The 2007 PLUG Award nominees have been announced. Sirius Blog Radio is once again up for best specialty radio show, as are our cohorts at An Aquarium Drunkard, Brooklyn Vegan, Gorilla Vs. Bear and My Old Kentucky Blog for Best Music Blog. We were not nominated. Oh well.

The winners will be announced at the PLUG Awards Ceremony and Concert on March 6, 2008 at Terminal 5 in New York City.

Here's the album of the year nominees........

ALBUM OF THE YEAR NOMINEES
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)

DOWNLOAD: Spoon - "Black Like Me"

Manchester United bested Chelsea by two points for the Premier League title.

Today, the two rivals meet again in Moscow for the Champions League final. The game happens at 2pm on ESPN2 and Sirius Radio..........

A total solar eclipse began at about 5:21 a.m. ET, but it was not viewable for most of America. Still, the pictures from around the world are so fucking cool. Earth, it's pretty awesome.....

On Friday, 2008 August 01, a total eclipse of the Sun is visible from within a narrow corridor that traverses half the Earth. The path of the Moon's umbral shadow begins in Canada and extends across northern Greenland, the Arctic, central Russia, Mongolia, and China. A partial eclipse is seen within the much broader path of the Moon's penumbral shadow, which includes northeastern North America, most of Europe and Asia.

Think about just how big a chunk of ice this is and how scary the repercussions for future generations may be......

A chunk of ice shelf nearly the size of Manhattan has broken away from Ellesmere Island in Canada's northern Arctic, another dramatic indication of how warmer temperatures are changing the polar frontier, scientists said last week.

Derek Mueller, an Arctic ice shelf specialist at Trent University in Ontario, said the 4,500-year-old Markham Ice Shelf separated in early August and the 19-square-mile shelf is now adrift in the Arctic Ocean.