{"id":2857,"date":"2012-05-08T10:30:36","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T14:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=2857"},"modified":"2015-10-23T20:07:35","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T00:07:35","slug":"girl-in-a-coma-wins-at-the-independent-music-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=2857","title":{"rendered":"Girl In A Coma wins at the Independent Music Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, San Antonio\u2019s Girl In A Coma announced that they won for Best Independent \/ Alternative Rock Album at the Independent Music Awards in the first-ever tie in the history of the Awards, winning alongside Company of Thieves.<\/p>\n<p>The band are by name \/ sound retro posturing with obvious Smiths influences (in a good way). Girl In A Coma have been progressing on a consistent path since Nina Diaz joined the band at age 13, and have found many high profile champions and friends along the way including Joan Jett (who signed them), Morrissey, Sia, Tegan and Sara, The Pogues and Amanda Palmer who have hand-selected them for tours.<\/p>\n<p>Check out Girl In A Coma\u2019s video for <em>Smart<\/em> below.<\/p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JIL6P2_B3gA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<p><strong>Tour dates:<\/strong><br \/>\n5\/07 \u2013 Salt Lake City, UT @ Kirby Court<br \/>\n5\/09 \u2013 Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad<br \/>\n5\/12 \u2013 Austin, TX @ Pachanga Latino Music Festival<br \/>\n5\/26 &#8211; Dallas, TX @ Homegrown Music &amp; Arts Festival<br \/>\n6\/02 \u2013 Helotes, TX @ Josabi\u2019s Outdoors (Rock Lobsterfest)<br \/>\n6\/03 \u2013 Houston, TX @ Free Press Summer Fest<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Girl In A Coma, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/girlinacoma.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">girlinacoma.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Today, San Antonio\u2019s Girl In A Coma announced that they won for Best Independent \/ Alternative Rock Album at the Independent Music Awards in the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=2857\" title=\"Girl In A Coma wins at the Independent Music Awards\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23,28,1907],"tags":[522,616,1073,1244],"class_list":["post-2857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indie","category-music","category-news","tag-girl-in-a-coma","tag-independent-music-awards","tag-smart","tag-tour"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/girlinacoma.jpg?fit=636%2C424&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-K5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26933,"url":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=26933","url_meta":{"origin":2857,"position":0},"title":"The Oxford Coma shares &#8216;Cartoons&#8217; video","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"September 22, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The Oxford Coma will release 'Everything Out of Tune' on Friday, October 13. 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