The 2007 PLUG Award nominees have been announced. Sirius Blog Radio is once again up for best specialty radio show, as are our cohorts at An Aquarium Drunkard, Brooklyn Vegan, Gorilla Vs. Bear and My Old Kentucky Blog for Best Music Blog. We were not nominated. Oh well.

The winners will be announced at the PLUG Awards Ceremony and Concert on March 6, 2008 at Terminal 5 in New York City.

Here's the album of the year nominees........

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

DOWNLOAD: Spoon - "Black Like Me"