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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Burial are the bookies favourites to win the Mercury Prize tonight (Tuesday 9th Sept) in London. Dubstep producer Will Bevan a secretive South London musician recently revealed himself as the man behind Burial.
The odds for a Burial win are quoted at 4/6 with bookmaker Ladbrokes, with long shots Adele and Estelle bringing up the rear [...]

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Twelve albums have been nominated for this years Mercury Prize, the nominees were announced at an event in London’s Covent Garden last night.
The nominations for the best album of the year are:
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
Radiohead - In Rainbows
British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
Burial [...]

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NME stages its first USA awards ceremony at El Rey in Los Angeles tonight at 9pm(PST).
The event will include the much anticipated reunion of Jane’s Addiction. The eighties band have reformed specifically for the occasion where they will receive the NME award for Godlike Geniuses.
The Lemonheads will collect the award for NME Classic Album for [...]

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Here, for those of you who missed the Klaxons live performance with the gorgeous Rihanna at the Brit Awards 2008 on Wednesday night, with a cool rendition of Rihanna’s chart topping Umbrella song. Yes, I agree the original is somewhat annoying and over played wherever you go. But this version gets the Klaxon [...]

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