The shortlist for the Juno awards has been revealed . The fan's choice category looks more like a 'can you think of a Canadian act' round in Pointless. I'm surprised Rush aren't on there: JUNO FAN CHOICE AWARD Arcade Fire Avril Lavigne City and Colour Deadmau5 Drake Ginette Reno Hedley Justin Bieber Michael Bublé Nickelback SINGLE OF THE [...]
The Golden Globes, with their head-patting 'well, your song is quite good', must have been galling enough for singer-turned-director-at-leas t-in-her-head Madonna. The Oscars shortlist are crueller still , with no room even for best song nomination. In fact, WE gets just one shortlisting. For best costumes. To be fair, The Muppets are probably going to be shoo-in for Best Song, for Man Or Muppet, so it's probably a kindness that they're not expecting her to turn up. Besides, Madonna's not an idiot and must have seen her film, so she was able [...]
A world where Ed Sheeran and Noel Gallagher are measured against each other feels less like a glittering awards ceremony and more like some sort of triage event. My advice would be to not look at the 'best British single' category, which contains such miseries as to cause Mr Happy to stare blankly into the future muttering "I hope the Mayans are right". There's a couple of surprises - the appearance of Lady Antebellum in the 'international band category' is so ill-judged it's like when you get one of those paid-for Tweets from Zoosk popping up [...]
The 'Breakspoll 2012 - International Breakbeat Awards' are ready for your votes and here is my list of recommendations and of whom I have voted for. Place yours here: http://www.breakspoll.com/vote /vote.php . Here is a list of those which I have voted for: Best Track : Hedflux & Neurodriver - Energy Vibration (Broken Robot) Full review HERE . Best Remix : Bad Tango - Cortex (Monk3ylogic Remix) Full review HERE . Best Album [...]
It's going to be hard throwing a swanky awards bash in this economic climate. The temptation to be showy and flash must be avoided at all costs, while still keeping a sense of dignity. How are the Grammy organisers going with that? Oh, yes. That ugly wrist choker is the official Grammy "timepiece" (implying there's no Grammy cuckoo clock this year) and comes in at just $1,395. As ever, here's the full list of nominations; leap over to get to the chattery bit [...]
shorlisted to play to appear at the 2012 Hop Farm festival in Kent, UK. Will it happen? Well, if you vote for them, that would help. MP3: Zappatika - The Torture Never Stops » zappatika.com
Words: Saam Das The actual Mercury Music Prize 2011 winner will be announced tomorrow. Do enough people still care? We're not so sure. 2009 winner Speech Debelle , for example, has already been long forgotten. We're even less confident that anyone is interested about our own little version of the Mercury - taking our top twelve reviewed albums of July 2010-July 2011 and then choosing our winner (by panel vote) at the end of this week. [...]
When the 2011 Mercury Prize shortlist was announced on July 19, it incited the usual public outpourings of disillusionment, consternation, mock-horror and Twitter rage. Yet how many of you whingers had actually sat down and listened to all 12 albums before coming to your damning verdicts? None, that's how many. That's precisely what the judges who pick the (inevitably rubbish) winner would have done - so how can anyone, in all fairness, doubt their (rubbish) judgement without putting themselves in their shoes? [...]
2 days ago in London, the shortlist for the 20th edition of the Barclaycard Mercury Prize Album of the Year was announced. The list: Adele – 21 Anna Calvi – Anna Calvi Elbow – Build A Rocket Boys! [...]
The annual Mercury Prize is back, saluting the best British album of the past year, and my my what a bizarre list... For me, it has to be PJ Harvey hands down. This week, the 41-year-old rightly received her fourth Mercury Prize nomination for her masterpiece and my album of the year so far Let England Shake , an accolade shared by only one other in its 20-year history: Radiohead (speaking of which...). If she wins, she'll become the first artist to win [...]
The prestigious Mercury Prize annually celebrates the best of music in the UK and Ireland, each fall awarding the title of 'Album of the Year' to an artist. The shortlist for this year was just announced, compiled of twelve albums that will be judged and deliberated on, with the announcement of the winner falling on September 7th. The winners have recently included Elbow, the Klaxons, and the Arctic Monkeys, as well as The xx, who currently hold the title from 2010. The current artists/albums in the running are: Adele - [...]
The Mercurys have a knack of choosing terrible days for their big announcements, don't they? Obviously, holding your shortlist launch on the same day as the Murdoch-Murdoch-Brooks fibathon isn't quite on a par with the eclipsing of the 2001 prize giving, but even so, it's hardly the best time to do it. Here's the shortlist: Adele - 21 Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi Elbow - Build A Rocket Boys! Everything Everything - Man Alive Ghostpoet - Peanut Butter Blues and Melancholy Jam Gwilym Simcock - Good Days At Schloss Elmau James Blake - James [...]
It's that time of year again when artists start vying for Britain's most coveted music award: the Mercury Prize. Actually, the artists are usually quite well-natured and non-competitive about it, but it's still an honour to make the final shortlist. The shortlist is typical of most years, with the majority of the list being made up of new acts, a couple of established acts, and the one token jazz nomination. The shock omission is Wild Beasts' Smother , which had been thought to have been in with a good chance of winning. My heart wants Ghostpoet to [...]
The shortlist for the Barclaycard Mercury Prize 2011 Albums of the Year were announced by 6music presenter Lauren Laverne this morning in a special ceremony at London's Hospital Club. As usual, some of the nominees were expected to receive the prestigious industry nod, while some were definitely less than expected. Not surprisingly, soul singer Adele 's critically acclaimed and best-selling album on both sides of the Atlantic, '212, received a nom. There are plenty of new artists on this year's shortlist, in exactly the same shoes [...]
Here's the shortlist for this years Mercury Prize . I recommend you seek out the top three in this list, but I won't hold it against you if you disagree. King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mine PJ Harvey - Let England Shake James Blake - James Blake Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi Elbow - Build a Rocket Boys! Everything Everything - Man Alive Adele - 21 [...]
Barclaycard Mercury Prize Albums of the Year revealed A significant year for musical creativity and diversity is confirmed by the 12 Albums of the Year shortlisted for the 2011 Barclaycard Mercury Prize , announced on Tuesday 19 July. "This year's Barclaycard Mercury Prize shortlist highlights the remarkable possibilities of what can be achieved with music - the grand gesture and telling detail, albums that are dramatic, ambitious and artful, emotional and affectionate, funny and profound," says Simon Frith, Chair of Judges. "Much of the music here evokes [...]
The Polaris Prize board released the shortlist for the 2011 nominees a few days ago. Cutting the long list down, there are now only ten artists up for the prize. These ten artists (and albums they are nominated for) are: The Arcade Fire - The Suburbs Austra - Feel it Break [...]
The shortlist for Canada's prestigious independent music prize, the Polaris Prize, has today been announced. The ten albums announced are all mighty fine examples of Canadian music from the last 12 months, and we at One Thirty BPM can't agree on who we think or whom we'd like to see win. The obvious favourites must be Arcade Fire, who are looking to continue their winning streak after the Grammys. However, the albums here are better than any of the albums they were nominated against in the Grammys (in our opinion). Check out the list below. [...]
Hey Rosetta! at Pianos Photo : Jon Klemm ( more ) ...and then there were ten. 2011 Polaris Prize Short List Arcade Fire – The Suburbs Austra – Feel It Break Braids – Native Speaker Destroyer – Kaputt Galaxie – Tigre et Diesel Hey Rosetta! – Seeds Ron Sexsmith – Long Player Late Bloomer [...]
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