The annual New Times Music Awards (NTMA) are back in 2025 for their 17th year of celebrating local music! The annual New Times Music Awards are designed to showcase music and songwriting from local musicians throughout the Central Coast of California in a wide variety of genres including Rock/Alternative, Country/Americana/Folk, Hip-Hop, R&B/Blues, Open and Cover.

This year’s show will have live performances from our first place winners in 7 genres. They will be competing for the annual Live Performance Newtie award.
To hear the winning songs and enter your readers choice vote, visit the Readers’ Choice Vote page.

At the event we’ll also present our Local Legend award and announce our Ernie Ball guitar raffle winner.