PLUG: Independent Music Awards

Congratulations to the Nominees! Voting opened to the public Nov 16 and just closed Feb 15. Each year, PLUG is proud to bring the independent music community together – fans and biz alike - to recognize the best music and media it has to offer.

Winners will be announced at the PLUG 2008 Independent Music Awards show broadcast live online @ Dell Lounge March 6 at 8pm EST. Register here now to catch the show live (& free), hosted by Patton Oswalt with performances by Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, St. Vincent, Dizzee Rascal, José Gonzalez, The Forms, DiVinci, and guest DJ Sally Shapiro. Get all the show info on the event page.

This year cast your votes in GENERAL and (for us music fanatics) OBSESSIVE categories. Just click the Music and Media tabs below, select a category inside (it'll open up for you) and vote. Listen to nominees for each PLUG Award by clicking PLAY ...

(General)

Album Of The Year

Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (Merge)Band Of Horses - Cease To Begin (Sub Pop)Battles - Mirrored (Warp)Beirut - The Flying Club Cup (Ba Da Bing)El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead (Definitive Jux)Justice - † (Downtown / Vice / Ed Banger)Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? (Polyvinyl)Panda Bear - Person Pitch (Paw Tracks)Radiohead - In Rainbows (self-released)Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights (Daptone)Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Merge)The National - Boxer (Beggars Banquet)

Album Of The Year -

New Artist Of The Year

Bat For LashesBattlesDan DeaconDeerhunterJusticeLos Campesinos!No AgeSea WolfSt. VincentVampire WeekendWhite RabbitsYeasayer

New Artist Of The Year -

Female Artist Of The Year

Annie Clark (St. Vincent)Bettye LaVetteEmily HainesEmma PollockKatrina Ford (of Celebration)Marissa NadlerMarnie SternNatasha Khan (of Bat For Lashes)Nina NastasiaSally ShapiroScout NiblettSharon Jones

Female Artist Of The Year -

Male Artist Of The Year

Andrew BirdDan DeaconDevendra BanhartEl-PJens LekmanJohn VandersliceJosé GonzálezKevin Barnes (of Of Montreal)Nick CaveNoah Lennox (Panda Bear)Sam Beam (Iron & Wine)Zach Condon (Beirut)

Male Artist Of The Year -

Indie Rock Album Of The Year

Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam (Domino)Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (Merge)Band Of Horses - Cease To Begin (Sub Pop)Battles - Mirrored (Warp)Deerhunter - Cryptograms (Kranky)Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends (Frenchkiss)Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? (Polyvinyl)Okkervil River - The Stage Names (Jagjaguwar)Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Merge)Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover (Jagjaguar)The National - Boxer (Beggars Banquet)The New Pornographers - Challengers (Matador)

Indie Rock Album Of The Year -

Americana Album Of The Year

Angels Of Light - We Are Him (Young God)Bowerbirds - Hymns For A Dark Horse (self-released)Charlie Louvin - Charlie Louvin (Tompkins Square)Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog (Sub Pop)Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter - Like, Love, Lust & The Open Halls Of The Soul (Barsuk)José González - In Our Nature (Mute)Marissa Nadler - Songs III: Bird On The Water (Kemado)Oakley Hall - I'll Follow You (Merge)Ola Podrida - Ola Podrida (Plug Research)Porter Wagoner - Wagonmaster (Anti-)Richard Hawley - Lady's Bridge (Mute)The Avett Brothers - Emotionalism (Ramseur)The Cave Singers - Invitation Songs (Matador)

Americana Album Of The Year -

Metal Album Of The Year

Baroness - Red Album (Relapse)Big Business - Here Come The Waterworks (Hydra Head)Boris With Michio Kurihara - Rainbow (Drag City)High On Fire - Death Is This Communion (Relapse)Jesu - Conquerer (Hydra Head)Neurosis - Given To The Rising (Neurot)Om - Pilgrimage (Southern Lord)Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb (Relapse)The Austerity Program - Black Madonna (Hydra Head)The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works (Relapse)Watain - Sworn To The Dark (Ajna Offensive)Wolves In The Throne Room - Two Hunters (Southern Lord)

Metal Album Of The Year -

Hip-Hop Album Of The Year

Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass (Definitive Jux)Black Milk - Popular Demand (Fat Beats)Brother Ali - The Undisputed Truth (Rhymesayers)Busdriver - RoadKillOvercoat (Epitaph/Anti-)Devin The Dude - Waitin' To Inhale (Rap-A-Lot)Dizzee Rascal - Maths + English (XL)El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead (Definitive Jux)Lifesavas - Gutterfly:The Original Soundtrack (Quannum)Little Brother - Getback (ABB)Prodigy - Return Of The Mac (Koch)Sage Francis - Human the Death Dance (Epitaph)Saul Williams - The Inevitable Rise And Liberation Of NiggyTardust (The FADER Label)

Hip-Hop Album Of The Year -

Punk Album Of The Year

Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil (Vice)Clockcleaner - Babylon Rules (Load)Fucked Up - Year Of The Pig EP (What's Your Rupture?)Future Of The Left - Curses (Too Pure)Gallows - Orchestra Of Wolves (Epitaph)Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta! (Side One Dummy)Magik Markers - Boss (Ecstatic Peace)Marnie Stern - In Advance Of The Broken Arm (Kill Rock Stars)No Age - Weirdo Rippers (FatCat)Pissed Jeans - Hope For Men (Sub Pop)Silver Daggers - New High & Ord (Load)The Locust - New Erections (Anti-)

Punk Album Of The Year -

Electronic/Dance Album Of The Year

!!! - Myth Takes (Warp)Caribou - Andorra (Merge)Chromeo - Fancy Footwork (Vice)Dan Deacon - Spiderman Of The Rings (Carpark)Digitalism - Idealism (Astralwerks)Gui Boratto - Chromophobia (Kompakt)Justice - † (Downtown / Vice / Ed Banger)Matthew Dear - Asa Breed (Ghostly)Modeselektor - Happy Birthday! (Bpitch Control)Sally Shapiro - Disco Romance (Paper Bag)The Field - From Here We Go Sublime (Kompakt)Ulrich Schnauss - Goodbye (Domino)

Electronic/Dance Album Of The Year -

DJ Album Of The Year

A-Trak - Dirty South Dance (Obey)Booka Shade - DJ-Kicks (!K7)DJ Rekha - Basement Bhangra (Koch)Ewan Pearson - Fabric 35 (Fabric)Henrik Schwarz - Live (!K7)Hot Chip - DJ-Kicks (!K7)Justine D - Rvng Prsnts MX5 (Rvng Intl.)Lee Burridge - Balance 012 (E.Q.)Lil Wayne - Da Drought 3 (self-released)M.A.N.D.Y. - 12 Great Remixes For 11 Great Artists (Get Physical)Prins Thomas - Cosmo Galactic Prism (Eskimo)Ricardo Villalobos - Fabric 36 (Fabric)

DJ Album Of The Year -

Avant Album Of The Year

Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum (Graveface)Daniel A.I.U. Higgs - Atomic Yggdrasil Tarot (Thrill Jockey)Dirty Projectors - Rise Above (Dead Oceans)Eluvium - Copia (Temporary Residence)Eric Copeland - Hermaphrodite (Paw Tracks)HEALTH - HEALTH (Lovepump United)Holy Fuck - LP (XL)Liars - Liars (Mute)Robert Wyatt - Comicopera (Domino)Sunburned Hand Of The Man - Fire Escape (Smalltown Supersound)Sword Heaven - Entrance (Load)Zs - Arms (Planaria)

Avant Album Of The Year -

(Obsessive)

Artist Of The Year

Animal CollectiveArcade FireBand Of HorsesBattlesEl-PJusticeOf MontrealOkkervil RiverPanda BearRadioheadSpoonThe National

Artist Of The Year

Song Of The Year

Arcade Fire - "Keep The Car Running" (Merge)Battles - "Atlas" (Warp)Bright Eyes - "Four Winds" (Saddle Creek)Grinderman - "No Pussy Blues" (Anti-)Gui Boratto - "Beautiful Life" (Kompakt)Justice - "D.A.N.C.E." (Downtown / Vice / Ed Banger)Menomena - "Wet And Rusting" (Barsuk)Of Montreal - "Suffer For Fashion" (Polyvinyl)Panda Bear - "Bros" (Paw Tracks)Sea Wolf - "You're A Wolf" (Dangerbird)Spoon - "The Underdog" (Merge)The Natonal - "Fake Empire" (Beggars Banquet)

Song Of The Year

Live Act Of The Year

Animal CollectiveArcade FireBand Of HorsesBattlesBlack LipsCelebrationDan DeaconGogol BordelloLes Savy FavOf MontrealSharon Jones & The Dap-KingsThe National

Live Act Of The Year

Music Video Of The Year

Aesop Rock - "None Shall Pass" (Definitive Jux)Bat For Lashes - "What's A Girl To Do?" (Caroline)Battles - "Atlas" (Warp)Emily Haines And The Soft Skeleton - "Our Hell" (Last Gang Records)Escort - "All Through The Night" (Escort Records)José González - "Down The Line" (Mute)Justice - "D.A.N.C.E." (Downtown / Vice / Ed Banger)Liars - "Plaster Casts Of Everything" (Mute)Maximo Park - "Our Velocity" (Warp)Menomena - "Rotten Hell" (Barsuk)St. Vincent - "Jesus Saves, I Spend" (Beggars Banquet)The Shins - "Phantom Limb" (Sub Pop)

Music Video Of The Year

Album Art/Packaging of the Year

Arcade Fire - Neon Bible: Deluxe Edition (Merge)Band Of Horses - Cease To Begin (Sub Pop)Bright Eyes - Cassadaga (Saddle Creek)Celebration - The Modern Tribe (4AD)Devendra Banhart - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon (XL)Grinderman - Grinderman (Anti-)Menomena - Friend And Foe (Barsuk)Ministry - The Last Sucker (13th Planet/Megaforce)Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? (Polyvinyl)Panda Bear - Person Pitch (Paw Tracks)Patton Oswalt - Werewolves And Lollipops (Sub Pop)Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound (Touch & Go)

Album Art/Packaging of the Year

Record Label Of The Year

Anti-Arts & CraftsBeggars GroupDangerbirdDefinitive JuxDominoEd BangerJagjaguwarMergeSecretly CanadianSub PopTouch & GoWarp

Record Label Of The Year

Live Music Venue Of The Year

Bowery Ballroom - New York, NYDoug Fir Lounge - Portland. OREmo's - Austin, TXHighline Ballroom - New York, NYMercury Lounge - New York, NYMetro - Chicago, ILMusic Hall Of Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NYNeumos - Seattle, WASchuba's - Chicago, ILSpaceland - Los Angeles, CAThe Middle East - Boston, MATroubadour - West Hollywood, CA

Live Music Venue Of The Year

Music Festival Of The Year

All Tomorrow's PartiesAustin City Limits Music FestivalBonnarooBumbershootCMJ Music MarathonCoachella Valley Music FestivalFun Fun Fun FestLollapaloozaPitchfork Music FestivalSasquatch! Music FestivalSouth By SouthwestVegoose

Music Festival Of The Year

(General)

Music Website Of The Year

AllmusicCokemachineGlowThe Daily SwarmDaytrotterElbo.wsThe Hype MachineMySpaceNME.comPaper Thin WallsPitchfork MediaPrefixStylus

Music Website Of The Year

Music Blog Of The Year

An Aquarium DrunkardBrooklyn VeganCoolferDiscobelleFluxblogGorilla Vs. BearIdolatorLargehearted BoyMusic For RobotsMy Old Kentucky BlogNah RightStereogum

Music Blog Of The Year

Magazine Of The Year

DecibelFilterHARPMagnetMojoPasteSpinThe FADERThe WireUnder The RadarURBXLR8R

Magazine Of The Year

Online Radio Station Of The Year

3WKBAGeL RadioCD101DublabEast Village RadioIndie 103.1KCRWKEXPLittle RadioSomaFMWFMUWOXY

Online Radio Station Of The Year

Record Store of the Year

Amoeba Music - Hollywood, CAAmoeba Music - San Francisco, CAAquarius Records - San Francisco, CACriminal Records - Atlanta, GADusty Groove America - Chicago, ILEasy Street Records - Seattle, WAGrimey's New & Preloved Music - Nashville, TNOther Music - New York, NYReckless Records - Chicago, ILSonic Boom Records - Seattle, WATwist & Shout - Denver, COWaterloo Records - Austin, TX

Record Store of the Year

(Obsessive)

Zine Of The Year

DIWGalactic Zoo DossierImposeMaximumrocknrollRoctoberSentimentalistSignal To NoiseSkyscraperStop Smiling'SupThe Big TakeoverWax Poetics

Zine Of The Year

Online Record Store Of The Year

Amazon.comAquarius RecordsBeatportBleepeMusicForced ExposureHipHopSite.comInsoundiTunesLaLaOther Music DigitalTurntable Lab

Online Record Store Of The Year

College/Non-Comm Radio Station Of The Year

KALX - Berkeley, CAKCMP - Northfield, MNKCRW - Santa Monica, CAKDHX - St Louis, MOKEXP - Seattle, WAKUSF - San Francisco, CAKXLU - Los Angeles, CAWFMU - Jersey City, NJWLUW - Chicago, ILWNYU - New York, NYWRAS - Atlanta, GAWXPN - Philadelphia, PA

College/Non-Comm Radio Station Of The Year

Specialty Show Of The Year (Commercial Radio)

99X - SundaySchool w/ Elliott Garstin (Atlanta, GA)CD101 - Independent Playground w/ Tom Butler & Rudy Gerdeman (Grove City, OH)Indie 103.1 - Jonesy's Jukebox w/ Steve Jones (Santa Monica, CA)Indie 103.1 - Dead Air w/ Chuck P. (Santa Monica, CA)KBZT - Halloran's FTP! w/ Mike Halloran (San Diego, CA)KDGE - Adventure Club w/ Josh Venable (Dallas, TX)KPNT - New Music Sunday w/ Les Aaron (St Louis, MO)Live 105 - Soundcheck w/ Aaron Axelsen (San Francisco, CA)Sirius: Left Of Center - Blog Radio (New York, NY)The Buzz - Sonic Spectrum w/ Robert Moore (Kansas City, MO)WFNX - First Contact w/ Steve Theo (Boston, MA)WXRT - The Big Beat w/ Marty Lennartz (Chicago, IL)

Specialty Show Of The Year (Commercial Radio)

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