Culture Bully — Video footage of Bat For Lashes performing "Moon and Moon" at the 2009 Mercury Awards. more info

Here Comes The Flood — The seeds for Brooklyn blues rock band Alberta Cross were sown in London, when Swedish musician Petter Ericson Stakee (vocals, guitar) and Terry Wolfers (bass) started jamming. A 7 song EP The Thief & the Heartbreaker was weel received and the band... more info

Allmusic Blog — British rapper Speech Debelle has won the 2009 Mercury Prize for her album Speech Therapy. Debelle received the nomination despite only selling 3,000 copies of her record prior to the ceremony, which pitted her against the likes of Bat For Lashes, Fr... more info

XLR8R — London's melodic MC Speech Debelle was awarded last night with the Barclaycard Mercury Prize for Album of the Year for her debut album on Big Dada, the poignant and original Speech Therapy. Surpassing albums by Florence + The Machine, Friendly F... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — After a pit stop in the press tent for some delicious and free Heineken, it was off across Polo Field and back to the Panhandle Solar Stage for an act I had been anticipating for weeks: Bat For Lashes. Natasha Khan's debut LP Fur And Gold intrigued ... more info

Clickmusic — The London rapper beats Bat For Lashes, La Roux and The Horrors to the album of the year award. more info

Guardian Music — • Rapper is first woman to win award for seven years• Sales surge predicted for debut album Speech TherapySpeech Debelle won this year's Barclays Mercury music prize last night, making her the first woman in seven years to scoop the covet... more info

Stereogum — Just today people were talking about big money bets coming in for Speech Debelle to win the Mercury Prize, and what do you know, the British rapper rode Ladbrokes' 4/1 odds and the votes of the Mercury High Council Of Accomplished Elders to bag t... more info

Reuters — LONDON (Reuters) - British singer-songwriters Florence and the Machine and Bat for Lashes are among the front-runners competing on Tuesday for the Mercury Prize, one of Britain's most prestigious annual music awards. more info

Guardian Music — The art-pop princess is the bookies' favourite to win the coveted music industry award, with Bat for Lashes and Speech Debelle in joint second placeFlorence and the Machine is the bookies favourite to walk away with the Mercury prize tonight, after W... more info