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 »

We still have plenty of time and music left in 2011, but since we're at the halfway (or so) mark, we thought it made sense to pause and take stock of the best albums of the year so far. There was…   Read Story »

Here is John Legend putting his mark on Adele's powerful sass-soul single "Rolling In The Deep," from her head-turning XL LP 21. The last time someone put a transformational spin on "Rolling" it was…   Read Story »

Most remixes are shit. This new feature exists in defense of The Remix. So, welcome to Remixtape: a monthly compilation of the best recent remix MP3s floating around the internet because despite the…   Read Story »

This week we've got new videos from Scissor Sisters, Adele, Broken Social Scene, Suckers, and Fujiya & Miyagi. One thing I noticed about this week's top five videos -- they were all directed by…   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 »

The tents are collapsed, the recycling collected, the hippies headed to the showers (j/k hippies don't take showers). Bonnaroo '08 now belongs to the chemically enhanced memories of its campers, and…   Read Story »

When we snoozed through a clip of the premiere of lovely Lily's BBC Three show, we offered up four points of advice to make her next installment less painful. And she listened to us! About not…   Read Story »

Amy Winehouse and Rihanna performed, Foo Fighters and Kanye West won, and the show was "was largely free of surprises" according to AP. Sounds like the Grammys, but alas, we're talking about the Brit…   Read Story »

The BBC conducted a poll of 150 music critics regarding the new bands they see breaking out in '08. For those of you who read the lists by British experts we posted a couple weeks ago, the top 10…   Read Story »