This year's shortlist for the Barclaycard Mercury Prize Album of the Year was announced in London this morning. A group of industry experts will select the winner, who will be announced in a ceremony…   Read Story »

This year's Barclaycard Mercury Prize, awarded annually by a panel of industry insiders to the UK and Ireland's most excellent LP (or Roni Size/Reprazent’s New Forms), goes this year to the xx for…   Read Story »

One of the greatest joys of the year, when you reprint lists of albums for a living, is the announcement of the shortlist for the annual Mercury Prize, the UK music prize for aesthetic excellence,…   Read Story »

Just today people were talking about big money bets coming in for Speech Debelle to win the Mercury Prize, and what do you know, the British rapper rode Ladbrokes' 4/1 odds and the votes of the…   Read Story »

Earlier this morning, British DJ/television presenter Lauren Laverne announced the dozen 2009 Mercury nominees at London's Hospital Club. The prize, of course, is for the UK's album of the year…   Read Story »

Bloomberg reports Elbow's Seldom Seen Kid pulled out a sorta longshot win over the likes of Burial, Radiohead (four time nominees, still no win), and the Last Shadow Puppets for this year's Merc…   Read Story »

Another year, another shortlist for the Mercury Prize, another exciting way to tap your line of credit with the bookie. 2007 belonged to Klaxons' Myths Of The Near Future, who went on to collaborate…   Read Story »

Amy's drugged up campaign to ensure the Mercury Prize went to, well, a band that first made its name for saying things like "MDMAzing!" was a total success; she lost, Klaxons won. However those cuts…   Read Story »

Upset! The gambling men had Winehouse early, but those odds-dudes at Ladbrokes tend not to favor bloody, drugged-up skirmishes with boyfriends. Which meant the new favorite at the time of the…   Read Story »

This meta-Mercury Prize moment brought to you by Radio 1 man Colin Murray?s radio show In The Company Of... The bewitching Bat For Lashes, Fionn, and Maps are all up for this year's Mercury Prize,…   Read Story »