Gothamist.com has posted their “Best in New York Music 2006 Awards” and have given the “Big in ‘07″ award to Pela. Here’s what they said:

“… For next year we’re picking Pela for one simple reason: We’ve never met anyone who has seen them play who didn’t think they were excellent. Simple enough. The Math makes sense. Maybe we should call this the Snowden award, for the band that we expect to make the jump from blogger favorite to blog-reader favorite in the coming year. We hope it plays out as we see it, because we can’t think of a more deserving group of guys.”