SANTA MONICA, CA, December 3, 2007 - Nominees have been announced for the PLUG 2008 Independent Music Awards with the music video for Menomena "Rotten Hell" (Barsuk) snagging a nod.

Directed by Warren Julius, and edited by Nick Lofting of Union, the clip offers what is perhaps the most elegant and stylized food fight in the history of cinema. Think Animal House meets Up The Academy meets The Untouchables meets The Mission meets...well you get the idea.

Winners will be announced at the offical awards ceremony, to be held March 6 in NYC.

Lofting's recent work includes Nike "Big Man" (directed by Vogel.Villar-Rios), EQCA "Garden Wedding" (directed by Happy) and Toyota "Asphalt Birth" (directed by Stylewar). 

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Each year, PLUG is proud to bring the independent music community together - fans and biz alike - to recognize the best music and media it has to offer. So congratulations to the Nominees! Now it's time to decide the winners. So cast your votes below!

PLUG is about the independent music community coming together to recognize our own. We’re fans from every walk of the music world who gather each year to recognize the artists who live and flourish in the margins of mainstream culture. While many of the artists on the PLUG ballot are well known to fans steeped in the independent music world, most are nowhere near the household names they deserve to be.

How does it work? Each fall, we gather the PLUG Cartel (advisory board of 250-300 people who select the nominees), and after collecting/tallying the votes, the official nominees are announced in the form of an online ballot. Fans from around the world then logon to vote the winners who are announced at the PLUG Independent Music Awards Ceremony and Concert in March.