It's 9 O'Clock

And where going to get away from old late night clips with music acts in them
and i sad to tell you there is no new talks in the WGA/AMPTA Strike and it almost the end of week two.

but as promise this is the 1st of what a series of post for the 2008 PLUG music Awards which today the PLUG Cartel reviled the short list in the 29 category in the year that was 2007.

So every week on Thursday from now until the Awards show which will be on march 6th at a brand new club called Terminal 5 in NYC, i be posting the video from the videos from the PLUG nominations

you can vote on all the 29 PLUG category at the PLUG Awards web sight at
http://plugawards.com
Voting will go on between no until February 8th

So tonight Spotlight will be the only one that i did not put on the nominations post early today on this blog and that is

Album Of The Year

And i got to tell there was some good album released this year either pick one up at your local indie music store, at a gig or got a album for next to nothing.

Here are the Nominees for Album of the Year

And the Nominees are:

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)