Sweeping The Nation — Another Sky - Aimee Caught A Moth Chemtrails - Detritus Andronicus Gruff Rhys - Silver Lining Lead Balloons Jane Weaver - Love In Constant Spectacle Jesus & Mary Chain - jamcod Julia Holter - Sun Girl ladylike - Southbound Laetitia Sadier – Une Aut... more info

Sweeping The Nation — Anna Hillburg - How Do You Make Believe Antonymes feat. Sarah Nixey - Coming Out Of Silence bar italia – worlds greatest emoter Bill Botting & The Two Drink Minimums - Cecily Cheekface - Largest Muscle City Parking - Carl Cloud Nothings - Final Sum... more info

Sweeping The Nation — Eight down, two to go (and for one of those we'll have to wait until the end of the year) 2017 was the year when statistically we were told "rap overtakes rock", something it had actually done a long time previously and would continue to do as St... more info

Sweeping The Nation — "That rock'n'roll, eh?" Our documentation of how we see the years of this decade in retrospect continues into 2014, the year Alex Turner made a stand for... something at the Brits. We were somehow unsurprised to find Radio X were still callin... more info

Sweeping The Nation — Onwards in our survey of our favourite stuff that tells the story, or at least a hyper-specific version of it, of each year of the decade just finishing. 2013, then. It doesn't feel like it, either now or reading the contemporary view, but it was... more info

Consequence of Sound — Also featuring Nadine Shah, Aurora, Fufanu, and many more. more info

Guardian Music — It’s time to give out the most prestigious music award in the UK, with Nadine Shah and Sons of Kemet the hottest tips. Follow all the action from the red carpet and ceremony here 9.02pm BST Nadine Shah has criticised the Mercury prize organisa... more info

DrownedInSound — Jasper Willems on Nadine Shah's Holiday Destination more info

Guardian Music — Whether on Syria, Trump or her own life, Nadine Shah’s darkly powerful post-punk holds little back. With her third album up for the Mercury prize, the outspoken Tynesider talks Brexit, the Bad Seeds and toxic relationshipsThe seaside town of ... more info

Guardian Music — The awards for the best in British independent music acknowledged a wide-ranging series of names, from Goldie to Idles and SophieTracey Thorn has been awarded the most prestigious prize at the Aim independent music awards, which recognise the best in... more info