BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat — Kasabian, Friendly Fires, Florence & The Machine and Bat For Lashes are among the 12 nominees for this year's Mercury Prize. more info

The Daily Mail — La Roux, Florence and the Machine and Bat for Lashes score Mercury Prize nominations more info

Clickmusic — Florence And The Machine, Kasabian, Bat For Lashes up for the prize. more info

LEICESTER rockers, Glasvegas, Bat For Lashes and La Roux shortlisted for gong more info

Guardian Music — Images of this year's Mercury prize nominees, featuring Florence and the Machine, Kasabian and Bat for Lashes more info

Guardian Music — Florence and the Machine, Kasabian and Bat for Lashes are favourites to win the £20,000 prize, while La Roux and Glasvegas are also hotly tippedThe Mercury prize nominations for 2009's best album have been announced, and the list features the ecle... more info

NME — Kasabian, Glasvegas, Bat For Lashes... find out all 12 nominations now more info

MTV.co.uk News — Dressed as T Rex meets Chewbacca in a shiny black bodysuit with hairy fringed arms, style icon Natasha Khan (the woman behind Bat for Lashes) tells the audience “I’m glad you’ve... more info

NME — Natasha Khan dresses as a wolf for theatrical show more info

Q4Music — The Pretenders, Bat For Lashes, Ladyhawke, Squeeze and the Pet Shop Boys more info