Its bye from us for today.

Join us tomorrow for New Music Friday and 5 Things We've Learned This Week.

Until then scroll down to see if Liam G ever did make it to Chinatown, how Jay Z defied logic to land another platinum disc this week and Ariana's thoughtful birthday message.

As you'll know already by now loyal readers, it's 60 years to the day that the guy top left above met the other bloke top right.

We don't know why they say goodbye, we say hello...

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Finally today...

Everyone's favourite US college slacker rockers Blink 182 have released an intimate new video to go with their 2016 single Home Is Such a Lonely Place.

The song already had an official video but now Mark Hoppus and Matt Skiba from the band have given us all a handheld lens directly into their family lives.

Hoppus told NME, external: "It's the most honest video we've ever made because it's us being ourselves with our families."

Rock stars with normal family lives? Whatever next?

BBC Newsbeat

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Adele fans have been expressing no small amount of anger as they haven't been refunded the booking fee from her cancelled Wembley Stadium gigs last weekend.

The singer cancelled the last two dates of her world tour, due to take place on 1 and 2 July, after damaging her vocal chords.

Eventim UK's terms and conditions state that they don't refund booking fees - up to £5.50 per ticket - for cancelled concerts.

Many have tweeted the singer to complain.

Read more.

Obaro Ejimiwe hasn't left the city in months according to the opening line of his dark new video for Freakshow.

The haunting track will feature on forthcoming album Dark Days and Canapés. His last album Shedding Skin was nominated for the Mercury Award in 2015.

According to Hot Press, external, the singer describes the new song as "a kind of commentary on modern consumerism...the unstoppable cash-driven churn we seem to be caught up in as a society."

And a groovy little tune too.

Warning: This video contains disturbing visions of the future.

He's more used to reading off the auto cue but it turns out that BBC news presenter Huw Edwards is equally adept at reading sheet music.

He was guest speaking at an event when he stepped in as piano accompanist for the singer.

Check him out above.

BBC Radio 2

Five years ago, Dr Feelgood guitarist Wilko Johnson was diagnosed with terminal cancer, now following treatment and surgery he's still going strong, playing live shows and is less than a week away from turning 70.

He's been speaking to Radio 2's Paul Jones about his earliest musical memories, which included a trip as a schoolboy to see Chuck.

"It was all seated in a cinema and I ran to front of the audience and started going crazy and we had a moment of eye contact.

"The next day at school, I was like: "He saw me man, he saw me".

Listen above.

London indie rockers Wolf Alice have shared a hypnotic new song Don't Delete the Kisses.

Its ahead of their second album Visions Of A Life which is due out on 29 September.

Last month, they announced their return with the mischievously titled track Yuk Foo.

The new single was premiered on Beats 1 radio, where singer Ellie Rowsell said she "kind of wanted to make one of those head out the window on a long drive tunes."

We think she has nailed it.

They've also shared the somewhat creepy album artwork online.

According to the band the below pic is "a photo of Ellie's aunty Helen playing the classic game of 'dance round the horse's skull in your Sunday best'."

Everyone has an 'aunty Helen' character in their family now, don't they?

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All Eyez on Me, the new Tupac Shakur, opened in cinemas last week and the formative years of Morrissey have just been told in the film England is Mine, which premiered in Edinburgh.

Other musical biogs in the film pipeline include a John and Yoko film and a Freddie Mercury film, starring Mr Robot actor Rami Malek.

But how well do you know your biopics?

BBC Three has this quiz to test your knowledge.

Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has posted the above message to the people of 'Glasgow, Scotland' after his band were forced to cancel their Bellahouston Park gig on Tuesday.

Speaking from a Glasgow hotel room - with gathered fans outside - the singer says it was "a bummer" that safety fears stopped the show on the day.

Good news though if you were one of the fans singing the Californian punk band's song Still Breathing outside their hotel while this was being filmed, as Billie says he thought it was 'beautiful'.

Every cloud.

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Kesha's first new track in four years has been shared by the singer a day early.

The song is called Praying and the colourful music video (and its minute-long spoken intro) is below.

The singer has been embroiled in a lawsuit with her former producer and songwriting collaborator Dr. Luke for the past three years.

It's impossible not to read into the lyrics of the new track - apparently co-written by Ryan Lewis, of Macklemore and Ryan Lewis fame - which hear her sing: "You brought the flames and you put me through hell / I had to learn how to fight for myself / And we both know all the truth I could tell / I'll just say this is I wish you farewell".

The song is out tomorrow.

She collborated with producer Zedd on his track True Colors last year.

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The rapper has given fans a treat the day before New Music Friday by releasing four new tracks on his YouTube account.

Sadly, we can't embed any of them here because, y'know, swearing and that but you can head over and have listen yourself.

It's been two years since his Free Weezy album. Earlier this year, he announced he had signed to Jay Z's Roc Nation.

In a tweet, Wayne said: "I luv my fans. I ain't **** without y'all!"

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So like Foo Fighters (scroll down), Seattle band Nirvana would go on to conquer the rock world.

Not before playing in an empty RadiShack in hometown Aberdeen (not that one, external).

Previously unseen footage from 1988 of Kurt Cobain, bassist Krist Novoselic and drummer Dale Crover - later of The Melvins - jamming has been shared online by video archivist Mike Ziegler.

No sign of Dave Grohl yet in this early incarnation of the band then known as Ted Ed Fred.

We're so glad they changed their name.

You can check out the full 17-minute video, which shows Kurt practicing his stage entry leap here., external

He must've got through some jeans that lad.

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Ariana Grande, external has paid a touching birthday tribute to the youngest victim of the Manchester Arena attack.

Saffie Roussos, one of 22 people killed after Ariana's gig in the city in May, would have celebrated her ninth birthday on 4 July.

The singer posted a tribute on Instagram, after a gig in Buenos Aires saying: “Saffie, we’re [thinking] of you baby”, alongside a birthday cake emoji.

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Fancy dancing alongside Katy Perry in her next video?

We're not sure we have what takes (not in these shoes anyway).

When she's not offending Australian vets, KP loves to connect with her fans and has asked them to get in touch on social media with proof of their "fun, funny, weird... I dunno, great choreography".

The winner of the Swish Swish challenge will appear in her next video for the single of the same name.

Find out how above.

We're off to stretch...

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It’s not exactly a fashion statement but this hat could spell the end of all that boring and time-wasting button pushing on your mobile device.

Professor Eduardo Miranda at the University of Plymouth is developing headwear that measures brain signals.

It means that by changing your thought patterns, you could change your playlists.

It could take some getting used to if your mind starts wandering, but I thought I’d try it on for size...

Radio 1 DJ Toddla T didn't have to travel far to make it into the Radio 1 studio to talk about his latest track which Annie Mac made her Hottest Record last night.

The Sheffield DJ's "self-indulgent" new record Magnet features Andrea Martin on vocals.

Toddla said he knew within a minute of meeting Andrea that she would inspire the new album and that "this is the mission".

Listen above to hear Annie quiz her partner IRL on the new track.

BBC 6 Music

Our #TBT today is a cracker, courtesy of the good people at 6 Music.

On this day - 6 July - in 1957 John Lennon first met Paul McCartney for the first time.

It was at a Garden Fete at St Peter's Church in Woolton where John's skiffle band the Quarrymen were playing.

Paul was 15, John just a few years older.

They would go on to re-write the course of pop history as The Beatles. You've probably heard of them.

Listen to Sir Macca tell the tale above.

BBC 6 Music

Well that's hardly what we want to hear now is it? We refuse to believe it.

But then we've never actually worked with the man in the studio. Sampha has, so you're probably better taking his word for it than ours.

Speaking to 6 Music's Stuart Maconie and Mark Radcliffe at the Manchester International Festival, the South London singer/songwriter (who has drawn huge praise from Beyonce's sister Solange) said one of his childhood heroes is "a really nice guy" and "hands on" in the studio.

We don't think he's telling the whole truth, but you can listen above.

Daily Mirror

Bob Geldof says The Boomtown Rats are recording their first new album in more than 30 years.

The singer told the Mirror the band's original line-up - who split in 1986 - has recorded 26 tracks.

They reformed for the Isle of Wight festival in 2013.

Bob said: "I’ve done the vocals on them. We’re getting really excited, we think they’re great.

"What we’re probably going to do is issue a series of EPs, I’m going to call the album Mega. I’ll release four tracks and then a couple of months later another four tracks, and then another four, which allows us to space out the music but also do different things."

The band formed in Northern Ireland in 1975. Their last album was 1984’s The Long Grass.

Let's hope they release the new stuff on a New Music Friday and not a Monday...

Read more, external.

BBC 6 Music

Foo Fighters won at Glastonbury (not that it's a competition, but if it was they definitely did).

Now, their thoughts have turned to the arrival of their "weirdest album" yet Concrete and Gold, which drops in September.

Ahead of the release, the band spoke to 6 Music's Matt Everitt about the impact of politics on the record, the one that drummer Taylor Hawkins sings and what underpants singer Dave Grohl wears.

Dave even pin-pointed the weirdest moment of recording.

He said: "The guy from Boys II Men walking through the parking lot and me saying 'dude will you sing on our record'. And he does.

"On the heaviest song on the entire record! It's sounds like Sabbath and Pink Floyd... with the guy from Boys II Men... singing like a choir.

"He builds a choir with his voice. It's like 40 vocals stacked - it's amazing."

Now this, we have to hear.

Listen above.