Sky News — This year's Barclaycard Mercury Music Prize sees over half the acts receive nominations for their debut albums. more info

Guardian Music — Ray Winstone is well cast, but that's about the only thing this remake gets rightNick Love is a talented British director whose feature-length version of the ITV small-screen classic has its strong points. Ray Winstone is good casting as Regan, the o... more info

ContactMusic — Plan Bs Ill Manors and Jessie Wares Devotion are among the albums nominated for the 2012 Barclaycard Mercury Prize The two artists face stiff competition from LPs by Django Django Alt-J Ben Howard Field Music Lianne Le Havas Michel Kiwanuk... more info

ContactMusic — British rappersinger Plan B and rocker Richard Hawley will battle it out for the prestigious album of the year honour at the 2012 Mercury Prize ceremony Plan Bs Ill Manors and Hawleys Standing at the Skys Edge are the favourites to win the 2012 accol... more info

Prefix — The Barclaycard Mercury Prize has announced its shortlist of albums in contention for this year's British music prize, and according ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/mercury-prize-announces-2012-shortlist/69021/ more info

Guardian Music — No dance music, no hard rock, no curveball, no Kate Bush and no true pop among this year's nominationsAs with last year, it's one of those Mercury shortlists that somehow contrives to add up to less than the sum of its parts. These are all decent alb... more info

Guardian Music — London rapper and Sheffield singer stand out as favourites from a shortlist dominated by indie bands and solo artistsPlan B's third album may have involved a daring change of direction, from sweet 60s soul to politically infused rap, but it looks lik... more info

Guardian Music — The Mercury prize albums of the year will be announced later today. Is it time for Plan B? Did alt-j make your blood flow? Let us know who you'd really like to see make the shortlistIt says here: "The Barclaycard Mercury prize ‘2012 albums of th... more info

Guardian Music — Roundhouse, LondonYou do feel slightly sorry for all the mid-level acts gigging in London in September. In a new annual tradition, for 30 days all the available oxygen gets sucked up by the iTunes festival. Held at the architecturally satisfying Roun... more info

The Hip Hop Chronicle — This cover literary blew me away. Ben Drew aka Plan B took to Radio 1 Live Lounge to covers he covers the Cheryl Cole’s single “Call My Name”. His rework adapts the mainstream pop track into a soulful piano backed urban ballad. Check it out bel... more info