It's been an eventful day with In my Feelings in the classroom, a near death experience for Post Malone, Madonna retaliating and a bunch of new music videos to devour.

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We're off to celebrate Dua Lipa's birthday (she's 23 today, in case you're wondering) so let's take a trip down memory lane to remember some of her finest Live Lounge performances.

Here's to you Dua! And catch you all tomorrow.

Paul Glynn
Music News LIVE reporter

Snail Mail singer/songwriter Lindsey Jordan was massively jet-lagged for her performance at the Walled Stage at Green Man at the weekend.

Not that you would've known.

In fact, performing her "vulnerable rock 'n' roll with a twist of pop and emo" to an intimate festival crowd is one of the few situations in which the comfortable numbness brought on by a long haul flight might even come in handy.

The 19-year-old from Maryland told us before the show: "I'm so jet-lagged that I can’t even remember how the songs go, I think I'm just gonna have to go up there and wing it.

"We were just on tour for 58 days and I haven’t played the songs in a week and already I'm scared.

"I hate having to do the first show of any designated tour - it freaks me out."

She needn't have worried.

The Mail (as absolutely nobody is calling them, yet) have been topping the list of 'must see acts' all summer and it's not hard to see why with Lindsey's "emotionally raw" lyrics and laconic delivery of tracks from debut album Lush, which came out in June.

"It took me forever," said Lindsey - referring to a period of only one and a half years (!)

"I didn’t feel comfortable rushing it. I had a lot of songs but a lot of it was scrapped because I wanted to take as much time as possible and spread it out over lots of different moments.

"I think of it as one cohesive finished thing,"

She added: "It is emotional, it ebbs and flows on tour and some nights I don’t feel it at all and some nights I tear up.

It transpires that Lindsey might not have been totally honest with regards to the origin or her pre-gig "rawness" on Friday evening.

She'd been to a John Waters-themed gay club night the night before, which might have had something to do with it.

“I was like 'it's Baltimore, it's gay we have to go...' and they were playing Aretha Franklin and people were pouring them out and dancing.”

Jet-lag + emotional club night + first gig back: That'll do it.

Lindsey began playing the guitar "obsessively" from five-years-old but admits that she did briefly consider "doing a real job" instead, at around middle school.

The straight As student certainly had the grades for it, if not the desire.

"I'd cut school and stuff but I did really well at tests and I did my homework.

Had she gone ahead with that threat to quit music we might never had heard heartfelt lyrics - that could have come out of the mouth of an old blues woman - like those on Heat Wave (above):

Swirl in the white evening sun / Tell me that I'm the only one

And I hope I never get a clue / Green eyes, I don’t know what to do

Oh and as for the actual heat wave in the UK around the exact time of that particular song's release, Lindsey says you are welcome.

"I think it's fair to say I put that on you guys."

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Guns N’Roses fans rejoice!

After an interview with Classic Rock Magazine, external, it looks like Slash has confirmed that new music is on the way.

After the band's original line up settled their differences last year, Slash told the mag that frontman Axl Rose has been working on new material.

"I think we’re going to go well on into the future. I mean, Axl’s got a ton of [music] that he recorded already, so we’re going to get in there and just start getting into that thing, and then if we do a record and then do a tour, I could see that cycle going on endlessly,” he said.

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Since reuniting, the band have been hitting the summer festival circuit, headlining Download Festival in June and will be touring worldwide in September.

Christmas really has come early for Hinds fans.

The Spanish indie rockers have arrived in the UK early ahead of their Leeds + Reading Festival gigs this weekend.

Ade, Ana, Amber and Carlotta popped into 6 Music earlier to perform some tracks for DJ Tom Ravenscroft and you can listen above.

And they announced they're set to curate their own special one-day mini-festival with some of their musical friends at London's Hackney Arts Centre on 1 December.

Earlier in the year, before the release of their second album, I Don't Run, the chicas told us how rock 'n' roll was "not cool anymore" and they were determined to change that.

Good job so far.

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The acclaimed film director has followed in the footsteps of Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson earlier this week, by paying tribute to the late Queen of Soul.

Speaking to 6 Music breakfast show host Shaun Keaveny, Spike recalled sharing regular warm embraces with the star.

"She would always give me a hug and it felt familiar", he said.

"It felt like my grandmother was hugging me."

Civil rights champion Franklin recorded a song for the end credits of Lee's 1992 film about black American activist Malcolm X, starring Denzel Washington.

Spike was in the building to discuss his new film Blackkklansman and you can listen back now.

Some more new music for you now courtesy of Anteros.

That's the London indie band, by the way, as opposed to the Greek god of requited love.

Call Your Mother is the first single taken from their forthcoming debut album.

The band will tour the UK in October.

If singer Laura makes it back from the desert that is.

Watch above.

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Sad news for Barbs hoping to catch Nicki Minaj and Future on the North American leg of their upcoming NickiHndrxx Tour - as it's now been postponed for now.

The tour was scheduled to kick-off in September in the US, but will now begin in Europe this February.

Nicki explains the reasons why "it'll be worth" the wait below.

It is unclear whether rapper 6ix9ine will still be joining the tour.

It was recently reported that he could face up to three years in jail should he be found guilty of sexual exploitation of a child, plus additional assault charges. He is due in court on 2 October, after violating an earlier plea deal.

In 2015, he pleaded guilty to using a child in a sexual performance - a video which he went on to post online.

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Nicki said in an interview on Beats 1 that she wanted to perform with 6ix9ine at Monday night's MTV VMAs.

“I wanted Tekashi [6ix9ine] to perform with me at the VMAs, but somewhere along the lines he did not get approved by the powers that be. When I know somebody, there’s nothing you can tell me about them,” she said.

Nicki's new album, Queen, debuted at number 2 in the US Billboard charts this week, which Nicki was not very happy about, and entered UK album charts at number 5.

Paul Glynn
Music News LIVE reporter

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Baxter Dury will have picked up a few new fans at Green Man this weekend after his captivating performance on the Mountain's Foot stage on Saturday afternoon.

Lots of kids present at the family-friendly festival will have picked up a few new swear words too.

The eccentric singer has been in demand of late following the relative success of his 2017 album Prince of Tears.

Speaking before his set (and after having enjoyed a 'jazz falafel') Baxter told us why he thinks his fifth album has finally caught the attention a wider audience.

"It’s a very Britsh album isn't it", he said.

"It’s a bloke sort of being honest that he just isn’t usually and that communicates.

"Maybe we’re just evolving at a very slow pace anyway and you have to find something new to talk about, so being honest about your rubbish emotions is quite a good thing."

He added: "But you don’t want to get too over-indulgent cos it breaks the mystery."

The 46-year-old - and son of late Blockheads leader Ian Dury - has been making quite a name for himself of late with his perfectly-honed disheveled playboy on-stage persona.

Chatting backstage, in jeans and a T-shirt, he told us that it takes a lot of concentration and an ill-fitting nylon suit to get himself into character each evening.

Perhaps the biggest test of his career to date and the surest sign of his rising popularity was a support set with Noel Gallagher on his UK summer tour.

Dury believes that the hoards of beer-swilling Oasis fanatics were perhaps not best prepared for his onstage unraveling act.

"That’s what you call growing up, make or break time," he said.

"It was a bit like if you’d painted yourself in Bic pen drawings in a prison and decided to do some sort of fire-eating juggling act, that’s what some of his crowd were like.

"You couldn’t stop. If you stopped you’d perish. You had just to carry on".

He added: "Noel and his crew were amazing, such lovely people.

The singer, who tours the UK in November - including his biggest headline show to date at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire - is restlessly keen to get to work on the follow-up to Prince of Tears.

"It's quite contained in a lot of real emotional stuff and you carry that around with you [for a year] while your actually performing it and you think 'that’s finished now.'

"So I just want to do something much more shallow, I don’t want to be so honest!"

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Like Ariana Grande before him, the Reverend - aka Jon McClure - has been opening up about the importance of discussing mental health.

The 36-year-old delivered a four page Twitter post about his trouble coming to terms with mental health issues, after having endured "a bad weekend".

"Thing is I'm a Northern working class male," he wrote

"We're told to man up aren't we? It's not the done thing to admit to emotional or mental frailty."

He went on to describe his struggles with mental health and how depression and anxiety is "like a monster lurking away to drag me under."

Plenty of folk online have thanked him for his "outstanding" words.

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Post Malone has hit out at trolls who "wished death" upon him after his private jet was forced to make an emergency landing yesterday.

The singer/rapper was travelling to the UK to appear at Reading and Leeds festivals when the incident happened.

The jet was en route from Teterboro, New Jersey, to Luton Airport when it reportedly blew two tyres.

It was diverted to make an emergency landing at New York Stewart International Airport.

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Writing on Twitter, he thanked people for their prayers but said he couldn't believe "how many people wished death on me on this website".

The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed the G-IV aircraft had landed safely and it would be investigating the incident.

Fans turned up at the airport and cheered when the jet, which was carrying 16 people, touched down.

They also took to Twitter to post messages hoping he would be okay.

NYC Aviation, an organisation that reports on aviation news, said on Twitter that the jet made a "textbook landing" and ambulance crews attended as a "precautionary measure".

Post Malone's manager, Dre London, also posted a video of the team adopting the brace position on his Instagram story.

In the series of posts he said: "Landed safely guys, serious, been circling the air for hours, but we're good."

Post Malone is due to perform at Reading Festival on Friday and then at Leeds Festival on Saturday.

You might know him as the former riff-meister general for Merseyside band The Coral, but now solo musician/producer Bill is back with a new music video.

The brilliantly-titled Mither - which is northern slang for 'pester' FYI - is the first track taken from his forthcoming fifth album Yawn, which is out on 5 November.

Check out the distorted shoegaze vibes above.

BRJ, who also recently produced the debut album by last week's Newbie Tuesday artists Our Girl, heads out on a short UK tour in September.

Yesterday we told you how Madonna's Aretha Franklin tribute at the MTV VMAs didn't go down too well with viewers, who felt she was making the whole thing a bit more about herself than the recently deceased soul star.

Now, Madge has taken to Instagram to clear this all up, pointing out that she didn't actually intend to do a "tribute at all".

"Just to clarify: I was asked to present video of the year by MTV! And then they asked me to share any anecdotes I had in my career connected to Aretha Franklin! I shared a part of my journey and thanked Aretha for inspiring me along the way.

She added: "Unfortunately most people have short attention spans, and are so quick to judge. I love Aretha! R.E.S.P.E.C.T. . I Love Camilla! Congrats! I LOVE my dress! AND. I love-L O V E!! ♥️ and there is nothing anyone can say or do that will change that."

Madonna presented the video of the year gong to Camila Cabello, for her number one smash, Havana.

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One of our favourite Scottish songstresses, Nina Nesbitt, has just shared the official video for her latest single, Loyal To Me.

In it, we see Nina donning ballet pointe shoes - a new challenge for the young singer, which she says is out of her comfort zone.

"Apart from a few ballet exercises when I was a gymnast, dance is something I’ve NEVER done (probably for a good reason) but something I’ve always admired in pop divas growing up.

"I thought this was the perfect moment to try it," Nina explains.

She added: "Loyal To Me is about girls talking to girls, giving advice and it has a sort of throwback vibe to it.

"I felt like the video related to the song in terms of having the beautiful moments in a relationship but also the pain of someone cheating.”

The track has racked up 2 million streams on Spotify so far.

Nina will be playing London's Omeara on 26 September before touring the nation with Scottish singer and former Newbie Tuesday artist Lewis Capaldi.

Drake's In My Feelings has been a summer smash, and Stateside, schools across the country are capitalising on the track's popularity by remixing the lyrics to get their kids excited about their studies.

Kiki, are you reading? Are you writing? Are you down with the knowledge?

Quoting Drizzy on the classroom walls... much cooler than any schools we've ever been to, that's for sure.

Check out some of the posters adorning school walls now below.

Drake's track was propelled to the top of the charts after an In My Feelings dance challenge spread like wildfire across the web, with loads of celebs getting involved.

That's Bring Me The Horizon for anyone not familiar with the acronym.

The Sheffield lads returned last night with a brand new track and this morning revealed details of their forthcoming sixth album, Amo.

The LP will arrive on 11 January and frontman Ollie Sykes had a chat with Radio 1 DJ Annie Mac as she gave new single, Mantra, its first spin.

The song sees Ollie beg the question: Do you want to start a cult with me?

We're good for that thanks Ollie but we'll have a listen to the new track above.

"It's quite a lot different but also got similarities from what people expect from us" he said.

"It just felt right - the right song to show people first."

The band will also tour the UK in November and tickets are on sale on 31 August.

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Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975, by the LA band has officially trumped Jacko's Thriller as the most popular record ever.

The news comes after the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) recalculated sales of the band's best of collection, certifying it as 38x platinum.

It was last tallied up in 2006, when the album was a mere 29x platinum but the record industry has obviously changed beyond recognition since then and the new certification now takes into account streaming and downloads, as well as traditional sales.

Eagles founding member Don Henley said in a statement:

Thriller was apparently last updated in 2017 clocking in at 33x platinum.

(So Michael Jackson fans will no doubt be phoning the RIAA as we speak).

The Eagles' best of spent nearly a decade as the best-selling album of all time until 2009 when, after Jackson's death, it was usurped by his smash hit 1982 record.

Here's the late Glenn Frey from Eagles telling the BBC back in 2016 what it's like to have "a mega record."

Hotel California by the Eagles: What was it actually about?

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US TV Channel Fox Business have come in for criticism from the UK synth-pop singer after they used her 2009 hit song Bulletproof to accompany a segment about bulletproof back-to-school gear.

It comes after several recent fatal shootings in US schools.

The broadcast focused on “high-end bulletproof backpacks and clothing that are revamping the protective equipment market” highlighting some “fashion-forward” items, a puffer jacket and a protective tank top, the latter of which costs $1,500.

Needless to say, La Roux - aka Elly Jackson - was not impressed, telling US publication Billboard that it totally misrepresents the intended metaphor of the song.

She said:

In a statement, FOX Business Network responded: “The song was chosen by the production team and the selection has been addressed."

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A month after Sir Paul appeared on The Late Late Show's Carpool Karaoke - which has since racked up nearly 31 million views on YouTube, external - CBS turned the James Corden chat into a hour long prime time special, with new unseen footage.

In it, Macca recalls the time he was incarcerated in a Japanese jail for nine whole days, after being caught with marijuana at Tokyo airport in 1980.

"I still am hazy as to how that happened, but it did. And in my suitcase, yes, there was some marijuana in the suitcase, and yes - I ended up in jail."

When asked how long he spent in jail, Macca replies "Nine days. Scary."

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Sir Paul was released after only serving nine days, which he attributed to his fame.

He recounted how, on his last day in the prison, he shared a communal bath with his fellow inmates. “By then, I was like, ‘Come on! In for a penny. I’m going in with the boys,'” he said. “So we all went in there and it was fun, y’know, being in the tub with all these Japanese guys.”

Macca is set to release his new album Egypt Station on September 7 and will be coming to an arena near you in December.

Well you came to the right place.

Morning all and welcome back to MNL.

Coming up today, La Roux attacks a US TV channel for using her track on a segment about bulletproof clothing and US country rockers Eagles knock Michael Jackson off his album perch.

Plus Sir Macca recalls his stint in Japanese jail and Nicki Minaj cancels on an entire continent.

We'll bring you a Hottest Record from Bring Me the Horizon, have more from backstage at the weekend's Green Man festival and plenty of new music as ever.

Right, get yourself a big boy's/girl's breakfast like Libertine Pete Doherty above and we'll see how much music news you can stomach.