If you don't know about PLUG, here's an overview from their site:

PLUG is a collection of music lovers - writers, DJs, webmasters, bloggers, artists, filmmakers, managers, indie retailers, and most importantly fans - who gather together each year to celebrate the artists who live and flourish in the margins.

The PLUG Independent Music Awards is about the independent community coming together to recognize its own and about the bands we all devote our lives and careers to champion. For us fans, it ain't about the scans or the scrilla, it's about the music. It's about the artists who inspire and the music that disrupts the artistic and corporate mediocrity that dominates our culture.

Winners for 2006:

Album: Sufjan Stevens - Illinois (Asthmatic Kitty)
Artist: Bright Eyes
New Artist: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Song: Bright Eyes - "When The President Talks To God" (Saddle Creek)
Female Artist: NekoCase
Male Artist: Sufjan Stevens
Hip-Hop Album: Dangerdoom - The Mouse And The Mask (Adult Swim/Epitaph)
Punk Album: Sleater-Kinney - The Woods (Sub Pop)
Metal Album: Fantômas - Suspended Animation (Ipecac)
Indie Rock Album: Bloc Party - Silent Alarm (Vice)

For a complete list of winners as well as all the nominees, got here.

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