PLUG Independent Music Awards

The PLUG Independent Music Awards, or just PLUG Awards, began in 2001 as a "cartel" of music lovers ranging from DJs and managers to indie retailers and fans.

Year	Recipient	Nominee
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

Year	Recipient	Nominee
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

Year	Recipient	Nominee
2005	Liars, They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
2006	Animal Collective, Feels
2007	Xiu Xiu, The Air Force
2008	Liars, Liars

Year	Recipient	Nominee
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

Year	Recipient	Nominee
2005	Mouse on Mars, Radical Connector
2006	M83, Before the Dawn Heals Us
2007	Thom Yorke, The Eraser
2008	Justice, Cross

PLUG Independent Music Awards

Winners

Album of the Year

Americana Album of the Year

Avant Album of the Year

DJ Album of the Year

Electronic/Dance Album of the Year

Hip-Hop Album of the Year

Indie Rock Album of the Year

Metal Album of the Year

Punk Album of the Year

Album Art/Packaging of the Year

Music DVD of the Year

Music Video of the Year

Song of the Year

Artist of the Year

New Artist of the Year

Live Act of the Year

Female Artist of the Year

Male Artist of the Year

2005

2006

2007

2008

External links

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Year	Recipient	Nominee
2005	Madvillain, Madvillainy
2006	Danger Doom, The Mouse and the Mask
2007	Spank Rock, YoYoYoYoYo
2008	Aesop Rock, None Shall Pass

Year	Recipient	Nominee
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

Year	Recipient	Nominee
2005	The Dillinger Escape Plan, Miss Machine
2006	Fantômas, Suspended Animation
2007	Melvins, (A) Senile Animal
2008	The Dillinger Escape Plan, Ire Works

Year	Recipient	Nominee
2005	Bad Religion, The Empire Strikes First
2006	Sleater-Kinney, The Woods
2007	CSS, Cansei de Ser Sexy
2008	Gogol Bordello, Super Taranta!

Year	Recipient	Nominees
2005	Arcade Fire, Funeral
2006	Sufjan Stevens, Illinois
2007	Hot Chip, The Warning
2008	Menomena, Friend and Foe

Year	Recipient	Nominees
2005	Fat Wreck Chords, Rock Against Bush, Vol. 2
2006	The Flaming Lips, The Fearless Freaks
2007	Pixies, loudQUIETloud

Year	Recipient	Nominees
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"

Year	Recipient	Nominees
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"

Year	Recipient	Nominees
2008	Justice
2007	Arctic Monkeys
2006	Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
2005	Arcade Fire

Year	Recipient	Nominees
2005	Death Cab for Cutie
2006	Arcade Fire
2007	Broken Social Scene
2008	Arcade Fire

Year	Recipient	Nominees
2005	Jean Grae
2006	Neko Case
2007	Neko Case
2008	St. Vincent

Year	Recipient	Nominees
2005	Tom Waits
2006	Sufjan Stevens
2007	Sufjan Stevens
2008	Andrew Bird