Plug Awards Celebrate Indies’ Best

The annual Plug music award nominations are out.  Celebrating almost every permeation of the Indy alternative music scene, the nominations include such current "it" artists as Antony And The Johnsons, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, and Devendra Banhart.  But for industry junkies like Hypebot it’s the nominations for media and record labels that us excited. And while your checking out the list ask yourself, "How many of these have I ever heard of?" and "What does that say about me?".

Record Label Of The Year
Anti-/Epitaph 
Barsuk
Beggars Group 
Definitive Jux
Domino
Matador
Merge 
Saddle Creek   
Secretly Canadian      
Sub Pop
Touch And Go   
Warp 

Music Web Site
3hive.com    
allmusic.com 
brooklynvegan.com    
dustedmagazine.com   
insound.com   
largeheartedboy.com   
music.for-robots.com 
myspace.com   
nme.com
pitchforkmedia.com   
stereogum.com
stylusmagazine.com   

Magazine Of The Year
Arthur
CMJ New Music Monthly
Decibel
Fader
Filter
Harp 
Magnet
Paste
Under The Radar
URB   
Vice 
XLR8R

Zine Of The Year
‘Sup 
Beautiful Decay
Big Takeover 
Chord
Chunklet      
Copper Press 
Devil In The Woods   
Maximumrocknroll      
Punk Planet   
Rockpile      
Rocktober    
Wax Poetics   

Read the full list of Plug nominees here….and schedule a little time to learn more about who influences the indy music scene by visting and reading about  these "best of the best".