Music News LIVE is over for another day.

But what did we learn?

• Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl is to release a 23-minute instrumental song to encourage fans to Play
• Nicki Minaj has delayed the release of her new album and has a "huge surprise" on the way
• Reading + Leeds Festival named a raft of BBC Music Introducing Stage acts, including Stereo Honey.
• There's lots of new music videos from the likes of You Me at Six, Death Cab For Cutie and Fall Out Boy.
• Some pizza men can play the piano like a pro

Before we go, we'll leave you with one final new music video of the day, courtesy of Irish band Kodaline, who find themselves in Portugal.

The track is taken from the forthcoming album Politics of Living, which is out next month.

See you tomorrow for New Music Friday and we are also at the Wilderness Festival in Oxfordshire.

The Brighton-based punks asked for women and non binary artists to apply to tour with them in the UK, Europe and the US and now apparently have to sift through more than 400 applications.

"This is incredible," they tweeted. "Got a lot of listening to do."

They previously told Music News LIVE they had a "responsibility" to help female fans "to feel safe and a have a good time" at their gigs.

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Hip hop prodigy Bishop Nehru self-released his album Elevators: Act I & II earlier this year.

Apparently, it was inspired by a claustrophobic nightmare the 21-year-old New Yorker had about being stuck in a lift.

"I feel like maybe it was a sign there are lots of ups and downs," he told Lauren Laverne. "And you've just got to find the right floor."

Or perhaps that life can sometimes make you feel like you're going nowhere fast...

Anyway it's his dream, not ours - so check out his live session above including his track Get Away.

So Dave Grohl has dreamt up a 23-minute song that we can all hear and play along to as of next Friday.

Scroll down this page for more on that.

Thankfully down the years, the Foo Fighters frontman has also come up with plenty of great three or four-minute rock tracks.

Today's #TBT takes us all the way down Foos memory lane, via a mini-history of the Seattle band ahead of their long-awaited Glastonbury Headline set in 2017.

The gig was two years late due to Dave breaking his leg on stage a week before they were due to headline in 2015.

Watch above and enjoy.

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The New York singer-songwriter follows up The World's Best Kisser with Say It First from the brilliantly named 10 Songs That Happened When You Left Me with My Stupid Heart.

Seriously, The 1975 would love that one...

The record is due out at the end of the month and you'll be able to catch Darwin when he plays a UK tour in October.

Listen below to the new song.

Lucy Todd
BBC Entertainment reporter

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Following on from the Rihanna post yesterday, where she was talking to British Vogue about her love of her fuller figure, the Barbadian star's eye-brows have come under the spotlight.

Bad Girl Ri Ri's September Vogue cover, external shows the superstar with her eyebrows seemingly removed and ultra-fine, pronounced arches pencilled in their place.

It flies in the face (literally) of the bushy Cara Delevingne-inspired brows that have for so long been the beauty norm of the £20m brow industry, external.

But would women really ditch their carefully grown-out eyebrows for such a dramatic look?

"It feels really fresh and is such a big statement," says Rosie Green, beauty director at Woman & Home.

Read more.

Annabel Rackham
BBC Entertainment reporter

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At 24-years-old, Anna Todd felt her life had come to a bit of a standstill.

"I was a struggling army wife going to community college who didn't know what to do with my life," she tells the BBC.

"I would read a lot of fan fiction on [publishing website] Wattpad and felt I had read everything so one day I decided to write a chapter."

That chapter, the start of a story based on One Direction singer Harry Styles, would eventually be turned into a book series and now a Hollywood film.

Now 29, the Ohio native has published five books in the After series and three other novels.

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A new track called Electricity will see Dua team up with DJ/Producer Ronson and Diplo under their alter ego, Silk City.

"Her name is electricity and you'll meet her soon enough" tweeted the New Rules star.

According to The NME, Ronson told The Times, external: "The song is a belter", descirbing it as "spiritual piano house music like they used to make… Lipa sounds imperious".

He added that the 22-year-old “has this deep, soulful voice that harkens back to gospel house.”

We knew we'd heard it somewhere before.

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"We'll have a 12-inch margarita, potato wedges and a rendition of Beethoven's Moonlight sonata please" - said no-one ever, while ordering a pizza.

But that's pretty much what the Varchetti family, near Detroit, got when Hungry Howie's delivery man Bryce Dudal spotted their piano on arrival.

Julie Varchetti told The Washington Post the self-taught 18-year-old secret piano star was "beyond good" and shared his talents with the world on Facebook.

Watch above.

We hope she also gave him a tip.

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This week marked the 80th birthday of the Beano, home of Dennis the Menace and the Bash Street Kids.

It was first published in Dundee, Scotland by publisher DC Thompson on 30 July 1938.

To mark the anniversary, Lauren's show on 6 Music has been playing a Comics People’s Playlist including tunes by Rosemary Clooney (Dennis The Menace) and a Ghostface Killah song about Tony Stark.

Check out Lauren's Beanotown equivalent above.

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They may be the biggest rock 'n' roll band on the planet but The Stones started off as a little blues covers band.

They've never lost that love of the old Delta sound - having released a blues covers album in late 2016 - and now they've curated their own new compilation.

Confessin’ the Blues will feature songs from blues legends Chuck Berry, John Lee Hooker and Howlin’ Wolf, as well as Bo Diddley, Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters.

Mick and Keef's band, of course, took their name from a Muddy Waters track.

Keith Richards said: “If you don’t know the blues … there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.”

Bandmate and fellow guitarist Ronnie Wood contributed to the album art with his interpretation of a bluesman.

The 42-track album will be released on 9 November.

Read more, external, appropriately in the publication of the same name and check out the trailer above.

The Washington indie band have released a soothing lyric video for their most seasonal of songs.

Strictly speaking, as Americans this should really be called Fall Song and it's a month early too - but we'll allow it.

The track is taken from their ninth album, Thank You for Today, which arrives on 17 August.

Check it out above.

Earlier, we told you how a raft of exciting new acts had been added to the BBC Music Introducing Stage lineup for this year's Reading + Leeds festivals.

One day they'll all be hoping to grace the main stage, like headliners Fall Out Boy.

Patrick Stump from the US band has recorded a stripped-back version of Ariana Grande's No Tears Left to Cry, for Sirius XM radio in the States.

Check it above.

Arianators - what do you reckon?

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Serj Tankien, frontman of Armenian American metal band System of a Down (or SOAD to fans) has opened up about the lack of music form the band.

It follows a recent interview he gave in which he admitted he was not keen on the band's previous double album, 2005's Mesmerize and Hypnotize.

“It’s gotta be organic, it’s gotta feel right in every way,” Serj (pictured above) said in the interview with Forbes, external, when asked about the possibility of a new album after 13 years.

“But also there’s no law that says a band should be together for a million years and have a million records.

“Actually, if you look over the years as a musicologist or a fan of music would, in any way, it’s probably regressive thinking.”

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Music piracy is falling out of favour as streaming services become more widespread, new figures show.

One in 10 people in the UK still use illegal downloads, but that is down from 18% in 2013, according to YouGov's Music Report.

The trend looks set to continue - with 22% of those who get their music illegitimately saying they do not expect to be doing so in five years.

"It is now easier to stream music than to pirate it," said one survey participant.

However, record labels remain concerned by the rise of "stream ripping" services which allow users to "grab" music from streaming services like YouTube and Spotify and store the file on their phone or computer.

One of this year's most-pirated albums is Beyonce and Jay-Z's Everything Is Love, which was initially released as an exclusive on Tidal.

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Latino stars J Balvin and Nicky Jam took the stage by storm on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday night.

The artists performed a collaboration of two megahits Mi Gente and their collaboration X.

Loving the green leather jacket and 'co-ordinated dance routine' about half way through.

Paul Glynn
Music News LIVE reporter

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Last night, BBC Radio 1 DJ Huw Stephens announced a raft of new artists who will perform on the BBC Music Introducing stages at Reading + Leeds Festivals.

The August (24-26) bank holiday double header will be headlined by Fall Out Boy, Kendrick Lamar, Panic! At The Disco and Kings Of Leon.

Now London-based indie rockers Stereo Honey have received the call too, as have The Blinders, Fizzy Blood and Beach Riot, as well as Malika, The Baskervilles, Litany, and Sun Arcana.

Also on the undercard will be young London grime prodigy Yizzy, The Dunts, Nonamedisciple, Dylan Cartlidge and Sit Down.

Music News LIVE Newbie Tuesday favourites Skinny Pelembe and Bessie Turner will also perform, alongside other emerging talent including Sports Team, Pizzagirl, Lady Bird, The Scruff, Valeras, Tiana Major9, Beth Thornton and October Drift.

Huw said: “Playing at Reading and Leeds is a huge deal for everyone.

We caught up with Stereo Honey a short while back to discuss their rapid rise.

The band only played their first gig together in April 2017 and attracted the interest of BBC Music Introducing in London with a series of releases, including latest track Don't Speak above.

Singer Pete Restrick's falsetto and introspective lyrics have drawn comparisons to that of a young Thom Yorke (no pressure then).

But Pete told MNL that it could easily have been so different, as he was initially the band's drummer before logistics forced him to come up front and find his voice.

"I've got a very weird high voice and I think it took a lot of convincing," he confessed.

"The lads had to sit me down and go 'it sounds good, you know'.

Talk about doing yourself out of a job...

New drummer Jake joked: "It was me in disguise!".

The road from the drum kit to the front mic is often a rocky one but one that multi-instrumentalist Pete seems to have navigated well so far - and with modesty.

"Phil Collins does it really well and I don't," he added.

"That's all I'm going to say about it!"

Check out another track, What Makes a Man (above) and find them in a field near you along with some more talented newcomers later this month.

Read more: The best brand new artists to see at Reading + Leeds Festival 2018.

You Me At Six have shared the new music video for their latest single 3AM.

It's one of the first tracks to be taken from the Surrey rockers forthcoming sixth studio album, VI, which is out on 5 October.

Frontman Josh Franceschi explained the cinematic inspiration for the video:

“The idea came from watching Wolf Of Wall Street," he said.

"In the film, there is a scene where the main protagonist (Leonardo DiCaprio) has a split reality when under the influence, of what he believes to be true and what is actually true.

"That just resonated with us. I worked quite closely with (video director) Dan Broadley as I found myself doing a lot of 'acting' in this video."

He added: "It was new, and a challenge, but he gave me the confidence to embrace it and also have the freedom to go off script."

Check out Josh's finest "acting" above and please drink responsibly.

The band head out on their Take off Your Colours 10 year anniversary tour in November.

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Nicki Minaj has delayed the release of her fourth album, Queen, to 17 August.

The Trinidadian-American rapper made the announcement during her Apple Music Essentials playlist takeover.

She wrote: “My darlings!!! I have a huge surprise that I can’t share until the day before #Queen drops.

"So in the meantime, check out this playlist I made for you guys."

She added: "I’m super excited about my recent collaboration with Ariana Grande. She’s one of the realest artists I’ve had the pleasure of working with.

Could that be the surprise?

Or has she finally caved in to Eminem's public requests to go on a date?

Yesterday, we told you how Nicki herself had publicly asked Tracy Chapman to give her permission for the use of a sample on the new album, so it could be that too.

We only have two weeks to wait to find out the answers to all of these questions.

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This year is the 50th anniversary of Born To Be Wild - one of the 20th Century's first heavy rock tracks.

It was recorded by Steppenwolf and reached no.2 in the US chart in 1968, a year later it was used in the film Easy Rider.

It was written by Canadian musician Dennis Edmonton, who went under the brilliant stage name Mars Bonfire.

He told 6 Music why it is still regarded as the first metal tune explaining: "Not that I was deliberately trying to create a new genre of music but the song has the phrase 'heavy metal thunder' and music writers started to use it to describe bands with a similar sound."

Listen above.

The Beatles track Helter Skelter, which is also often accredited as the first heavy metal track, was released in 1968 too.