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Listapalooza: The Ticket music writers’ Best Of 2012 lists
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  • December 14, 2012, 09:55

Are you ready for another set of lists? I bet you are. It’s not just Santa Claus who gets his kicks making lists at this time of year. Everyone goes list-crazy because everyone loves lists. For those of us in …

Mercury Music Prize – the shortlist

Here’s the shortlist for this year’s Mercury Music Prize: The Maccabees “Given to the Wild” (Fiction) Jessie Ware “Devotion” (PMR) Django Django “Django Django” (Because) Roller Trio “Roller Trio” (F-Ire) Field Music “Plumb” (Memphis Industries) Micheal Kiwanuka “Home Again” (Polydor) …

The 33 best albums of 2012 so far
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  • June 26, 2012, 08:49

Hey, it’s a list! We mark six months of new releases with 33 of the albums released in 2012 which we’re still listening to. Some of these will make the final cut when the big list is compiled in six …

The high profile absentees from the end-of-year lists

Now that 2011′s musical comings and goings have been settled (though we’re still waiting for the Irish record industry to let us know about sales for the year – they’re obviously too busy suing this plucky little outcrop of rock …

Listomania: The Ticket music writers’ lists of stuff from 2011

It’s the longest list post of the year, list fans. When Pope Gregory XIII came up with the aul’ Gregorgian calendar back in 1582, he didn’t realise we’d be using it centuries later to put a top and a tail …

Have you excercised your franchise in The Ticket Awards yet?

If not, you have until Sunday at midnight to vote in The Ticket Awards 2011. It’s your chance to have your say when it comes to music, movies and games in 2011 rather than just fuming, whinging and whining about …

Music’s lost and found department

Hats off to Krissi Murison. At a time of year when most publications got through the quiet news days of December by reviewing 2010 or previewing 2011 (or, indeed, doing both), the NME editor came up with a perfect wheeze …

Gong! Gong! Gong! OTR’s Gongs of 2010!

Gong! Gong! Gong! We end the year with OTR’s Gongs Of 2010, our set of beautifully designed awards presented to those who have served the rock’n’roll cause at home and away in the last 12 months. Please note that tongues …