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 — 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 — Olympic Stadium, LondonIt was hard not to approach the Closing Ceremony of the Paralympic Games with some trepidation.The equivalent event at the Olympics had felt slightly underwhelming, perhaps because no spectacle could possibly live up to the ath... more info

DrownedInSound — August came and went so quickly that we at DiS can’t be entirely sure it wasn’t some weird, lucid dream. After all, we're pretty sure Romanian discus throwers aren’t supposed to congregate outside our bus stop, fairly certain that our televisio... more info

Guardian Music — Bramham Park, LeedsWhatever's going on in music, the Leeds festival always feels like a parallel universe. Unfashionable tattooed American pop-punk reliably clogs the main stage and fans look to make an exhibition of themselves for a weekend before r... more info

Impose Magazine — Wild Nothing never made any secret about his genealogy. Back in 2009, Jack Tatum, Wild Nothing's brainchild, released a series of rough recordings, one of which was an self-aware and lush version of Kate Bush standard, "Cloudbusting." It was at o... more info

Perez Hilton — Welly welly well Mz. Kate Bush Charlotte Church! The last we'd heard from the child-star turned sexy songstress was her blaming Rupert Murdoch for runing her career! But it seems Char is back with an ethereal vengeance with new tune How Not To Be ... more info

Guardian Music — Catch up with the last seven days in the world of musicThis week's most popular stories1. David Bowie among UK stars who turned down Olympic closing showLondon 2012 finale used video montage of Bowie classics, and prerecorded slots for other absentee... more info

ContactMusic — Kate Bush is set to collaborate with Outkasts Big Boi The Wuthering Heights singer is thought to be in talks about working together after the rapper tweeted to say he had been talking to her Big Boi teas... more info

411 Mania — He's been talking to her... more info