Finalists For The Shortlist Music Prize
Posted by Nadia on 08.24.2004
List includes Franz Ferdinand, Wilco, The Killers, and others...
Wilco, Dizzee Rascal, Ghostface Killah, Loretta Lynn, PJ Harvey, TV on the Radio and My Morning Jacket are among the 73 artists nominated to the "Long List" for the 2004 Shortlist Music Prize.
The list, which will include only ten artists in September is voted on by a panel of talented recording artists like, Dashboard Confessional's Chris Carrabba, Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme, Jack Black, John Mayer, Norah Jones, the Black Eyed Peas' Will.I.Am, System of a Down's Serj Tankian, the Roots' Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson, the Cure's Robert Smith and others.
In order to be considered for the prize, albums must have been released between July 1, 2003 and June 30, 2004 and must not have been certified gold (for sales of more than 500,000 units) at the time of the nomination.
Majority of the nominees are from independent record labels.
The winner will be announced during a multi-artist concert at the Wiltern in Los Angeles on November 10. Concert footage from the awards ceremony will be broadcast on MTV2. XM Satellite Radio will present the winner with a check for $5,000.
The 2004 "Long List," according to the Shortlist Organization:
* TV on the Radio Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes
* Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
* Wrens - Meadowlands
* PJ Harvey - Uh Huh Her
* Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
* Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
* Scarling - Sweet Heart Dealer
* Oceansize - Effloresce
* Keb' Mo' - Keep It Simple
* The Killers - Hot Fuss
* Bob Schneider - I'm Good Now
* Patty Griffin - Impossible Dream
* David Bowie - Reality
* Muse - Absolution
* Cesaria Evora - Voz D'Amor
* Eagles of Death Metal - Peace Love Death Metal
* Bebel Gilberto - Bebel Gilberto
* Buckethead - Bucketheadland 2
* Bad Acid Trip - Lynch the Weirdo
* Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros - Streetcore
* Blonde Redhead - Misery Is a Butterfly
* Phil Kline - Zippo Songs
* Blanche - If We Can't Trust the Doctors
* Ghostface Killah - The Pretty Toney Album
* Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
* Neil Young - Greendale
* Holly Golightly - Truly She Is None Other
* Macy Gray - The Trouble With Being Myself
* Cee-Lo - Cee-Lo Green Is the Soul Machine
* Rufus Wainwright - Want One
* Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner
* Nellie McKay - Get Away From Me
* Magnetic Fields - i
* Patti Smith - Trampin'
* Fiery Furnaces - Gallowsbird's Bark
* The Secret Machines - Now Here Is Nowhere
* Dead Prez - Revolutionary But Gangsta
* Slum Village - Detroit Deli: A Taste of Detroit
* Amel Larrieux - Bravebird
* Josh Ritter - Hello Starling
* Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing In the Hands
* Ryan Adams - Love Is Hell
* Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
* Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter - Oh, My Girl
* Jem - Finally Woken
* Juana Molina - Segundo
* The Sleepy Jackson - Lovers
* Café Tacuba - Cuatro Caminos
* Non Prophets - Hope
* A.C. Newman - The Slow Wonder
* Teitur - Poetry & Aeroplanes
* Jamie Cullum - Twentysomething
* The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free
* Air - Talkie Walkie
* Ty - Upwards
* Elbow - Cast of Thousands
* Galactic - Ruckus
* My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
* Simple Kid - 1
* Julieta Venegas - Si
* Travis - 12 Memories
* Gary Jules - Trading Snake Oil for Wolftickets
* Van Hunt - Van Hunt
* Snow Patrol - Final Straw
* The Honorary Title - Anything Else But the Truth
* Dios - Dios
* Phoenix - Alphabetical
* The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site
* Keane - Hopes and Fears
* Jaylib - Champion Sound
* Melt Banana - Cell-Scape
* Peaches - Fatherf---er
* The Coral - Nightfreak and the Sons of Becker
