Yes, it means the return of Sounds Like Friday Night, BBC One's live music extravaganza.

Expect live tunes from the likes of Gary Barlow, Meghan Trainor (above), Years & Years and Halsey.

It starts tonight at 19:30 BST.

Until then, why not scroll back down to have a read of the 5 Things We Learned This Week, see what Gaz Coombes and Jared Leto have to say about their new music, check out the Manics paying tribute to the victims of Hillsborough and guess where the Arctic Monkeys' new music is headed, based on where it's been.

See you bright and early on Monday when we get back to a five-day week.

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It feels like ages since we had our weekly recap of the week in music.

Well, it's a fortnight really, as we didn't have one on Good Friday.

So much to say though. Justin Bieber urged people to remember Easter was not just about bunnies, we found out why Wildwood Kin should be on your folk-country playlist, and it emerged that Rag 'N' Bone Man has an important new job as the ambassador for this year's Record Store Day.

Let's get on with some of the others...

1) Tchaikovsky and Oasis still rule the roost

More than 120,000 listeners of Classic FM voted Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture as the best of all time in the station's Hall of Fame.

The annual list has been topped by Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 2 eight times since 1996.

Last year's winner - Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending - was in third place.

Meanwhile, Oasis's Live Forever topped a list of tracks by white male musicians to be named the best British song of all time.

That's according to the listeners of popular commercial indie station Radio X.

The Gallagher brothers' epic ode to immortality pipped Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody and their own track Don’t Look Back in Anger to claim the title.

On hearing the news, Noel Gallagher told the station: "I have always tried to aim higher than I think is possible.

"Some people try to be bigger or better than their contemporaries or their predecessors… Me? I'm just trying to be better than myself which as we now know is virtually impossible."

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2) Stormzy is nominated for a Bafta

He provided one of the TV moments of the year - sadly not for his blistering Brits freestyle, external, but instead for his surprise appearance on Love Island, where he dished out advice for some would-be grime stars.

Stormzy's cameo is up for a new Bafta TV award, for must-see moment of the year, at this year's ceremony on 13 May.

It's up against one of the highlights of last year's musical calendar: One Love Manchester.

The concert was speedily arranged by Ariana Grande in the wake of the tragic bomb attack following her concert at the Manchester Arena.

Check out Ariana performing an emotional rendition of her hit One Last Time above, and also re-live One Love Manchester as it happened.

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3) Cardi B to make history...again...

Rapper Cardi B has been confirmed as a one-off co-host of The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.

The long-running late night show has never had a co-host in its 64-year history.

She'll take her seat alongside Jimmy on Monday 9 April.

Last year, Cardi became the first female rapper in nearly 20 years to score a #1 in the US charts with her smash hit Bodak Yellow. The last one to do so was Lauryn Hill with Doo Wop (That Thing), external in 1998.

She then became the first female hip-hop artist to have her first three singles in the Top 10 at the same time.

She's a record break-eee-eeer...

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4) Stevie Wonder is keeping the dream alive

The singer-songwriter roped in a bunch of his musician and actor mates to mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the late, great Dr Martin Luther King Jr.

Dr King was best known for his I Have a Dream speech in support of racial equality during the civil rights movement in 1960s America.

Stevie brought together such artists as Mariah Carey, Katy Perry, Demi Lovato and Sir Elton John, who revealed their dreams for a better world.

Check out the star-studded video above.

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5) That's Chief Skepta to you...

The Mercury Prize-winning grime star was presented with a huge honour in his parent's native Ogun state, in the southwest of Nigeria.

Skepta, whose full name is Joseph Olaitan Adenuga Jnr, was given the title, external of Amuludun of Odo-Aje.

The event saw him dressed in the traditional Agbada - a wide-sleeved robe worn by men in West Africa.

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Billboard magazine

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Slipknot singer Corey Taylor says they are are "gonna try and put an album out next year".

Its been four years since the Iowan metal band shared some new music.

“The guys are writing tons of music and I’ve written lyrics to almost all of it,” he told Billboard.

“We’re going to start trying to put together demos here and there with the time off that I have and really try to get ahead of the curve as far as what happens next."

But, he added: "The best way to make God laugh is to announce your plans out loud. So I’m just going with the flow."

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Welsh rockers the Manic Street Preachers have shared one final new track ahead of the release of their new album, Resistance Is Futile, which is out next Friday.

Liverpool Revisited covers the fight for justice for the 96 football fans who died during the stadium disaster in 1989.

“It’s about the ‘Justice for the Victims of Hillsborough’ campaign," said singer James Dean Bradfield, as the NME reports., external

“When the ruling came out of the High Court, we were just about to do a gig at the Liverpool Echo Arena, and Nick [Nicky Wire] had a day down on the waterfront where he just took loads of Polaroids and wrote loads of poetry, as he does.

"Nick wrote this song in its entirety. I think I’d gone home for tea with the family and by the time I got back, he’d done a guitar solo - which is a bit cheeky. When he gets into the flow of doing a song on his own, it does just flow."

Check it above.

Latino pop? Trap? Folktronica?

Get in touch via @bbcmusic, external and we'll post some of the best ones here.

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Stormzy's Blinded By Your Grace Part 2, Camila Cabello's Never Be the Same and George Ezra's Paradise (silver) are to receive new rebranded Brit-certified discs.

The discs linking sales certifications to the industry's annual award show.

Stormzy's got a platinum for more than 600,000 combined sales, Camila's Gold is for more than 400,000 while George's new song Paradise is already silver for more than 200,000.

The Weeknd's 2016 release Starboy is the first album to receive a Brit-certified platinum disc.

A new bronze disc will be awarded to "breakthrough" artists the first time one of their albums sells 30,000 units.

The BPI, which represents the industry, said the award would benefit independent artists at the start of their career.

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All hell broke loose online yesterday afternoon when Sheffield's finest (sorry Jarvis) announced details of their first new album in five years.

So far, all we have to go off is some synthesized strings and a space-age blues riff, alongside a ridiculous title; Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino.

Oh, that and some equally interesting songs titles such as Batphone, The World's First Ever Monster Truck Front Flip and The Ultracheese.

No, really.

Not that a ridiculous title or two has ever hindered a great rock 'n' roll record, however; try Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum on for size.

But with only 42 seconds of new music and some bizarre names to guide us, let's take a look back at how the Monkeys' sound has developed over their previous five efforts, so we can attempt to see in which direction they are headed come what 11 May.

'Cause you don't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been.

Or something like that.

1) Ramshackle young northern indie punk-rockers

The High Green lads burst on to the scene in 2006 with their game-changing debut Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not, which chronicled wild nights and young lust in South Yorkshire.

Not only did the record make it instantly cool again to sing in a northern accent/dialect but it also inadvertently changed the record industry forever, after the band's friends uploaded their early demo CDs to Myspace and helped them create an instant online fan base without any help from a record label.

Tracks like I Bet That You Look Good on the Dancefloor (above), Mardy Bum and When The Sun Goes Down drew on early noughties indie rock influences like The Strokes, The Vines and The Libertines and became the fastest selling debut album in British music history.

2) The difficult transitional second album

How on earth do you follow that then?

Well, firstly with more indie bangers, like debut track Brianstorm (above) and Inbetweeners theme tune Fluorescent Adolescent; their first foray into the world of daft naming conventions.

However album #2; 2007's Favourite Worst Nightmare, was a little heavier, more ambitious and showed signs of what was to come from Alex and co, as they worked with producer James Ford - of Simian Mobile Disco -for the first time.

The highlight being their most spacious, slow-burning and moody track to date; album closer 505, featuring their pal Miles Kane on guitar.

Only Ones Who Know gave us our first glimpse of Alex the crooner - a la Richard Hawley/Morrissey - too, after his rapid fire delivery of the first record.

This was the sound of a band in cool transition but still top marks for not trying to change too much too soon.

3) The dark desert stoner psych rock record

OK, transition over.

By 2009, with two number one records and a Glastonbury headline slot already under their belt, the UK's biggest band grew out their hair, left these shores behind and headed out to the LA desert on their motorbikes with QOTSA's Josh Homme to make some of their most weirdly wonderful music so far.

The quite literal tales of hedge hopping, queue jumping and taxi fare dodging back home were substituted for far more opaque lyrics in tracks like Crying Lighting and My Propeller.

This record felt less like reading extracts from young Alex's diary and more like looking at his first full attempts at surrealist painting.

But in A minor.

4) The sparkling jangly hippy guitar pop one

When the Arctic Monkeys began their journey to the top they dressed (trackie bottoms tucked in socks) and sounded (oh but it's reet hard to remember) like the fans that helped them to break through in the first place.

The mysterious darkness of their third record however, aligned with the band's by now established LA rockstar lifestyles - fit with model girlfriends, freshly-groomed haircuts and transatlantic accents - may have left some fans feeling like they'd lost the cheeky Yorkshire chaps forever.

That all changed with 2011's Suck it and See, as the Monkeys let the sunshine back in with jangly guitars and lovelorn melodies like on the above title track and swirling album opener She's Thunderstorms.

The fun and mischief of their debut returned too with the suggestive album title and Nuggets-esque tracks like Don't Sit Down 'Cos I've Moved Your Chair and Brick by Brick.

The sound of four accomplished ex pat superstars loving their new life the sun.

5) The sleazy modern hip hop beat of seasoned festival headliners

The inspiration for the name of 2013's AM may have come from a similarly-initialed Velvet Underground record but the sound was more akin to beats made by Dre Dre.

After seven years in the game, moving through the gears from young indie punks to dark stoner rockers, and then on to new-age rich hippies, the Arctic Monkeys were about to get modern and get sleazy.

As the old Blur song goes "your mind gets dirty, as you get closer to thirty" and from the filthy opening riff of track one Do I Wanna Know (above) the Monkeys unashamedly crossed over into world of Drake, Rihanna and other properly polished US pop stars.

The new era was confirmed with a slick Live Lounge Drizzy cover, with a wet-look Alex grooving, sans guitar.

Do I Wanna Know even became their biggest hit in their semi-adopted home from home and the album won best album at the Brits - the third time they've won it.

A second Glastonbury headline slot followed, with new tracks like RU Mine becoming instant fans favourites, while I Wanna Be Yours; a re-working of an old John Cooper Clarke poem showed that the newfound R & B stars hadn't forgotten their Northern street poet roots really.

Since the last record, Alex has enjoyed a fun-looking gap year or two with his side project The Last Shadow Puppets (and grown a goatee by the looks of it), covering David Bowie and Leonard Cohen along the way, while drummer Matt Helders has been back to the desert with Josh and his new pal Iggy Pop.

In that time too Bowie and Cohen have died, Justin Timberlake has gone country, Bob Dylan swing and the whole pop world Latino...

So do we wanna know what new mad sounds the Monkeys will return with next month?

Yes please - reet away.

Kev Geoghegan
Music News LIVE reporter

The former Supergrass frontman-turned- Mercury-nominated solo star turns up the funk on the latest track from his forthcoming album; The World's Strongest Man.

The video for Walk The Walk (above) sees the action around a high stakes poker game.

Speaking to Music News LIVE, Gaz said the track was inspired by "the idea of a kind of a dictator in his compound getting ready to push the big red button".

"It's based on anyone from Escobar to Peaky Blinders to Trump, that kind of male thing but in a fun caricatured way."

Gaz told us that, while he continues to write most of his songs on piano or guitar, "the basis of the track came from a loop".

"I mess around with a lot of beats and stuff and I like the hip hop approach to sections and sometimes I write in a different way and write some beats and start playing along on a glockenspiel or violin or something and the bass line started from that point."

Who knew a glockenspiel could bring the funk?

Gaz's album is out on 4 May,

BBC Radio 1

Love Like Waves is the band's first single in six years, so no wonder the Radio 1 DJ was excited.

Check it out above and see if you think it was worth the wait.

Annie certainly thinks so. But why the long pause?

Singer Ed MacFarlane explains: "I feel like there's a lot of bands around at the moment who feel they have to keep the machine rolling.

"And I really feel like our music is more special than that."

And you can check it out above.

It's for their latest musical hook up, Flames.

The video stars David and a heavily made-up Danny Trejo as a Kung Fu master training some pretty kick-ass warrior women.

Wax on, wax off...

Kev Geoghegan
Music News LIVE reporter

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America; the singer and actor's latest album with his band 30 Seconds to Mars, is out today.

Songs like Walk on Water suggest a politicised new direction for the stadium rock band but Leto has shied away from nailing his colours to any particular mast.

"I didn't want to be overtly political, I was much more interested in being personal and being social and being fun because those are things happening now.

"It's not just a time for suffering and disappointment, there's a lot of excitement and fun and inspiration - for every heartache there's a story of perseverance that is really powerful."

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The album sees Leto's band push further into other musical genres, working with EDM producer Zedd and duets with Halsey and rapper A$AP Rocky.

"I think there's an electronic element, there's a hip hop element, there's a rock element, there's a gospel element, it's really a collision of a lot of musical styles.

"So many of us, if you look at our playlists, you'll find a large variety of music and I'm the same way."

The track with Rocky; One Track Mind (above), is one of the album standouts

"We met a couple of times and I always really liked him a lot," says Jared.

"I think he's got an interesting perspective and he's a super-talented rapper and singer, he really made the most sense, he's a really creative artistic person."

A Rock also has an amazing new video out today which we can't share due to the language. Luckily he performed a cleaned-up version of A$AP Forever, which features a Moby sample, on The Tonight Show (below).

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We're certain she meant no offence but Lorde faced a fan backlash accusing her of mocking the death of Whitney Houston.

The 21-year-old Kiwi posted a picture of a bathtub alongside the title lyric from Whitney's cover of I Will Always Love You.

Unfortunately, Lorde seemed to have forgotten the singer accidentally drowned in a hotel bath in 2012.

The post caused outrage online and has subsequently been removed, with an apology from the singer in her Instagram story.

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“I’m so sorry for offending anyone" she wrote.

"I hadn’t even put this together I was just excited to take a bath.”

We've all had one of those days.

That's number two in Spanish by the way.

Thank God this isn't their sixth album 'cause we can only count to five.

The artists formerly known as Deers follow-up last year's debut Leave Me Alone with a new LP today, called I Don't Run.

Madrid's best new indie rockers may not be fans of running but they certainly ski alright in the official video to one of their new tracks The Club.

We spoke to them last month about the burgeoning Madrid indie rock 'n' roll scene, their love of a good full English and why "rock 'n' roll is not cool any more".

Carlotta, Ana, Ade and Amber will support QOTSA this summer at Josh Homme's band's own festival in London.

Here they are below explaining to us - in spite of their new title - what would make them run - you know, if they really had to.

Running on water could prove tricky though...

Deadline Hollywood

That is according to a report in movie site Deadline.

It says the studio is working on a new revamp, inspired by Nick Hornby’s cult 1995 novel and a 2000 film (above), starring John Cusack, which swapped the action from London to Chicago.

It's about the daily travails of a record shop-owning music geek and his romantic failures.

The project is in development for Disney’s upcoming direct-to-consumer service.

It will be intended for family viewing so expect good clean fun.

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In a metaphorical musical sense, we mean.

The third single from Noel's "cosmic pop" album Who Built The Moon? has a shiny new psychedelic video to go with as of today, which you can check out above.

NG and his HFB's bring their Stranded On The Earth World Tour to the UK later this month, starting in Brighton on 22 April.

The former Oasis chief and his gang of merry men and (scissor-wielding) women will headline the Perth leg of the BBC's Biggest Weekend on 26 May.

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Sir Elton Hercules John CBE is back today with a new album of his songs re-worked by the stars of today.

The likes of Ed Sheeran, Lady Gaga and Coldplay will all tackle EJ and co-writer Bernie Taupin's classics, as will Demi Lovato, Q-Tip, Queens of the Stones and The Killers.

"I brought out a wishlist of people that I would love and asked them," said Sir Elt.

"And to my surprise most of them said yes!"

Honestly, who would turn Elton down? (Madonna maybe?)

Ed tackles Candle in the Wind, so tissues at the ready for that one later.

Demi Lovato and Q-Tip team up on Don't Go Breaking My Heart and Queens of the Stone Age put their spin on Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.

Sneak a peak above and watch the stars trip over each other to compliment the songwriting skills of Elt and his longtime collaborator.

"Elton and Bernie songs definitely have an effect on contemporary music," said the flame-haired troubadour (or Ed Shir-AN, as Elton bizarrely calls him for some unknown reason).

"He's just a great songwriter."

Get your lip gloss ready, as the weekend has (nearly) landed.

Tell you what, if one of us is ever promoted to King, then four day working weeks will become the norm.

Today's final push will include news of Lorde's bath gaffe, Jared Leto exploring America's "good, bad and ugly" and we'll delve deeper into the Arctic Monkeys' potential new sound,

Plus, seeing as it's New Music Friday, we'll have plenty of suitably new tunes/albums from the likes of Cardi B, Kylie Minogue and Elton John and friends, as well as Hinds, Friendly Fires and more.

There's a new video too from Noel Gallagher and a new TV series based on High Fidelity is in the works with a woman in the lead role.

Oh and of course we'll reveal 5 Things We've Learned This Week, because knowledge is power people.

But let's kick off today with the new collab from Brits superstar Dua Lipa and Dumfries' finest disc jockey Calvin Harris.

Check it above and we'll get rolling.