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Shortlist Award for Achievement in the Field of Excellence

Although I don't fully understand the "Shortlist" awards, they have announced their, ahem, shortlist for the 2006 award. The Shortlist award is "a peer-selected award that recognizes the most creative and adventurous albums of the year" (um okay) and made their 10 album nomination list. The winner will be announced "in May". I get the impression it is an attempt to be an American version of the "Mercury Prize" in the UK but maybe I'm just not a big fan of extraneous awards anyway.

The nominees are Band of Horses, Beirut, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Cat Power, Girl Talk, Hot Chip, Joanna Newsom, Regina Spektor, Spank Rock, & Tom Waits.

Indeed, a motley crew.

Wednesday, May 2, 2007
by Erik Gonzalez
6 comments

Latest comment by: Erik Gonzalez: "Yeah, I was just listening to the Beirut album on my lovely flight from Atlanta to Sacramento and thinking how much I like the disc ... Huh."

Joanna Newsom to Open for Bjork! The HORROR!

Pitchfork just reported the awful news: Joanna Newsom to Open for Bjork!

Can you imagine?!? I just vomited in my mouth at the thought of getting trapped at one of those shows.

(Yes, this is my official outing of being one of the few relatively sane people who can't stand the sound of Bjork's voice. Same goes for Joanna.)


Wednesday, April 18, 2007
by imaginary liz
11 comments

Latest comment by: serena: "Joanna is cool as hell. Try to play the harp like that, see if you can do it. I'd give my left nut to play like that.. which is alot considering that I don't even have nuts."

The five hottest indie women

Who do you think are the hottest indie women?

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Tuesday, April 17, 2007
by imaginary dana
82 comments

Latest comment by: Anonymous: "Must start and end with Zooey... I think this is a better list- http://www.therockczar.com/misc/top-10-hottest-indie-rock-chicks "

"It's all okay till they open their fucking mouths"

Imagine if Three Imaginary Girls met Pete and Ray and you'd have Breakfast at Sulimay's, featuring Joe, Moon, and Bill -- possibly the most entertaining music critics I've ever heard.

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Monday, April 9, 2007
by imaginary dana
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Latest comment by: imaginary dana: "Yea, I think they were just bemused by the Decemberists (versus the abject horror they expressed about most of the other bands). I was stoked they liked Beirut! And I think they would have liked Amy Winehouse if they had heard the non-Ghostface Killas ...