We're done for another week here on MNL.

Like Skepta (above) our work-related worries are now minimal. See if you can 'spot' his.

Scroll down for news of:

• The Smashing Pumkins bringing out some special guests at their 30th anniversary gig.
• Drake fans being in their feelings about his new video.
• And a Justin Timberlake 'spinning wheel' gameshow being in the works.

Plus:

• Loads of new music from the likes of Zayn, Camila Cabello and Travis Scott, Paloma Faith, The Coral and Chvrches.
• 5 Things We've Learned This Week.
• And backstage chat from Wilderness Festival in sunny Oxfordshire.

See you on Monday and we'll do it all over again.

We're off to the White Isle tonight with Radio 1 (in a listening sense only, sadly) so why don't you join us...

Image source, Getty Images

Well, who saw this move coming from the Scottish synth-pop outfit?

Their new release - Out of My Head - melds genres by featuring J-Pop act Wednesday Campanella.

The track's verses are delivered in Japanese, while Chvrches singer Lauren Mayberry (above) comes in on the (English) choruses.

The anime-led music video adds another J-Pop staple.

Chvrches have just completed a Japanese tour which culminated with a show at Tokyo’s Fuji Rock festival.

Check it below.

Deliah Montague has just got the party started with a composed performance on the main stage.

The piano starlet (above) doesn't look half as "terrified" as she told our reporter Kev Geoghegan she would be earlier - does she?

She can relax and enjoy the rest of the festival now after a job well done.

Dan Owen then belted out his tunes on the same stage.

He told MNL that the stage looked familiar, which is probably why he looked so at home up there.

We'll bring you more from the Oxfordshire event in Monday's Music News LIVE.

Kev Geoghegan
Arts and entertainment reporter

Dan Owen, one of our feature Newbie Tuesday artists, is another musician making his debut at the event at the Cornbury Park event.

Though he swears he's been here before.

"I've got a feeling I've been on that stage before, I think that stage has been around for quite a while," he reckons.

"I only recognise it from the back, it's got the big silver thing going on. It will be good to get out there.

"Its a big stage though. I don't often get to play on them that big. It's nice."

Dan will be playing songs from his debut album, Stay Awake With Me, which is due out at the end of the month.

1) Kendrick Lamar is now an actor

Compton rapper Kendrick made his acting debut in Sunday's night's episode of the US TV drama Power, which also stars fellow hip-hop artist 50 Cent.

Kendrick played a homeless man, trying to sell Fiddy some gift cards outside a shop.

The story escalated pretty quickly, though, as Ken assisted the New York rap star in setting up an assassination.

Read more.

2) Skepta posted a baby pic

London grime star Skepta triggered speculation he was about to become a dad after posting an ultrasound pic on his Instagram.

If you look closely, you can see the scan is labelled "Baby Adenuga" - which is, of course, Skepa's surname.

The 35-year-old has been romantically linked to London supermodel Naomi Campbell, 48 after posing with her on the cover of GQ earlier this year.

But Campbell shot down the rumours as only she can... by posting a bikini picture, showing off her washboard stomach, external.

She later unfollowed Skepta's Instagram account. Ouch!

Read more.

3) Rihanna loves her new 'thicc' figure

Rihanna donned a series of avant-garde outfits - and had her eyebrows removed/airbrushed - on the cover of British Vogue.

Speaking to the fashion bible about her body image, the Bajan singer said she "never wants to lose her butt, hips and thighs".

Asked about being a pin-up, Rihanna said: "You're asking the wrong person. I don't know, maybe it's because I'm 'thicc' now. I don't know.

"But, you know, it comes with a price. You want to have a butt, then you have a gut."

We'll consider this over a chip butty later.

Read more.

4) Foo Fighter Dave Grohl is to release a 23 minute song next week

Dave Grohl is hoping to encourage Foo Fighters fans to start making their own music by releasing a 23-minute instrumental track, on which he plays seven different instruments.

The track, entitled Play, will arrive alongside a two part mini-documentary next Friday, 10 August.

Inspired by his kids, Dave posted a tease (above) of him playing guitar, bass, keys, drums and more alongside a message about the joys of challenging yourself to play musical instruments at any age.

He wrote: "I see these rooms of children pushing themselves to figure this out.

"As a 49-year-old man, I’m still trying to figure it out. Always chasing the next challenge, trying to find a way to improve on what you’ve learned."

Watch above - but if Dave hasn't mastered it by now then, frankly, we're all in trouble.

Read more.

And finally...

5) Slaves 'auditioned' for a new drummer

After announcing their split on Monday, the Kent punk duo then shared the new video for their Hottest Record,titled Chokehold, explaining it had all been an hilarious prank.

The video imagines guitarist Laurie interviewing replacements for drummer Isaac - with a bunch of "celeb" drummers (including Ben from Royal Blood, Amber from Hinds and Blur's Dave Rowntree) all vying for the job.

The audition even features the famous drumming Gorilla from the Cadbury's ad.

You can check out the video above, safe in the knowledge that Laurie and Isaac ultimately rekindle their musical love affair.

Read more.

Kev Geoghegan
Arts and entertainment reporter

Rising Britsh soul star Joy Crookes is making her Wilderness festival debut later today.

Speaking backstage, she says: "I always feel really lucky because I'm here at a festival and I get to call this my job, I get to do a show, have lots of fun, see some other amazing acts and then go home."

The 19-year-old from south London released her debut EP in 2017 and admits she is "still quite new to the festival circuit".

"I've learned it's just about having fun. There's always going to be people in the back doing their thing but if you're having fun, it doesn't matter what you're singing about, they're going to be having fun.

"It needs to feel like a collective thing."

BBC Radio 2

Alexandra Burke and Matt Cardle have been chatting to BBC Radio 2 brekky show host Chris Evans this morning about the difficulties of keeping a pop career going after winning shows like the X Factor.

Alexandra is now performing in the West end musical, Chicago, while Matt has replaced Will Young in Strictly Ballroom the Musical.

Burke took the X Factor crown back in 2008 and Cardle was champ two years later.

The pair admit that the time has flown by since but agree that the title is only the start of the journey.

"It does fly," said Matt. "It all depends how hard your prepared to work afterwards.

"More fool anyone to get a break like that and to think it gets any easier, it gets about 12 times harder, do you know what I mean?"

Alexandra knows exactly what he means.

She added:

Listen above.

Kev Geoghegan
Arts and entertainment reporter

The 20-year-old singer-songwriter from Hampshire is the first artist to take the stage today at the Wilderness Festival in Oxfordshire.

This weekend sees headliners including French dance legends Justice, Nile Rodgers and Chic and Bastille.

Delilah, who is yet to release her debut single kicks off a bill on Friday which includes MNL Newbie Tuesday artist Dan Owen, Joy Crookes and Baxter Dury.

Speaking ahead of her set, she said: "It's the biggest stage I've played so I'm terrified, I've never played a main stage so it's really exciting.

"It's so amazing because I haven't released any music and people have just come and listened."

We'll have more from Delilah on Monday and will find out who she would send to, and rescue from... the actual wilderness.

The US Cuban pop star teased us all with a sample of the track yesterday now we can taste the whole dish below.

The track is originally taken from US singer Bazzi's Cosmic album and the new remix features Camila's unmistakable Latino tones.

Check it below and let us know what you think via @BBCMusic, external, like these guys did...

My how time flies.

Some of us where still in nappies back in 1985 but Madge was firmly in leggings and plotting her chart domination.

The US star would go on to have 13 number one singles in the UK and 12 chart-topping albums.

She's probably not finished yet.

Let's mark the date by stepping back Into the Groove (below) before lunch.

Some more new music for you now to kickstart the weekend.

First up Hackney singer Paloma Faith features some of her own personal role models in the new video for her track Warrior, which was written by Sia.

“I normally won’t sing songs written by other people but when I heard Warrior I was doing some work with Help Refugees and the lyrics rang true to me," said Paloma.

"I haven’t asked Sia what she had in mind but to me it’s about the refugee crisis. I should ask her!”

She added: "The video is meant to be a testament to the human spirit.”

It's the fourth single taken from Paloma’s #1 album, The Architect and you can check it above.

Wirral psych rockers The Coral have gone acoustic once more on their new track, After the Fair.

The track is taken from their forthcoming album, Move Through the Dawn, which is out next Friday.

"It started off as a take on Bert Jansch's version of Jackson C Frank's Blues Run The Game" explained frontman James Skelly.

"Nick [Power] is really good at acoustic fingerpicking, and I wanted it to sound like Lindsay Buckingham, to take away from the obvious folk thing."

Use your own fingers to click above and take a musical seaside stroll with the lads.

Last but not least in this trilogy of new tunes is Example, who is Back for More.

The UK garage-inspired song is taken from his forthcoming mixtape, Bangers & Ballads, which is out on 17 August.

Example - real name Elliot John Gleave - said he went back to basics this time around in order to "stop over analysing things"

“I just wanted to keep things simple, and do what I love doing - big pop club bangers which tell a story (with a few ballads thrown in for the hell of it)."

Let's take his advice and stop over-thinking it ourselves and simply enjoy above.

Variety

Image source, Getty Images

Hold on tight for this one, JT fans.

Fox TV in America is to produce a new gameshow series, Spin the Wheel, devised and created by none other than Justin himself.

According to Variety, the Man of the Woods star is listed as the executive producer on the show, which will be presented by Dax Shepard and will feature contestants competing for large cash prizes in a game built around a massive, unpredictable wheel.

Perhaps a metaphor for the pop music industry?

The Chase gameshow host, Bradley Walsh became the biggest-selling debut UK singer of 2016 when he released his album of songbook classics.

Could pop prince Justin now go the other way and become the new gameshow king.

Read more., external

The US rapper dropped his rather ambitious 17-track star-studded inter-gallactic third album Astroworld today.

As you can see above he's hired his own plane for the trip.

The album features Drake, Frank Ocean and Migos rappers Quavo and (suitably-named) Takeoff.

Pharrell Williams and The Weeknd appear on a track called Skeletons (which features some strong language), external, produced by Aussie psych rock masters Tame Impala.

Also on the record are James Blake, John Mayer and Thundercat.

Meanwhile it's rumoured that Stevie Wonder plays harmonica on another track, Stop Trying to Be God.

The rapper gave creedance to those rumours by personally thanking Stevie in a Tweet.

Scott was criticised in some quarters this week for having deleted the image of transgender model Amanda Lepore from the cover artwork (below), which was taken from a shot by American photographer David La Chapelle.

La Chapelle responded online saying the model was removed from the picture simply as "she just upstaged everyone."

Image source, Getty Images

The returning Chicago band welcomed a host of big name rock 'n' roll pals, including Courtney Love, Peter Hook, Deftones’ Chino Moreno and Sugar Ray's Mark McGrath on stage with them to help mark 30 years in the business.

Frontman Billy Corgan got the original lineup - minus bass player D'arcy Wretzky, following a fall out - back together this year and they released their first new single in 18 years, Solara, external, in June.

Their ongoing Shiny And Oh So Bright reunion tour arrived in New Jersey last night, and the stars turned out in force.

Corgan’s former girlfriend and collaborator Love joined them to perform two Hole songs and Hook played on renditions of tracks by his two famous bands, Joy Division and New Order.

Hook's son, Jack Bates is currently on full-time bass duties with the band as Corgan's feud with Wretzky apparently continues.

Check out some fan shot footage below.

Johnny Marr has been discussing his harmonica performance on Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' latest single, If Love is the Law.

The Phil Spector-esque track is taken from Noel's Mercury-Prize nominated "cosmic pop" album, Who Built the Moon?, on which Marr was required to add some mouth organ magic - as he did previously with his old band The Smiths.

"Someone said to me, 'What you doing?'

"I said, 'I'm working with Noel,'" he explained.

"You don't have to say Gallagher anymore, you just say Noel.

"So he's become one of those people who just have the one name now... like Madonna."

Image source, Getty Images

Gallagher Snr was quick to return the compliment to the guitarist, who has an other-worldly album of his own out at the moment.

"An album of mine wouldn't be an album of mine without Johnny Marr being involved in it."

Watch the new promotional back-slapping video above.

An animated Zayn pulls off a near-perfect moonwalk in the new video for his collab with US super-producer Timbaland.

The former One Direction singer, who now lives in New York, is set to release his second solo album later this year and Too Much is the latest cut from it.

The 25-year-old delivers his trademark falsetto while his cartoon alter ego dances around and Timbaland tests out the suspension on his car in the background (we wouldn't recommend it).

Sadly due to the language we can't bring the full video here but you can check out a sample above.

Image source, Getty Images

Image source, Drake/Youtube

Drizzy has just released a cinematic video for his UK number single, In My Feelings.

Shot in New Orleans, it shows the grill-toothed Toronto singer showing off his acting skills once again, by throwing stones at the bedroom window of the one that he wants - Kiki, of course - before being chased along by her mother.

We've all been there Drake.

The video features cameos by Lala Anthony, Big Freedia, Phylicia Rashad and US comedian Shiggy - who gets jiggy on a bus.

As well as dominating the charts both side of the Atlantic, the track caused a stir when police in the US had to warn people not to get out of their moving vehicles to dance to it, as part of a viral dance craze.

One man was seen being hit by a car while attempting the dance but managed to walk away with just a few cuts and bruises.

The end of the video - which we can't bring you here due to inappropriate language - shows a collection of those fans' dancing efforts.

Don't try this at home, folks.

Reaction to the eight-minute-long clip has been pretty positive so far.

Read more: What we learned from the new video

Morning all and welcome back to Music News LIVE for the final edition of the week.

Just hold on, we're going home for two days after this (or going to Ibiza, like Radio 1, if you're lucky).

Coming up today:

• What we learned from the new Drake video

• New music from Zayn ft Timberland, Bazzi ft Camila Cabello and Travis Scott ft... well, pretty much everyone.
• The Smashing Pumpkins invite their own celebrity rock 'n' roll friends to join them on stage at their 30th anniversary show
• A Justin Timberlake game show could be set to hit US TV
• News from Wilderness Festival in Oxfordshire
• Plus later, 5 Things We've Learned This Week

Check out Robyn's new track from yesterday and the new Slaves one from Tuesday and we'll be right back with you.