2008 PLUG Award Winners
Unlike last year's PLUG Awards -- hosted by David Cross, performances by Malkmus and Tokyo Police Club, featuring iPod battles and other weirdness -- we couldn't make the presentation ceremony this year. So we missed out on Patton Oswalt, Nick Cave, the Forms, Dizzee, St. Vincent, etc. We also missed out on hearing our name as winner of Best Music Blog. That's all thanks to you guys so -- thanks, you guys! It'll go on the mantle right next to the family portrait and the shrinkwrapped K-Fed CD. Other big winners at the indie People's Choice Awards included Arcade Fire (Best Album, Best Live Act), Animal Collective (Best Indie Album), the National (Best Song), Justice (Best New Artist), St. Vincent (Best Female Artist), Andrew Bird (Best Male Artist), Pitchfork (Best Music Website), and Radiohead (Artist of the Year). We've got the full list of winners.
UPDATE: And also we've got stellar vid of Nick Cave!
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Justice
FEMALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR
St. Vincent
MALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Andrew Bird
INDIE ROCK ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
AMERICANA ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
METAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
HIP-HOP ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
PUNK ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta!
ELECTRONIC/DANCE ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Justice - †
DJ ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Hot Chip - DJ Kicks
AVANT ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Liars - Liars
ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Radiohead
SONG OF THE YEAR
The National - "Fake Empire"
LIVE ACT OF THE YEAR
Arcade Fire
MUSIC VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Battles - "Atlas"
ALBUM ART PACKAGING OF THE YEAR
Menomena - Friend And Foe
RECORD LABEL OF THE YEAR
Merge
LIVE MUSIC VENUE OF THE YEAR
Bowery Ballroom
MUSIC FESTIVAL OF THE YEAR
Coachella
MUSIC WEBSITE OF THE YEAR
Pitchfork Media
MUSIC BLOG OF THE YEAR
Stereogum
MAGAZINE OF THE YEAR
Paste
ONLINE RADIO STATION OF THE YEAR
KCRW
RECORD STORE OF THE YEAR
Other Music
ZINE OF THE YEAR
Wax Poetics
ONLINE RECORD STORE OF THE YEAR
iTunes
COLLEGE/NON-COMM RADIO STATION OF THE YEAR
KEXP
SPECIALTY SHOW OF THE YEAR
Sirius: Left Of Center - Blog Radio
And here's some awesmoe video of Nick Cave shot by Abbey Braden (who else?):
Posted at 11:46 AM
Tags: Nick Cave
Thank you for being such a delightful blog.
Posted by: Tynan at March 7, 2008 11:54 AM | ReplyScore = 0
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Eugene Hutz!
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Yay stereogum!
Posted by: bookwibble at March 7, 2008 1:12 PM | ReplyScore = 0
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