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The Barclaycard Mercury Prize award ceremony took place last night at Grosvenor House in London, presented by the ever popular musician Jools Holland.
Nominations for the esteemed prize were selected from all musical genres by an independent, possibly slightly pretentious judging panel including musicians, producers, presenters and music journalists.
The Prize recognises and celebrates music in the [...]

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Fuzzo, the debut album from Brigadier Ambrose, has been long listed for this year’s Mercury Prize. To mark this musical thermometer ride, the band is set to release a new digital singe – Yours, Danube Song, available from all good digitised outlets.
But when did the mercury begin to rise for Brigadier Ambrose? Well, it all [...]

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If camping out in field of mud for the weekend is not your idea of a great music festival, there is a festival with a difference this year, held in London’s indigO2 at the O2 arena on July 10th is the Live & Unsigned Festival.
Why not be different this year and go along to see [...]

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The festive 50 is dead … long live the festive 50!
Now I do still remember those nights with fingers paused over the cassette deck, with the tuner tuned to the dulcet tones of John Peel in the lead up to Xmas, clicking the record button on as he perambulated through his Festive 50.
We were all [...]

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Last night in Toronto Daniel Snaith aka Caribou won the coveted $20,000 Polaris Music Prize for his 2007 album Andorra.  Caribou now lives in London but win best Canadian album as he was born in Dundas, Ontario.
Andorra is a departure from heavily influenced electronica of previous albums such as Start Breaking My Heart and The [...]

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