2008 Plug Awards

The ballots for the 2008 Plug Independent Music Awards are up. The "album of the year" nominess are:

Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (Merge) (MySpace)
Band Of Horses - Cease To Begin (Sub Pop) (MySpace)
Battles - Mirrored (Warp) (MySpace)
Beirut - The Flying Club Cup (Ba Da Bing) (MySpace)
El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead (Definitive Jux) (MySpace)
Justice - † (Downtown / Vice / Ed Banger)
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? (Polyvinyl) (MySpace)
Panda Bear - Person Pitch (Paw Tracks)
Radiohead - In Rainbows (self-released)
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights (Daptone) (MySpace)
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Merge) (MySpace)
The National - Boxer (Beggars Banquet) (MySpace)

There are a ton of other categories, including "music festival of the year," and the lists are impressive. My vote would have to be for Bonnaroo since that's the only one on the list I went to. Incidentally, dates for the 7th Annual Bonnaroo were just annouced for June 12-15, 2008.