July 23, 2002 — The Shortlist Organization has named Iggy Pop, Beck, Mos Def, India.Arie, Paul Oakenfold, the Neptunes, Jill Scott, Baz Luhrman, Spike Jonze and members of Metallica, the Strokes, the Roots, Blur and Sonic Youth as Listmakers for the second annual Shortlist Music Project.

Encouraging leaders of the creative community to share their cultural discoveries, each of the 2002 Listmakers will be nominating five albums in August to the "Long List," and then voting for their ten favorite nominees in early September. The top ten vote-getters from the Long List will become the Shortlist Finalists, who will be announced at a press conference and panel discussion the week of September 16, 2002.

The four-month Shortlist Music Project will culminate in an Awards Concert at the Knitting Factory in Los Angeles on October 29th.

The Shortlist Music Project honors today's most creative and adventurous albums, focusing on emerging artists rather than established hitmakers. "We needed something different, and it had to be artists and people who care about the music to pull together and organize it," explains Talib Kweli, one of ten Shortlist Finalists for last year's inaugural award. "The idea is for everybody to check out all of the [nominated] records and explore a little bit," explained returning Listmaker Beck at the Shortlist Awards Concert last November.

Last year, Beck, Macy Gray, Aimee Mann, Mos Def and twelve other Listmakers selected Icelandic band Sigur Ros as the first winner of the Shortlist Music Prize, awarding the band a check for $10,000 and a $10,000 donation to a September 11th relief charity of their choice. Sigur Ros, Kweli, and fellow Finalists Dandy Warhols and Nikka Costa performed half-hour sets at the concert.

"The Shortlist Music Prize is awarded to the most creative and accomplished album by an emerging artist," says Tom Sarig, cofounder of The Shortlist Organization with Greg Spotts. "It's simple," adds Spotts, "it's artists you know turning you on to other artists you may not know."

So far, this year's Longlist includes:

Artist	Album	Listmaker
Aphex Twin	Drunkqs	Beck
Avalanches	Since I Left You	Paul Oakenfold
Cato Salsa Experience	Good Tip/Good Time	Nic Harcourt
Cee-Lo	Cee-Lo Green and his Perfect Imperfections	Evelyn McDonnell
Clinic	Walking with Thee	Beck
Dan Bern	New American Language	Evelyn McDonnell
DJ Krush	Zen	Gustavo Santaolalla
DJ Shadow	Private Press	Paul Oakenfold
Doves	Last Broadcast	Nic Harcourt
Erase Errata	Other Animals	Kim Gordon
Felix da Housecat	Kittenz and thee Glitz	Beck
Gillian Welch	Time (The Revelator)	Beck
Guided by Voices	Universal Truths and Cycles	Strokes Albert n Nick
Kinky	Kinky	Nic Harcourt
Kronos Quartet	Nuevo	Gustavo Santaolalla
Le Tigre	Feminist Sweepstakes	Kim Gordon
Mary Timony	The Golden Dove	Kim Gordon
Orishas	Emigrante	Gustavo Santaolalla
Patty Griffin	1000 Kisses	Nic Harcourt
quix*o*tic	Mortal Mirror	Kim Gordon
Ryan Adams	Gold	Evelyn McDonnell
Sonic Youth	Murray Street	Beck
Telepopmusik	Genetic World	Paul Oakenfold
The Faint	Danse Macabre	Paul Oakenfold
Timo Maas	Loud	Paul Oakenfold
Wilco	Yankee Hotel Foxtrot	Evelyn McDonnell
X-ecutioners	Built From Scratch	Evelyn McDonnell
Yeah Yeah Yeahs	Yeah Yeah Yeahs (EP)	Kim Gordon
Zero 7	Simple Things	Nic Harcourt

Last year's (2001) Shortlist finalists include:

• Ryan Adams, "Heartbreaker" (Bloodshot)
• Air, "10,000 Hz. Legend" (Astralwerks)
• Bilal, "First Born Second" (Interscope)
• Nikka Costa, "Everybody Got Their Something" (Virgin)
• Dandy Warhols, "Thirteen Tales of Urban Bohemia" (Capitol)
• Jay Dee, "Welcome to Detroit" (Studio K7/BBE/Beat Generation)
• Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek, "Reflection Eternal" (Priority)
• Gorillaz, "Gorillaz" (Virgin)
• PJ Harvey, "Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea" (Island)
• Sigur Ros, "Agaetis Byrjun" (Fat Cat/PIAS)