweet Talk Nick Didia for Ocean Alley Tangerine Nina Wilson for Ninajirachi Girl EDM	Claudia Sangiorgi Dalimore for Emily Wurramara (featuring Tasman Keith) "Lordy Lordy" Nick Rae, Jordan Ruyi Blanch for 3% (featuring Jessica Mauboy) "Won't Stop" Pond for Pond "(I'm) Stung" Rosemary Whatmuff for Kasey Chambers "Backbone (The Desert Child)" Stephanie Jane Day for Emma Russack "Everything Is Big"
Best Independent Label	Independent Mix, Studio or Mastering Engineer of the Year
ABC Music Dinosaur City Etcetc I Oh You Impressed Recordings	Nick Herrera for Miss Kaninna Kaninna Robert Muinos for Rowena Wise Senseless Acts of Beauty Rohan Sforcina and Lachlan Carrick for Emma Donovan Til My Song Is Done Steven Schram for Crowded House Gravity Stairs Tom Iansek for Tom Snowdon Lonely Tree
Outstanding Achievement Award

See also

• Music of Australia