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Soz, but that's your lot from us today.

But what a day huh?

Scroll back down for the return of Geri Horner AND Phil Collins, check out Texas and the Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Liam Gallagher is added to Glasto, Katy Perry wants to forgive and forget, plus Frank Ocean, Thom Yorke, M.I.A at Meltdown, The Killers and Pharrell Williams.

Plus more from Download, Parklife and the Isle of Wight (pictured above) festivals.

Have a great night. Back again tomorrow morning

Rocking Brighton duo Royal Blood are back with new album How Did We Get So Dark on Friday.

It's bound to be rifftastic nihilistic rage. At least we hope so.

BBC Music Reporter Mark Savage met up with The Bloods last week and frontman Mike Kerr casually told him how he'd cracked a rib "falling off the drum riser" only the night before.

Hard as nails.

Read more here about how parts of their first album have been banished to the sin bin, their concerts are fraught with peril and why they lied to Q Magazine about the new record.

Meanwhile the high priestess of gloom Lana Del Rey has teased a preview of a new song called Change.

You can check it out below.

It sounds nice...but how on earth is she doing that without moving her lips at the start?

Magic. Pure and simple.

Radio 1's Annie Mac returns to the airwaves tonight following her maternity leave.

The DJ will be back presenting her weekday show from 19:00 BST, with Mistajam having ably filled in for the past six months.

Annie will have an exclusive from Wolf Alice so definitely worth a listen.

She's been speaking to our music reporter Mark Savage about coming back and revealed that her youngest is already being schooled in music

"In the last couple of weeks, I've been going around to record labels and, at one meeting, the baby was just crawling on the ground as we listened to the new Jessie Ware single super-loud.

"They were like, "does he mind [the volume]?' and I was like, "Oh, he's fine, just let him be!"

Read more.

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Warning: This post contains politics.

It's been a confusing week in British politics hasn't it music fans?

The Conservatives were re-elected as a minority government but the main narrative seemed to centre around the success of the losing Labour party for gaining 29 Parliamentary seats and preventing the former from gaining a majority.

Got it?

One thing that is clear is that the entire UK grime scene pledged its allegiance early on by setting up the website Grime4Corbyn, external in honour of the Labour leader (sadly for us for balance there was no such Trance4Theresa campaign).

Voter turnout among 18 to 24-year-olds was reported to have been as high as 72%.

There's no official way of quantifying this yet but grime artists like JME, Stormzy, AJ Tracey, Novelist and Akala believe their voices are now finally being heard.

Read more.

Bear with us on this one (#thankyouverymuch).

The former (are we allowed to say former without upsetting 1D fans?) One Direction singer is on the solo campaign trail for his debut effort Strip That Down

It teams him with Mr Collaborator, aka Quavo from Migos, - a band famed for their ad-libs.

Liam told Scott Mills, sitting in for Grimmy on the Radio 1 Breakfast show, about some of the strangest background sound requests he's ever had.

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Pioneering female rappers Salt-N-Pepa are still on the mic 31 years after their debut single and have been speaking to Women's Hour on Radio 4 about sexism in the music industry.

The trio - yes we are also counting DJ Spinderella - have won four Grammy awards and released five albums.

Watch their thoughts below on breaking the glass ceiling and not giving up on their your dreams "for a man."

And just because it's still awesome nearly 25 years later, here is their 1993 hit Shoop.

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Which seems utterly ridiculous as we're almost half-way through June but there you go...

The US singer-songwriter has made her debut at the summit of the Billboard chart for the first time with her second full-length record Hopeless Fountain Kingdom.

Her debut album, Badlands, charted at number two in 2015.

The last woman to top the US countdown was Lady Gaga, with her Joanne album in November last year and in the past 12 months, Halsey is only one of four to achieve the feat.

Over the same period, 16 men have earned number ones.

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In the UK chart Arian Grande's One Last Time shot back up the singles charts to number two on Friday, in the wake of her One Love Manchester benefit gig (scroll down for more on that from Liam G).

She was kept of top spot by Lusi Fonsi, Justin Bieber and co with Despacito (remix), while Ed Sheeran holds on to #1 in the album charts for a whopping 11th week.

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Well, Parklife may have been on this weekend but guitarist Graham Coxon joined his old Britpop pal Damon Album and the rest of the Gorillaz crew on stage at their own personal festival at Margate's Dreamland amusement park on Saturday night.

Graham appeared alongside guest vocalist Jehnny Beth of Savages on We Got The Power; the lead single from last album Humanz.

According to the NME, external a few months back, Graham was originally supposed to appear on the recorded version of the track, which features Noel Gallagher, but Damon stripped it back as it was becoming "too rocky".

He said: "It was sort of heading slightly in the wrong direction.”

Ah well I'm sure it went alright on the night. Some of you loved it below.

Earlier in the day, Demon Dayz saw performances from the likes of De La Soul, Little Simz and Kano.

Ian Youngs
Entertainment and Arts Reporter, BBC News

More from Parklife in Manchester now.

There was a brilliant tribute to the victims and emergency services of Manchester before The 1975 took to the stage to headline Saturday night at the Parklife festival.

Nurses, doctors, police officers, members of the fire service and ambulance staff joined Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham on stage.

Mr Burnham then introduced Matt Healy who asked the crowd to take part in a minute's noise instead of a minute's silence.

Watch above.

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When Pharrell Williams recorded the song Happy, external for the Despicable Me 2 soundtrack in 2013, there is no way he could have known just how massive it was going to be.

But how do you follow it up?

He's certainly tried with the song Yellow Light from the forthcoming Despicable Me 3.

Rolling Stone, external called it "instantly catchy" while Billboard added the song, external "radiates nothing but positivity as the track follows a booming bass, and a funky beat that grooves and grinds".

On the other side of the argument, Consequence of Sound argued, external: "There’s just something a little too forced about the pep, and things don’t come together as seamlessly as they did on the track’s chart-topping predecessor."

Did you go moshing at Download? Or were you singing along to Rod in the sun on the Isle of Wight?

Perhaps you were hand in hand through your Parklife instead or sampling some of the "outlaws" on display at Meltdown.

Wherever you went, tell us your festival highlight from this weekend and why - via BBC Music Facebook, external and Twitter., external

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Run for cover...The Killers are back with a new track.

We're not just being mean - that's the song title.

The Vegas band performed the first single from their forthcoming fifth album The Man at Atlantic City’s Borgata on Saturday.

Watch some fan-shot footage , externalof the track being debuted live and learn the typically-rousing chorus in time for it's official release on Friday.

Neil Smith
Entertainment reporter

Five of the stars of US TV series Nashville were in London this weekend to bring a touch of Grand Ole Opry to the Royal Albert Hall.

Yet Charles Esten, Clare Bowen, Jonathan Jackson, Chris Carmack and Britain's Sam Palladio also found time to honour the late David Bowie during their set with a spirited performance of his 1977 hit Heroes.

It was the second visit to these shores by the cast of the programme, whose fifth season is currently running on Sky Living, external.

Based on the clip, above, Carmack might have been better leaving his sax back in Tennessee.

Paul Glynn
Music News LIVE reporter

Sadly neither of us made it into a sunny field with a cider and some top musical acts this weekend (lucky if you did).

We did however pop along to an air-conditioned Southbank Centre in London to see what M.I.A was throwing down at her personally-curated Meltdown Festival., external

Fresh from presenting a video chat with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, the Sri Lankan-born hip hop artist/producer was quizzed by youth ambassadors about her past and the future of politics and music during a Q and A called I am...MIA.

M.I.A (whose real name is Maya) is no stranger to tackling political issues in her work and said she was greatly enthused by the massive youth turnout in last week's general election.

"It's amazing that the youth are getting politicized," she said.

"Growing up in Sri Lanka, we used to all chip in and hire a television once a month for the whole street to watch.

"Once we moved to our flat in London, I couldn't escape the news as the TV and radio was always tuned in, so I thought why not talk about it?

"I felt informed to create music for myself to address things like the Iraq war."

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The 41-year-old artist affirmed her belief that "the idea of music is to elevate yourself above politics and religion and communicate on a very basic level."

With this in mind she is now trying to figure out "how to be useful" as an artist going forward into the age of artificial intelligence (A.I) and the new global world community.

"It's an interesting time and we're at a crossroads of how music plays a part in this.

"Artists are at the cusp of embracing A.I. But what is political activism in A.I phase?

"I think, 'Should I make my next video in virtual reality?', instead of me. I find that sexy - new technology. I want to do things in a way that aren't the accepted route.

"I could take the hippy route of singing to people face-to-face..or I could stream my virtual shows to people's bedrooms around the world so you can be at my show wherever you are."

She added: "The amount of data A.I can pick up on is so fast growing that the future me will be way better anyway!

The Paper Planes star treated Meltown attendees to a vast-range of shows this weekend from "outlaw musicians" (as Maya puts it) like Scottish hip-hopper Young Fathers and Belgian electo-rockers Soulwax.

The festival continues until 18 June with grime star Giggs performing tonight, Canadian electro duo Crystal Castles on Friday and US rapper Young M.A on Saturday.

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In a rare interview ahead of their Glastonbury headline slot, Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has been talking 6 Music's Matt Everitt through his musical firsts, including tracks from R.E.M, Aphex Twin, and James Holden.

Their Pyramid Stage set next week comes 20 years after a legendary 1997 headline performance, following the release of OK Computer.

The band didn't enjoy it due to technical issues but it has gone down in Glasto folklore.

Thom discusses his early days strumming away loudly in the bedroom of his parents house in Oxford and how his own kids are getting their revenge now.

He also grapples with the problem of the modern political song and whether it is still possible now the times they are a changing.

Listen above.

Ian Youngs
Entertainment and Arts Reporter, BBC News

There was a point when Frank Ocean re-started his opening song at Manchester's Parklife festival, external for the third time that it felt dangerously like the murmurs in the crowd were about to turn to boos.

He was headlining after returning to the stage for the first time in three years, and he'd already cancelled a string of festivals this year.

He kept going, and his show gradually got going. Lots was downbeat, meandering and disjointed. Some was tender and sublime. All was unlike any other festival headline act.

Read more

He split opinion, to say the least.

And he's probably the only headliner to have his merch screen-printed on demand.

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Scots rockers Texas performed some of their greatest hits alongside a classical orchestra at the Glasgow Barrowlands on Friday night for BBC Music Day.

Check out Sharleen and the lads play their first hit I Don't Want A Lover from 1989.

You can still listen to the full set on iPlayer.

The gig kicked off a load of BBC Music events which will be happening throughout the week, culminating with BBC Music Day on Thursday.

Phil Collins was back on the tour trail at the weekend, days after postponing shows at the Royal Albert Hall following a fall at his hotel.

The singer had to be stitched up when he fell on the way to the toilet last week and his injury was visible as he took to the stage in Cologne, Germany.

Patched-up Phil is due to headline the British Summertime Festival in Hyde Park at the end of the month.

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Geri Horner, aka Halliwell, has announced her comeback solo single which has been written in memory of her mate George Michael.

Angels In Chains, out on 23 June, is the former Spice Girl's first single in the UK for 12 years and profits from the song, which also features former Wham! backing singer Shirley Lewis, will go to Childline.

The single's release comes two days before George's 54th birthday.

Geri named her youngest son (pictured below) in his honour and said: "When I first heard the sad news of his passing, I was nine months pregnant with my son Monty and I was full of emotions.

"I didn't know quite what to do with my feelings so I put it in a song, which became Angels In Chains."

She added: "This is our way of saying goodbye to our friend and music idol, and I hope George's fans enjoy this as much as we have making it."

George died on Christmas Day last year.

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Back in 1970... 600,000 hippies descended on the Isle of Wight Festival to see Jimi Hendrix, The Who and Sly and the Family Stone.

Now, 47 years on, the likes of Sir Rod Stewart, Arcade Fire, David Guetta have been providing the sountrack to another sun-drenched fest at Seaclose Park on the island this weekend.

We hope you had your sun-cream on if you were there, as it was apparently 'scorchio' Here's some snaps of some equally hot acts from the event.

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