The Reader’s Poll results haven’t changed too much for the past few weeks, but I realized I hadn’t given any statistics on the write-in poll. As 14% of the total votes have been for write-in answers, I thought I might be giving some folks the shaft by not calculating the results. Unquestionably, the funnest part [...]

Paul Macinnes over at The Guardian is liveblogging the 2009 Mercury Prize ceremony. I’d be perfectly happy if Florence or Natasha win this year.
Who do you think is going to walk away with it this year? Who would you like to see win?
The latest update on the favorite odds:
11/4 Florence and the Machine
5/1 [...]

Remember the halcyon days of 2006? When Myspace was mighty and Lilly Allen held the world by her pinky because she had 12 million friends on her profile (a slight exaggeration)? The Arctic Monkeys were forged in the NME fires of that time, and certainly would not be the massive stars they are now without [...]