LONDON (AP) — Indie pop quartet Alt-J has won Britain's prestigious Mercury Prize, beating more established acts to the 20,000 pound (roughly $32,000) prize at the Roundhouse in north London.
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Much like its other years, the 2012 Mercury Prize shortlist is yet again dominated by mostly rock-leaning artists, with other genres weaved -- or perhaps forced -- in. However, there are quite of few artists on the ta...
As the campaign for “Ceremonials” winds down, Florence Welch of Florence & The Machine revealed that she plans to take a year off before starting work on a follow-up to the 2011 album.
Of course, th...
What do The Doors, Bob Marley, Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin, Tupac Shakur, Jimi Hendrix and The Kinks all have in common? None of them ever won a single Grammy. Here, we run down ten other musical acts who are still wai...
Basically two names were being bandied about as the frontrunners for this year's Mercury Prize in the U.K.: PJ Harvey and Adele. It was the former that ended up taking the prize today (Sept. 6) for her album &quo...
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Just a couple weeks after Canada unveiled its Polaris Music Prize shortlist nominees for album of the year, the U.K. has echoed with its own impressively varied shortlist for the Mercury Prize.
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It's official: The xx have won the U.K.'s much-esteemed Mercury Prize, taking home the honor over favored short-listed nominee and veteran rocker Paul Weller. The award was issued for their debut self-titled album....
Music and musicians and books: not mutually exclusive. Literary projects from Ben Folds and Nick Hornby, Colin Meloy, Antony (with Bjork), Vince Neil, Weird Al Yankovic, David Lynch, Queen's Brian May and more have be...
Biffy Clyro, Corinne Bailey Rae, Paul Well and Dizzee Rascal are among the 12 nominees for this year's Mercury Prize. More than 200 acts and their albums were up for the Album of the Year honor, given out to U.K. or I...
