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Elbow claimed that their Nationwide Mercury Prize victory is "the best thing that's ever happened to " during their acceptance speech tonight (September 9). - Source

Yoshimi/Land Rover's "Do You Realize?" is up against nine other nominees including All-American Rejects, JJ Cale, Elvis Presley, and the Ventures, and other folks who are either from Oklahoma or whose work has some sort of Oklahoman affiliation. The voting is open to the public (no matter where you live) until 11/15 and the winning track will be presented to the OK legislature in 2009: Vote! (Great people of Oklahoma, will you move if All-American Rejects win this thing?) - Source

Since they've fulfilled their contractual obligations to Universal, Sonic Youth announced that they'd decided to return to their more independent roots without specifying which label (Sub Pop? Domino? Matador?). This morning Matador's Gerard Cosloy wrote a post confirming that SY "recently reached an agreement with Matador to release the band's 16th album of new material in all worldwide territories, save for Japan." Look for it "sometime in 2009." He then says some nice things about his most recent signees: - Source

Freak yourself out by watching the clip below. Stills MP3 at bottom of post.MP3: The Stills - In The Beginning - Source

'Technologic' plus 2009's Lincoln MKS equals the following 30 second commercial. - Source

Maybe this guys was a mistaken, ugly Radiohead fan, but what's even more surprising than this on-stage attack of Noel is that brother Liam actually stuck up for him. - Source

A new study has concluded that fans of indie music have low self-esteem and little motivation, but generally describe themselves as creative. - Source

Watch the full Q&A session with J Spaceman below.  - Source

Bloc Party's third album 'Intimacy' has already been released in MP3 format so Xfm spoke to the band to find out why they decided to do a 'Radiohead'... - Source

Former cocaine addict and Blur bassist Alex James once admitted he spent over a million pounds on cocaine during the height of Blur's fame, but starting tonight on BBC America, he's hoping to educate the same generation he entertained about Columbia's top export. - Source