Consequence of Sound — The Road to Red Rocks arrives in January. more info

Guardian Music — LSO St Luke's, LondonThe Mercury prize for 2012's best British album is awarded on Thursday. This means the season for complaining about the shortlist is nearly over and the brief window of griping about the winners is about to open. This year's fiel... more info

Time — Welcome to our weekly rundown of what’s happening on the Billboard charts, recapping the big movers in sales and streams of singles and albums. On we go: Country Comes to Town. It’s a big week for country artists on the Billboard 200 Albums chart... more info

411 Mania — Mumford and Sons finally dethroned... more info

Guardian Music — Forum, LondonIt is fewer than four months since Kristian Matsson, the Swedish singer-songwriter who performs as the Tallest Man on Earth, played a sold-out show at the capacious Hackney Empire in London. The Forum is even bigger, yet this room is a... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Dominick Mastrangelo Daughter at The Slipper Room, 10/17/2012 Glassnote Records, home to Mumford & Sons and Phoenix among others, showcased some of their newest signees at a CMJ showcase on 10/17 at snazzy, newly-renovated Lower East Side c... more info

ContactMusic — Folk rockers Mumford & Sons have scored a third week at the top of the U.S. albums chart.The British group's Babel rocketed to the top of the... more info

411 Mania — But Mumford and Sons are still #1... more info

Mjsbigblog — Mumford and Sons are set to top the album chart for another week. Taylor Swift is moving a lot of singles. It’s the second week for AGT’s Jackie Evancho and UK XF’s Cher Lloyd. How will they fare this week? This is the weekly sales thread, a s... more info

Jam! Showbiz Music, Canada — No one expected Mumford & Sons to be bigger than Justin Bieber -- certainly not the British folk-rock band themselves. more info