Mercury Music Prize Reviews

This week saw the 12th edition of the Mercury Music Prize, still named so despite the original sponsors having been defunct for many years and are now sponsored by Panasonic. The prize is awarded annually to the most deserving British or Irish album released in previous 12 months according to a panel of judges taken from the ...  Read the complete review

Well, to be honest, i dont really like any awards party. I personally think thy're a waste oftime because the nominations are always commercial because they're the onle cmpanies with money. This mecuy thingy is still much the same except for one difference. They try to be cool. There nominations are always the best known of any genre, so ...  Read the complete review

The recently announced short list for the mercury music prize shows that diversity and orginality is alive in the Uk. Lets face it, it is easy to criticise the mercury, how in reality can you compare the Radiohead's Amnesiac against Basement Jaxx's Rooty when the albums come from two completely different genres. It basically comes down ...  Read the complete review

The mercury music awards are often viewed as the most prestigous, anti-corporate, uninfluenced award ceremony in Britain. It's just one award, ONE, for the best album released in the past year. They assemble a panel of top music people, and they listen to every British album, of the past year, and they all construct their own ...  Read the complete review