We are very excited about this year's Nationwide Mercury Music Prize nominations. Not only did we personally manage to guess 9 out of 12 correctly, but some Londonist favourites are nicely sitting in the mix with the unnervingly young Laura Marling, the mighty Elbow, dazzling jazz stars Portico Quartet and dubstep hero Burial all on the list. What we're really excited about is the inclusion of Neon Neon - Gruff Rhys and Boom Bip's......

There aren't many concept albums about the lives of rad 80s car designers. And there are even less that are the brainchild of a Welsh psychedelic bard and an American avant-garde hip-hop twiddler, and feature a podgy sex-obsessive on guest vocals. Which is one way of saying that Neon Neon's gleaming 'Stainless Style' is a pretty unlikely record. "It's a biographical show," explains a well-groomed Gruff Rhys, usually of Super Furry Animals. Tonight each......

If you've happily bounced around to Super Furry Animals hits over the last 15 years, you were probably a bit wowed by the sleek production of Neon Neon, a joint project between Gruff Rhys and eclectic bleepster Boom Bip. They'll be popping up at Wireless on Saturday, but if you fancy catching them do a full live gig, they'll do one of their first UK performances at Cargo on Sunday complete with guest stars Har......