<![CDATA[The PLUG Awards: Time To Stuff The Ballot - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[The PLUG Awards: Time To Stuff The Ballot - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Mon, 09 Oct 2006 18:23:23 EDT Mon, 09 Oct 2006 18:23:23 EDT http://idolator.com/tunes/plug-awards/the-plug-awards-time-to-stuff-the-ballot-206261.php <![CDATA[The PLUG Awards: Time To Stuff The Ballot]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/plug-awards/the-plug-awards-time-to-stuff-the-ballot-206261.php#c498321 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??

mreasy

]]> 33:206261:c498321 Mon, 09 Oct 2006 18:23:23 EDT <![CDATA[The PLUG Awards: Time To Stuff The Ballot]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/plug-awards/the-plug-awards-time-to-stuff-the-ballot-206261.php#c497804 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.

Tyler Knew and Turk! Wendell Ate Won Too

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