Sixty-one artists have been chosen as possible contenders for this year's Shortlist Music Prize. The sixth annual event honors the most creative and adventurous albums of the year as picked by a panel of nine industry heavy hitters, including Wayne Coyne, acclaimed music journalist Toure, last year's winner Sufjan Stevens and CMJ's own Rev. Moose. Eligible albums, which must have sold less than 500,000 copies and must have been released in 2006, include Beck, Liars, Mohair, the Blow and Hot Chip. The Long List will ultimately be pared down to 10 in early April, with the winner to be announced later this spring. Long List Of Nominations For Sixth Annual Shortlist Music Prize: Against Me - Americans Abroad Live In London And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - So Divided Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock And Roll Band Of Horses - Everything All The Time Beck - The Information Beirut - Gulag Orskestar Belle And Sebastian - The Life Pursuit Bonnie "Prince" Billy - The Letting Go Cat Power - The Greatest Country Teasers - The Empire Strikes Back CSS - Cansei De Ser Sexy Cursive - Happy Hollow Dabrye - Two/Three Danielson - Ships Dead Heart Bloom - Dead Heart Bloom Decemberists - The Crane Wife Editors - The Back Room Field Music - Field Music Forgive Durden - Wonderland Girl Talk - Night Ripper Gossip - Standing In The Way Of Control Hot Chip - The Warning Howling Bells - Howling Bells Hush Sound - Like Vines Jeremy Enigk - World Waits Joanna Newsom - Ys Kidd Jordan, Hamid Drake + William Parker - Palm Of Soul Kimya Dawson - Remember That I Love You Liars - Drum's Not Dead Love Is All - Nine Times That Same Song Lupe Fiasco - Food And Liquor Mates Of State - Bring It Back Matmos - The Rose Has Teeth In The Mouth Of A Beast Mew - And The Glass Hand Kites Midlake - The Trials Of Van Occupanther Mohair - Small Talk Mute Math - Mutemath Neil Young - Living With War OOIOO - Taiga Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers Regina Spektor - Begin To Hope Roots - Game Theory Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops Serena Maneesh - Serena Maneesh Skream - Skream Spank Rock - YoYoYoYoYo Stills - Without Feathers Strokes - First Impression Of Earth Teddybears - Soft Machine The Blow - Paper Television The Bronx - The Bronx The Knife - Silent Shout Tom Waits - Orphans TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain Vaux - Beyond Virtue Beyond Vice Velvet Teen - Cum Laude We Are Scientists - With Love And Squalor Weepies - Say I Am You Wolfmother - Wolfmother Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones www.myspace.com/shortlistofmusic
