Idolator
What do you get when you combine the self-congratulatory smugness of an awards show with the insular cabbala of the music blogosphere? Why, you get the PLUG Awards, an annual kudos ceremony for people who need reassurance that Clap Your Hands Say Yeah was, indeed, the best new band of 2006.
The PLUG site is now accepting submissions for next year's festivities, and we say: To hell with the whole shebang. There's no reason in the world for another snob-affirming love-in, especially one with categories like "Music Journalist Of The Year" and the hilariously in-denial "Indie Rock Album of The Year." Are people really so insecure that they need the validation of knowing that all of their peers love Return To Cookie Mountain as much as they do?
So we ask that you don't vote in this lame affair, and instead save your democrat zeal for amislothornot.com. But if you do decide to cast a ballot, make sure to vote for borderline nonsense like we did. Just make sure your gag ideas are funnier.
The PLUG Awards [Ballot]
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Seems like having your favorite band come in last for "Indie Rock Album of The Year" would be the biggest possible win. Hopefully there's just the one vote and the band sees it and totally wants to hang out with you and they like do a VH1 bbq thing at your place next 4th of July only you live in the middle of Brooklyn and the band members all get shot that night and then no one ever hears about them and . . . oh, that's gonna be sooooo sweet. Let me go vote.
Last year's Plug Awards ceremony was an embarrassment and a farce. The "comic relief" was embarrassing, the presenters were all drunk and bored, and everyone who won was either really obvious, incorrectly categorized, or suspiciously tied to World's Fair, the record label group/management company connected to Plug.
A musician who was asked to present, who had no previous knowledge of the awards, said afterwards that it was "the worst thing he had ever been a part of," and that it made him want to stop making music. The "VIP Section" is full of B-list indie-rock hangers-on - the type of crowd where you only see people you know that you don't want to talk to - the milieu of the Plug organizers
What is the point??
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