The PLUG Independent Music Awards, or simply PLUG Awards, began in 2001 as a "cartel" of music lovers ranging from DJs and managers to indie music retailers and fans.
Winners
Album of the Year YearRecipientNominee 2005 TV on the Radio, Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes 2006 Sufjan Stevens, Illinois 2007 Band of Horses, Everything All the Time 2008 Arcade Fire, Neon Bible
Americana Album of the Year YearRecipientNominee 2005 Iron & Wine, Our Endless Numbered Days 2006 Calexico & Iron & Wine, In the Reins 2007 Band of Horses, Everything All the Time 2008 Iron & Wine, The Shepherd's Dog
Avant Album of the Year YearRecipientNominee 2005 Liars, They Were Wrong, So We Drowned 2006 Animal Collective, Feels 2007 Xiu Xiu, The Air Force 2008 Liars, Liars
DJ Album of the Year YearRecipientNominee 2005 RJD2, Since We Last Spoke 2006 DJ Shadow, One Night in Bangkok 2007 Girl Talk, Night Ripper 2008 Hot Chip, DJ-Kicks: Hot Chip
Electronic/Dance Album of the Year YearRecipientNominee 2005 Mouse on Mars, Radical Connector 2006 M83, Before the Dawn Heals Us 2007 Thom Yorke, The Eraser 2008 Justice, Cross
Hip-Hop Album of the Year YearRecipientNominee 2005 Madvillain, Madvillainy 2006 Danger Doom, The Mouse and the Mask 2007 Spank Rock, YoYoYoYoYo 2008 Aesop Rock, None Shall Pass
Indie Rock Album of the Year YearRecipientNominee 2005 Interpol, Antics 2006 Bloc Party, Silent Alarm 2007 Yo La Tengo, I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass 2008 Animal Collective, Strawberry Jam
Metal Album of the Year YearRecipientNominee 2005 The Dillinger Escape Plan, Miss Machine 2006 Fantômas, Suspended Animation 2007 Melvins, (A) Senile Animal 2008 The Dillinger Escape Plan, Ire Works
Punk Album of the Year YearRecipientNominee 2005 Bad Religion, The Empire Strikes First 2006 Sleater-Kinney, The Woods 2007 CSS, Cansei de Ser Sexy 2008 Gogol Bordello, Super Taranta!
Album Art/Packaging of the Year YearRecipientNominees 2005 Arcade Fire, Funeral 2006 Sufjan Stevens, Illinois 2007 Hot Chip, The Warning 2008 Menomena, Friend and Foe
Music DVD of the Year YearRecipientNominees 2005 Fat Wreck Chords, Rock Against Bush, Vol. 2 2006 The Flaming Lips, The Fearless Freaks 2007 Pixies, loudQUIETloud
Music Video of the Year YearRecipientNominees 2006 The Decemberists, "Sixteen Military Wives" 2007 Wolf Parade, "I'll Believe in Anything" CSS, "Let's Make Love and Listen to Death from Above" Danielson, "Did I Step on Your Trumpet" Eagles of Death Metal, "I Want You So Hard (Boy's Bad News)" Heavy Blinkers, "Try Telling that to My Baby" I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness, "The Owl" The Knife, "We Share Our Mothers' Health" Midlake, "Young Bride" Peeping Tom, "Mojo" The Pipettes, "Your Kisses Are Wasted on Me" Vitalic, "Poney Part 1" 2008 Battles, "Atlas"
Song of the Year YearRecipientNominees 2007 Band of Horses, "The Funeral" Arctic Monkeys, "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor" The Coup, "Laugh/Love/Fuck" Gossip, "Standing in the Way of Control" Hot Chip, "Boy from School" Hot Chip, "Over and Over" Jenny Lewis And The Watson Twins, "Rise Up with Fists!!" The Knife, "We Share Our Mothers' Health" Midlake, "Roscoe" Peter Bjorn and John featuring Victoria Bergsman, "Young Folks" Silversun Pickups, "Lazy Eye" Tokyo Police Club, "Nature of the Experiment" 2008 The National, "Fake Empire"
Artist of the Year YearRecipientNominees 2005 Interpol 2006 Bright Eyes 2007 J Dilla 2008 Radiohead
New Artist of the Year YearRecipientNominees 2008 Justice 2007 Arctic Monkeys 2006 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah 2005 Arcade Fire
Live Act of the Year YearRecipientNominees 2005 Death Cab for Cutie 2006 Arcade Fire 2007 Broken Social Scene 2008 Arcade Fire
Female Artist of the Year YearRecipientNominees 2005 Jean Grae 2006 Neko Case 2007 Neko Case 2008 St. Vincent
Male Artist of the Year YearRecipientNominees 2005 Tom Waits 2006 Sufjan Stevens 2007 Sufjan Stevens 2008 Andrew Bird
2005 PLUG Artist Impact Award: The Flaming Lips Record Producer of the Year: Danger Mouse Record Label of the Year: Definitive Jux Music Website of the Year: Pitchfork Magazine of the Year: The Wire College/Non-Comm Radio Station of the Year: KEXP-FM, Seattle, Washington Record Store of the Year: Amoeba Music, Hollywood, California Specialty Show of the Year: KDLD, Los Angeles, California – Dead Air Internet Radio Station of the Year: WOXY.com
2006 PLUG Artist Impact Award: The Flaming Lips Record Producer of the Year: Danger Mouse Record Label of the Year: Sub Pop Music Festival of the Year : Coachella Music Website of the Year: Myspace Magazine of the Year: Paste College/Non-Comm Radio Station of the Year: KEXP-FM, Seattle, Washington Record Store of the Year: Amoeba Music, Hollywood, California Zine of the Year: Wax Poetics Specialty Show of the Year: WXPN, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – World Café with David Dye Internet Radio Station of the Year: indie1031.fm
2007 Record Producer of the Year: J Dilla Record Label of the Year: Sub Pop Live Music Venue of the Year: Bowery Ballroom, New York City Music Festival of the Year: South by Southwest Music Website of the Year: Pitchfork Music Blog of the Year: BrooklynVegan Magazine of the Year: Paste College/Non-Comm Radio Station of the Year: KEXP-FM, Seattle, Washington Record Store of the Year: Amoeba Music, Hollywood, California Zine of the Year: Wax Poetics Specialty Show of the Year: Sirius Left of Center – Blog Radio Podcast of the Year: WOXY.com – Lounge Acts Internet Radio Station of the Year: WOXY.com Online Radio Station of the Year (with Terrestrial Counterpart): KEXP-FM, Seattle Online Record Store of the Year: Amazon.com
2008 Record Label of the Year: Merge Records Live Music Venue of the Year: Bowery Ballroom, New York City Music Festival of the Year: Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival Music Website of the Year: Pitchfork Music Blog of the Year: Stereogum Magazine of the Year: Paste College/Non-Comm Radio Station of the Year: KEXP-FM, Seattle, Washington Record Store of the Year: Other Music, New York City Zine of the Year: Wax Poetics Specialty Show of the Year: Sirius Left of Center – Blog Radio Online Radio Station of the Year: KCRW, Santa Monica, California Online Record Store of the Year: iTunes
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