So that's it for today.

While people in the UK have been wrestling over TV sets and cashmere beanies, across the pond Miley Cyrus has been sleeping off her tofurkey baby and Taylor Swift has been wondering what next for world domination....

No doubt we'll have more from T-Swizz next week.

But for now, it's (almost) Friday night - so whether you are a weary worker or shopper, remember to put the tablet down and your feet up for a spot of Craig David co-hosting on #slfn, where he'll be joined by Anne Marie and the Killers.

Have a lovely weekend.

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Here we go then, our weekly list of things we have learned this week.

Stuff like... Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone Age(above) who was ticked off for having a crafty puff on stage and the fact Despacito now comes in Mandarin.

Here are more below... 5 more to be precise...

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1) Morrissey can't let the chance go by to same something controversial

No stranger to a controversial view or ten, Morrissey started the week by voicing his support for disgraced actor Kevin Spacey.

Spacey, along with producer Harvey Weinstein and other men in Hollywood has been accused of serial sexual harassment.

Morrissey told German news site Spiegel Online, external: “It doesn’t quite ring true to me, and it seems to me like he’s been unnecessarily attacked."

Speaking about Spacey's accuser, who was 14 at the time of the alleged 1986 incident, Morrissey, went on: “You have to wonder where the boy’s parents were.

He also appeared to accuse other alleged victims of acting out of opportunism.

"You also must wonder if people know exactly what’s happening, and they go along with it, but then when it’s happened, they find that they’re either really embarrassed or they didn’t really like it, so then they go reverse it and say, ‘I was ambushed, I was taken by surprise, I was dragged into the room.’

Unsurprisingly, many other musicians were unimpressed...

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2) Nick Cave and Roger Waters have probably left each other off their Christmas card lists

Nick accused Roger and the protest group UK Artists for Palestine, external of "censoring musicians", while performing the first of two gigs in Tel Aviv with his band the Bad Seeds.

They had written to Nick and his band to ask them to respect their cultural boycott of Israel, having previously called on Radiohead to cancel a show in Tel Aviv.

At a press conference, Nick said artists "have to go through a sort of public humiliation from Roger Waters and co.“

"It suddenly became very important to make a stand against those people who are trying to shut down musicians, to bully musicians, to censor musicians, and to silence musicians," he added.

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In response, Roger accused Nick of "arrogance" adding: "Nick, with all due respect, your music is irrelevant to this issue, so is mine, so is Brian Eno’s, so is Beethoven’s, this isn’t about music, it’s about human rights."

Film director Ken Loach added:

“Nick Cave has a choice, either to stand with the oppressed Palestinians or the Israeli state which denies them their human rights. He chooses to stand with the oppressor.”

3) Noel Fielding has 'disappeared' into the role of Alice Cooper

The Great British Bake Off host will play the shock rocker, better known to his friends as musician Vince Furnier, in the new series of Urban Myths - to be broadcast on the satellite channel.

That's him above as Alice, alongside David Suchet as Salvador Dali. Other than perhaps a little prosthetics around the nose, it looks pretty much like Noel in a tiara.

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In another episode, comedian Jack Whitehall will play the late glam rocker Marc Bolan, opposite Luke Treadaway as David Bowie, as the pair meet pre-fame in their shared manager’s office.

Earlier this year, an episode was controversially axed when Jospeh Fiennes, a white actor was cast as Michael Jackson.

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4) Hey Charlie say you can "wear mini skirts and can still be bad ass"

The London three-piece were our featured artist for our new weekly feature Newbie Tuesday.

Singer and bassist Sophie told us: "We're trying to break the stereotypes of a 'rock musician'.

"The lyrics to that song pretty much sum up our thoughts in terms of how girls dress and act.

"You can do and be whatever you want to be. It doesn't matter if you wanna wear matching outfits and mini skirts you can still be bad ass and you can still be powerful."

Read more and check them out below

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5) Strictly Come Dancing may have delivered us the ultimate Arctic Monkeys cover version

The Arctic Monkeys' floor-filling classic I Bet That You Look Good on the Dancefloor has been given the swing treatment by none other than Strictly Come Dancing regular Anton Du Beke.

It's taken from his forthcoming debut album From The Top, out now, just in time for Christmas.

Anton handily posted a snippet of the song below

"I hope they don’t mind what we’ve done with it. They might not have has it down as a swing track but it definitely works,” said our Anton.

The Arctics, it must be said, are no strangers to covers of their own, external...

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TMZ

Demi Lovato, Idina Menzel and Disney are being sued over the Frozen song ‘Let It Go’.

TMZ is reporting, external that musician Jaime Ciero is suing the three defendants, claiming that the Disney hit sounds like his 2008 song, Volar.

Ciero claims that the two songs share similarities in “note combinations, structures, hooks, melodies, lyrics, themes, production and textures”.

According to the report, Ciero is seeking profits from both the movie and its music.

Menzel - better known as Adele Dazeem, external to her friends - sung the Oscar-winning belter in the hit animated film, while Lovato recorded the single.

Neither Menzel, Lovato nor Disney have yet to respond to the allegations.

Ciero's song is below

A non-league football team has turned to classic album covers - and film posters - in a bid to drum up more attendees to matches.

Leek Town FC, based in Staffordshire, currently sit eighth in the Northern Premier League Division One South - in the eighth tier of English football.

So tickets for matches aren't exactly sold out.

But the posters - the dreamchild of Leek Town fan Paul Buxton - have helped boost attendance by about 12% over the course of the last season.

The team even bases its match-day playlist on the band whose album cover they've used.

Imagine a day's footy based on the Sex Pistols? The mind boggles.

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He's a massive Liverpool fan but it clearly meant everything him to meet his (and his late father's) idol Eric Cantona.

The Mercury-nominated rapper takes his dad's Cantona shirt on stage at every performance and explained why to the retired Manchester United star.

Eric also shared his love of music: "Hip hop, I like pop, rock, jazz. I love Miles Davis, Chet Baker..."

May we humbly suggest another singer, Monsieur Cantona??

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It seems the Little Mix girls have something to shout about (makes a change, then...)

Today the band have released their documentary Glory Days, a behind-the-scenes look at their rise from X Factor victory to girl band domination.

The girls have also released three new tracks from the platinum edition of the Glory Days album: If I Get My Way, Dear Lover and Is Your Love Enough?

"This album is all about celebrating the amazing year we've had," say the girls, promoting the release on Twitter, clad in an array of casual wear (joke!)

Speaking to Billboard, external, director Adam Goodall described the documentary as "a coming of age film".

"I think this documentary shows quite how hard the girls work and also how in control they are of their careers."

"The girls aren't always happy, they are human beings. They open up and allow me to film them in their most fragile and delicate moments."

Well, that's our Friday night viewing sorted.

So in case you are feeling far too joyous about your Black Friday bargains, BBC Music's Fraser McAlpine brings you an in-depth look at six musical videos so intense that they made the star themselves cry...

Turns out Miley Cyrus finds crying in public more difficult that swinging on a wrecking ball in your birthday suit and Yeah Yeah Yeah's Karen O was actually crying because her boyfriend was late for a farewell date.

Hankies at the ready...

Miley Cyrus had a double celebration yesterday - her 25th birthday AND Thanksgiving.

Which means cake, pumpkin pie and - ahem - tofurkey (if you're a vegan like Miley).

And though Miley is far from turning into a human wrecking ball, a post celebration photo had some fans leaping to the conclusion that she was pregnant...

The Younger Now singer posted the image, with the comment: "So close to b-day time! Stoked for a day full of Tofurkey & loved ones! Ain't it ironic? #VeganTurkeyBaby".

Followers responded to the post, asking "Are you pregnant?" and "Are you having a baby?"

Really, can't a girl have a good meal these days without a post-prandial (that means after lunch) spread being mistaken for a mini Cyrus?

Miley was having none of it, posting on Twitter in typically forthright manner, external. See for yourself!

BBC 6 Music

When a band who have been together for ten years, released five albums and played gigs and festivals all over the world, offer you a bit of advice, then it's probably best to listen.

Baltimore's best Future Islands were Lauren Laverne's guests in the 6 Music Live Room and shared their words of wisdom for young bands.

Bascially, they nicked it from Dee Dee Ramone.

"Don't wait until you're any good, just get out there."

They further clarified.

"A lot of bands practise until there are no flaws at all, but they do it in a rehearsal space,

There's so much more about getting up on stage and making tonnes of mistakes,"

Singer Samuel T Herring added: "You find joy in it; don't wear out all your songs until you take the joy out of them."

You can listen to their full session here.

Jazz artist Jon Hendricks - intriguingly dubbed 'the James Joyce of jive' by Time magazine - has died at the age of 96.

Originally part of the popular vocal trio Hendricks, Lambert & Ross, Hendricks was considered a pioneer of 'vocalese' - writing lyrics for originally instrumental songs.

He most recently worked on lyricising Miles Davis' seminal album Miles Ahead with the London Vocal Project - a vocalese project Hendricks had been working on since the 1960s.

Earlier this year, the London choir flew to New York to premiere the finished piece in front of the 96-year-old Hendricks.

LVP's Pete Churchill described him as "the godfather of vocalese, external". "If you are into vocalese, it's like meeting God," he said.

Check him out, above, performing at a French jazz festival.

Another artist who has brand new music out today is Icelandic pop phenomenon Bjork.

Her latest album Utopia drops today and to celebrate, she has announced a gig at the Eden project in Cornwall next summer.

She will play on 20 June, with tickets going on sale next Friday 30 November.

She is also playing the new Al Points East festival in east London on 27 May.

In its three-star review, the Guardian , externalsaid her new album "spins from ecstasy to frustration by focusing more on soundscapes than melody".

The NME gave it four stars, external, saying "Björk has created a paradise-like world here, with birdsong dotted throughout the album, transporting the listener to a magical sonic rainforest,

However, a much-less enthusiastic review in The Independent , externalcalled the album "Achingly dull, and self-regardingly solipsistic."

One-star. Ouchy.

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Singer Annie Lennox OBE has been named as the new chancellor of Glasgow Caledonian University.

The Aberdeen-born musician and former Eurythmics star described her new role as chancellor as a "truly remarkable honour".

"I am humbled by it, and intend to serve this outstanding institution in the very best way I can."

Earlier this week, the well known HIV and poverty campaigner discussed pineapple haircuts and directing cows with our very own Mark Savage.

Chancellor Lennox will be formally installed during a ceremony at the university in July 2018.

Vice chancellor, Prof Pamela Gillies CBE said the university was "excited by the prospect of what we might now achieve together over the coming years".

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BBC Radio 1

Anne Marie will be heading down to BBC Television Studios soon, ahead of her appearance tonight on Sounds Like Friday Night.

She got a bit of a warm up on Thursday in Radio 1's Live Lounge, where she performed her track Heavy, external and busted out a sultry cover of Finders Keepers by Mabel (another #snfl guest, singing the same song, external earlier in the series).

Check her out above - she even squeezes in the chorus from the new Eminem track Walk on Water and some TLC.

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No, they haven't joined his supergroup of international powers, though we'd love to see the North Korean leader on drums.

Instead Noel Gallagher's been sharing is views on world politics as he promotes his "cosmic pop" third solo album Who Built The Moon? which is out today.

It's about as far out and high up as the former Oasis guitarist has flown with his High Flying Birds, as you'll have heard already on singles Holy Mountain, external and It's a Beautiful World, external.

Check out another trippy new track Black & White Sunshine below.

While, musically Noel has definitely taken a new direction, he's apparently also changed his tune on politics.

Back in the mid 90s, at the height of his old band's power Noel was frequently heard gushing over then new Labour leader Tony Blair.

At the 1996 Brit Awards, external, while accepting one of their three awards, NG told the crowd: "If you've all got anything about you, you'll go up there and you'll shake Tony Blair's hand, man. He's the man! Power to the people!"

He even partied at Number 10 after Tony got the Prime Minister gig, remember?

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Now, two decades on it seems the slightly-more-jaded solo singer has grown weary of politicians.

The 50-year-old dad of three was more than happy to talk openly to us last week about music, football, life and even (briefly) brother Liam.

But when it comes to our world leaders - other than agreeing with his musical hero Sir Paul McCartney about the "madness" of the US President's climate change policy - the Mancunian rock star is simply not interested anymore.

"In the case of Donald Trump, I really get offended by the way that we're all supposed to have an opinion on the President of America," he said.

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"Or the little fat fella in North Korea or the Russian fella or the little German granny. I'm not interested."

He added: "And I couldn't care less about Jeremy Corbyn, scruffy old donkey."

Last week, the singer/songwriter also told Noisey [Facebook Live] that the British public should "move on" from Brexit and "get over it".

If cosmic pop floats your boat more than political discourse though, then Noel's new album is probably still the one for you this weekend.

Seal will duet with the late Frank Sinatra in a new version of Santa Claus Is Coming To Town.

The track will be released the same week as Sinatra's birthday on 12 December and will feature both stars in the video.

It follows Seal's collaboration with Sinatra's pianist, Randy Waldman, on his recent top 20 album Standards.

"To play with Frank's musicians on Standards was quite something, but to perform with the man himself is beyond words," said Seal.

Sinatra's daughter Tina called the new version of the Sinatra classic "a joyous hoot".

Santa Claus Is Coming to Town was first performed in 1934, and has been covered by more than 200 artists including Mariah Carey, Bruce Springsteen and the Jackson 5.

Sinatra died in 1998.

Check out more Seal from his new album below.

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Simple Minds and Rick Astley have been announced as two of next year's headliners at Camp Bestival.

And for those who are a little more, shall we say 'modern', in their music tastes, Clean Bandit will complete the headline trio.

Meanwhile, Orbital and Basement Jaxx will showcase their tunes in the Big Top, and there will be sets from acts as diverse as Shed Seven and Jamaica's The Skatalites.

The annual do at Lulworth Castle is a popular family gig, so expect lots of mum moshing and dad dancing with live sets from Stereo MCs, The Undertones and the mighty Pop Will Eat Itself.

And the kids can enjoy sets from perennial Lulworth Castle favourites CBeebies' Mr Tumble and Dick and Dom.

Yes, we know July feels like a very long way away, but check out how excited Jim Kerr is...

And who wouldn't be? Straight from the horse mouth we're sure...

We're also told there is pantomime, an insect circus and a gin festival too.

It's life, Jim - but not as you know it.

Craig David's magnificent career resurgence is continuing apace as he releases a new song for today's New Music Friday.

He'll be performing I Know You for the very first time on telly tonight when he hosts the return of Sounds Like Friday Night on BBC One (after a break for last week's Children in Need)

He'll be joined by Dan from Bastille for the performance and guests include The Killers and Anne Marie (we'll have more from her later).

If you can't wait until 1930 GMT this evening, you can have a listen to the track below.

It's just as well there's a total capacity of just over 220,000 for Taylor's gigs as there will undoubtedly be a lot of disappointed people.

Taylor will play just three dates on these Isles next summer for her Reputation Stadium Tour.

She kicks off at Manchester's Etihad Stadium on 8 June, nips over to Dublin's Croke Park for 15 June before flying back over to London for a 22 June gig at Wembley Arena.

Looks like there are a few gaps in that schedule though, so be prepared for the possibility of an extra night if tickets sell out.

They will be available to the general public on 1 December but subscribers to her website will get first dibs on 29 November.

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Well, we certainly are.

It's Friday after all, which means several things - brand new music, a look back at what we've learned this week and... a massive Taylor Swift announcement.

Find out if she has announced a stadium gig near you, plus Camp Bestival makes an eighties-tastic headline announcement, Loyle Carner meets his hero Eric Cantona and there's a new job for Annie Lennox in the world of academia

If that will be all, let's get started...