Time for us to leave you now but enjoy the rest of #YorkshireDay, like this northern bird (above) will surely do.

Scroll down for Vogue cover star Rihanna on her love of having a fuller figure, Glastonbury festival giving 500 free tickets to local trainee NHS nurses and Nicki Minaj publicly asking Tracy Chapman to clear a music sample for her new album.

Plus Pussy Riot are released from prison (again), Calvin Harris is the world's highest-paid DJ in the world (again x 6) and there's new music videos from rap fans alt-J, Anna Calvi and Neneh Cherry.

Enjoy and see you tomorrow.

Neneh's new one, Kong, is produced by Four Tet and Massive Attack's 3D and you can check it above.

In a poetic description of the track online, the 54-year-old dedicated the track to "the displaced people of this world."

Check out her full description below.

The Swede played a blinder of a set, including her biggest hit Buffalo Stance at the BBC's Biggest Weekend in Belfast this summer.

And for those of you not old enough to remember Neneh back in the day then she's also the mother of current pop star Mabel, who performed at the Swansea leg, external of the same event.

It's finders keepers with that bit of family pop trivia.

Mikaela Bennett (above) will play Maria in the BBC Proms production of West Side Story, it has been announced.

It's after the show's previous star, Sierra Boggess, withdrew from the role over complaints of "whitewashing".

She wrote on Facebook at the time, external: "If I were to do this concert, it would once again deny Latinas the opportunity to sing this score, as well as deny the importance of seeing themselves represented onstage.

"That would be a huge mistake."

Canadian-born Bennett has previously performed excerpts from West Side Story with the New York Philharmonic for their Young Peoples Concert series.

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Morris Hayes of Prince's former house band, The New Power Generation, has returned to the UK - "a Prince stronghold" - to celebrate the musician he worked with for twenty years.

The NPG will pay a musical tribute to the performer, who died just over two years ago of a fentanyl painkiller overdose, at London's Indigo venue, inside the O2 Arena tomorrow night

Morris spoke to 6 Music about his memories of the perfectionism behind 72-hour-long rehearsals and roller-coaster shows, including a memorable Super Bowl where Prince asked for "more rain".

He also revealed there's an incredible amount of Prince material left in the vaults, so much in fact, that the tapes are spilling over onto the floor and into the memorabilia "pre-vault."

Morris told DJ Lauren Laverne Prince's family want people to hear it and there's enough music to put out over the next 30 years, including solo recordings and tracks with Lenny Kravitz, Gwen Stefani, Questlove, D'Angelo and Patti LaBelle.

Listen above.

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Ariana Grande's fiance Pete Davidson recently quit Instagram following criticism of their relationship.

"The internet is an evil place and it doesn't make me feel good," he wrote in his Insta Story as he left the app.

Ariana said she was planning to do the same, external, tweeting that negativity online can really "bum you out".

But hers are not the first fans to turn on anyone who criticises or shades their idol.

Newsbeat has been looking at the issue.

After teasing us with a taste of her song song, Missing You, earlier this week, it would seem that tonight is the night for Robyn fans to tune into Annie Mac for some brand new music.

Check out the Radio 1 tweet above.

If you miss it, and why would you, then we should have it on tomorrow's MNL.

Paul Glynn
Music News LIVE reporter

Amsterdam indie newbies Pip Blom just finished touring Europe with indie icons The Breeders ("it was so cool - they're super nice") and pulled in a strong crowd at Latitude festival despite going up directly against surprise performer Liam Gallagher ("It happens!").

In between gigging alongside their musical heroes, the hardworking Dutch four-piece - who have been getting plenty of 6 Music airplay with latest single, Pussycat (below) - have been busy plotting a series of upcoming releases.

Not that they'd call it 'work', exactly.

Frontwoman Pip told MNL: "We're just doing what we like to do so it doesn't really feel like hard work.

"But of course there is a whole team working for us doing a lot - if you ask them they'll probably say yes!

The 22-year-old (above) adds: "We are making plans for the album, it's going to happen pretty soon the recording process hopefully and we'll release it sometime in spring next year.

"There's going to be an EP in September first and we worked with Dave McCracken (Ian Brown / Depeche Mode producer) on that too."

So which songs go on the EP and which tracks are held back for the LP?

Guitarist and Pip's brother Tender explains: "Just everybody has got make a selection basically and we decide together."

"Or maybe it's not working as a thing in the entirety of the album."

Stay tuned folks to see what makes the cut.

The band are also planning a UK tour for November.

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Kali Uchis went from sleeping rough in the back of her car to working with Gorillaz and Snoop Dogg.

The Colombian-American star has been telling BBC Music reporter Mark Savage about the story of her hard-won success.

"It was kind of like, 'You are your own saviour'," she said.

"If you're good enough for yourself, then you're good enough."

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Anna Calvi has released the haunting title track from her upcoming third album Hunter, which is out August 31.

The UK singer/songwriter posted a note online explaining the meaning behind the track, which like with previous track, Don't Beat the Girl out My Boy, attempts to subvert accepted gender roles.

"I wanted simplicity, I wanted something quietly brave, quietly defiant", she wrote.

"I wanted there to be intimacy. I wanted to find a place between beauty and ugliness."

She added: "I’m tired of seeing women depicted as being hunted by men in our culture.

Listen below.

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The Swedish producer has written 22 US number one singles - from Britney Spears' ...Baby One More Time (below) and Katy Perry's I Kissed A Girl to Taylor Swift's Shake It Off.

A casting notice for the new musical says the songs are the "inspiration" for the show, which is set to premiere in the UK next year.

The briefing notes explain the musical is in the "final stages of development" and is being created by Max Martin, with orchestration and arrangements by Bill Sherman, who previously worked on Lin-Manuel Miranda's pre-Hamilton show In The Heights.

The story will be written by David West Read, who is known for the TV series Schitt's Creek, and the Broadway show The Performers, a comedy set at the Adult Film Awards in Las Vegas.

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Shout out to Katy Perry who paid a visit to a sick fan in Australia who had to miss her concert on Monday.

Eight-year-old Grace Moores had brain surgery last week to remove a tumour.

Her sister Tiana, 16, tweeted Grace had been looking forward to the concert before she was diagnosed in April.

Katy's team got in touch with Tiana and went round on Tuesday before her concert in Adelaide that night.

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The Modfather was on the show this morning to talk about his latest single Movin' On, which you can hear below.

The track is from his forthcoming album, True Meanings, due out on 14 September and was made at the Black Barn Studio in Surrey, where he records all his music.

"It's not particularly state of the art," said Paul. "It's got a foot in both really, some technology and some old school recording.

"It becomes the centre of our little universe, it's like our HQ where we meet up and jam and work out a tune," he said, before extending an invitation to the Chris and the team to broadcast a show from there in September.

"I'll make the sandwiches," he added.

Listen above.

Read more: Paul Weller on Bond themes, babies and winning Eurovision.

New York singer-songwriter Two Feet is in hospital, after posting a suicide note on Twitter.

"I don't feel like living any more," wrote the 25-year-old on Monday in a now-deleted post.

"I love you so much," he told fans. "I hope I've helped you in some manner.

"I know it may be odd posting a suicide note on Twitter. But that's the world we live in."

Fellow artists immediately responded with concern and messages of support for the artist, whose real name is Zachary Bill Dess.

His father, Guy, posted a follow-up message, external, letting fans know his son was alive and receiving treatment.

"Bill is recuperating and being held for observation," he said.

"He will survive."

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The US megastar - who turns 60 in a few weeks - has apparently told Vogue Italia that she'll return with a collection of new music before 2018 is out.

Her last album, Rebel Heart, came out three years ago.

Madge, who now lives in Lisbon in Portugal to enable football-mad son, David Banda, 12, to follow his dream of becoming the next Cristiano Ronaldo, told the Italian mag how her new home city has inspired the forthcoming record.

“I’ve just met lots of really amazing musicians, and I’ve ended up working with a lot of these musicians on my new record, so Lisbon has influenced my music and my work,” she said according to People, external.

“How could it not? I don’t see how I could have gone through that year without being informed by all this input of culture.”

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The New York rapper appears in animated form in the new hip hop reworking of the Alt-J song, In Cold Blood.

The track is taken from the Leeds indie band's forthcoming remixes record, Reduxer - out on 28 September - which sees rappers including Kontra K, Little Simz, GoldLink and Danny Brown re-interpret their 2017 album Relaxer.

Check out the cool new video below and see if you're digging cartoon Pusha's half and half shirt as much as we are.

Pusha joined Alt-J - and Dominican American star Twin Shadow - in real life to perform the new version of the track live on US TV in June and you can watch that again below too.

A few weeks ago, at Latitude festival, the Leeds band told us that the genre-straddling record had enabled them to live out their teenage hip hop dreams.

"It's been a dream of ours for a long time to do a hip hop album and we've finally done it," said Gus Unger-Hamilton, from the band.

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"I think we've always been interested in hip-hop as a genre," added Joe Newman.

"We enjoyed it as teenagers and I think some of our music reflects some elements of hip hop, like the heavy bass and the beats."

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Elsewhere Pusha-T has canceled nine shows on his upcoming US tour in support of new album Daytona - according to Complex , external- but no reason has been given yet.

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The Scots-born Californian disc spinner and producer has topped Forbes magazine's list of the top earning DJs for the sixth year running.

He earned $48m (£36.6m), thanks to the six-figure sum he banks for his sets in Las Vegas and big seven figure numbers for headlining festivals.

The Chainsmokers are behind him with $45.5m (£35m...split two-ways) and veteran DJ and producer Tiësto is in third with $33m (£25m).

Read more, external (if you want to feel inspired or depressed).

Rihanna has donned a series of avant-garde outfits - as you can see above and below -as the new cover star of British Vogue.

Speaking to the fashion publication about her own own body image, the Barbadian singer said she "never wants to lose her butt, hips and thighs".

On being a pin-up, Rihanna said: "You're asking the wrong person. I don't know, maybe it's because I'm thicc now. I don't know.

"I'm about to get back into the gym and stuff, and I hope I don't lose my butt or my hips or all of my thighs. I'll lose some but not all."

"But, you know, it comes with a price. You want to have a butt, then you have a gut.'"

We were considering this very same dilemma ourselves in the chip shop only yesterday.

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Glasto co-organiser Michael Eavis is to reward 500 local trainee NHS nurses with tickets for next year's event.

The gesture comes in response to the national nursing recruitment crisis.

Somerset Live reports, external Eavis spoke at a hospital fete in Shepton Mallet last month, after the chairman of the local trust reportedly told him there was “a real problem with the lack of nurses being trained now.”

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The Worthy Farm owner apparently thanked doctors and nurses in the area for their “timeless work”.

The cost of a Glasto ticket in 2017 was £238, so that's a considerable saving for a music-loving nurse.

The BBC reported back in February that the NHS was "dangerously" short of 100,000 staff.

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Four members of Pussy Riot have been released from police custody after being detained for 16 days, their lawyer has said.

The punk band staged a pitch invasion during the World Cup final in Moscow and were initially released after a 15-day sentence on Tuesday.

But the group were immediately detained after being released and held for a further day before being finally let go, according to Nikolai Vasilyev.

They could face further charges of disobeying the police and of holding a public event without prior permission, which carries a maximum jail terms of 10 and 15 days.

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Nicki Minaj has publicly asked Fast Car singer/songwriter Tracy Chapman for permission to sample one of her songs, on her new album

Nicki's new album, Queen, is due out on 10 August but, according to Pitchfork, contains an uncleared Tracy Chapman sample, as well as a feature from one of “the greatest rappers of all time.”

US rapper Nicki is so keen to include a segment of the unnamed track she's apparently willing to delay the release of her record until she gets permission.

“Tracy Chapman, can you please hit me,” she tweeted.

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That post has since been deleted but she's shared a poll with her fans, asking if she should crack on without the sample or put the record back by a week in order to get it cleared.

More than 67,000 people have voted already.

As fans of both artists we're on the fence with this one.