It's time for our NeXt music poll for the New Year. Here's your chance to vote for your favorite band or artist. Whether you love Cute Is What We Aim For or the Strokes, Shakira or Gnarls Barkley, we want to hear from you!
And here's your chance to nominate your favorite local band! NeXt readers 11 to 18 are invited to fill out this ballot and mail it to NeXt Music Poll, Buffalo News Features Department, P.O.
Box 100, Buffalo N.Y. 14240.
(Online readers from Western New York may participate by e-mailing numbered responses to .) Not only do you get to vote for your favorite band, you'll have a shot at movie passes, Blockbuster gift cards and NeXt T-shirts that will be awarded in a random drawing. The deadline for responding is Jan.
30. Thanks to Gabrielle Grubka for developing this poll, with some input from Jason Silverstein and Jessie Lewis. 1.
BEST CD (Circle one) "Eyes Open," Snow Patrol "Eye to the Telescope" by KT Tunstall "FutureSex/LoveSounds," Justin Timberlake"High School Musical" soundtrack"How to Save a Life", The Fray"Kingdom Come", Jay-Z"Loose", Nelly Furtado"The Open Door," Evanescence "Pearl Jam" by Pearl Jam *** 2. BEST POP SONG (Circle one) *** 3. BEST ROCK SONG (Circle one) *** 4.
BEST R B/RAP SONG (Circle one) *** 5. BEST NEW ARTIST (Circle one) *** 7. BEST RAP ARTIST (Circle one)50 CentAkonBow WowEminemThe GameJay-ZLudacrisNas *** 8.
FAVORITE MUSIC VIDEO STATION (Circle one) *** 10.
