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PLUG Independent Music Awards, the Glossary

The PLUG Independent Music Awards, or just PLUG Awards, began in 2001 as a "cartel" of music lovers ranging from DJs and managers to indie retailers and fans.^[1]

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Aesop Rock

Ian Matthias Bavitz (born June 5, 1976), better known by his stage name Aesop Rock, is an American rapper and producer from Long Island, New York.

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Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American multinational technology company, engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.

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Amoeba Music

Amoeba Music is an American independent music store chain with locations in Berkeley, San Francisco, and Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.

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Andrew Bird

Andrew Wegman Bird (born July 11, 1973) is an American indie rock multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter.

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Animal Collective

Animal Collective is an American experimental pop band formed in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Antics (album)

Antics is the second studio album by American rock band Interpol, released on September 27, 2004, by Matador Records.

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Arcade Fire

Arcade Fire is a Canadian indie rock band from Montreal, Quebec, consisting of husband and wife Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, alongside Richard Reed Parry, Tim Kingsbury and Jeremy Gara.

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Arctic Monkeys

Arctic Monkeys are an English rock band formed in Sheffield in 2002.

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Atlas (Battles song)

"Atlas" is a song by the American experimental rock band Battles.

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Bad Religion

Bad Religion is an American punk rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1980.

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Band of Horses

Band of Horses is an American rock band formed in 2004 in Seattle, Washington.

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Battles (band)

Battles is an American experimental rock group, founded in 2002 in New York City by Ian Williams (formerly of Don Caballero and Storm & Stress).

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Before the Dawn Heals Us

Before the Dawn Heals Us is the third studio album by the French electronic group M83, released in January 2005 to positive reviews.

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Berkeley, California

Berkeley is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States.

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Bloc Party

Bloc Party are an English rock band that was formed in London in 1999 by co-founders Kele Okereke (lead vocals, rhythm guitar, piano, sampler) and Russell Lissack (lead guitar, synthesizers).

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Bowery Ballroom

The Bowery Ballroom is a New York City live music venue located at 6 Delancey Street in Manhattan's Bowery neighborhood.

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Boy from School

"Boy from School" (album version titled "And I Was a Boy from School") is a song by the English indietronica band Hot Chip.

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Bright Eyes (band)

Bright Eyes is an American indie rock band founded by singer-songwriter and guitarist Conor Oberst.

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Broken Social Scene is a Canadian indie rock band and musical collective including as few as six and as many as nineteen members, formed by Kevin Drew (vocals, guitar) and Brendan Canning (vocals, bass) in 1999.

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BrooklynVegan

BrooklynVegan is an American online music magazine founded in 2004 by David Levine.

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Calexico (band)

Calexico is an American indie rock band based in Tucson, Arizona.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Cansei de Ser Sexy

Cansei de Ser Sexy is the first full-length album by Brazilian indie rock band CSS.

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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah is an indie rock band active since the early 2000s in and out of Philadelphia.

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Coachella

Coachella (officially called the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and sometimes known as Coachella Festival) is an annual music and arts festival held at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, in the Coachella Valley in the Colorado Desert.

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Cross (Justice album)

Cross (stylized as †; titled Justice on digital platforms) is the debut studio album by French electronic music duo Justice, first released on 11 June 2007 through Ed Banger Records and Because Music.

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CSS (band)

CSS (an initialism of Cansei de Ser Sexy) (English lit. " tired of being sexy") is a Brazilian rock band from São Paulo.

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Danger Doom

Danger Doom was an American hip hop supergroup consisting of Danger Mouse and MF DOOM.

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Danger Mouse (musician)

Brian Joseph Burton (born July 29, 1977), known professionally as Danger Mouse, is an American musician and record producer.

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Danielson

Danielson is an American rock band from Clarksboro, New Jersey, that plays indie pop gospel music.

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David Dye (broadcaster)

David Dye is an American radio broadcaster who hosted WXPN-FM's nationally syndicated music show World Cafe from 1991 to 2017.

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Death Cab for Cutie

Death Cab for Cutie (commonly abbreviated to DCFC or Death Cab) is an American rock band formed in Bellingham, Washington, in 1997.

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Definitive Jux

Definitive Jux was a record label based in New York City.

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Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes is the 2004 debut album by the American art rock band TV on the Radio.

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Disc jockey

A disc jockey, more commonly abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays recorded music for an audience.

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DJ Shadow

Joshua Paul Davis (born June 29, 1972), better known by his stage name DJ Shadow, is an American DJ and record producer.

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DJ-Kicks: Hot Chip

DJ-Kicks: Hot Chip is a DJ mix album, mixed by Hot Chip.

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Eagles of Death Metal is an American rock band from Palm Desert, California, formed in 1998.

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Everything All the Time

Everything All the Time is the debut album of indie rock band Band of Horses and was released on March 21, 2006, on Sub Pop Records.

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Fake Empire

"Fake Empire" is a song by Brooklyn-based indie rock band The National from their fourth studio album, Boxer.

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Fantômas (band)

Fantômas is an American heavy metal supergroup formed in 1998 in California.

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Fat Wreck Chords

Fat Wreck Chords (pronounced "Fat Records") is an independent record label based in San Francisco focused on punk rock.

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Feels (Animal Collective album)

Feels is the sixth studio album by American experimental pop band Animal Collective, released on October 18, 2005 by FatCat Records.

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Friend and Foe

Friend and Foe is the third release from the Portland, Oregon-based band Menomena.

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Funeral (Arcade Fire album)

Funeral is the debut studio album by Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire, released on September 14, 2004 by Merge Records.

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Girl Talk (musician)

Gregg Michael Gillis (born October 26, 1981), known by the stage name Girl Talk, is an American disc jockey who specializes in mash-ups and digital sampling.

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Gogol Bordello

Gogol Bordello is an American punk rock band from the Lower East Side of Manhattan, formed in 1999 by musicians from all over the world and known for theatrical stage shows and persistent touring.

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Gossip (band)

Gossip (or The Gossip) is an American indie rock band formed in Searcy, Arkansas.

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Heavy Blinkers

The Heavy Blinkers were a Canadian orchestrated-pop music group, from Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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Hollywood, Los Angeles

Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles County, California, mostly within the city of Los Angeles.

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Hot Chip

Hot Chip is an English synthpop band formed in London in 2000.

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I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass

I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass is the eleventh full-length album by American indie rock band Yo La Tengo, released on September 12, 2006 by record label Matador.

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I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor

"I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor" is a song by English rock band Arctic Monkeys released on 17 October 2005, through Domino Recording Company.

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I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness

I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness is a post-punk revival band from Austin, Texas.

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I Want You So Hard (Boy's Bad News)

"I Want You So Hard (Boy's Bad News)" is the first single from the Eagles of Death Metal's second studio album Death By Sexy.

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Illinois (Sufjan Stevens album)

Illinois (styled Sufjan Stevens Invites You to: Come on Feel the Illinoise on the cover; sometimes spelled as Illinoise) is a 2005 concept album by American singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens.

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In the Reins

In the Reins is a joint EP by Calexico and Iron & Wine, released by Overcoat Recordings on September 13, 2005.

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Independent music

Independent music (also commonly known as indie music, or simply indie) is a broad style of music characterized by creative freedoms, low-budgets, and a do-it-yourself approach to music creation, which originated from the liberties afforded by independent record labels.

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Interpol (band)

Interpol is an American rock band from Manhattan, New York.

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Ire Works

Ire Works is the third studio album by American band the Dillinger Escape Plan.

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Iron & Wine

Samuel Ervin Beam (born July 26, 1974), better known by his stage name Iron & Wine, is an American singer-songwriter.

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ITunes

iTunes was a media player, media library, mobile device management utility developed by Apple.

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J Dilla

James Dewitt Yancey (February 7, 1974 – February 10, 2006), better known by the stage names J Dilla and Jay Dee, was an American record producer and rapper.

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Jean Grae

Tsidi Ibrahim (born November 26, 1976), known professionally as Jean Grae (formerly What? What?), is an American rapper.

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Jenny Lewis

Jennifer Diane Lewis (born January 8, 1976) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress.

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Justice (band)

Justice is a French electronic music duo consisting of Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay.

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KCRW

KCRW (89.9 MHz FM) is a National Public Radio member station broadcasting from the campus of Santa Monica College in Santa Monica, California, where the station is licensed.

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KDLD

KDLD is a commercial FM radio station in Santa Monica, California, broadcasting to the Greater Los Angeles area on 103.1 MHz.

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KEXP-FM

KEXP-FM (90.3 FM) is a non-commercial radio station licensed to Seattle, Washington, United States, specializing in alternative and indie rock programmed by its disc jockeys for the Seattle metropolitan area.

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Lazy Eye (Silversun Pickups song)

"Lazy Eye" is the first single from Silversun Pickups' debut album Carnavas, written by lead singer and guitarist Brian Aubert.

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Let's Make Love and Listen to Death from Above

"Let's Make Love and Listen to Death from Above" is the first international single by Brazilian band CSS, taken from their debut studio album, Cansei de Ser Sexy.

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Liars (band)

Liars is an Australian-American experimental rock band formed in Brooklyn, New York, in 2000.

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Liars (Liars album)

Liars is the fourth studio album by the band Liars, released on August 28, 2007.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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M83 (band)

M83 are a French electronic music group formed in Antibes in 1999.

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Madvillain

Madvillain was an American hip hop supergroup formed in 2002, consisting of rapper MF Doom and producer Madlib.

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Madvillainy

Madvillainy is the only studio album by American hip hop duo Madvillain, consisting of British-American rapper MF Doom and American record producer Madlib.

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Melvins

Melvins (sometimes the Melvins) are an American rock band formed in 1983 in Montesano, Washington.

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Menomena

Menomena is an indie rock band from Portland, Oregon, United States, made up of Justin Harris and Danny Seim.

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Merge Records

Merge Records is an independent record label based in Durham, North Carolina.

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Midlake

Midlake is an American folk rock band from Denton, Texas, formed in 1999.

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Miss Machine

Miss Machine is the second studio album by American mathcore band The Dillinger Escape Plan released in July 2004 through Relapse Records.

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Mouse on Mars

Mouse on Mars is a German electronic music duo formed in 1993 by Jan St.

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Myspace

Myspace (formerly stylized as MySpace; also myspace and sometimes my␣, with an elongated open box symbol) is a social networking service based in the United States.

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Neko Case

Neko Richelle Case (born September 8, 1970) is an American singer-songwriter and member of the Canadian indie rock group the New Pornographers.

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Neon Bible

Neon Bible is the second studio album by Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Night Ripper

Night Ripper is the third studio album by American musician Gregg Gillis, released under his stage name Girl Talk on May 9, 2006 by Illegal Art.

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None Shall Pass

None Shall Pass is the fifth studio album by American hip hop artist Aesop Rock.

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Other Music

Other Music was a music retail store that sold CDs, records and cassettes online and at their brick-and-mortar location in the Noho neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.

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Our Endless Numbered Days

Our Endless Numbered Days is the second full-length album from Iron & Wine.

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Over and Over (Hot Chip song)

"Over and Over" is the first single from English synthpop band Hot Chip's second studio album, The Warning.

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Paste (magazine)

Paste is an American monthly music and entertainment digital magazine, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with studios in Atlanta and Manhattan, and owned by Paste Media Group.

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Peeping Tom (band)

Peeping Tom were an American rock band led by Mike Patton.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch), is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.

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Peter Bjorn and John

Peter Bjorn and John are a Swedish indie pop/rock band formed in Stockholm in 1999, named after the first names of the band's members: Peter Morén (vocals, guitar, harmonica), Björn Yttling (bass, keyboards, vocals) and John Eriksson, known in his solo work as Hortlax Cobra (drums, percussion, vocals).

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.

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Pitchfork (website)

Pitchfork (formerly Pitchfork Media) is an American online music publication founded in 1996 by Ryan Schreiber in Minneapolis.

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Pixies (band)

The Pixies are an American alternative rock band from Boston, Massachusetts formed in 1986 by Black Francis (vocals, rhythm guitar, songwriter), Joey Santiago (lead guitar), Kim Deal (bass, vocals) and David Lovering (drums).

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Rabbit Fur Coat

Rabbit Fur Coat is an album in collaboration by Jenny Lewis of Rilo Kiley, with The Watson Twins.

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Radical Connector

Radical Connector is a studio album by German electronica duo Mouse on Mars.

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Radiohead

Radiohead are an English rock band formed in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, in 1985.

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RJD2

Ramble Jon Krohn (born May 27, 1976), better known by his stage name RJD2, is an American musician and record producer based in Columbus, Ohio.

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Rock Against Bush, Vol. 2

Rock Against Bush, Vol.

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Santa Monica, California

Santa Monica (Saint Monica; Spanish: Santa Mónica) is a city in Los Angeles County, situated along Santa Monica Bay on California's South Coast.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States.

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Silent Alarm

Silent Alarm is the debut studio album by English rock band Bloc Party.

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Silversun Pickups

Silversun Pickups is an American alternative rock band from Los Angeles that was formed in 2000.

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Since We Last Spoke

Since We Last Spoke is the second studio album by American musician RJD2.

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Sirius Satellite Radio

Sirius Satellite Radio was a satellite radio (SDARS) and online radio service operating in North America, owned by Sirius XM Holdings.

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Sixteen Military Wives

"Sixteen Military Wives", sometimes referred to as "16 by 32", is a single released by The Decemberists from their third album, Picaresque.

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Sleater-Kinney

Sleater-Kinney is an American rock band that formed in Olympia, Washington, in 1994.

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South by Southwest

South by Southwest (SXSW) is an annual conglomeration of parallel film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences organized jointly that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas.

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Spank Rock

Naeem Juwan Hanks, better known by his stage name Spank Rock, is an American rapper and songwriter from Baltimore.

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St. Vincent (musician)

Anne Erin Clark (born September 28, 1982), known professionally as St.

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Standing in the Way of Control (song)

"Standing in the Way of Control" is a single by American indie rock band Gossip from the album of the same name.

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Stereogum

Stereogum is a daily Internet publication that focuses on music news, reviews, interviews, and commentary.

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Strawberry Jam

Strawberry Jam is the seventh studio album by American experimental pop band Animal Collective.

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Sub Pop

Sub Pop is a record label founded in 1986 by Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman.

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Sufjan Stevens

Sufjan Stevens (born July 1, 1975) is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.

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Super Taranta!

Super Taranta! is the fourth album by Gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello.

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Suspended Animation (Fantômas album)

Suspended Animation is the fourth studio album by American supergroup Fantômas.

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The Air Force

The Air Force is the fifth studio album by Xiu Xiu.

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The Coup

The Coup is an American hip hop band from Oakland, California.

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The Decemberists

The Decemberists are an American indie rock band from Portland, Oregon, formed in 2000.

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The Dillinger Escape Plan

The Dillinger Escape Plan is an American metalcore band.

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The Empire Strikes First

The Empire Strikes First is the thirteenth studio album by American punk rock band Bad Religion, released on June 8, 2004.

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The Eraser

The Eraser is the debut solo album by the English musician Thom Yorke, released on 10 July 2006 through XL Recordings.

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The Fearless Freaks

Fearless Freaks is a 2005 documentary directed by Bradley Beesley and edited by JoLynn Garnes, chronicling the alternative rock band The Flaming Lips.

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The Flaming Lips

The Flaming Lips are an American psychedelic rock band formed in 1983 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

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The Funeral (Band of Horses song)

"The Funeral" is a song by the American rock band Band of Horses, taken from their debut studio album, Everything All the Time (2006).

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The Knife

The Knife were a Swedish electronic music duo from Gothenburg, formed in 1999.

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The Mouse and the Mask

The Mouse and the Mask is the only studio album by Danger Doom, a collaboration between the hip hop artists Danger Mouse and MF Doom.

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The National (band)

The National is an American rock band from Cincinnati, Ohio, formed in Brooklyn, New York City, in 1999.

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The Pipettes

The Pipettes were an English indie pop girl group formed in 2003 in Brighton by Robert "Monster Bobby" Barry.

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The Shepherd's Dog

The Shepherd's Dog is the third full-length studio album by Iron & Wine, released on September 25, 2007.

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The Warning (Hot Chip album)

The Warning is the second studio album by British band Hot Chip.

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The Watson Twins

The Watson Twins are an Americana band based in Nashville, TN formed by identical twin sisters Chandra and Leigh Watson.

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The Wire (magazine)

The Wire (or simply Wire) is a British music magazine publishing out of London, which has been issued monthly in print since 1982.

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The Woods (album)

The Woods is the seventh studio album by American rock band Sleater-Kinney.

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They Were Wrong, So We Drowned

They Were Wrong, So We Drowned is the second album by noise rock band Liars, released in 2004.

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Thom Yorke

Thomas Edward Yorke (born 7 October 1968) is an English musician who is the main vocalist and songwriter of the rock band Radiohead.

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Tokyo Police Club

Tokyo Police Club is an indie rock band from Newmarket, Ontario, Canada.

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Tom Waits

Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American musician, composer, songwriter and actor.

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TV on the Radio

TV on the Radio (TVOTR) is an American rock band from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2001.

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Victoria Bergsman

Victoria Bergsman (born 4 May 1977) is a Swedish songwriter, musician, and vocalist best known as singer of the indie pop band The Concretes from 1995 to 2006.

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Vitalic

Pascal Arbez-Nicolas (born 18 May 1976), better known by his stage name Vitalic, is a French electronic music producer.

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Washington (state)

Washington, officially the State of Washington, is the westernmost state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Wax Poetics

Wax Poetics is a global music platform for music collectors, with its roots as a music magazine dedicated to vintage and contemporary jazz, funk, soul, Latin, hip-hop, reggae, blues, and R&B in the crate-digger tradition; the name of the magazine is itself an allusion to vinyl records.

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"We Share Our Mothers' Health" is a song by Swedish electronic music duo The Knife from their third studio album, Silent Shout (2006).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLUG_Independent_Music_Awards

Also known as PLUG Awards, Plug Award.

, Hot Chip, I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass, I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor, I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness, I Want You So Hard (Boy's Bad News), Illinois (Sufjan Stevens album), In the Reins, Independent music, Interpol (band), Ire Works, Iron & Wine, ITunes, J Dilla, Jean Grae, Jenny Lewis, Justice (band), KCRW, KDLD, KEXP-FM, Lazy Eye (Silversun Pickups song), Let's Make Love and Listen to Death from Above, Liars (band), Liars (Liars album), Los Angeles, M83 (band), Madvillain, Madvillainy, Melvins, Menomena, Merge Records, Midlake, Miss Machine, Mouse on Mars, Myspace, Neko Case, Neon Bible, New York City, Night Ripper, None Shall Pass, Other Music, Our Endless Numbered Days, Over and Over (Hot Chip song), Paste (magazine), Peeping Tom (band), Pennsylvania, Peter Bjorn and John, Philadelphia, Pitchfork (website), Pixies (band), Rabbit Fur Coat, Radical Connector, Radiohead, RJD2, Rock Against Bush, Vol. 2, Santa Monica, California, Seattle, Silent Alarm, Silversun Pickups, Since We Last Spoke, Sirius Satellite Radio, Sixteen Military Wives, Sleater-Kinney, South by Southwest, Spank Rock, St. Vincent (musician), Standing in the Way of Control (song), Stereogum, Strawberry Jam, Sub Pop, Sufjan Stevens, Super Taranta!, Suspended Animation (Fantômas album), The Air Force, The Coup, The Decemberists, The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Empire Strikes First, The Eraser, The Fearless Freaks, The Flaming Lips, The Funeral (Band of Horses song), The Knife, The Mouse and the Mask, The National (band), The Pipettes, The Shepherd's Dog, The Warning (Hot Chip album), The Watson Twins, The Wire (magazine), The Woods (album), They Were Wrong, So We Drowned, Thom Yorke, Tokyo Police Club, Tom Waits, TV on the Radio, Victoria Bergsman, Vitalic, Washington (state), Wax Poetics, We Share Our Mothers' Health, Wolf Parade, WOXY.com, WXPN, Xiu Xiu, Yo La Tengo, Young Folks, Your Kisses Are Wasted on Me, YoYoYoYoYo, (A) Senile Animal.

PLUG Independent Music Awards, the Glossary

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