You made it to the end of this Friday the 13th edition of Music News LIVE.

Another week of music news is now consigned to the online history books. Luckily we've picked out the best bits from the last seven days for you below in our 5 Things We've Learned.

Just time to tell you about two more out albums out today worth checking out this weekend. UK hip hop/grime star Wretch 32 is back with with his fourth album FR32. He's so happy he's flying a balloon look (above) and why not? And our new favourite singing duo (after Cantona and Cullum that is - scroll down) Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile have released their debut album Lotta Sea Lice too.

Scroll down for more new music from the likes of Pink, Beck, Louis T and Bobby P.

See you on Monday and we'll go Over Everything that happened in the music world over the weekend.

The band released a new single Brother earlier this year and the new EP, their first in two years, is accompanied by a sweet new video for the track Ready to Change which sees love blossom in a zoo...

Between two employees we mean, not the animals. That would be weird.

The Dubliners are playing four UK dates in December.

BBC Newsbeat

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Sam Smith, Charli XCX and Jade from Little Mix were among the musicians who thanked their LGBT fans at the Attitude Awards in London on Thursday night..

"I owe a lot to my LGBT friends and that community in London, especially when I moved here," says Jade Thirlwall.

The singers spoke to Newsbeat at last night's Attitude Awards in London.

Kylie Minogue and Orange Is the New Black actress Laverne Cox were winners at the ceremony, which celebrates LGBT people in entertainment.

Charli XCX won the Music Award, saying: "The LGBT community are definitely the first community who supported and embraced me as an artist, so I feel super excited to be here."

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By the way here's Mixer Jade reaching peak Geordie earlier in the week.

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No sinister goings on we hope?

Speaking of sinister and that most unluckiest of numbers, horror film director John Carpenter will next week release an album of newly-recorded versions of 13 of his movie themes.

With that in mind, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have released a version of the iconic theme to the 1978 movie Halloween.

Check it below.

Spooky eh?

Nine Inch Nails singer Reznor said the film had been a great inspiration to him.

“[My friends and I] left the theater forever changed" he said.

“We were damaged and scarred, with the **** genuinely scared out of us and that theme stuck firmly in our heads. John Carpenter, it’s your fault that I turned out the way I did.”

That explains a lot.

By the way in case - like us - you wondered why today is supposed to be the most unluckiest all then allow us to educate you - apparently it's something to do with the last supper.

The R&B singer popped by 1Xtra to treat listeners to a live performance of his track Sky Walker - and yes the song title is a Star Wars reference.

"Take a shot, make a friend, just enjoy the moment / I'm Luke Skywalkin' on these haters"

The singer also covered UK singer Jorja Smith's On My Mind, external.

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Okay, let's go...

1) Loyle Carner kicks sexists out of his gigs

Be warned: On the off chance that you're going to one of Loyle Carner's gigs in Germany this weekend, then sexism will not be tolerated.

The London rapper showed no mercy for an audience member accused of shouting a sexist comment at support act Elisa & Srigala last weekend in Norwich. Watch below as the Mercury-nominated hip hop star and all round top man points to the accused inside the University of East Anglia venue and asks security to remove him.

He said: "I’m sorry man, you gotta learn a lesson my young man...

“You gotta go. For being sexist, you gotta go.”

Elisa & Srigala tweeted their thanks, external to Loyle for his actions.

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2) Eric Cantona and Jamie Cullum have recorded a hilarious Disney/jazz duet

Mon dieu!

This week also brought the amazingly welcome news that Manchester United legend and French actor Eric Cantona has teamed up with jazz pianist Jamie Cullum to perform a track together for the new Jazz Loves Disney 2 album.

The pair duet on Be Our Guest from the musical Beauty & The Beast and you can check it out below. As everyone knows, that particular track, external requires a certain je ne sais quoi and clearly Eric was enlisted to provide exactly that.

The record, which also features Laura Mvula, is out on 10 November.

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3) Dolly Parton has joined Josh Homme on the CBeebies team

Last week, it was a rock star in the shape of QOTSA frontman Josh Homme and now, country queen Dolly Parton is the latest musician to step in front of the camera to read a CBeebies bedtime story.

The country star, who today released a new children's album I Believe in You (scroll down), runs her own reading initiative called Imagination Library and said: "Encouraging children to develop a love of books from an early age is very important to me."

You'll be able to catch her reading Louise Yates's Dog Loves Books on 25 October.

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4) Kanye West is a secret Beck fan...according to Taylor Swift

The rapper famously stormed the stage in 2015, external after Beck's last record, Morning Phase, pipped Beyonce's self-titled one to best album, adding later that "Beck needs to respect artistry."

Now, ahead of the release of his new album Colors, Beck has revealed the Chicago hip hop star actually liked his last one really.

How does he know? Because another former victim of a Kanye awards bash tantrum; Taylor Swift, told him...

Beck told us: "We were laughing about it. She'd had dinner with Kanye after the Grammys thing happened and Morning Phase came on in the restaurant they were in and he stopped the conversation and said: 'What is this? This is good.' She was smiling and said: 'This is Morning Phase!'.

"So even when he went on that whole thing I didn't take it personal... Ultimately, he had let me know that he liked the record."

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Finally this week...

5) SpongeBob SquarePants has the love and respect of Radiohead

Don't you just love it when two of your favourite things collide in perfect harmony?

Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood gave his seal of approval to a SpongeBob SquarePants social video aiming to sum up the Oxfordshire band's career output in one minute of cartoon fun.

Jonny described the video, which sees SpongBob in floods of tears during The Bends era and listening to free form jazz in the Amnesiac phase, as "perfect in so many ways..."

Wouldn't you agree?

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The country music star has been talking to BBC World Service about her first foray into recording for a younger audience and how she has built her brand into a business worth hundreds of millions of dollars

"I took lessons from my daddy," she said. "My daddy wasn't an educated man, he wasn't able to read and write but my daddy had a great sense of business and people so I got that from him.

"He told me: 'Don't let anybody take advantage of you, you keep your head on your business'."

Smart man. Listen above.

Dolly's new album I Believe In You is out now.

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Beck released his 13th studio album Colors today - on Friday 13 October.

"Yeah I'm synchronising it," he told 6 Music's Lauren Laverne, in between playing new tracks and old indie classics at a special Maida Vale session yesterday.

He told us earlier this week that his last Grammy-winning album Morning Phase had eventually won over dissenter Kanye West.

If you're feeling stressed today check out this rather satisfying 'slime visualizer' video for the opening -title track.

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Good news for Gaga fans, the singer has announced her rescheduled European tour dates for the beginning of next year

She cancelled her dates in Birmingham, Manchester and London last month due to illness, revealing that she suffered from a chronic, painful condition called fibromyalgia.

Now, she’s confirmed the below UK dates in January and February.

• 31 January – BIRMINGHAM Arena Birmingham
• 1 February - BIRMINGHAM Genting Arena
• 4 February – LONDON O2 Arena
• 6 February – MANCHESTER Arena
• 8 February – LONDON O2 Arena

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Bruce Springsteen is breaking box-office records with his one-man show, Springsteen on Broadway.

The rock star made $2.3m (£1.8m) in his first week of previews, behind only Hamilton and Hello, Dolly! - which both played more shows in the same period.

Mixing live music and storytelling, the show is set to run for 16 weeks, with The Boss taking up residence in the 960-seat Walter Kerr Theater.

"It's probably the smallest venue I've played in the last 40 years," he said.

The show officially opens on Thursday night - but the BBC's Elysa Gardner managed to catch one of the previews.

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If you were hoping to see the back of the Tulsan singer then think again as she's just released her sixth studio album.

Annie Clark - to give her her real name - performed (alongside Robert Plant below) on Jools Holland this week and you can check out her theatrical performance of first single New York below.

It's a disarmingly simple ode to lost love - possibly that of former girlfriend and British model Cara Delevingne.

The full show airs on Saturday night on BBC Two at 22;30 BST.

The Guardian, external have described her new record as "abrasive, nuanced pop", giving it four stars.

While you're listening why not read all about our reporter Mark Savage's strange encounter with the star from a few weeks back.

You'll want to sit down for that one.

Finally - and just because we like you - here's one of the most-played records in the Music News LIVE office so far this month; second single Los Ageless.

Now where have we seen that leopard skin onesie before?...

Beautiful Trauma is out today. Scroll down to read all about how Eminem got involved and what some of the reviewers think of it.

Now we want to know what you lot think.

What's your favourite track and how does it compare to *Alecia Moore's previous work?

Let us know via BBC Music Twitter, external.

*That's Pink by the way.

Don't mug yourselves guys by paying over the odds, just don't mug yourselves.

Tickets for The Streets recently-announced greatest hits tours sold out within a couple of minutes this morning.

It left many fans out there hoping to see Mike Skinner and the gang in Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester, Leeds or London feeling rather hard done by.

Steff was one of the lucky ones to bag tickets but points said many fans are continuing to be ripped off by secondary ticketing sites.

The O2 Arena's partnership with ticket resale company StubHub was criticised recently after fans were turned away from a Foo Fighters concert.

Although he does qualify it by stating his problems "look nothing like yours do."

The new single is out now and you can find it in all the usual places.

Earlier this week the 25-year-old Donny lad Tweeted (below) that the track is "one of my favourites from the album".

He added: "Conceptually I think it sums me up!"

Bri (below) really can't stress enough how excited she is about this release.

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Country star Jason Aldean resumed his postponed US tour in Oklahoma on Thursday night, a week and a half after the Las Vegas mass shooting which left 58 people dead and hundreds injured.

The singer was on stage when gunman Stephen Paddock opened fire on the audience of the Route 91 Harvest festival.

He told his fans in Tulsa: "I want to play the show for you guys that the people in Las Vegas came to see and didn't get a chance to."

He said that: , external"Not a day goes by when we don't think about the 58 people that lost their lives," adding "I don't count the **** that did the shooting".

Fans in Tulsa took to social media to voice their appreciation.

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The former Led Zep frontman is back with his 11th studio album Carry Fire today.

He spoke to Radio 2 breakfast show host Chris Evans this morning (above) about his ever-evolving songwriting and how much he loves playing with "the greatest musicians on the planet".

Praise indeed for a man who was in a band with Jimmy Page for 12 years.

Robert is referring to the brilliantly-named Sensational Space Shifters, who appeared with him on Later...with Jools Holland this week (below).

"They push me and are kind to me - and they let me have a nap!" said the 69-year-old.

As well as being a bit of a rock 'n' roll ledge who enjoys a nap, Robert has also clearly got a cracking sense of humour.

Here he is below agreeing to dress up an actual plant, at the request of 'stag' James (below) in a pub in Wollaston, Northamptonshire.

You can picture the scenes now.

"If I put this on my head for a bit will you lot leave me alone to my pint?.."

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The diminutive Hawaiian is out front at this year's ceremony with eight nominations, including Artist of the Year - where he is up against The Chainsmokers, rappers Drake and Kendrick Lamar and Ed Sheeran.

Ed and electro-pop bros Chainsmokers each have five nominations.

There are some pretty big snubs when it comes to women who have released acclaimed music this year, outside of the female categories - nothing for Lorde, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, SZA, Kesha, Lana Del Rey or Kesha.

Halsey is one of the few female artists to land nominations for her collaboration with Chainsmokers on Closer and tweeted she was "really disappointed" at the male-dominated nominees.

The nominations are compiled by Billboard magazine using music sales, touring, streaming and radio airplay and social activity.

The winner will be announced on 19 November.

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Don't worry, that's the name of the American singer's seventh studio album, which is out today.

And it features her first ever rap, with Eminem helping a scorned Pink to get Revenge on a philandering lover on track two.

According to The Telegraph, external in Australia, the three-time Grammy Award winner decided she wanted a rap honour next time around and so wrote a grovelling love letter to her favourite hip hop star, Mr M Mathers.

"I emailed him and I was like: ‘I love you, I’ve always loved you,’” she said.

“And you always work with the same people and I love that about you. And I love that you always work with Rihanna and she’s way hotter than me."

She added: “I wrote my first rap song, please don’t laugh at me, would you be on it with me?’”

Apparently M replied with a simple "OK", then sent his contribution from Rio, Brazil via the wonders of the worldwide web.

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A delighted Pink replied:

M's reply again?

"OK".

He was clearly saving his words for Donald Trump.

Pink spoke to (and possibly over-shared with) The Guardian, external about her domestic life and how there are times when her and her husband "haven't had sex in a year".

Ohhhhh-kay. Moving swiftly on to the reviews...

The Washington Post,, external who possibly have not yet heard of streaming, say "Pink resurfaces with a slick and gloomy new CD."

USA Today, external describe the new release as a "candid, mature new album".

Watch her new video for the album's opening title track, external but be warned about the language.

The 38-year-old has also praised the alleged victims of Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein for speaking out and supporting each other.

Filmed a week before singer Chester Bennington's suicide, Linkin Park's Carpool Karaoke episode has been shared on the band's Facebook page (above).

Normally only available to subscribers to Apple Music, the 23-minute long episode, which sees the band travel with comedian Ken Jeong, has been dedicated "to the memory of Chester".

With the late singer behind the wheel, the episode sees them open with a singalong to OutKast's Hey Ya and their breakout hit Numb.

It also sees a smiling Chester join in with renditions of songs by Aerosmith, Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

He jokes the comic, who has starred in films like Knocked Up and The Hangover, should "join the band" and rename himself 'Ken Park' saying: "Finally we have some leadership!"

We should warn there is some bleeped out swearing peppered through the video (above).

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Morning everyone.

We hope you all made it safely to work/college/wherever today and were not troubled by any falling mirrors, black cats or cracks in the pavement.

Today, plenty of big artists have been bold enough to release their new albums on Friday the 13th, including Pink (above), Robert Plant, St Vincent and Beck.

We'll be wishing those guys all the luck in the world and seeing what the critics (including you guys) think about them.

Plus a review of Bruce Springsteen on Broadway and the Linkin Park Carpool Karaoke, featuring the late Chester Bennington is released.

Go easy now out there, especially all you superstitious, external types.