De nominerte:

Abe Vigoda: Skeleton
AC/DC: Black Ice
Adele: 19
Aftenmenn: Akt II
Aimee Mann: @#%&*! Smilers
Akon: Freedom
Amadou & Mariam: Welcome To Mali
Amon Amarth: Twilight Of The Thunder God
Ane Brun: Changing Of The Seasons
Anna Ternheim: Leaving On A Mayday
Atlas Sound: Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
Atmosphere: When Life Gives You Lemons You Paint That Shit Gold
Austrian Death Machine: Total Brutal
Backstreet Girls: Don’t Fake It Too Long
Balmorhea: River Arms
Batallion: Stronghold Of Men
BC: Sinecure
Beach House: Devotion
Beck: Modern Guilt
Ben Folds: Way To Normal
Beth Rowley: Little Dreamer
Be Your Own Pet: Get Akward
The Big Sleep: Sleep Forever
The Black Keys: Attack & Release
Black Kids: Partie Traumatic
Black Mountain: In The Future
Blitzen Trapper: Furr
Bloc Party: Intimacy
Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago
Bonnie ”Prince” Billy: Lie Down In The Light
Brian Eno & David Byrne: Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
Britta Persson: Kill Hollywood Me
Britney Spears: Circus
The Bronx: The Bronx (III)
Busy Signal: Loaded
Calexico: Carried To Dust
Cancer Bats: Hail Destroyer
Cat Power: Jukebox
Chad VanGaalen: Soft Airplane
Chairlift: Does You Inspire You?
Children Of Bodom: Blooddrunk
Coldplay: Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends
Conor Oberst: Conor Oberst
Crystal Castles: Crystal Castles
Crystal Stilts: Alight Of Night
Cult Of Luna: Eternal Kingdom
The Cure: 4:13 Dream
Cut Copy: In Ghost Colours
Damien Jurado: Caught In The Trees
Dance Club Massacre: Circle Of Death
Darkthrone:  Dark Thrones And Black Flags
Death Cab For Cutie: Narrow Stairs
Deerhunter: Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
Deerhof: Offend Maggie
Deleted Waveform Gatherings: Baby Warfare
Department of Eagles: In Ear Park
Detektivbyrån: E18 Album
Die! Die! Die!: Promises, Promises
Dodos: Visitor
Doktor Kosmos: Hallå?
Dog & Sky: Lhasa Express
Dr. Dog: Fate
Drive-By Truckers: Brighter Than Creation’s Dark
Duffy: Rockferry
The Duke Spirit: Neptune
Dungen: 4
Earth: The Bees Made Honey In The Lion’s Skull
Elbow: The Seldom Seen Kid
El Cuero: Glimmer Of Hope
Elephant 9: Dodovoodoo
El Guincho: Alegranza!
Elvira Nikolaisen: Indian Summer
Enslaved: Vertebrae
Erykah Badu: New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
Exciter: Speed Thrash Burn
Execration: Syndicate Of Lethargy
Exodus: Let The Be Blood
The Fall: Imperial Wax Solvent
Fennesz: Black Sea
Ferraby Lionheart:
Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes
FM Belfast: How To Make Friends
Foals: Antidotes
Frida Hyvönen: Silence Is Wild
Frode Fivel: A Kid Is Just A Kid
Fuck Buttons: Street Horrrsing
Fucked Up: The Chemistry Of Modern Life
Gang Gang Dance: Saint Dymphna
The Gaslight Anthem: The ’59 Sound
Get Well Soon: Rest Now, Weary Head! You Will Get Well Soon
Glasvegas: Glasvegas
Girl Talk: Feed The Animals
Goldfrapp: Seventh Tree
Guns N’ Roses: Chinese Democracy
Gojira: The Way Of All Flesh
Gothminister: Happiness In Darkness
Grace Jones: Hurricane
Grand Archives: The Grand Archives
Guilty Simpson: Ode To The Ghetto
The Gutter Twins: Saturnalia
Harrys Gym: Harrys Gym
Hästpojken: Caligula
Hellacopters: Head Off
Hello Saferide: More Modern Short Stories From…
Hercules and Love Affair: Hercules and Love Affair
Herman Düne: Next Year In Zion
The Hold Steady: Stay Positive
Hot Chip: Made In The Dark
Håkan Hellstrøm: För sent för edelweiss
Haakon Ellingsen: The Plum Album
Ida Maria: Fortress Round My Heart
In Flames: A Sense Of Purpose
Ingeborg Selnes: The Zoo
Ingenting: Kjempegreier
Ingrid Olava: Juliet’s Wishes
Islands: Arm’s Way
Isobell Campbell & Mark Lanegan: Sunday At Devil Dirt
Jamie Lidell: Jim
Jason Mraz: We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things
Jenny Lewis: Acid Tongue
Je Suis Animal: Self-Taught Magic From A Book
Joan As Police Woman: To Survive
Josefin Winther: Be Proud Or Stay Out Of It
Judas Priest: Nostradamus
Kaiser Chiefs: Off With Their Heads
Karpe Diem: Fire vegger
Kathleen Edwards: Asking For Flowers
Katzenjammer: Le Pop
Keep Of Kalessin: Kolossus
The Killers: Day & Age
The Kills: Midnight Boom
Kings of Leon: Only By The Night
Kleerup: Kleerup
The Kooks: Konk
Lambchop: OH (Ohio)
Lars Horntveth: Kaleidoscopic
The Last Shadow Puppets: The Age Of The Understatement
Late of the Pier: Fantasy Black Channel
Laura Marling: Alas, I Cannot Swim
Lifelover: Konkurs
Lightspeed Champion: Falling Off The Lavender Bridge
Lil’ Wayne: Tha Carter III
Little Joy: Little Joy
Lindsey Buckingham: Gift Of Screws
Lindstrøm: Where You Go, I Go Too
Live Ullmann: Dyslectic Poets
Loney, Dear: Dear John
Los Campesinos!: Hold On Now, Youngster…
Los Campesinos!: We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
Lukestar: Lake Toba
Lykke Li: Youth Novels
M83: Saturdays = Youth
Madcon: An InCONvenient Truth
Madrugada: Madrugada
The Mae Shi: HLLLYH
Magne Furuholmen: A Dot Of Black In The Blue Of Your Bliss
The Magnetic Fields: Distortion
Magnus Moriarty ™: Perhaps Interior Heart Politenes
Maria Mena: Cause And Effect
Marit Larsen: The Chase
Marnie Stern: This Is It…
The Mars Volta: The Bedlam In Goliath
Martha Wainwright: I Know You’re Married But I’ve Got Feelings Too
Mates Of State: Re-Arrange Us
Matt Costa: Unfamiliar Faces
McFly: Radio:Active
Megapuss: Surfing
Meshuggah: obZen
Metallica: Death Magnetic
MGMT: Oracular Spectacular
Motörhead: Motörizer
Motorpsycho: Little Lucid Moments
Mudcrutch: Mudcrutch
My Brightest Diamond: A Thousand Shark’s Teeth
My Little Pony: Think Too Much
My Morning Jacket: Evil Urges
Nas: Untitled
Neon Neon: Stainless Style
Next Life: The Lost Age
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
Nickelback: Dark Horse
The Night Marchers: See You In Magic
Nina Kinert: Pets & Friends
No Age: Nouns
Noah And The Whale: Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down
The Notwist: The Devil, You + Me
Oasis: Dig Out Your Soul
Odd Nordstoga: Pilegrim
Of Montreal: Skeletal Lamping
Okkervil River: The Stand Ins
Opeth: Watershed
Parts & Labor: Receivers
Pascal: Galgeberget
Paul Weller: 22 Dreams
Pete Molinari: A Virtual Landslide
Pirate Love: Black Vodoun Space Blues
Portishead: Third
Portugal. The Man: Censored Colors
Q-Tip: The Renaissance
Rachael Yamagata: Elephants… Teeth Sinking Into Heart
The Raconteurs: Consolers Of The Lonely
Raphael Saadiq: The Way I See It
Randy Newman: Harps And Angels
Ra Ra Riot: The Rhumb Line
The Raveonettes: Lust Lust Lust
Ray LaMontagne: Gossip In The Grain
Real Ones: All For The Neighbourhood
R.E.M: Accelerate
Rise Against: Appeal To Reason
Robert Forster: The Evangelist
Robin Thicke: Something Else
Rockettothesky: Medea
Rodney Crowell: Sex & Gasoline
Rolo Tomassi: Hysterics
Ron Sexsmith: Exit Strategy Of The Soul
The Roots: Rising Down
RTX: JJ Got Live RaTX
Rumble In Rhodos: Intentions
The Rural Alberta Advantage: Hometowns
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals: Cardinology
Santogold: Santogold
Satyricon: The Age Of Nero
The School: Destructive Sounds
The Sea And Cake: Car Alarm
Shane Nicholson & Kasey Chambers: Rattlin’ Bones
Shaun Bartlett: Shrink The City To A Light
She Said Destroy: This City Speaks In Tongues
Sigur Ros: Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
Silver: Wolf Chasing Wolf
Silver Jews: Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
Slipknot: All Hope Is Gone
Snöras: Plague Waters
Sons And Daughters: This Gift
The Soundtrack Of Our Lives: Communion
Sparks: Exotic Creatures Of The Deep
Spiritualized: Songs In A & E
The Streets: Everything Is Borrowed
Sun Kil Moon: April
Teddy Thompson: A Piece Of What You Need
Teitur: The Singer
Testament: The Formation Of Damnation
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band: 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons
Thom Hell: God If I Saw Her Now
Throw Me The Statue: Moonbeams
Tift Merritt: Another Country
Tilly and the Wall: O
Times New Viking: Rip It Off
The Ting Tings: We Started Nothing
Titus Andronicus: The Airing Of Grievances
Tomasz Bednarczyk: Summer Feelings
Tommy Tokyo & Starving For My Gravy: Smear Your Smiles Back On
Trivium: Shogun
TV on the Radio: Dear Science
Uriah Heep: Wake The Sleeper
Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend
The Walkmen: You & Me
The War On Drugs: Wagonwheel Blues
The Wave Pictures: Instant Coffee Baby
WE: Tension And Release
Welcome Wagon: Welcome To The Welcome Wagon
White Denim: Workout Holiday
Why?: Alopecia
Wolf Parade: At Mount Zoomer
Wovenhand: Ten Stones
Xiu Xiu: Women As Lovers
Young Jeezy: The Recession
ZOX: Line In The Sand

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