The Shortlist Music Prize unveiled its Long List of nominees today, giving 61 bands and artists a chance to claim one of the most coveted awards in indie music.

The nominees include acts that dominated critics' best-of-2006 lists, including TV on the Radio, Lupe Fiasco, The Roots, Band of Horses, Hot Chip, Girl Talk, The Knife, Beck, Cat Power, The Decemberists, Neil Young, Editors, Beirut, Wolfmother, and Spank Rock.

The award, which goes to 2006's best album that hasn't sold more than 500,000 copies in the US, is chosen by a handful of prominent artists and journalists. This year's panel of listmakers, each of whom chose nominees for the Long List, include: Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody, the Killers' Ronnie Vannucci, Franz Ferdinand, KT Tunstall, Panic! at the Disco, Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne, journalists Toure and Rev. Moose, and 2006 Shortlist winner Sufjan Stevens.

The panel will pick 10 finalists in April, and the winner will be announced later in the spring.

"This year's Listmakers have created a streetwise playlist of state-of-the art rock, dance, and hip hop," Shortlist Creative Director Greg Spotts said in a statement.

Lightbody called this year's Long List "an incredible list that looks like my own iPod."

In addition to Stevens, who won for his 2006 album Illinois, previous Shortlist winners include Sigur Ros, N*E*R*D, Damien Rice, and TV on the Radio.

Stevens nominated Dabrye's Two/Three, Danielson's Ships, Kidd Jordan's Palm of Soul, Matmos' The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast, Midlake's The Trials of Van Occupanther, OOIOO's Taiga, Serena Maneesh's self-titled album, and The Blow's Paper Television.

Ronnie Vannucci of the Killers chose Jeremy Enigk's World Waits, Neil Young's Living With War, The Decemberists' The Crane Wife, The Strokes' First Impression of Earth, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Show Your Bones.

Flaming Lips' frontman Wayne Coyne nominated Cat Power's The Greatest, CSS's Cansei de Ser Sexy, Girl Talk's Night Ripper, Teddy Bears' Soft Machine, and Wolfmother's self-titled debut album.

Lightbody nominated Band of Horses' Everything All the Time, Beirut's Gulag Orskestar, Bonnie Prince Billy's The Letting Go, Editors' The Back Room, Field Music's self-titled album, Mates of State's Bring It Back, Secret Machines' Ten Silver Drops, The Weepies' Say I Am You, and We Are Scientists' With Love and Squalor.

KT Tunstall picked Beck's The Information, Joanna Newsom's Ys, Regina Spektor's Begin to Hope, and Tom Waits' Orphans.

Franz Ferdinand chose Belle and Sebastian's The Life Pursuit, Country Teasers' The Empire Strikes Back, Hot Chip's The Warning, Liars' Drums Not Dead, Skream's self-titled album, Spank Rock's YoYoYoYoYo, The Gossip's Standing in the Way of Control, and TV On the Radio's Return to Cookie Mountain.

Panic! At the Disco picked Cursive's Happy Hollow, Forgive Durden's Wonderland, Mew's And the Glass Hand Kites, Mute Math's self-titled album, The Bronx's eponymous album, The Hush Sound's Like Vines, The Stills' Without Feathers, and The Velvet Teen's Cum Laude.

CMJ Editor-in-Chief Rev. Moose nominated Against Me's Americans Abroad Live in London, ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead's So Divided, Art Brut's Bang Bang Rock & Roll, Dead Heart Bloom's self-titled album, Kimya Dawson's Remember That I Love You, Mohair's Small Talk, Peeping Tom's eponymous album, The Knife's Silent Shout, and Vaux's Beyond Virtue Beyond Vice.

Hip-hop journalist Toure's picks included Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor, Raconteurs' Broken Boy Soldiers, and The Roots' Game Theory.

Sixth Annual Shortlist Music Prize nominees:

Against Me - Americans Abroad Live in London

And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - So Divided

Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & 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

Editors - The Back Room

Field Music - Field Music

Forgive Durden - Wonderland

Girl Talk - Night Ripper

Hot Chip - The Warning

Howling Bells - Howling Bells

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 & 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

Teddybears - Soft Machine

The Blow - Paper Television

The Bronx - The Bronx

The Decemberists - The Crane Wife

The Gossip - Standing In the Way of Control

The Hush Sound - Like Vines

The Knife - Silent Shout

The Stills - Without Feathers

The Strokes - First Impression of Earth

The Velvet Teen - Cum Laude

The Weepies - Say I am You

Tom Waits - Orphans

TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain

Vaux - Beyond Virtue Beyond Vice

We Are Scientists - With Love and Squalor

Wolfmother - Wolfmother

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones