Similar to station staples like the Hottest 100, Like A Version and One Night Stand, the J Awards is a way for triple j and its sister networks — triple j Unearthed and Double J — to honour the sheer excellence blossoming in our backyard each year. In 2016, the wildly prolific King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard became the first act to score multiple J Award wins, taking out Double J Australian Artist of the Year and Australian Music Video of the Year (for People-Vultures, directed by Danny Cohen and Jason Galea). That made the Ghanian-born, Canberra-based dynamo the artist with the most J Awards to date, following his 2021 sweep of the Australian Album of the Year (for his debut Smiling With No Teeth) and Australian Music Video of the Year (The Other Black Dog directed by Riley Blakeway).
Author: Al Newstead
Published at: 2025-11-08 21:00:00
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