# Shortlist Music Prize Longlist Nominees Include Beck, Belle and Sebastian, Cat Power

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- Published: 2007-04-05T03:32:00-04:00
- Author: Max Hammer

[[The Shortlist Organization will release their official “shortlist” of nominees
for the sixth annual **Shortlist Music Prize** in a couple of weeks, narrowing the“
longlist” of 61 albums of 2006 down to the Top Ten.

The Shortlist Music Prize is considered one of the highest honors in the independent
and alternative rock music profession. Last year’s winner, [**Sufjan Stevens**](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/Sufjan%20Stevens.html),
has taken the music world by storm, releasing one compilation of amazing music after
another.

Stevens’ 2005 album Illinoise is full of soft melodies, inspirational spurts of 
engery, lyrical intrigue and is easily one of the classic albums of the past decade.

Earlier this month, TSO released the long list of 61 nominees featuring a compendium
of the best indie and alternative music of the past year, including artists such
as like Snow Patrol, [Arcade Fire](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/Arcade%20Fire%20Music1.html),
Mates of State, Band of Horses, The Strokes, [Yeah Yeah Yeahs](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/Yeah%20Yeah%20Yeahs.html),
TV on the Radio, and many more. (See below for the complete list)
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The 61 nominees were selected by a panel of nine indie rock artists and journalists,
including Sufjan Stevens, Franz Ferdinand, Gary Lightbody of [Snow Patrol](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/Snow%20Patrol.html),
Wayne Coyne of Flaming Lips, Ronnie Vannucci of [The Killers](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/The%20Killers.html),
members of Panic at the Disco, Reverend Moose, editor-in-chief of CMJ New Music 
Report, and a Rolling Stone magazine rock critic.

To qualify for nomination artists’ albums must be released in the U.S. in the past
year and not have sold more than 500,000 copies worldwide. Panelists are also looking
for artists who embrace and push the envelope of the indie rock spirit of “creative
and adventurous” music.

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“This year’s listmakers have created a streetwise playlist of state-of-the art rock,
dance and hip hop,” Shortlist creative director Greg Spotts said.

Snow Patrol’s Gary Lightbody told Top40-Charts.com that this year’s Long List “looks
like my own iPod.” He says the melancholy “Begin to Hope” by Regina Spektor is “
a gorgeous record which is simple and devastating in equal measure.”

Lightbody also elegantly describes two of his favorite artists – both IRC Featured
Artists – praising North Carolina’s Band of Horses’ _Everything All the Time_ as“
sublime, blissed out elegance” and Beirut’s _[Gulag Orskestar](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/Beirut.html)_
as “sweeping swooning carnival” of songs, and the couple duo Mates of States _Bring
It Back_ as “twisted, warped pop.”

Subscribe to this feed and watch for the Top Ten, and ultimately a full profile 
of the winner. The winner will be announced sometime in May.

The 61 nominees include artists from 45 different record labels and ten countries
as selected by Sufjan Stevens (and based on his taste in music, you might want to
check out some of these albums if you haven’t already):

Against Me – Americans Abroad Live in London
And You Will Know Us By The Trail of
Dead – So Divided [](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/TV-on-the-Radio---Return-to-Cookie-Mountain-739934.jpg)
Art Brut – Bang Bang Rock & RollBand of Horses – Everything All the TimeBeck – The
InformationBeirut – Gulag OrskestarBelle and Sebastian – The Life PursuitBonnie 
Prince Billy – The Letting GoCat Power – The GreatestCountry Teasers – The Empire
Strikes BackCSS – Cansei de Ser SexyCursive – Happy HollowDabrye – Two/ThreeDanielson–
ShipsDead Heart Bloom – Dead Heart BloomEditors – The Back RoomField Music – Field
MusicForgive Durden – WonderlandGirl Talk – Night RipperHot Chip – The WarningHowling
Bells – Howling BellsJeremy Enigk – World WaitsJoanna Newsom – YsKidd Jordan, Hamid
Drake + William Parker – Palm of SoulKimya Dawson – Remember that I Love YouLiars–
Drum’s Not DeadLove is All – Nine Times That Same SongLupe Fiasco – Food & LiquorMates
of State – Bring It BackMatmos – The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a BeastMew –
And the Glass Hand KitesMidlake – The Trials of Van OccupantherMohair – Small TalkMute
Math – MutemathNeil Young – Living With WarOOIOO – TaigaPeeping Tom – Peeping TomRaconteurs–
Broken Boy SoldiersRegina Spektor – Begin to HopeRoots – Game TheorySecret Machines–
Ten Silver DropsSerena Maneesh – Serena ManeeshSkream – SkreamSpank Rock – YoYoYoYoYoTeddybears–
Soft MachineThe Blow – Paper TelevisionThe Bronx – The BronxThe Decemberists – The
Crane WifeThe Gossip – Standing In the Way of ControlThe Hush Sound – Like VinesThe
Knife –[](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/The-Stills---Without-Feathers-700421.jpg)
Silent ShoutThe Stills – Without FeathersThe Strokes – First Impression of EarthThe
Velvet Teen – Cum LaudeThe Weepies – Say I am YouTom Waits – OrphansTV on the Radio–
Return to Cookie MountainVaux – Beyond Virtue Beyond ViceWe Are Scientists – With
Love and SqualorWolfmother – WolfmotherYeah Yeah Yeahs – Show Your Bones

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