...so can artists please stop releasing any new music videos until tomorrow, thanks.

Y'know #NewMusicFriday an all that...

Today's been almost exhausting in how much new music's appeared. There was the new George Michael single. The new ZAYN single. The new Kelly Clarkson single. The new Beck single. The new Baaba Maal single (our musical highlight of the day). The new... actually, that might have been it. But five's enough for one day, isn't it?

Listen to them all below.

We've also had news of rapper Kano having a court case against him dropped, Later...'s 25th anniversary celebrations, and one star's strange rant about the demise of pop star attitude.

But above all, today had the great news that rock god Josh Homme - the Queens of the Stone Age frontman - is going to read a CBeebies bedtime story.

Above, again, is the wonderful picture announcing that news. Sweet dreams, everyone. Don't have nightmares!

Ouch!

If you're cycling your way home tonight, take care everyone.

If it can happen to The Man, external, it can happen to anyone.

Best make sure you have some good cover-up for next week's gig at Brixton Academy in London, Brandon.

On this day in 1968, nearly 50 years ago, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham made their live debut as Led Zeppelin.

They were, however, billed as The New Yardbirds at The Teen Club in Gladsaxe on the outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Plant was apparently introduced on stage as as 'Robert Plat'.

Check them out above performing just two years later.

Senegalese singer Baaba Maal has shared his new all-star video for Lampenda.

The lo-fi video - shot last summer at BST Hyde Park - features famous faces including Ted Dwayne from Mumford & Sons, Sam Smith and Blaine Harrison from Mystery Jets

We have absolutely no idea what he is singing about, but its a genuinely uplifting track.

The Invincible singer released her new single, Love So Soft, today - and it's a pop doozy, with a 50s swing feel to the verses and a sexy bass breakdown for the chorus.

It's due to appear on her forthcoming Meaning of Life album, out 27 October.

The video features Clarkson standing in a lounge as it explodes around her - she really needs to get her electrics looked at - and also an apparent tribute to Beyonce.

If you jump a minute in, you'll see Clarkson wearing a wide-brim hat, her head down, which looks remarkably like the look Beyonce popularised in her Formation video. Watch that below and make up your own mind.

ZAYN is really throwing everything at becoming the biggest star to emerge out of One Direction.

His new single is both a collaboration with Sia *and* a five-minute-long video that acts like a Hollywood blockbuster.

The song is a polished ballad, featuring a booming chorus that has him and Sia singing how they're going to make love while "on the run."

"You don't need to be alone / I'll be with you from dusk til dawn / Baby, I'm right here," it goes - words that many One Direction fans are going to be scaring their boy and girlfriends with tonight.

ZAYN fans are unsurprisingly losing it. "I've never felt so alive," is a typical comment beneath the video on YouTube. Meanwhile on Twitter:

The backlash is around the corner, we're guessing.

The Guardian

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Are you worried that Donald Trump's going to cause the end of the world?

Well, calm down! At least you should if you take advice from Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor, a man who is, er, famously calm on stage, as you can tell by the picture above.In an interview with The Guardian, external, Taylor describes Trump as "so ineffectual".

"Everyone was worried about the crazy things he’d do," he says, "but there’s nothing that he’s done that can’t be changed in another administration.

The interview also sees him talk about how artificial intelligence will take over us all, the problems of phone addiction, and - back on politics - why celebrities should stop trying to become politicians, like the rapper Kid Rock who recently said he's going to become a senator:

"What the hell is Kid Rock going to do? It’s the biggest form of ego I have ever heard in my life. Please go ahead. Drive a car with a blindfold on and see how far it gets you."

Less intensely, Taylor also says he loves Ed Sheeran ("I’m stoked for people like Ed – that kid worked his ass off") and gives his views on online dating ("As long as there are hopeless romantics like myself, I don’t think romance will die").

Basically, it's a great read. Maybe this is what Louis Tomlinson was talking about when he said he wanted more attitude in music (scroll down for that bizarre story).

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Adele, Coldplay and David Bowie helped British music enjoy record success overseas last year, new figures show.

British musicians earned £365m around the globe for record labels in 2016 - up 11% on the previous year, according to trade body the BPI.

And it's a rise of 72% compared with 2010.

The most popular albums included Adele's 25, Coldplay's A Head Full of Dreams, David Bowie's Blackstar and The Rolling Stones' Blue & Lonesome.

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As DJ booths go, you could do worse than the Arc de Triomphe.

The French DJ and producer - who worked with Major Lazer on the massive hit tune Lean On, external - played a show on top of the 50m high arc in the French capital on Wednesday night, which was live streamed on Facebook.

"I was asked to do this for Paris, and it was a chance for me to show a short insight into where and how I grew up in my city," he said.

"I was announcing new music, my first arena show in Paris and sharing my journey on the roof of a monument I saw growing up and never did I think I would be stood on the top broadcasting to the world.

You can still watch the short set below.

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On Tuesday's Music News LIVE, we brought you the latest song from U2, called You're The Best Thing About Me.

Now we've learnt who the song's aimed at. Guitarist the Edge was a guest on Simon Mayo's Radio 2 show and explained the track is a letter from singer Bono to his wife Ali Hewson.

"It's got a kind of bittersweet twist, influenced a bit by Oscar Wilde, external," he said.

"With U2 it's never going to be a straight up love song."

Listen above.

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The much-discussed mystery guest on the new Foo Fighters album, Concrete and Gold, turns out to be the least Foo Fighters guest imaginable. Justin Timberlake guests on one track. Well, he sings a few "la la la's" in the background of the song, at least.

Foos frontman Dave Grohl told Rolling Stone that the singer hung out with the band at LA's EastWest studios where they were both working.

"We'd drink whiskey in the parking lot," Grohl says. "He was really, really cool.

"Then the night before his last day, he says, 'Can I sing on your record? I don't want to push it, but I just want to be able to tell my friends.' "

"He nailed it," Grohl added. "I'm telling you – the guy's going somewhere."

Read the full interview, external, which also includes a trip with Grohl to a record shop where no one recognises him. Perhaps because the shop is full of Lana del Rey fans.

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Sending some positive vibes out to soul singer Charles Bradley who has announced he is cancelling his tour due to his cancer returning.

The singer posted a note on Facebook saying that, having beaten stomach cancer, the disease has spread to his liver though hasn't returned to his stomach.

"I love all of you out there that made my dreams come true," he writes. "When I come back, I'll come back strong, with God's love. With God's will, I'll be back soon."

The 68-year-old recently performed on the Mr Jukes track Grant Green, external.

He had been due to play the O2 Forum in London on 15 December.

Which surely isn't good for his sleep patterns.

Fortunately, Up All Night also happens to be the name of Beck's addictive, fizzy new single, which he's just released the video for.

The clip features a woman going to rescue her friend who is passed out at a party. She takes a puff on her inhaler and suddenly develops supernatural powers - a moment all asthma sufferers can relate to, we're sure.

The song is from Beck's 13th - THIRTEENTH! - album Colors (he is insisting on the American spelling, the darn Yank), due out 13 October.

Yesterday, Beck got on the phone with 6 Music to talk about the record. Listen below, but about the new song he said: "We were trying to maybe [get] that feeling when we're playing festivals and everyone's letting their guard down...they have this rock energy that's maybe a little reckless."

There's "something a little Brazilian about it as well", he added.

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The grime artist has had an assault charge against him dropped after the couple who brought the case failed to attend court.

The 32-year-old MC was accused of attacking the couple in London's Shoreditch House last September.

But after Suzzan Atala and Henry Kinman failed to turn up for the trial at Wood Green Crown Court, the case against Kano was thrown out.

Mr Kinman appeared to have posted pictures of himself on a climbing holiday, external in France on social media.

Judge Gregory Perrins said everyone's time had been wasted adding: "From the information put before me, [Kinman] has on the face of it deliberately misled the prosecution.

"It appears to be the case that Mr Kinman had no intention to attend."

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The xx had a crack at the Justin Timberlake track My Love, in their Live Lounge yesterday.

The original song is from Timberlake's 2006 album FutureSex/LoveSounds.

It's a typically upbeat performance, and the band managed to make Timberlake sound just like themselves. Although is there any act The xx couldn't make sound like themselves?

Check out their cover above and listen to their full session.

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Lady Gaga looks all raw and real in the trailer for her forthcoming Netflix documentary Five Foot Two, which is premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival tomorrow.

Filmmaker Chris Moukarbel directed the doc which follows Gaga for a year as she promotes her Joanne album and grapples with everything from "relationships to health issues, from finding solace in her inner circle to conquering her insecurities."

The clip, which sadly we can't post here due to her frank language, shows her preparing for a medical procedure and getting ready for her SuperBowl performance.

Florence Welch - of Florence and the Machine fame - makes a brief appearance, suggesting the film could give an insight into other stars' lives too.

The singer sent pizza to her fans in Montreal this week after cancelling a gig on doctors orders.

"Hi, I'm Josh, are you all tucked in with your favourite teddy?"

The best sentence we will write today is that Queens of the Stone Age singer Josh Homme is to read a CBeebies Bedtime Story.

He will read Julia Donaldson's Zog - the tale of an accident-prone young dragon - in an episode which will be broadcast on Friday 6 October.

Previous readers include actor Tom Hardy, Captain America actor Chris Evans, athlete Jessica Ennis-Hill, Elbow singer Guy Garvey and David 'The Hoff' Hasselhoff.

Night, night.*

*It's not actually time for bed, although if you are tired, watch this clip of the Queens at Reading Festival last month. It's sure to wake you up.

The Foo Fighters, Paul Weller, Dizzee Rascal, Jorja Smith and Gregory Porter are among the artists who will play the Royal Albert Hall to mark 25 years, 50 series and over 360 episodes of Later... with Jools Holland.

"It's fantastic that we’re going to celebrate 25 years of making this show with a special one off event, where all of the workings of the Later experience will be transported into the Royal Albert Hall!" said Jools.

The show is on Thursday 21 September and tickets will be available from the Royal Albert Hall website from tomorrow.

The Later 25 show will broadcast on 23 September on BBC Two.

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Louis Tomlinson is the sort of musician who apologises in interviews for smoking ("I know, I know, it’s not great...., external") and for partying after One Direction went on hiatus ("It wasn't really me, but I embraced it at the time").

Which is why it's somewhat of a surprise that last night he tweeted this:

What on earth did he mean? Fortunately, he quickly clarified:

He later added: "Oasis are sick and we need more bands that don't give a *** like them in their prime."

We think the swear word in the middle of that may be an example of the attitude he's talking about.

Louis has expressed his admiration for Oasis many times before, even after Noel Gallagher criticised One Direction's music, external.

But, to be honest, we are very confused, especially having spent a good half-an-hour looking for Oasis interviews to find the moment where they apologise for smoking.

It seems we're not alone in that confusion:

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It wasn't quite the undiscovered gem that we hoped it would be, but Radio 2 had the first play this morning of a remix of the George Michael song Fantasy.

It's been produced by disco legend Nile Rodgers who revealed he had "mixed feelings" over the song being released eight months after the singer's death.

"You SHOULD have mixed feelings," he said on Twitter, external. "No one's heart was dragged through emotional ambiguity more than mine."

According to George's manager David Austin, the song was originally meant to be on Listen Without Prejudice Vol.1 and was intended to be one of the singles from the album, but somehow it "got lost in the ether."

According to our music reporter Mark Savage: "Fantasy sounds vastly different to the version that was released as a b-side in 1990, and later as a bonus track on 2011's deluxe version of the Faith album.

"The tinny 80s production of the original has been completely overhauled in favour of a slinky funk groove, featuring Rodgers' choppy guitar rhythms."

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Reactions on Twitter have been mixed to say the least: