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That's it for another day - nap time for us.

When you lay your head on your pillow tonight we hope you have sweet dreams about the new Madonna movie... and aren't troubled by nightmares about giant Radiohead ants.

Today would've been Ella Fitzgerald's 100th birthday and so Radio 4's Mara Carlyle has been examining the life of the 'most beloved of jazz singers' above.

And here she is to sing us off too with an absolute classic below, alongside the one and only Satchmo.

Sweet dreams.

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So we asked you via BBC Music Twitter, external who should play Madonna in the forthcoming movie Blonde Ambition (scroll down for more).

Thanks for getting in touch. The votes are in...

Former child prodigy actress Dakota Fanning (Man On Fire, War of the Worlds) gets the nod from one of you, while others think that US comedian Amy Schumer would be a real ray of light in this film.

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French thespian Marion Cotillard of La Vie En Rose was in vogue in this poll too.

But could Lady Gaga (above) really play a young Madonna in NYC? She certainly knows her way around the city.

What about Madge Junior perhaps? Or even Jackson Junior?

Others of you aren't taking this quite as seriously are you?

Nicolas Cage?

Suppose he did play a young Greek soldier, while nearly in his 40s in Captain Corelli's Mandolin.

So why not?

NME

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PJ Harvey, Patti Smith and Brian Eno are amongs the artists set to appear at a benefit gig for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

Assange, who is officially wanted on sexual assault charges in Sweden and currently claiming refuge in London’s Ecuadorian Embassy, will be honoured by his supporters with a multi-city event from 19-25 June.

First They Come For Assange will take place in London, Berlin, Paris, New York, Quito, Brussels, Madrid, Naples and Belgrade to mark the 4th anniversary of his political asylum.

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Fancy helping this man, his mum and his manager to run his fanclub?

Well now you can.

To be Mac's assistant all you need to have is 'great attention to detail', experience with programmes like WordPress and iMovie and send him your 'dankest meme' or Mac-related giff.

You know, this kind of thing., external

His new album This Old Dog is out on 5 May but you can check out the job listing on his site, external now.

Good luck with your dank application. Remember to use the spell check.

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Here's Mac singing about turning into his dad on US radio a few weeks back.

The Guardian

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Nick Cave's long time pal and band-mate Warren Ellis has given a fascinating interview to The Guardian about his latest musical project.

He's gone from Bad Seeds to Bad Girl in the score for the Australian thriller of the same name.

In the interview he talks bout his 'brutal' way of working and compares himself to Frankenstein.

Sounds fun.

The film is out this week down under.

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Following on from yesterday's news about some new material from French indie rockers Phoenix.

The follow-up to 2013’s Bankrupt! is on the way and in a new New York Times, external article, guitarist Laurent Brancowitz described the record as "summer and Italian discos.”

Two of our favourite things.

Just think of that long hot summer you spent picking grapes in Tuscany on your gap yah... mixed with the Bee Gees.

The band are set to play Glasto this year as well as gigs in London and Dublin., external

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Well, that's when we don't include streaming figures of course...One Dance alone skews those numbers.

The latest charts from the music industry show that Beyonce's Lemonade was last year's best-selling album in CD, vinyl and downloads.

According to the annual report by the IFPI (the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry), streaming services have helped the music industry grow in value for the second year in a row, with revenue up by 5.9% to $15.7bn (£12.35bn).

"We are no longer running up a down escalator," said Warner Music CEO Stu Bergen.

Read more.

NME

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Royal Blood are back doing what they do best - making a right royal riff-tastic racket.

The Brighton band debuted several new songs during their small hometown show last night including Lights Out., external

This guy below was actually there. He lived it man.

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Soooo... Apple Music has announced a delay to the spin-off series of James Corden's Carpool Karaoke.

No reason has been given and it was due to start this month - it will apparently now debut later in the year.

With guests including Will Smith, Metallica and John Legend and Alicia Keys, it should be worth waiting for.

Our reporter Steven McIntosh has been speculating about some of the highlights.

If you're a fan of Royal Blood and White Stripes, then you might want to check out Gurr - a Germany-based duo consisting of Laura Lee and Andreya Casablanca

They played live on Huw Stephen's show on Radio 1 and even tackled a cover of Helter Skelter from the Fab Four's 1968 White Album.

That's about five and a-half minutes in...

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We told you earlier how Universal have a new film in the works about the breakthrough years of the superstar singer in NYC in the early 1980s.

We want to know who you think should play a young Madonna Louise Ciccone?

Get in touch via @BBCMusic, external.

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Some more on Radiohead now.

Thom Yorke told us he was Creep many moons ago but now he is about to become a creepy crawly too.

The Oxford band have inspired the name for a new species of ant that you may have seen on your last trip to the Venezuelan Amazon

The Sericomyrmex radioheadi, aka 'The Radiohead ant', external, is apparently a 'silky' ant that grows fungus gardens for food.

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Ana Jesovnik and Ted R. Schultz from the Smithsonian Institution's Ant Lab made the discovery and Ana said: “We wanted to honor their music.

“But more importantly, we wanted to acknowledge the conservation efforts of the band members, especially in raising climate-change awareness.”

The Radiohead ant joins a growing list of newly-discovered rock star creatures.

We all remember the Synalpheus pinkfloydi shrimp from a few weeks back of course.

How could we forget?

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Singer-songwriter and YouTuber Charlie Puth has shared the new video for his track Attention.

It shows young Charlie singing about his tumultuous relationship with his ex and engaging in a really awkward snog.

It begs one question though - do people in Los Angeles really live in houses like that?

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Fresh from yesterday's news about Bananarama's original line-up getting back together, we've had a look at some of the other 80s bands we would like to see reunite.

Kajagoogoo and Haircut 100 were purposefully left off this list.

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BBC Radio 1

They didn't do any interviews for nearly 20 years, now you can't keep them away from the mic.

Fresh off the back of their first ever 'live' interview, 2D and Murdoc from Gorillaz spoke to Mistajam again last night about their collaboration with Rag N Bone Man, Ray BLK & Zebra Katz.

The Apprentice will feature on the deluxe edition of their album Humanz which is out on Friday but was M.Jam's Hottest Record In The World last night.

Listen above and see what you think.

Oh and while you're there...does Murdoc remind you of anyone?

Clue: the one in the middle (not Jeffery).

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Names from around the music world, including Roger Waters, Robert Wyatt, Thurston Moore and Young Fathers have signed an open letter urging Radiohead not to go ahead with a planned gig in Tel Aviv, Israel in July.

The letter begins: "We’d like to ask you to think again - because by playing in Israel you’ll be playing in a state where, UN rapporteurs say, ‘a system of apartheid has been imposed on the Palestinian people’."

It goes on to claim that the band have ignored calls from Palestinian campaigners for a 'cultural boycott' on Israel and asks them to "stay away, until apartheid is over."

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Read more and check out the full list of artists, including British film directors Ken Loach and Peter Kosminsky, who signed the letter here., external

We've asked Radiohead for their response.

BBC Radio 2

His new album Americana came out on Friday and former Kinks man Sir Ray Davies told us why he thinks America is a 'beautiful but dangerous' place.

He also told Radio 2's Simon Mayo why he never writes political songs (not with a big P anyway) and why he thinks that voting should be compulsory... not that he's ever done it himself mind.

It's never too late though...

Listen above.

And there it is.

A distinctly retro-cover from Snoop - we're guessing the picture is pre-DoggyStyle early 1990s? 

The Doggster's 15th studio album Neva Left is out on 19 May.

Will this new cover above cause as much of a craze online as Kendrick's though last week?

Just when you thought Dave Grohl couldn't be a nicer guy, here he is speaking to his mum about the challenges of raising a rock star son.

Virginia Grohl has contributed to a new book, external, alongside the mums of the likes of Dr Dre and Amy Winehouse about what it takes to bring up a star-in-the-making.

Here's a very sweet clip of Dave grilling Virgina on the book and regaling the tale of when she made him play drums in a jazz club.

Warning there is a tiny bit of mild swearing.

The Hollywood Reporter

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Here's one for all the Madge fans out there.

A new film chronicling her early years as a recording artist in New York City in the 1980s is apparently in the works.

Blonde Ambition will cover the period of time around the recording of her self-titled debut album, which contained breakout hits like Holiday and Lucky Star.

The Hollywood Reporter say that the film will also "highlight the Material Girl balancing her burgeoning fame with her love life".

It's a tricky balancing act, we can tell you.

Brett Ratner, who directed the singer's Beautiful Stranger video in 1999 is named amongst the producers for the Universal film.

The question of which actress could realistically bring Madonna to life on the big screen remains unanswered.

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*And it's worth noting this is not the first time this phase in Madonna's life, external has been documented...