Jeer at blogosphere hype all you want: I'll gladly put up with a barrel of Arctic Monkeys if it means a band like Black Kids gets blogged into the public consciousness every once in a while.
After nine years of almost constant touring followed by three more producing an album that received a lukewarm reception, 2007 seemed to be the year Scottish rockers Travis burned out.
Radiohead's "In Rainbows" is up against 11 other albums, including "Raising Sand" by Alison Krauss and former Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant, in the competition for this year's Nationwide Mercury Prize.
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