Guardian Music — Rapper and indie trio to fight it out as favourites for this year's Mercury prizeDizzee Rascal and the xx will fight it out as favourites to win this year's Mercury prize. From a decidedly indie list, bookmaker William Hill put Dizzee's Tongue N' Che... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Mister Moods said... BRAND NEW MOODS presents: - Edgar Varèse "Arcana - Intégrales - Déserts" On this disc is a selection of the composer's works from his heyday, the 1920s, including such orchestral pieces as the substantial Arcana, three miniat... more info

Undercover, Australia — Gorillaz have long been rumoured to be heading to Australia, but those rumours kicked up a notch this week. more info

NME — Foals, Ellie Goulding, Dizzee Rascal also help round off Spanish event more info

Guardian Music — Belle & Sebastian's much-anticipated ATP Bowlie Weekender 2 (10-12 Dec, Butlins, Minehead, atpfestival.com) has now added Foals, Crystal Castles, Edwyn Collins, Steve Mason and Dean Wareham playing the influential dream-pop of his former band Galaxie... more info

Chorus.fm — *Gorillaz (http://absolutepunk.net/gorillaz)* have a new AOL session (http://music.aol.com/video/on-melancholy-hill-sessions/gorillaz/bc:111005722001). Submitted by Jukebox Romeo more info

Spinner.com — Filed under: Exclusive Sony With his pensive expression and calm demeanor, Danger Mouse (aka Brian Burton), is certainly more mouse than danger. This is not to say that he's meek -- he's just incredibly quiet and surprisingly cautious, despite all o... more info

NME — Plus Gorillaz star Damon Albarn snaps up a tennis table, Kasabian admit crocodile obsession – your music gossip stop more info

Totally Fuzzy — mp3hugger said... indie mp3s you can hug The Innocence Mission - The Happy Mondays Viernes - Entire Empire Cotton Jones - Glorylight And Christie The Yellow Melodies - We Will Win The World Cup Tears Run Rings - Waiting For The End http://mp3hugger.c... more info

MTV.co.uk News — Former Sex Pistols frontman John ‘Johnny Rotten’ Lydon has said he was approached to work with Gorillaz but turned them down. He revealed that Damon Albarn had asked him to appear on a... more info