Brooklyn Vegan — The shortlist has been revealed for the 2011 Mercury Prize. The list includes some major albums like James Blake's incredibly striking self titled debut, PJ Harvey's massive comeback Let England Shake, and Adele's 21, in addition to some other... more info

Altsounds — *James Blake nominated for the 2011 Barclaycard Mercury Prize - An Album of the Year * *James Blake's* highly acclaimed eponymous debut album has been awarded the most prestigious accolade for a British musician by being shortlisted for this years' *... more info

Guardian Music — The 2011 nominees – Adele, PJ Harvey, Elbow and Katy B – are indisputably deserving artists. If only the Mercury panel would swing us a curveballIn pictures: Mercury prize 2011 nomineesTraditionally, the bookies tend to make a bit of a mess of th... more info

Guardian Music — Previous winners PJ Harvey and Elbow also among 12 nominees for album of the yearShe has dominated the charts on both sides of the Atlantic this year, winning plaudits for her undeniable talent and unmanufactured style, and now Adele is in the runnin... more info

NME — Katy B, Anna Calvi, James Blake and Metronomy also up for £20,000 award more info

Impose Magazine — Pitchfork's annual music festival took place this past weekend in Chicago. Here are pics from Friday, July 15 with the usual suspects like Animal Collective, Guided By Voices, and James Blake. See more images from this post. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Dominick Mastrangelo Neko Case Bob Pollard of Guided By Voices James Blake The 2011 Pitchfork Festival continues through Sunday at Union Park in Chicago. Some of it is streaming online. A set of pictures from Friday continues below...... more info

XLR8R — In this interesting piece from Amoeba Music's What's In My Bag series—in which the West Coast music retailer talks to contemporary artists about the music and movies they purchase while in town—UK post-dubstep posterboy James Blake c... more info

Stereogum — Last night James Blake made his American television debut with a performance of “The Wilhelm Scream” on Jimmy Fallon. Blake pulls a Pecknold when it’s time to shake Fallon’s hand. (Via The Audio Perv) James Blake is out now via Atlas/A&M. If ... more info

Guardian Music — The xx won it last year. Elbow won it in 2008. But in-between Speech Debelle picked up the Mercury prize, and what's happened to her?This week Alexis Petridis is joined by Rebecca Nicholson and Ruth Barnes. They look at the odds and try to predict wh... more info