New Pantheon Award finalists, Academy screeners, Digital DJ licenses, Cool Cuts Chart

• Here are the finalists for the New Pantheon Music Award, awarded to the best album selling less than 500,000 copies.
  
  The finalists:
  Animal Collective - Feels
  Antony and the Johnsons - I am a Bird Now
  Arcade Fire - Funeral
  Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
  Death Cab For Cutie - Plans
  Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
  Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
  M.I.A. - Arular
  Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
  The Decemberists - Picaresque
  
  The nominations were places by a partly illustrious, partly dubious panel:
  
  ?uestlove - Member of The Roots
  Adam Brody - Actor on The OC
  Alex Patsavas - Music Supervisor: Chop Shop
  Beck - Mad Scientist
  Benjamin Gibbard - of Death Cab for Cutie
  Chester Bennington - of Linkin Park
  Dave Matthews - of Dave Matthews Band
  Elijah Wood - Actor/Hobbit
  Elton John - Musician, Songwriter, Legend
  Jason Mraz - Mr. A-Z
  Jennifer Maerz - Music Editor at The Stranger
  John Cameron Mitchell - Actor, Writer, Producer
  John Legend - Singer/Songwriter
  John McCrea - of Cake
  Josh Schwartz - Creator - The OC
  Keith Urban - International Superstar
  Margaret Cho - Comedienne, Writer
  Mike Shinoda - of Linkin Park
  Nic Harcourt - Music Director, KCRW
  Peter Margasak - Writer at The Chicago Reader
  Ric Ocasek - Musician, Producer, Icon
  Ryan Schreiber - Editor-in-Chief at Pitchfork Media
  Shirley Manson - of Garbage
  Steve Hochman - Writer - L.A. Times
  Suzanne Vega - Singer, Songwriter
  Tony Kanal - of No Doubt
  Will Hermes - Editor and Writer
  
  
• If you can't stop industry people from file-sharing, you might as well give up: Academy screeners on P2P
  
  
• Oft-ignored digital DJ licenses in the UK
  
  
• The Cool Cuts is the UK’s leading tastemaker dance chart compiled from reactions from tastemaker DJs and the Cool Cuts shop panel.
  
  The Cool Cuts is broadcast on Ministry Of Sound Digital Radio ' on Paul 'Radical' Ruiz - 'Anything Goes' show every Wednesday 2-4pm GMT on www.ministryofsound.com/radio'
  and on Tall Paul’s Kiss 100 show. The Cool Cuts is published in the UK’s leading music industry trade publication Music Week and on www.musicweek.com
  
  Cool Cuts Chart for MW issue date 21/01/06
  
  1 NEW SORRY / Madonna / East West
  With mixes from Pet Shop Boys and Stuart Price as Paper Faces and Man With Guitar
  2 (3) INCREDIBLE / Shapeshifters / Positiva
  With mixes from Denis The Menace & Jerry Ropero and Mark Knight & MTV
  3 NEW HELLO I LOVE YOU / The Doors / Marine Parade
  With stunning new mixes from Adam Freeland
  4 (5) MAKE A MOVE ON ME / Joey Negro / Data
  Back for 2006 with a full release
  5 NEW FADE / Solu Music / Hed Kandi
  Hed Kandi’s evergreen classic in new mixes from Grant Nelson
  6 (9) PARTY FOR THE WEEKEND / Soul Seekerz / CDR
  Lively party time house tune
  7 NEW ALONE TONIGHT / Above & Beyond / Anjunabeats
  First single from their album with mixes from Mathew Dekay and Disciples Of Sound
  8 (10) WALKING AWAY / The Egg / Cr2
  Getting a UK release with new mix of ‘The Wall’ by Mylo
  9 (11) BOUNCE SHAKE MOVE STOP / M.V.P / EMI
  With mixes from Ian Carey and Trailblazers
  10 NEW IT DOESN’T STOP / The Young Punx / Mofo Hifi
  Excellent mash up of Michael Jackson’s ‘Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough’
  11 NEW ETERNITY / Matt Darey / Darey Products
  With mixes from Alex Morph, Thomas Dat, John ‘00’ Flemming and more
  12 (16) TURN ME OUT / Dirty Old Ann / White Label
  Kathy Brown’s classic gets a disco makeover
  13 (18) PUNCH DRUNK/COPYRAT / Cirez D / Mouseville
  Eric Prydz under one of his pseudonyms with a couple of hot club grooves
  14 NEW FALSE LIGHT / Marco V / Maelstrom
  With mixes from Ton B and Danny Olivera
  15 (20) CLEAR SKY / Kayot / Buzzin Fly
  Cool house vibes with a mix from Manoo and Francois A
  16 NEW SWIMMING PLACES / Julien Jabre / Defected
  Summery house groove with new mixes from Jerome Sydenham and Pete Heller
  17 NEW SHOW ME LOVE / Robin S / Champion
  Club classic is back with a new mix from Diesel
  18 NEW RAZORBLADE / GIVE ME LOVE / Coburn / Frontier
  Sexy electro pop tune
  19 NEW WHAT’S YOUR DAMAGE / Test Icicles / Domino
  Digitalism and Alan Braxe & Fred Falke on the mix
  20 NEW IN THE EVENING / Rob Boskamp / Spinnin’
  Pumping reworking of the Sheryl Lee Ralph classic
  
  © Original Artists 2006
  
  The Cool Cuts is compiled from reactions from Tastemaker DJs and from the Cool Cuts shop panel: Bang Bang (Bristol), Black Market (London), Bradley’s (Halifax), Catapult (Cardiff), Citysounds (London), Crash (Leeds), Covert (Brighton), Eastern Bloc (Manchester) Global Groove (Stoke), Know How (London) Massive (Oxford & Birmingham), Mixmaster (Belfast), Plastic Fantastic (London), Power (Wigan), Pure Groove (London), Streetwise (Cambridge), The Disc (Bradford), 3 Beat (Liverpool), Trax (London), 23rd Precinct (Glasgow), Urban (Brighton).