Guardian Music — Indie minimalists The xx take home coveted £20,000 Mercury prize for eponymous debut albumEthereal indie minimalists The xx last night won the Barclaycard Mercury Prize and the £20,000 cash that goes with it for their eponymous debut album, beating... more info

The Culture Of Me — Today brings another huge talent in the EDM (god we hate that acronym) scene over the last decade, Jon Hopkins, a man who's well versed in classic song structures and transforming them into electronic anthems and build-break-build measures. Through E... more info

NME — Members of The Horrors are also set to play in charity shops more info

XLR8R — A couple new releases coming down the pipeline hit our radar today. To be released via Phonica, a 12" of remixes of Bob Holroyd's "African Drug" track by Four Tet and Local Action compatriot T. Williams will drop on September 27. read more more info

XLR8R — About three years after the release of his Walls album, Berlin's Apparat will take the reins as mixmaster on the forthcoming installment of !K7's DJ-KiCKS series. The DJ/producer will drop his contribution, a 24-track mix album that feature... more info

Altsounds — The* CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival* has announced its first round of performing artists including: *DeVotchKa, Surfer Blood, Two Door Cinema Club, School of Seven Bells, Bad Books (feat. Kevin Devine and Manchester Orchestra), Four Tet, The Drum... more info

Silent Uproar — Caribou has announced the Relentless Sleep-Depriving Fall World Tour, in continued support of Swim. In all seriousness, Dan Snaith is literally touring the entire known world between now and December. Russian Futurists, Emeralds, Arp and Four Tet wil... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Mr. Jones said... Today 30 Days Out celebrates our friends from across the Big Pond: we're playing singles from U.K. rockers including Andy Fairweather Low, Al Stewart, Tim Curry, Marianne Faithfull and perhaps the most controversial single ever rele... more info

Altsounds — Ottawa's *The Acorn* will be embarking on an extensive fall tour of North America to support their forthcoming album, No Ghost, coming out September 7th on *Bella Union*, available digitally now. The band recorded the album at a secluded cottag... more info

Guardian Music — Journos, bands and readers are out there getting trench foot so you don't have toThere's nothing quite like looking out of the window at the driving rain, icy winds and blizzards of frogs and thinking: "Right, let's pack for Reading festival." Having... more info