{{Short description|American music award}} {{Use American English|date=March 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2026}} 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=== {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" |- ! Year ! style="width:250px;"|Recipient ! style="width:300px;" class="unsortable"|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'' | |}
===Americana Album of the Year=== {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" |- ! Year ! style="width:250px;"|Recipient ! style="width:300px;" class="unsortable"|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'' | |}
===Avant Album of the Year=== {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" |- ! Year ! style="width:250px;"|Recipient ! style="width:300px;" class="unsortable"|Nominee |- | 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=== {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" |- ! Year ! style="width:250px;"|Recipient ! style="width:300px;" class="unsortable"|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'' | |}
===Electronic/Dance Album of the Year=== {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" |- ! Year ! style="width:250px;"|Recipient ! style="width:300px;" class="unsortable"|Nominee |- | 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=== {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" |- ! Year ! style="width:250px;"|Recipient ! style="width:300px;" class="unsortable"|Nominee |- | 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=== {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" |- ! Year ! style="width:250px;"|Recipient ! style="width:300px;" class="unsortable"|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'' | |}
===Metal Album of the Year=== {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" |- ! Year ! style="width:250px;"|Recipient ! style="width:300px;" class="unsortable"|Nominee |- | 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=== {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" |- ! Year ! style="width:250px;"|Recipient ! style="width:300px;" class="unsortable"|Nominee |- | 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=== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! style="width:250px;"|Recipient ! style="width:300px;" class="unsortable"|Nominees |- | 2005 | Arcade Fire, ''Funeral'' | |- | 2006 | Sufjan Stevens, ''Illinois'' | |- | 2007 | Hot Chip, ''The Warning'' | |- | 2008 | Menomena, ''Friend and Foe'' | |}
===Music DVD of the Year=== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! style="width:250px;"|Recipient ! style="width:300px;" class="unsortable"|Nominees |- | 2005 | Fat Wreck Chords, ''Rock Against Bush, Vol. 2'' | |- | 2006 | The Flaming Lips, ''The Fearless Freaks'' | |- | 2007 | Pixies, ''loudQUIETloud'' | |}
===Music Video of the Year=== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! style="width:250px;"|Recipient ! style="width:300px;" class="unsortable"|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" | |}
===Song of the Year=== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! style="width:250px;"|Recipient ! style="width:300px;" class="unsortable"|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" | |}
===Artist of the Year=== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! style="width:250px;"|Recipient ! style="width:300px;" class="unsortable"|Nominees |- | 2005 | Interpol | |- | 2006 | Bright Eyes | |- | 2007 | J Dilla | |- | 2008 | Radiohead | |}
===New Artist of the Year=== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! style="width:250px;"|Recipient ! style="width:300px;" class="unsortable"|Nominees |- | 2008 | Justice | |- | 2007 | Arctic Monkeys | |- | 2006 | Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | |- | 2005 | Arcade Fire | |}
===Live Act of the Year=== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! style="width:250px;"|Recipient ! style="width:300px;" class="unsortable"|Nominees |- | 2005 | Death Cab for Cutie | |- | 2006 | Arcade Fire | |- | 2007 | Broken Social Scene | |- | 2008 | Arcade Fire | |}
===Female Artist of the Year=== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! style="width:250px;"|Recipient ! style="width:300px;" class="unsortable"|Nominees |- | 2005 | Jean Grae | |- | 2006 | Neko Case | |- | 2007 | Neko Case | |- | 2008 | St. Vincent | |}
===Male Artist of the Year=== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! style="width:250px;"|Recipient ! style="width:300px;" class="unsortable"|Nominees |- | 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
== External links == * {{Official website| PlugAwards.com}}{{dead link| date= November 2013}}
Category:American music awards Category:Awards established in 2001 Category:Indie music