Britains  troubled songstress Amy Winehouse collected five awards last night, out of the six she had been nominated for.  The singer dedicated her awards to her incarcerated husband Blake Fielder-Civil and to Camden Market which was hit by a huge fire at the weekend.
Winehouse won awards for record of the year, best new artist, best song [...]

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Feist album The Reminder has won this years Shortlist Prize- the American equivalent to the UK’s Mercury Music prize- seeing off strong competition from Arcade Fire and M.I.A.
The award is open to Artists who have released an album during the period of January to November, that has sold less than 500,000 copies. Other contenders for [...]

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Its pretty fair to say that the nominations for this years Brit Awards were, lets say disappointing. I am not really sure how we should take the news that Take That are among the handful of best bands in the UK.
Obviously I am not alone in these thoughts as Arctic Monkeys front-man Alex Turner is [...]

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This time of year music magazines and websites are awash with best of the year lists, so here goes.
I would prefer to call this my favourite albums of the year rather than best albums of the year. I would also like to include a list of albums I would like to have heard, but haven’t [...]

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While Jimmy Page carried off the Living Legend award at the Classic Rock Roll Honours, the full list of awards is as follows:

Best New Band - Black Stone Cherry
Reissue of the Year - Kiss - Alive! 1975-2000
DVD of the Year - Frank Zappa Classic Albums
Album of the Year - Porcupine Tree ‘Fear Of A [...]

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