That's it for today.

We wonder what rising London hip hop star Loyle Carner (above) makes of the news that the US has its first #1 female rapper in nearly 20 years?

Probably a fan. He did rap with Kate Tempest after all.

Scroll down for more on that news plus how you can get your hands on some of Noel Gallagher's surplus guitar/amp collection, new music from Chance the Rapper, the end of the line gigs for Wild Beasts and Scots rockers Runrig and and much more within...

Back to Loyle before we go, as a chance discussion online has led to him exchanging tickets for his current UK tour for retro football shirts from fans.

This 90s England away number gets you a pint thrown in for good measure. So get digging in those kitbags people.

See you tomorrow.

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Sadly for rapper Post Malone, Cyndi Lauper was nowhere to be seen at his gig in St Louis on Sunday night.

A stage dive always seems like a good idea but the artist and the crowd both need to agree on the timing.

Or this happens.

Lukily, he saw the funny side...

Still, at least he has something to smile about, his track Rockstar - which was one of Annie Mac's Hottest Records last week has broken Apple Music’s single week, external streaming record.

Swings and roundabouts.

The Norwegian popsters and the soul diva with the big voice are the latest artists to sign up for BBC Children In Need Rocks The 80.

The line-up for the gig - at London's SSE Wembley Arena on 19 October - already includes Bananarama, Boy George, Europe, Erasure and Jason Donovan.

A-ha will perform their anthem Take On Me, while Mica will have a gospel choir to hand.

Fearne Cotton and Sara Cox are on hosting duties and the concert will be broadcast on BBC One in the run-up to the Children In Need appeal.

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After years out of the limelight with debilitating vocal problems - brought on by the collapse of her marriage - Shania Twain is back.

She has a new husband, a new fifth studio album (called Now) and a new voice (which has unlocked "smokier sounds").

BBC News reporter Neil Smith caught up with the 52-year-old country star during a hectic week of promo to find out about all of the above.

Plus how she "actually borrowed the Man! I Feel Like A Woman outfit for the video, top hat and all,".

The costume that now has pride of place at Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame, external.

Read more and check out Shania back on top form this summer at Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park, London.

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Music News LIVE reporter

Hearing The National's recent UK #1 album Sleep Well Beast and seeing its songs performed live are - in themselves - two very different beasts all together.

The Ohio indie rockers have a reputation for producing subtle indie records for adults. But by only the second song (The System Only Dreams In Total Darkness, external) of their four-night London residency, singer Matt Berninger's voice threatens to break through sheer raw emotion as he writhes around the mic stand and stage before descending into the crowd at the Hammersmith Apollo.

The 46-year-old singer stalks the stage and his band and berates the sound guy like a strict-but-cool art teacher keeping an eye on his students. All while guzzling glasses of wine and throwing them into the crowd, in between bellowing out heartfelt anthems about coming up short, being alone and one's mind not being right.

Bloodbuzz Ohio, which was voted as the 4th best song ever played on 6 Music by listeners a few years back, provides one of the highlights.

To give you an idea of his manic movements and mood on the night, here's Matt below in his pre-show defensive crouch...

America don't really have a massive sensitive rock band akin to Radiohead, but if they were to launch a competition to find one, then The National would surely be the favourites. They even have two sets of siblings, to Radiohead's one...one of which enjoy a spot of dueling guitars near the end of the set, while the other keeps the rhythm section locked down.

The band thank "one of our favourite bands" support act This Is The Kit, before welcoming them back on stage to sing new track Born To Beg with them.

After that The National then abandon another new song Empire Line midway through. "That would've been terrible," says Matt, after a mini tantrum brings the song to a premature end.

It all just adds to the drama though as the band finish with a rousing rendition of their 2007 cult classic Fake Empire, before disappearing off stage and leaving fans to enjoy the ultra modern delights of the backstage cameras on a big screen, as the band mill about.

They return for a joyous four-song encore, which culminates with the politically-charged Mr November from 2005 album Alligator.

If Matt's voice can stand another three nights of such theatrics, then the US band will surely confirm themselves as (inter)National treasures on these shores.

Linkin Park have shared an intimate behind the scenes video of some of their "favourite moments" caught on camera with late singer Chester Bennington.

The singer was found dead in July, aged 41, of suicide.

Here's Chester above apparently improvising a song about unicorns and lollipops on an acoustic guitar.

A tribute concert, featuring the likes of Blink 182, and members of System of a Down and Korn, will take place next month at LA's Hollywood Bowl.

BBC Radio 5 live

It's the label that gave us the likes of Toots and the Maytals, Bob Marley and Amy Winehouse, now Island Records is turning its attention to urban music with a new music division.

5 live's Nihal has been speaking to Darcus Beese, president of Island Records and some of the artists, including Bossman Birdie (above) on whom the label is betting its future.

Read more.

Monster rock duo Royal Blood were the latest band to tackle a generations-old classic during their Live Lounge appearance earlier.

The Blood went all the way back to 1979 to cover The Knack's classic My Sharona and you can check out a snippet above.

Fun fact: The real life Sharona, who was the teenage girlfriend of the band's guitarist is now an estate agent in Los Angeles.

We're so glad that he's doing this. There really aren't enough hip hop stars questioning well-proven scientific facts.

US rapper B.o.B. is crowd-funding the launch of satellites to see if he can get some evidence that the earth is indeed flat (it isn't).

B.o.B whose real name is Bobby Ray Simmons Jr, has been a vocal proponent of the Flat Earth theory - the claim the Earth is, in fact, a disc (it isn't) and not spherical (it is).

"Show me the curve" he says.

"I'm starting this GoFundMe because I would like to send one, if not multiple satellites, as far into space as I can, or into orbit as I can, to find the curve," he said in a video on the page.

"I'm looking for the curve," he added.

This news has sent the Twittersphere into meltdown.

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson for one, was only too happy to oblige B.o.B with an explanation as to exactly where the curve is.

Decide for yourself who to belief (the scientist).

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We heard earlier from Hayden from the band (scroll down) about the reasons for the split.

Now, the band have announced the details of a mini three date UK & Ireland farewell tour.

They'll play Dublin, Manchester and London in mi- February, so expect the above venues to be drenched with tears.

The band have also released a final EP called Punk Drunk & Trembling.

Check out the title track below, containing the lyrics:

What's done is done.

Ok, keep it together everyone.

Controversial footballing figure Joey Barton is to appear in the former Smiths frontman's new music video.

The 35-year-old midfielder, who was capped once by England and is currently serving a ban for betting on matches, announced to TalkSport that he will feature in a new video for his musical hero, alongside classic Yorkshire playwright Alan Bennett.

Speaking on the Alan Brazil Breakfast show, the 34-year-old said: “I’ve been asked to be in a music video this afternoon, for Morrissey.

"It’s with Alan Bennett I think.”

He's also posted the above picture of the two of them in a social club alongside the caption: "In conversation with M."

You wouldn't want to spill either of their coffees now would you.

Morrissey's new album Low In High School is out on 17 November.

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Some reaction now to our top story that Cardi B has become the first female rapper in nearly 20 years to achieve a US #1 single (scroll down for more).

Now some of the most important women in hip hop have send on their congratulations.

Missy Elliott (below) points out that achieving a number one in the States is "not as easy as it seems" and wishes Cardi "continued blessings", while Nicki Minaj bigs up her "fellow New Yawka on a record breaking achievement."

Elsewhere Lil Kim, aka The Queen Bee, posted the below picture of the two of them together alongside the message:

"Congratulations to my baby cakes".

So basically the day keeps getting better and better for Cardi, who describes hearing such praise from some of her idols as "the best feeling".

Read more.

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Daddy Yankee, the singer of the most streamed song of all time Despacito, is appealing for help in the aftermath of Hurricaine Maria which has devastated his native Puerto Rico.

The singer, who filmed the video for his big summer hit, external on the Caribbean island, has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars himself and is looking for further help.

Speaking to CNN, the star said: "I was born and raised in Puerto Rico and I still live in Puerto Rico...so I know the struggle we're going through right now.

"It's devastation. We've never seen anything like this before..."

Watch the interview below.

Elsewhere J-Lo, who has Puerto Rican parents, has pledged $1m, external to the Hurricaine Maria relief effort.

The Scottish band are to bring the curtain down on 45 years in the music business with an open-air show next year.

And to save you searching for him, which as we all know is apparently pretty dangerous, here is Craig David's amazing Rihanna and Stardust mash-up from Monday's Live Lounge.

He also performed his latest hit Heartline and his classic Seven Days, from 2000, which he said was the tune which helped him get signed.

“I was on the journey of being signed,” he said.

“There were different record companies interested and people were offering me singles deals, they weren't quite sure of me at the time.

“Then one gentleman at Wildstar records told me to keep writing and that he thought there was an album in me.

“When I wrote Seven Days, walked into his office told him I’d written this other song and his eyes opened up with a smile that almost said 'I knew you were going to do this.'”

And the rest is History...

We imagine that not a day goes past without Chance the Rapper knocking out a new tune.

And he proved it when he appeared with a new jam on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert alongside singer and guitarist Daniel Caeser.

It's a stripped back lo-fi number, before breaking out into a full-on soulful gospel-tinged affair.

He told Colbert the song was written in a matter of days.

"I’ve been wanting to do something fresh,” he said. Apparently he's also been "cooking up some yammers".

We think that means more music...

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The 22nd annual MOBO Awards are to return to Leeds' First Direct Arena on 29 November, it's been announced.

The event, which celebrates the best in urban music, was first held in the city in 2015 and saw performances from artists including FKA Twigs, Ella Eyre and CeeLo Green.

'Dangerous' Craig David, Drake (both above) Kano and Lady Leshurr took home the main awards at last year's ceremony in Glasgow and you can check out the highlights below.

Founder Kanya King said it promised to be "another exciting celebration".

MOBO is expected to announce the line-up of artists for the ceremony over the coming weeks, with tickets for the awards going on sale on Friday.

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Well, now you can.

The 50-year-old, who yesterday announced a new album and tour, is having a clear out next month and selling off a load of musical equipment used during the Britpop giants' heyday and beyond.

It's good to have a clear out once in a while.

Noel's old guitars, amps and other equipment will be up for grabs on the online music marketing site Reverb, external from 2 October.

In a statement, Noel said: “When you’ve been playing as long as I have, you tend to amass a huge amount of gear, and it’s not doing me or anyone else any good if it’s just sitting around.

Presumably someone with a lot of money who can put them to good use.

Okay here comes the geeky tech bit...

The Noel Gallagher collection includes VOX, Fender, HiWatt, Orange, and Marshall amps, a late-1990s Mellotron Mk VI and a 1960s Epiphone Professional guitar and amp set (below).

How cool would this look in your spare room. Just make sure you turn it up to 11, yeah?

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The Hollywood Reporter

Actress and singer Samantha Barks, who first appeared on the BBC talent search I'd Do Anything in 2008 (above) has just landed a plum role as Vivian Ward, the character played by Julia Roberts, in a new musical version of the film Pretty Woman.

She will star opposite Tony Award winner Steve Kazee as wealthy businessman Edward Lewis - played in the movie by Richard Gere.

The rom-com, about a Hollywood Boulevard prostitute who gets rescued by a wealthy businessman and then "rescues him right back" was a massive hit at the cinema in 1990.

The stage music could open in spring 2018 in Chicago before moving to Broadway.

It will be Samantha's Broadway debut. She appeared in the West End production of Les Miserable and starred in the Bafta-winning and Oscar-nominated 2012 movie adaptation.

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After 15 years together, Wild Beastsannounced on Monday they'll be "coming to an end".

Some pretty high profile fans were left shocked and saddened by the news but the Kendal indie band have promised that a further announcement about "celebrations" will follow.

BBC 6 Music's Elizabeth Alker spoke to singer Hayden who popped into the BBC to discuss their decision and said he's been "humbled" by the love that has come their way since the announcement.

He said the band owed it to each other to disappear at the right time.

Hayden said: "Well, our band was a belief system, it was a lifestyle and identity.

"We didn't want to lead double lives. It was our entire being."

He added: "Relationships within a band are as intimate and close and as powerful as any you'll ever have. There's a huge amount of mutual love and respect and I think that's what you're seeing, that love and respect play out."

Listen above.