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hoorah!

Damn it, there's less and less things to get angry about

oops, all the people clicking on the link have crashed the site.

its ok ghoti, i can think of something, umm....

without seeing the official release, how can we be sure that d-star won't keep my record in perpetuity, and offer the juicy slices of jazz fusion funk contained within for the use by the ''re-elect Barnaby Joyce campaign 2013'' against my wishes and at a fee well under what i'd normally sell my soul for?

So 71 albums made the ''longlist''

In October the following were announced:

Alpine A Is For Alpine
Bearhug Bill, Dance, Shiner
Bushwalking First Time
Catcall The Warmest Place
Charge Group Charge Group
Children Collide Monument
Deep Sea Arcade Outlands
Dirty Three Toward The Sun
DZ Deathrays Bloodstreams
Emma Russack Sounds Of Our City
Forty Thousand Sisters Goodbye Broken Sled
Grand Salvo Slay Me In My Sleep
Hermitude HyperParadise
Hilltop Hoods Drinking From The Sun
House Vs Hurricane Crooked Teeth
Jess Ribeiro & The Bone Collectors My Little River
Liz Stringer Warm In The Darkness
Made In Japan Sights & Sounds
Missy Higgins The Ol’ Razzle Dazzle
Ollo Ape Delay
Pond Beard, Wives, Denim
The Bamboos Medicine Man
The Hello Morning The Hello Morning
The Maple Trail Cable Mount Warning
Tim Hart Milling The Wind
Xavier Rudd Spirit Bird

In November the following were added:

Angus Stone –Broken Brights
Archie Roach – Into The Bloodstream
Ball Park Music – Museum
Catherine Britt – Always Never Enough
Clairy Browne & The Bangin' Rackettes – Baby Caught The Bus
Clare Bowditch – The Winter I Chose Happiness
Collarbones – Die Young
Daily Meds – Happy Daze
Julia Stone – By The Horns
Knievel – Emerald City
Max Crumbs – Maidenhair
Oh Mercy – Deep Heat
Saskwatch – Leave It All Behind
Steve Lane & The Autocrats – The Romance Of Communication
The Presets – Pacifica
The Rubens – The Rubens
Tim Rogers – Rogers Sings Rogerstein
TZU – Millions of Moments
Urthboy – Smokey's Haunt
We All Want To – Come Up Invisible
Winter People – A Year At Sea

And yesterday the final list was:

Ali E Landless
Bertie Blackman Pope Innocent X
Big Strong Brute Avalanche Of Truth
Bored Nothing Bored Nothing
Charles Jenkins & The Zhivagos Love Your Crooked Neighbour With Your Crooked Heart
Chasm This Is How We Never Die
Corey Colum Corey Colum
Flume Flume
Galapagoose Commitments
Glenn Cardier Stranger Than Fiction
Joe Robinson Let Me Introduce You
Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson Wreck & Ruin
Lisa Mitchell Bless This Mess
Love Migrate Plagued Are All My Thoughts, Like White Ants In The Fence
Maundz Zero
Paul Kelly Spring And Fall
San Cisco San Cisco
Sarah Blasko I Awake
Skryptcha Mindful
Tame Impala Lonerism
The Black Sorrows Crooked Little Thoughts
The Pataphysics Subversive
The Trouble with Templeton Bleeders
Yung Warriors Standing Strong

Of those, hermitude has already made it to the shortlist (of which there will be 9)

10 bucks says tame impala get on the shortlist. who's game?

Good luck finding a sucker to take that bet.

there's not really much point in all those lists, tame impala will win.

Next barrier: get rid of self-nomination.

The premier awards in my work field are considering this due to concerns people who've done good work are not entering.

Jan 10 2013 : AMP Alive Expands as Two New Artists Join Shortlist

The Coopers Amp are pleased to announce two new additions to the Amp Alive bill, as they welcome Jess Ribeiro & The Bone Collectors and Urthboy to the list of shortlisted acts for The 8th Australian Music Prize. Both acts will perform alongside fellow shortlisted artist Hermitude at the free event to be held in Melbourne’s Federation Square on February 1st 2013.

Hosted by two prominent Australian artists in their own right, Clare Bowditch and Kevin Mitchell, Amp Alive will showcase some of Australia’s finest. It is also where the remaining shortlisted acts will be announced. The event is free and open to the public, thanks to the support of City of Melbourne and Federation Square.

Handpicked from a final list of 71 official entrants, not to mention a field of more than 300 Australian artist album releases, Darwin’s Jess Ribeiro & The Bone Collectors are welcomed to The Coopers AMP shortlist for debut full-length release My Little River (Mangy Dog/Fuse). Since its release in May 2012, the album has generated much praise, taking out the Jagermeister AIR award for Best Independent Country Album. It also picked up four stars in a recent Sydney Morning Herald review and Album of The Week on Radio National upon its release.

Also joining the official shortlist is Sydney-based MC Urthboy, with his fourth solo album Smokey's Haunt (Elefant Traks). Released in October 2012, the album is hailed Urthboy’s finest to date, spanning party nights to politics and everything in between. With collaboration from the likes of Solo (Horrorshow), Alex Burnett (Sparkadia) and Daniel Merriweather, the album’s long line of triumphs include a #14 ARIA Album Chart debut, a nomination for triple j’s Album of the Year J Award and four-star reviews from The Australian, Rolling Stone and Sydney Morning Herald, among others.

A total of nine Australian artist albums will be recognised in The Coopers Amp Shortlist and celebrated at Amp Alive on February 1st. The winner of The Coopers Amp, and the $30,000 prize money courtesy of principal partner PPCA, will then be crowned in March.

oh, here's another one

Grand Salvo Shortlisted
JANUARY 29, 2013: MELBOURNE’S GRAND SALVO ADDED TO SHORTLIST AND AMP ALIVE BILL

SPECIAL GUEST SET TO SURPRISE AND IGNITE AMP ALIVE

Just days before Amp Alive ignites Melbourne’s Federation Square, The Coopers Amp are pleased to welcome Grand Salvo to the shortlist for his sixth album ‘Slay Me In My Sleep’. Grand Salvo also joins the prestigious Amp Alive bill, performing alongside fellow shortlisted artists Urthboy, Hermitude and Jess Ribeiro & The Bone Collectors.

Grand Salvo Cover

With a revered back catalogue, Paddy Mann (Grand Salvo) extends himself once again with ‘Slay Me In My Sleep’ - a work largely recorded and co-produced in Berlin by composer Nils Frahm. Set to expansive and joyous instrumentation, the album depicts a tale of strange love with vivid detail, whimsy and beauty, in true Grand Salvo fashion. It’s a story that has pricked the ears and hearts of the The Coopers Amp judges and is now receiving rightful recognition through the respected prize.

‘Slay Me In My Sleep’ is one of nine albums that will be shortlisted for The 8th Australian Music Prize. With Urthboy (‘Smokey’s Haunt’), Hermitude (‘Hyper-Paradise’) and Jess Ribeiro & The Bone Collectors (‘My Little River’) already announced, the remaining five shortlisted artist albums will be unveiled on Friday, February 1st at Amp Alive. Hosted by Clare Bowditch and Kevin Mitchell, the event is free and open to the public thanks to the support of City of Melbourne and Federation Square. Head along to the Amp Alive Facebook Event Page for more details.

Amp Alive will see performances from each of the shortlisted artists to date, as well as a very special performance from a surprise guest. Well known amongst triple j audiences for their frenzied tracks and feisty sell out shows, this special guest will be flying in to not only set alight Amp Alive but also celebrate their shortlisting.

The winner of The Coopers Amp, and the $30,000 prize money courtesy of principal partner PPCA, will be crowned in March.

The Coopers Amp, Inpress Presents:
Amp Alive

A free event featuring the best of 2012’s Australian music
Hosted by Clare Bowditch and Kevin Mitchell
FRIDAY 1ST FEBRUARY, 6 PM
FEDERATION SQUARE, MELBOURNE
WITH
HERMITUDE, URTHBOY
JESS RIBEIRO & THE BONE COLLECTORS
GRAND SALVO and SURPRISE GUEST

4 down, 5 to go for shortlisted entries.

Hermitude win