BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat — Kasabian, Friendly Fires, Florence & The Machine and Bat For Lashes are among the 12 nominees for this year's Mercury Prize. more info

La Roux, Kasabian and Florence and the Machine are among the shortlist for this year's Mercury Prize. more info

Clickmusic — Florence And The Machine, Kasabian, Bat For Lashes up for the prize. more info

LEICESTER rockers, Glasvegas, Bat For Lashes and La Roux shortlisted for gong more info

Guardian Music — Images of this year's Mercury prize nominees, featuring Florence and the Machine, Kasabian and Bat for Lashes more info

The Independent — The nominations for the Barclaycard Mercury Music Prize have been announced, with joint favourites Florence and The Machine's 'Lungs' and Kasabian's third LP 'West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum' jostling with ten other entries to be named the album of... more info

Guardian Music — Florence and the Machine, Kasabian and Bat for Lashes are favourites to win the £20,000 prize, while La Roux and Glasvegas are also hotly tippedThe Mercury prize nominations for 2009's best album have been announced, and the list features the ecle... more info

NME — Odds revealed for 2009 prize more info

MTV.co.uk News — The 2009 Mercury Music Prize list has been announced and is the usual mix of big names and unknown artists. Kasabian, La Roux, Glasvegas, Friendly Fires and Florence and the Machine are all up for... more info

NME — Kasabian, Glasvegas, Bat For Lashes... find out all 12 nominations now more info