Shortlist Prize, le nomination

Allo statunitense Shortlist Prize, più o meno l’equivalente del britannico Mercury Prize, concorrono 54 contendenti. Il numero andrà via via assottigliandosi nelle prossime settimane, per arrivare a soli 10 tra gruppi ed artisti solisti. La lista comunicata dagli organizzatori:
A Fine Frenzy – ‘One cell in the sea’
Against Me! – ‘New wave’
Animal Collective – ‘Strawberry jam’
Arcade Fire – ‘Neon Bible’
Bad Religion – ‘New maps of hell’
Biffy Clyro – ‘Puzzle’
Bjork – ‘Volta’
Blonde Redhead – ‘23’
BrakesBrakesBrakes – ‘The beatific visions’
Burial – ‘Untrue’
Calvin Harris – ‘I created disco’
Dead Heart Bloom – ‘Chelsea diaries’
Digitalism – ‘Idealism’
Dollyrots – ‘Because I'm awesome’
Eddie Vedder – ‘Into the wild, soundtrack’
Feist – ‘The reminder’
Fionn Regan – ‘The end of history’
Future Of The Left – ‘Curses’
Gogol Bordello – ‘Super taranta’
Grinderman – ‘Grinderman’
Gui Boratto – ‘Chromaphobia’
Iron And Wine – ‘The shepherd's dog’
Jesca Hoop – ‘Kismet’
Josh Ritter – ‘The historical conquests of Josh Ritter’
Juliette And The Licks – ‘Four on the floor’
Justice – ‘Cross’
Keren Ann – ‘Keren Ann’
Kings Of Leon – ‘Because of the times’
Klaxons – ‘Myths of the near future’
LCD Soundsystem – ‘Sound of silver’
Le Loup – ‘The throne of the third Heaven’
Les Savy Fav – ‘Let's stay friends’
M.I.A. – ‘Kala’
Maps – ‘We can create’
o'Death – ‘Head home’
Of Montreal – ‘Hissing fauna, are you the destroyer?’
Parts And Labor – ‘Mapmaker’
Peter Bjorn And John – ‘Writers block’
PJ Harvey – ‘White chalk’
Puscifer – ‘V is for vagina’
Robert Francis – ‘One by one’
Robert Pollard – ‘Standard gargoyle decisions’
Scout Niblett – ‘This fool can die now’
Serj Tankian – ‘Elect the dead’
Spoon – ‘Ga ga ga ga ga’
Stars – ‘In our bedroom after the war’
Swizz Beatz – ‘One man band man’
Bird And The Bee – ‘The bird and the bee’
Hives – ‘Black and white album’
Thrills – ‘Teenager’
Underworld – ‘Oblivion with bells’
Wheat – ‘Everyday I said a prayer’
Wilco – ‘Sky blue sky’
Working For A Nuclear Free City – ‘Businessmen and ghosts’.
La peculiarità del premio consiste nel fatto che, per poter entrare nel “listone”, gli album non devono assolutamente aver ricevuto il disco d’oro da parte della Recording Industry Association of America.