Guardian Music — Let England Shake is bookies' favourite for 20th Mercury prize, with King Creosote and Jon Hopkins emerging as dark horses• Listen to all the nominated albums and post your own reviews, and watch a series of exclusive performances in our studiosTh... more info

Guardian Music — Eight of the 12 nominees for Tuesday night's Mercury prize have visited the Guardian studios to play – watch them hereIn the two years since we started our How I wrote… live music sessions, we've looked at the Mercury prize shortlist and thought:... more info

Let Me Like It — Summer is almost over, and for me that's when the intensive music listening and discovering starts again. So that might be an explanation for the lack of updates lately! Todays post is a recommendation from a friend. Their first release Diamond Mine ... more info

Guardian Music — Our music team pick the songs or albums, old or new, they just can't turn offArif Lohar and Meesha Shafi Alif Allah Chambey Di Booty Everything the Taliban hate: stomping religious pop from Pakistan's Coke Studios, featuring a Punjabi folk singer a... more info

Guardian Music — If this pair win the Mercury prize, we can thank Sex and the City. Jude Rogers meets Jon Hopkins and King CreosotePop is full of odd couples, but this year's Mercury prize shortlist contains a particularly compelling one. Jon Hopkins, 31, is baby-f... more info

Guardian Music — Kenny Anderson, otherwise known as King Creosote, is joined by London-based collaborator Jon Hopkins to share this simple story of a Scots fishermanKing CreosoteBen KapeAndy GallagherLindsay Poulton more info

BBC 6 Music — King Creosote, Jon Hopkins and Anna Calvi kick off the series more info

Guardian Music — As UK independent labels count the cost of the CD warehouse fire, buy digital to save physical, urges Chris SalmonIt's been an awful week for many of the UK's best independent labels, whose stock was destroyed in the Sony DADC warehouse fire in Enfie... more info

Yahoo! Music UK — XFM - The pair have just been nominated for a Mercury for album Diamond Mine..... more info

Guardian Music — Surreal comedy's loss was the folky Fence Collective's gain. But I was the better singerBefore I mustered the courage to get up on stage on my own, I was part of a double act. The other half was a bloke called John Lynch. He was on my English course ... more info