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# Plug Awards Celebrate Indies’ Best
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/plug_awards_cel/
- Published: 2005-12-06T16:26:12.000Z
- Updated: 2005-12-06T16:26:12.000Z
- Description: 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,. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2005/12/plug_awards_cel.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Indie Music, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:10

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?".

[![Plug_1](https://hypebot.typepad.com/hypebot/images/plug_1.jpg "Plug_1")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/plug%5F1.jpg&ref=hypebot.com)

**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

[![Myspace_9](https://hypebot.typepad.com/hypebot/images/myspace_9.gif "Myspace_9")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/myspace%5F9.gif&ref=hypebot.com)

**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](http://www.plugawards.com/general%5Fvote.php?ref=hypebot.com)….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".