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Bon Jovi ’s huge concert in London’s Hyde Park has recruited more rock gods as part of Barclaycard Presents British Summer Time Hyde Park. Shaping up to be a day of rock on the main stage, Kaiser Chiefs will step up to the Great Oak Stage alongside fellow British stars Bush , to join Bon Jovi ’s previously announced show on Friday July 5th. Tickets are available now at www.bst-hydepark.com . Kaiser Chiefs are one of Britain’s favourite bands, a huge festival [...]

Best Fit  are giving two lucky readers the chance to win a pair of tickets each to next week’s  Mercury Prize  live show. Featuring  The Maccabees ,  Alt-J  and  Michael Kiwanuka , it’s the latest in the new Mercury Prize ‘Albums of the Year Live’ gig series showcasing all the acts nominated in this year’s shortlist. These three shortlisted acts will play a special show at LSO St Luke’s in London on Wednesday 24 October, and you can be there for free [...]

In the run up to the annual Barclaycard Mercury Prize, organisers have announced details of a special performance from three shortlisted acts that will be taking place at LSO St Luke's on the 10th of October, raising money for War Child in the process. You can win a pair of tickets to the show by answering this fiendishly difficult riddle: What was the title of Plan B’s chart-topping second album, released in 2010? The Increasing Irrelevance of Paul Banks The Defamation of Strickland [...]

It's that time of year again, the Barclaycard Mercury Prize 2012 is upon us. Besides fighting for the Album of The Year award the 12 nominated acts are also fighting for the £20,000 prize money. Only slight surprise for us is that no young British electronic musicians made the list (Rustie, Actress, or even Holy Other). The full list of this year’s nominees is as follows: Alt-J - An Awesome Wave Django Django - Django Django Field Music - Plumb Richard Hawley - Standing At The Sky’s Edge [...]

It's that time of year again, the Barclaycard Mercury Prize 2012 is upon us. Besides fighting for the Album of The Year award the 12 nominated acts are also fighting for the £20,000 prize money. Only slight surprise for us is that no young British electronic musicians made the list (Rustie, Actress, or even Holy Other). The full list of this year’s nominees is as follows: Alt-J - An Awesome Wave Django Django - Django Django Field Music - Plumb Richard Hawley - Standing At The Sky’s Edge [...]

Plan B, Richard Hawley and Alt-J are the early favourites.

This year's shortlist for the Mercury Prize album of the year have been unveiled and showcasses a "wonderful variety of musical voices, emotions and ambitions”, says Simon Frith, Chair of Judges. “There are eight debut albums on the list and four albums from more established artists. The sheer range of music here celebrates the abiding ability of British musicians to find new ways to explore traditional themes of love and loss while making an exhilarating soundtrack for life in 20122" he added. The shortlist is as follows:- Alt-J            � �              � �  An Awesome Wave Ben [...]

An important year for musical creativity and diversity is confirmed by the 12 Albums of the Year shortlisted for the 2012 Barclaycard Mercury Prize , announced on Wednesday 12 September. “ This year’s Barclaycard Mercury Prize shortlist showcases a wonderful variety of musical voices, emotions and ambitions”, says Simon Frith , Chair of Judges. “There are eight debut albums on the list and four albums from more established artists. The sheer range of music here celebrates the abiding ability of British musicians to find new ways to explore traditional themes of love and loss [...]

The twelve albums in contention have been revealed...

It has been announced that The Barclaycard Mercury Prize ‘2012 Albums of the Year ’ shortlist will be revealed at 5.30pm on Wednesday 12th September 2012. Lauren Laverne will unveil the list next week at The Hospital Club in Covent Garden, but for anyone that misses out on the announcement, Channel 4 will be showing a 30-minute Albums of the Year Launch programme (presented by Nick Grimshaw) later that day. The winner of the 2012 Prize will be decided and announced at the Barclaycard Mercury Prize Awards Show at the Roundhouse on [...]

If you were wondering where Rihanna 's been, the pop star was busy taking over the Barclaycard Wireless Festival in London on Sunday night (July 8). And if that Egyptian-themed staging behind RiRi looks familiar, that's because it's the same one used when the Harper's Bazaar cover girl performed at the Hackney Festival last month. But unlike the Talk That Talk artist's mesh bike shorts and T-shirt combo worn for her June concert, for Barclaycard Rihanna sported a gold-spiked black crop top that showed [...]

Despite the heavy rain and the cloud of sadness due the passing of her grandmother, Rihanna managed to get to London in time to close the Barclaycard Wireless Festival on Sunday. Dressed in a peacock inspired outfit, the Barbadian star rocked the stage belting out tracks "Cheers," "Beautiful Girl In The World," "Talk That Talk," [...] Rihanna Performs At Barclaycard Wireless Festival is a post from: RnB Music Blog

Lianne La Havas talks about her first trip to Los Angeles and meeting Rick Rubin. Watch tracks and interview from the Lianne La Havas Session - 12.10am - Wednesday night 25 April - Channel 4. Filmed at The Hospital Club in London, the 'Sessions' are a series of special gigs that celebrate live music in the UK - not linked to the Barclaycard Mercury Prize 'Albums of the Year'. Related articles Lianne La Havas ft. Willy Mason / No Room For Doubt / Official Video [...]

Barclaycard Wireless Festival have announced that Deadmau5 will headline the festival on Friday 6 July and will be joined by Maverick Sabre, Knife Party, Feed Me and Ms Dynamite. They'll join the likes of Drake (headlining Saturday 8th July), Rihanna (headlining Sunday 8th July) and many others this July in Hyde Park. For more information/tickets, please head to wirelessfestival.co.uk

The New York-by-way-of-Trinidad female rapster will join headliners Rhianna and Drake, as well as Tulisa, Pitpull, A$AP Rocky and Example, among others. Fresh from her performance at this year’s Superbowl half-time show, Minaj is set to play on Saturday 7 July, on the same bill as Professor Green, Knife Party and Nero. For tickets and more information see www.wirelessfestival.co.uk .

The singer does the double by winning twice for the first time...

The Barclaycard Mercury Prize Awards Show is being held Tuesday, 6 September 2011 in London. The event will feature performances by all of this year's shortlisted artists and will culminate in the announcement of the overall winner of the 2011 Barclaycard Mercury Prize for Album of the Year. Barclaycard Mercury Prize Albums of the Year - 2011 shortlist It is the first time that all shortlisted bands and artists will perform at the Awards Show, with many making special arrangements [...]

Lauren Laverne has announced the Barclaycard Mercury Prize '2011 Albums of the Year'. Addressing an expectant audience at The Hospital Club in London, Lauren revealed the twelve albums shortlisted for this year's Barclaycard Mercury Prize. They are: Adele - 21 Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi Elbow - Build A Rocket Boys! [...]

Pictured: James Blake The shortlist for the much coveted Mercury Music Prize 2011 has been announced today and there are some great records amongst them. For those who aren't fully familiar with the prize it was introduced in 1992 as an effort by the industry to expose and applaud the credible, experimental and independent albums released each year. Previously winning albums come from artists like Primal Scream, Portishead, Roni Size, Dizzee Rascal, Arctic Monkeys, Elbow and The xx so you get the idea with the kind of acts on their radar. [...]

 Yeah, you know what, me neither.  I don't know why I even bothered checking.  PJ Harvey, something urban, something ethnic, something epic, and snoozzzzzzzze... Although, if you thought I was writing this post with the express purpose of mocking, or even particularly criticising the Mercury Prize then you'd be wrong. Actually, I am just amazed by how out of touch with mainstream music I am becoming. Before I even started writing about music I remember seeing the Mercury nominees compilation CDs in shops, thinking I was going to like them and then not really managing to.  [...]