Pop Quiz: Arctic Monkeys

Pop Quiz: Arctic Monkeys

Aidin Vaziri | We caught up with Arctic Monkeys lead singer Alex Turner just a few hours after his band lost out on this year's Mercury Prize in an upset victory for the glow-stick-waving rave revivalists the Klaxons. Despite winning the award last year for "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not" - the fastest-selling British premiere album of all time - Turner didn't seem too upset. After all, his band had just headlined the Glastonbury Festival and has graduated to arena status on its current U.S. tour, and its knotty second album, "Favourite Worst Nightmare," is doing just fine, thank you. Besides, the Monkeys probably would have lost to Amy Winehouse anyway.

Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys

Q: How does it feel to lose the Mercury Prize to a novelty band?
A: A novelty band? Do you not like the Klaxons?
Q: No. I mean, yes. It depends. How well do you know them?
A: We have the same producer. We know them a bit.
Q: What I actually meant to say is they're No. 1. But don't you think you should have won?
A: Yeah, I think. I'm really proud of this album more than I am of our first one in terms of the sound of it and everything. It's just one of them things, isn't it? To win it two years in a row, it would be greedy. Continue reading.