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Between this Edge Festival show going on sale and the date of the performance, Conor J O'Brien and his band have found their debut album, Becoming a Jackal , nominated for a Mercury Prize. So the audience were treated to the rare sight and sound of a group on the crest of a popular wave playing in one of Edinburgh's smallest and most atmospheric venues ...

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Nu ravers Klaxons lose their swagger

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Published July 29, 2010 at 4:53 a.m.

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When Klaxons waltzed off with the Mercury Prize for their debut album three years ago, they looked like a band for whom anything was possible ...

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Has The Mercury Prize "Lost It"?

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Published July 20, 2010 at 1:03 a.m.

Lily Allen says it's over, but we spoke to The XX, I Am Kloot and you! ...

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OMM's Top 50 Albums of the Decade

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Published Nov. 30, 2009 at 10:54 a.m.

50-11: The countdown ... 50 DANGER MOUSE The Grey Album ... deleted, 2004 ... The idea of mashing up Jay-Z's Black Album with the Beatles' White Album was irresistible; those surprised by the brilliant results included the former's lawyers ... 49 ... DESTINY'S CHILD Survivor ... Columbia, 2001 ... Destiny's Child's multi-platinum bootylicious third album spawned four huge singles and sent the trio into the stratosphere, making Beyoncé a superstar ... 48 RACHEL UNTHANK AND THE WINTERSET

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Dizzee Rascal: pop star of the decade

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Published Nov. 28, 2009 at 7:07 p.m.

The aspiring grime spitter featured in the first issue of OMM back in 2003 and made the cover in 2007. Now he's the biggest British pop star of 2009 ... On the evening of 19 October 2003, the crowds gathering on Tower Bridge to await David Blaine's emergence from his Perspex box heard a booming bassline bubbling up from the fast-flowing surface of the Thames beneath them. A small boat packed with revellers – notable among them the already familiar, wiry figure of Dizzee Rascal – had sailed

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Speech Debelle, Night and Day Café, ManchesterSir Cliff Richard and the Shadows, O2, London

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Published Oct. 3, 2009 at 6:00 p.m.

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When she rhymes, disarmingly, "Got more lies in my CV than pros got STDs," she's not wrong. The initial backstory behind south London rapper Speech Debelle, surprise winner of the Mercury prize, was all to do with homelessness ...

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Pop review: Euros Childs, Son of Euro Child | CD review

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Published Oct. 3, 2009 at 6:06 p.m.

(National Elf) ... Sufjan Stevens's symphonic tribute to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway will be sold as a lushly appointed CD/DVD package with "stereoscopic 3D Viewmaster reel". Euros Childs's fifth solo album is already available in its entirety (via blog.myspace.com/euroschilds) as a free download, and is to be sold in CD form only at live shows and (at some unspecified point in the future) by mail order. The strange thing is, if you had to say which one of these records makes the best use of

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Led Bib

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Published Sept. 25, 2009 at 5:17 a.m.

Fresh from their skronking Mercury Prize performance, the downtown-ish London-based quintet deliver a white hot blast of pugnacious funk meets free jazz ...

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Mumford & Sons, Scala, London

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Published Sept. 22, 2009 at 6:00 p.m.

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With their first album out on 5 October, Mumford & Sons' London performance was a key test for the young English folk group who've already been tipped for next year's Mercury Prize. With a sold-out venue and anticipation about the show high on the back of much recent hype, there is nonetheless something dark and confessional in songs like "White Blank Page", which resonates with an audience who observe the tribute to lost loves unfold with a reverence rarely witnessed at live performances. Even

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