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Because Professor Green told us to and he looks a bit scary.

Good luck in the polling both if you're heading there too now and we'll see you back here tomorrow in the new world order.

Scroll down for news of Radiohead, Phil Collins, Arcade Fire, Prince, Alice Cooper, Little Mix and Stormzy and much much more.

Whatever happens tomorrow it's New Music Friday so we'll have fresh tunes to help you all celebrate/commiserate/whatever.

Take care of yourself... and each other.

Now this is pretty special.

It's BBC Music Day next week and to help kick start proceedings Manchester indie band The Courteeners have just performed the Stone Roses classic This Is The One alongside the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.

It was part of 5 Live's Friday Sports Panel Music Day special and the track was selected by singer Liam Fray, as it's the song his favourite football team Manchester United run out to.

Ignore that part City/Liverpool fans and just enjoy the music.

Liam and co appeared on the show alongside fellow musician Will Young, Commonwealth silver medallist long jumper (and budding singer/guitarist herself) Jasmin Sawyers and Olympic Gold Medallist Chris Mears.

Listen to the full show below.

Ray BLK, who won the BBC's Sound of 2017 poll earlier this year is coming good after her latest track Doing Me was named last night's Hottest Record by Radio 1's MistaJam.

"I did a tour with Emeli Sande and besides that I've been hiding in the studio," she told him.

"The (new) song is literally what it says on the tin, it's about being yourself, doing what it is that makes you happy and not trying to follow the crowd.

"It's about self-acceptance but also saying 'bye' to the haters."

Non-haters (we hope that's you lot) listen below.

In style anyway.

Our #TBT today is the new video from Lucy Rose as she's channeled a 70s TV show, complete with soft focus, white flairs and a song which evokes that classic Laurel Canyon sound.

Check it out below, it's from her forthcoming third album Something’s Changing due out on 7 July.

*That's right we did a throwback to the future. Take that social media.

Set your alarms for midnight tonight everyone.

Or you could always just check in with us for New Music Friday tomorrow.

Either way it's happening... the collab we all wanted between the Little Mix girls and grime star Stormzy.

Whatever happens with the election overnight - these guys will still hold the Power.

Canadian songstress Feist gave US late show host Stephen Cobert his big musical break when she performed her new track Century on his show earlier this week.

The singer recruitred the host to perform the spoken word outro to the song, which in her album, is performed by Jarvis Cocker.

Watch him below, we love his insouciant head nod and think Jarv should be worried...

BBC Radio 1

We knew Niall Horan must have arrived at the BBC earlier this afternoon as the screams from outside interrupted our editorial meeting.

True story.

The One Direction man, who performed at One Love Manchester on Sunday has been in the Live Lounge today singing his own track Slow Hands, plus a "folked-up" cover of Julia Michael's issues.

It'll be up on the iPlayer/YouTube in full soon but you can enjoy a snippet above.

Fair to say the rendition went down well with some of you.

Coldplay, followed by Adele, Olly Murs and Little Mix, have topped a chart of the most played artists of 2016.

The data, shared by PPL - the body which ensures artists royalties get paid - also showed two of Coldplay's tracks are in the top ten of the most played songs.

The rest of the top ten is dominated by American artists with Justin Timberlake's Can't Stop The Feeling at number one.

The success of British artists delivered a record year for music licensing in 2016 with more than £212m collected.

The PPL 2016 most played artist chart

1. Coldplay
2. Adele
3. Olly Murs
4. Little Mix
5. Justin Timberlake
6. Ellie Goulding
7. Justin Bieber
8. Jess Glynne
9. Calvin Harris
10. Taylor Swift

Most played track chart

1. Cant Stop The Feeling! - Justin Timberlake
2. Lush Life - Zara Larsson
3. Cake By The Ocean - Dnce
4. This Is What You Came For - Calvin Harris feat. Rihanna
5. 7 Years - Lukas Graham
6. Hymn For The Weekend - Coldplay
7. Stitches - Shawn Mendes
8. Love Yourself - Justin Bieber
9. Don't Be So Hard On Yourself - Jess Glynne
10. Adventure Of A Lifetime - Coldplay

And his pen is "working perfect" apparently.

The grime star mustn't trust the pencils that the council provide.

Professor Green has been to vote and caught his girlfriend on camera posing similarly by the polling station sign.

We've seen indie rockers Nothing But Thieves have also been to vote to but we'll keep an eye out for other music stars exorcising their right.

BBC Radio 2

Why did Dark Side Of The Moon lead Roger Waters to remove a verse from his new album?

Listen above as the ex Pink Floyd man tells Radio 2's Simon Mayo that the relatively short length of the seminal psych-rock record informed his decision to trim back new track Deja Vu.

The bassist also wrote an open letter to Thom Yorke earlier in the week, asking for a conversation over his decision to ignore Artists for Palestine's cultural boycott of Israel by playing a gig in Tel Aviv.

BBC Radio 5 live

Well, the telly critic from The Guardian may not be looking forward to it , externalbut the judges on ITV's new version of The Voice Kids reckon the show will encourage more children to sing.

Will.i.am, Pixie Lott and Danny Jones have been speaking to 5 live about their inspirations when they were children.

The Black Eyed Peas rapper picked his teacher Miss Rich...awww... who said he could sing, while McFly's Danny Jones was influenced by The Boss.

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A musical treat now for with your salad.

It's not officially out until next Friday (16 June) but if you can't wait until then, the new Fleet Foxes album Crack-Up is already streaming on American radio station NPR's website., external

It's the long-awaited follow up to the Seattle folk band's 2011's Helplessness Blues and you have a listen to track six and new single If You Need To, Keep Time on Me below.

BBC Radio 2

At a time of life when most people are slowing down, Alice Cooper is teaching us all how to grow old disgracefully.

The 69-year-old veteran rocker is playing his first UK tour in five years later this year and is due to release a new album with his original band.

Speaking to Chris Evans on Radio 2, he said the thing that kept him going was that rock music "has never changed".

"It's got a life on its own, you can just keeping doing this forever as long as your body holds up.

"This tour is five continents, 130 shows, I'm one of those die-hard hard rockers."

Listen above.

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Phil Collins has postponed two shows at the Royal Albert Hall in London after fall at his hotel left him with a head injury requiring emergency medical treatment.

The singer-songwriter was due to to play the celebrated venue tonight and Friday night.

A statement on his Facebook page, external, said: "Phil suffers from ‘drop foot’ as a result of a back operation which makes it difficult to walk.

"He rose in the middle of the night to go to the toilet and slipped in his hotel room, hitting his head in the fall on a chair.

The statement adds the shows will be rearranged for 26-27 November an tickets for the postponed shows will still be valid.

The musician is still set to continue his tour in Cologne, Germany at the weekend and is due back in the capital to headline the British Summertime event in Hyde Park on 30 June.

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Ariana Grande has resumed her European tour in Paris, just over two weeks after the terrorist attack at her Manchester Arena concert.

Twenty-two people were killed and 116 injured in a suicide bombing after her gig on 22 May.

The singer returned to the stage at last Sunday's One Love Manchester benefit gig.

"First show back tonight. Thinking of our angels every step of the way. I love you with all my heart," the singer posted next to a picture of the Eiffel tower on Instagram, external.

"Grateful for and incredibly proud of my band, dancers and entire crew. I love you I love you."

Read more.

BBC Radio 5 live

Fans of Liam Fray and the boys are going to want to tune their radio's to 5 live at 12:30 BST.

That's as the Manc rockers have teamed up with the BBC Philharmonic orchestra as part of the BBC Music Day celebrations next week.

"Honoured to work with such talent" posted Liam.

Should sound epic.

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The countdown to their Glastonbury headline set is on... so lucky you if you're going to be there.

With that in mind, 6 Music's Matt Everitt caught up with Thom Yorke from the band to discuss all things music, politics and Glastonbury.

Their last Glastonbury headline set in 1997 came just two weeks after they'd finished recording their seminal album OK Computer and was beset by technical problems and stress on weariness on Thom's part.

The singer told Matt:

He added: "He turned around and went, 'If you do, you'll probably live the rest of your life regretting it.'

"I went, 'Good point.'"

Despite all that it went down as a pretty legendary gig, with Glasto organizer Michael Eavis putting it in his top five, external Worthy Farm moments ever.

Have a listen below.

Look out for lots more Thom/Radiohead clips this weekend as the 6 Music Celebrates Radiohead season kicks off.

Here's four episodes of The Radiohead Story to get you going.

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We hope you were quick on the buzzers - because the tickets for Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park sold out in 75 minutes this morning.

For those who did manage to get their hands on a pair - they'll get to see Take That, Blondie (pictured above), Rick Astley and Jame Blunt on a (hopefully) sunny Sunday in September.

If you didn't then relax, you can still watch or listen LIVE on BBC Radio, via the BBC Red Button, on BBC iPlayer and via the Radio 2 website.

There were Signs of Life in Scunthorpe last night.

Calm down, that's the name of the new Arcade Fire track which got its live debut in the Lincolnshire town.

The Montreal indie rockers last week cryptically revealed the details of their new album Everything Now during a secret set at Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona.

Now fans in Scunthorpe got to witness the premiere of one of the band's latest cuts, taken off the album which arrives on 28 June.

Check out some fan shot footage of the groovy track above.

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Following trials at the Secret Garden Party and Kendall Calling there are growing calls for UK festivals to provide drug-testing services.

The Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) says stronger ecstasy in the UK is resulting in "serious health harm".

Tests were piloted at Secret Garden Party and Kendall Calling festivals in 2016, allowing festival-goers to be able to test their drugs on site to make sure they aren't carrying dangerous substances.

Secret Garden Party founder Freddie Fellowes told Newsbeat the trial was "a wide success".

"We also came across someone who was selling ecstasy tablets that turned out to be 100% concrete."

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