[News] Mercury Music Prize Nominations Announced

Last night the nominations for the Barclaycard Mercury Music Prize were announced and it's full of some of our favourite albums from the past 12 months. In past years we've seen PJ Harvey, The xx and Arctic Monkeys take the honour and the £20000 cheque home but this time it'll be be between the list below. Let us know how you feel about the list and who you'd have win the prize.

Alt-J’s An Awesome Wave

Ben Howard’s Every Kingdom

Django Django’s Django Django

Field Music’s Plum

Jessie Ware’s Devotion

Lianne Le Havas’ Is Your Love Big Enough

Michael Kiwanuka’s Home Again

Plan B’s Ill Manners

Roller Trio’s Roller Trio

Richard Hawley’s Standing at the Sky’s Edge

Sam Lee’s Ground of Its Own

The Maccabees’ Given to the Wild

[Listen] The Maccabees - "Lonely Boy" (The Black Keys Cover) in Radio One's Live Lounge

Another week, another BBC Radio One Live Lounge and this week UK's The Maccabees entered into the studio to lay down a cover. The band take on new Arena fillers The Black Keys' huge hit "Lonely Boy" taking the fuzzy monster and giving it a little smooth over, turning into a polished little number. A lighter version if you will that have some ghostly vocals thrown in for good measure. See what you think up at the top.