Scotsman.com — Fife's Kenny Anderson, AKA King Creosote, has been recording for two decades and has run a record label for 15 years, so what does the Mercury Prize nomination for his ump 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 — On this week's podcast Alexis Petridis talks with the editors of White Riot, a new book that covers punk rock and the politics of race (see below for their playlist).Continuing the theme, Louis Pattison talks to Pink Eyes from Fucked Up about his lov... 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

Guardian Music — You don't have to head to Britain's cities to find a clued-up crowd – there are some unlikely pockets of cool, from Anstruther to Frome and Nettlebed to Barrow-in-FurnessAnstruther, FifeThe small seaside village of Anstruther, 50 miles north of Edi... more info