youtube clip – INDIE ROCK CAFE

The above promo video for the 2008 Plug Awards held at Terminal 5 in New York City on Friday night was produced by Dell Lounge, a website that broadcast the award ceremonies live.

While there is no official Dell Lounge video of the ceremonies out yet, you can view a segment of the live cast via a hypercam streaming recorder, along with a clip of St. Vincent performing at the awards show, below.

The winners of the 2008 PLUG Awards include the best indie rock album of the year Strawberry Jam by Animal Collective and the overall album of the year Neon Bible by Arcade Fire.

Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
Animal Collective – Fireworks

Justice was named the best new artist, and the male and female artist of the year awards went to Andrew Bird and Annie Clark of St. Vincent, respectively.

Justice – D.A.N.C.E.
Andrew Bird – Heretics
St. Vincent – These Days (J. Brown)

Here are some of the other winners and nominees in various categories of the 2008 Plug Awards.

Americana Album of the Year – Iron & Wine – The Shepherd’s Dog
Metal Album of the Year – The Dillinger Escape Plan – Ire Works
Hip-Hop Album of the Year – Aesop Rock – None Shall Pass
Punk Album of the Year – Gogol Bordello – Super Taranta!
Electronic/Dance Album of the Year – Justice – †
DJ Album of the Year – Hot Chip – DJ-Kicks
Avant Album of the Year – Liars – Liars

Listen to 30-second clips of all the nominees for all the categories.

The following YouTube clip features Annie Clarke and St. Vincent, plus Dizzee Rascal and Jose Gonzalez

Other 2008 nominees for Best Indie Rock Album of the Year:

Arcade Fire – Neon Bible (Merge)
Band Of Horses – Cease To Begin (Sub Pop)
Battles – Mirrored (Warp)
Deerhunter – Cryptograms (Kranky)
Les Savy Fav – Let’s Stay Friends (Frenchkiss)
Of Montreal – Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? (Polyvinyl)
Okkervil River – The Stage Names (Jagjaguwar)
Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Merge)
Sunset Rubdown – Random Spirit Lover (Jagjaguar)
The National – Boxer (Beggars Banquet)
The New Pornographers – Challengers (Matador)

Not included but should have been: Arctic Monkeys’ Favourite Worst Nightmare, Editors’ An End Has A Start, etc.

Winner and nominees for the Best Album (overall) of the 2008:

Arcade Fire – Neon Bible (Merge)
WinnerBand 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)

Best New Artist of the Year winner and nominees:

Bat For Lashes
Battles
Dan Deacon
Deerhunter
Justice -Winner
Los Campesinos!
No Age
Sea Wolf
St. Vincent
Vampire Weekend
White Rabbits
Yeasayer

Music website winner and nominees for 2008:

Allmusic
Cokemachine Glow
The Daily Swarm
Daytrotter
Elbo.ws
The Hype Machine
MySpace
NME.com
Paper Thin Walls
Pitchfork Media
Prefix
Stylus

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Indie music fans in south Florida are already arriving in south Florida for this weekend’s Langerado Festival.

The 2008 Langerado Festival has a hot lineup for a relatively little-known music fest (compared to Lollapalooza, Coachella and Bonnaroo). During the next few days, IRC will highlight some of the headlining aritsts for Langerado 2008, including links and embeds of videos from the 08 festival performances as soon as they are available.

Today’s featured Langerado artist is Sound Tribe Sector 9 (STS9). While they haven’t released a new album in nearly three years (Artifact, 2005), the band has toured so much in recent years that fresh material doesn’t seem to matter.

STS9, the dub-happy jam band from Georgia that has had a loyal following for a decade now, but only really broke through with Artifact (and relentless concerts and fest appearances) will take the stage on Friday, March 7, 2008 from 1 am to 4am (I double-checked it and that’s what the schedule says).

The website iClips.net will stream the STS9 set and many other sets from all four days of the festival according to its website. So, you can bet there will be updates about that as more information and times come in. If you can’t make it to Langerado, you might be able to get a lot closer with the continued advances in Internet technology!

In the meantime, here’s a YouTube clip of STS9 performing “Aimlessly” at Langerado 2007:

Here’s a popular video of STS9’s David Phipps using the DIY 8×16 monome controller of “Be Nice”. (monome.org).

MP3 – Sound Tribe Sector 9 – Be Nice

For anyone who was, or was not, at Red Rocks 2007 in Colorado, here’s a great video performance that represents the band at its best performing a six-minute jam session.

The band also played at ACL Fest 2007 (in searing heat and dripping humidity) – here’s a short, but excellent quality video of the band jamming at ACL 07 (not sure what the tune is though; some of STS9 music is improvised or spin-offs of songs in their catalog – which is surprisingly small).

Stay tuned to IRC for artist profiles, YouTube video performances from Langerado 2008, MP3s, blog reviews, photo galleries and more.

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2008 PLUG Awards Go To Arcade Fire, Animal Collective, Iron & Wine and Justice

Watch STS9, Gov’t Mule, REM, Modest Mouse, Built to Spill and Others at Langerado Festival