The Listen

The Plug Awards were held last night at Terminal 5 in NYC and hosted by Patton Oswalt with peformances by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, St. Vincent, Dizzee Rascal, and Jose Gonzalez just to name a few.

Here’s a little blurb about what the Plug Awards are all about:

“Founded in 2001, with its first annual awards ceremony in 2004, the PLUG Independent Music Awards embrace and honor the independent music community and its fans who now represent a $3 billion industry with over 30% of the U.S. music market, and growing. It has become a symbol of a vast community coming together to recognize their own including a broad spectrum of musicians, record labels, writers, DJs, websites, bloggers, artists, filmmakers, managers, indie retailers and most importantly fans who gather together each year to celebrate the artists who live and flourish outside the mainstream.”

In addition, the Plug Awards are voted on by the fan via www.plugawards.com.

Here are a list of last night’s winners:

Album Of The Year
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (Merge)

New Artist Of The Year
Justice

Female Artist Of The Year
Annie Clark ( St. Vincent )

Male Artist Of The Year
Andrew Bird

Indie Rock Album Of The Year
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam (Domino)

Click here for the full list of nominees and winners in their 29 categories.