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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Noel Gallagher has written on his personal blog following his assault last weekend while playing at the Toronto V Music Festival in Canada.
Though Gallagher made fun of the incident he also wrote that the attacker, Canadian Daniel Sullivan, will be prosecuted.  He wrote:
“Can’t say much more than that as the ‘perpetrator’s’ gonna get the book [...]

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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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Once again those innovators of popular music Radiohead have appeared ahead of their rivals by producing a new video to the track House Of Cards, without using conventional cameras.
The recording has been created by director James Frost, who uses 3D and radar technologies.
A form of motion capture, Geometric Informatics uses light to capture image detail [...]

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