Guardian Music — Fragile, restrained and beautifully orchestrated, Nick Hemming's The Last of the Melting Snow stands up to anything fellow nominees Coldplay and Elbow have writtenIt's the kind of thing that only happens in the movies. A warehouse worker with a broke... more info

411 Mania — Elbow, Tings Tings and more honored... more info

Yahoo! Music UK — Dotmusic - Coldplay, Elbow and MIA also up for songwriting awards more info

Rolling Stone — Photo: Brooks/AFP/Getty Coldplay and Duffy lead this year’s slate of Ivor Novello nominees, racking up three nods apiece for the Best Song, Best Selling Song and Most Performed Work categories. The Mercury Prize-winning Elbow and the Ting Tings al... more info

Gigwise — As do Last Shadow Puppets... more info

Monsters and Critics — Elbow could lose out on an Ivor Novello award to an unknown singer who has never had a hit record. more info

NME — Duffy, Jonny Greenwood and Coldplay are also nominated more info

411 Mania — Slipknot plan to celebrate 10th anniversary, Killswitch Engage name new album, Metallica could tour with Megadeth, album updates from Arcade Fire, Pearl Jam, 30 Seconds to Mars, The Mars Volta, Elbow and more, free downloads from Dave Matthews Band a... more info

411 Mania — Band trying to write and tour at the same time... more info

Music Mule — What? The Acorn The Acorn are Canada’s and perhaps North America’s hottest new alt.folk band. Some of you may have been lucky enough to see them on recent UK support slots with the mighty Elbow and Fleet Foxes. The band have three full lengths in... more info