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Plus Demi Lovato's vocal cords continue to give her gyp, Ozzy Osbourne talks hay fever and his hometown of Brum, Ariana Grande 'may' be engaged, Peter Andre is a car and we check out some iconic images of the Godfathers (and mothers) of hip hop.

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Guitarist Tomo Milicevic has quit 30 Seconds To Mars, saying it's the "right thing" for him to do so.

"Please believe me when I say that this is the best thing for me in my life and also for the band," he said in a statement on Twitter., external

The guitarist - who bandmates are actor Jared Leto and his brother Shannon - hasn't yet given any other information on when or why he decided to leave the band.

He hasn't featured on the band's current tour since March, citing "personal matters".

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Elsewhere the band have today released the new video for their track Rescue Me, from new album America.

As per the lyrics of the track, the video sees a collection of people attempting to deal with their own "demons" and you can check it above.

The Canadian youngster has shared an image of herself in an ill-fitting suit ahead of the release of hew new song, Growing Pains.

She went a step further by sharing the lyrics so you'll be able to sing along this coming New Music Friday.

At the moment, though, you'll have to make up a tune in your own head.

10 points if you get the melody right.

The Cure frontman had booked the Scots band to play at his curated Meltdown festival in London this month.

Scott (pictured below) died of an apparent suicide in May.

In an interview with Time Out, Smith spoken of his sadness at his death.

“It’s awful," he said.

"They were one of the bands that I was really, really looking forward to seeing. I’ve been listening to them for ten years."

He added: "I’ve never met him, but I feel I know him because of his voice.”

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The rappers are hitting the road together for the first time on their NickiHndrxx world tour.

The pair will touch down in 50 cities across the US in September through November before arriving in Europe at the Olympiahalle in Munich on 21 February.

Nicki and Future's first UK date is at London's O2 on 11 March before visiting the following.

Thur 14 Mar: Birmingham Arena Arena Birmingham.

Sun 17 Mar: Glasgow SSE Hydro.

Mon 18 Mar: Manchester Arena.

Nicki is set to release her fourth full-length album Queen on 10 August.

As far as we know she's still weighing up Eminem's rather public offers (plural) of a date with him too.

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But what a way to go out if it is.

The singer has been speaking to Chris Evans on Radio 2's Breakfast show about her star-studded new record.

"I've got Stevie Nicks, Keith Richards and Neil Young, its a compilation of people that I've known for years and loved.

"I've really never asked anybody to be on my records.

"But this is something different."

She said she may continue to write songs but might not make another record as the industry has "changed a lot".

"I don't know that people are interested in purchasing a full body of work."

Listen above.

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Ed Sheeran's wedding at his estate in Suffoilk could be scuppered by some breeding Amphibians.

The singer has called in experts to check whether great crested newts could knacker his plans to build a private chapel on his Suffolk estate.

Ed, who announced his engagement in January, has a planning application for the Saxon-style structure with Suffolk Coastal District Council.

But objections to the plans include concerns about the wider area's great crested newt population.

The species has declined in recent years and are now legally protected.

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The rapper's new album, Ye, went straight to the top of the US charts.

Not the UK ones though, mind. Not while The Greatest Showman soundtrack still exists.

Kanye followed it up by dropping a collab album with Kid Cudi and now he's producing Nas's next album too.

And apparently they are approaching the record with an experimental childlike wonder.

"Just wanted to say I'm up in the morning working on the Nas album and I'm so humbled by all the love we're getting on these albums," he posted on Twitter.

"We're still the kids we used to be.

"We're here creating in real time just having fun.

Try this one out next time your teacher/boss has a go at you for your work.

More from Ozzy now, who picked up the Golden God award at last night's Metal Hammer awards.

Hours earlier, fellow singer Robbie Williams announced he would perform at the Fifa World Cup's opening ceremony in Moscow on Thursday.

With that in mind, we asked Oz if he would fancy doing the same in his home city of Birmingham when the 2022 Commonwealth Games come around.

Listen above to find out.

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Chemistry is taken from the Montreal band's latest album, Everything Now, but the video is something of which Monty Python director Terry Gilliam would be proud.

The video, which is in fact directed by Ray Tintori, features a man with a dog's head being set upon by a load of walking/talking sharks after falling in love/lust with the wrong cat.

The heart wants what the heart wants.

Watch below.

Paul Glynn
Music News LIVE reporter

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"Don't take this so seriously," advised Shame frontman Charlie Steen to the crowds gathered around the 6 Music recommends stage at BBC's Biggest Weekend Belfast a few weeks ago.

"It's entertainment."

For a band that appear to revel in their newfound role of agitators-in-chief - since the release of debut album, Songs of Praise, earlier this year - the south London punks are still at pains to remind people that music should be about the F-word.

Fun. Serious fun.

The band burst into the public consciousness with a memorable UK TV debut performance on Later... with Jools Holland last month (below), which saw Charlie strip his boiler suit down to his waist.

That show came just days after they'd described a tabloid attack on them - for accepting government funding despite having been critical of PM Theresa May - as "disgraceful".

"Doing television is a weird world," says Charlie.

"It's like cogs in a machine and we're just one of the cables.

"Someone's got to flick the switch."

He adds:"I think it's definitely a massive stepping stone for us.

"I think it's a different medium to play on and a different audience to exposure ourselves to."

Anyone who has already been exposed to seeing Shame live will know already that it's an attack on all the senses.

They're fine with that.

What they don't want, however, is for anyone to use their punk anger as a weapon to attack anyone else.

"We don't tolerate any abuse, discrimination or aggression," said Charlie.

"Recently from what we've seen being in a touring band and doing so many festivals and speaking to people in other bands and audiences and organisations like Girls Against, external, it does relate to the type of music that we do, which is sort of kind of punky guitar music with aggression.

"But it's an environment for everyone and that's how we want it to be treated and we want everyone to have respect because at the end of the day it's a community vibe when we perform.

"We don't tolerate and we don't ever want to associate with anyone who contains any of those mannerisms as it's just vile."

Shame played their biggest headline gig to date last month in Camden, north London and their frontman admits that despite being the wrong side of the river for them it was "a massive moment."

"We had a whole team doing lights and sound and stuff and it felt like we were maturing as professionals."

Maturing and winning more admirers as they go.

Despite a whirlwind 2018, (ask Charlie about a hot-tub party in Montreal, if you see him) the singer still selects their debut album release as his highlight.

"It's nice to have a body of work out there and a collection and to have people appreciate it as an album and not just a few singles or whatever."

He also relates a stirring tale involving two fans in Bristol making him a bespoke band T-Shirt after he lost his the night before at the opening gig of their UK tour in Cardiff.

From hanging off the chandeliers at their first ever Great Escape festival, to angering the tabloids, it's been quite a trip already for Shame and their fans.

Whatever headlines they make for the rest of the year, it's clear that Charlie and co simply won't believe the hype.

"It's a life of complete excess," he concludes.

"You're either sitting in a van staring out a window looking at some mundane stretch of motorway for nine hours, or drunk with some people you've just met.

"You lose human rights and friends and relationships crumble.

"On the flip side you get to travel the world at 20 and play a load of shows.

"It's all been pretty funny."

Newbie Tuesday #30: Au/Ra, the green-haired teenage fan fiction 'nerd'

British photographers Janette Beckman and David Corio were introduced to hip hop in 1982, taking pictures for publications including the NME, Melody Maker and The Face.

Their portraits of then-fledgling artists like Run DMC, Slick Rick, Salt-N-Pepa, Whodini, Grandmaster Flash, LL Cool J and Queen Latifah - are now being shown at a new exhibition in London.

Music News LIVE chatted to Janette and David who selected six of their favourite images and talked us through the stories behind them.

See the gallery.

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The avant-garde US rocker says it's "a really exciting time" with regards to changing attitudes towards sexuality.

St Vincent, aka Annie Clark, told Channel 4's Krishnan Guru-Murthy: "I think sexuality is fluid, I think gender is fluid.

She went on to say that the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements had helped to make people feel; "more empowered to speak truth to power and to dismantle and disrupt the system and the status quo."

"Those are always turbulent times, but they’re very exciting times.”

Listen above.

Gaz has apologised for firing confetti cannons during a concert at the venue in Cornwall.

He was criticised by environmental campaigners about the misuse of single use plastics.

Cornwall Against Plastic tweeted him to say they were "appalled to see plastic confetti littering the Eden Project".

He has now cancelled all ticker tape at outdoor shows because "beyond the effect it just turns into litter".

Some fans seemed less concerned with the environmental impact of the confetti...

Jason Pierce - aka J.Spaceman - from the cult indie band has been found floating into orbit on previous records but he's back down here on earth (still in his space suit though) on new track I'm Your Man.

Their last record, Sweet Heart Sweet Light, landed six years ago and now they've announced that new LP, And Nothing Hurts, will be with us on 7 September.

Jason said, in a statement, that the forthcoming album would probably be the band's last.

"I was quite sincere about that and I still feel like it might be the case," he said.

They've also shared another new track, A Perfect Miracle, but you can boldly go and look for that one out there in the cosmos for yourselves.

Poor Demi has been forced to cancel a second show due to an ongoing illness.

She was due to play in Birmingham later but has postponed the show until 29 June because of swollen vocal cords.

On Monday, the singer called off a London show hours before she was due to perform, leaving fans to host a guerrilla sing along outside the O2.

While we have nothing but sympathy for Demi's plight, she needs to moderate her use of the word 'literally'.

Luckily, despite the trouble she is having, the little trooper has managed to retain her sense of humour throughout...

Sorry about that.

Aussie singer Peter Andre is indeed lending his voice to a character in a new Thomas the Tank Engine movie.

According to a Mattel press release, he will voice Ace, "a bright yellow and very cheeky Australian rally car that inspires Thomas to leave his home of Sodor and travel around the world with him".

He's even recorded a new song for the film called Free and Easy.

In the spirit of Insania (above), we really think he missed a trick by not calling it 'Freasy'

The film will screen in 400 UK cinemas from 20 July.

All aboard.

Paul Glynn
Music News LIVE reporter

Some metal news now, as the annual Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards, external took place at the O2 in London last night.

The awards honour the greatest, heaviest and most metal-ist bands from the world of rock.

It's fair to say the night belonged to one man, Ozzy Osbourne - who got the prestigious Golden God award - fresh from headlining this weekend's Download festival.

It's the second time he's received the award, having won it with his old band Black Sabbath only last year.

Just before collecting the award, Ozzy told Music News LIVE what it meant to be recognised as godly two years running, as well as his main issue with playing Download.

It seems even the Prince of Darkness struggles when the pollen count is high.

Listen above and we'll have more from Ozzy later. He'll also appear on the first ever edition of the new Radio 2 Rock Show with Johnnie Walker on Monday night.

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Other winners on the night included Japanese metal outfit Lovebites, who won best new band. Best live band went to Lacuna Coil, best British band were Judas Priest and best event was indeed won by Download Festival.

The icon award went to Maynard James Keenan from Tool (above).

Also performing in the main room of the O2 on the night was Shakira, so let's hope we finally get that collab with Tool that fans of the Colombian singer have been secretly wanting for years.

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Honorary Mancunian pop star Ariana Grande has appeared to confirm reports that she's engaged.

The singer has been engaging with her fans on social media about a potential wedding to Saturday Night Live comedian Pete Davidson.

"I hope he knows he is marrying us as well," one fan tweeted. "HAHAHAHAHAHH HES BEEN BRIEFED," the 24-year-old replied.

Soooo... not a definitive yes but not a firm denial.

Pete recently got two tattoos of Ariana - her initials and the her bunny ears logo.

All of this must be thrilling reading to her ex-boyfriend of a few weeks, rapper Mac Millar

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Morning folks, we hope you're well.

Here's some music news lines to look out for throughout today on MNL.

• Ozzy Osbourne wins a Golden Gods award and admits to battling hay fever at Download.
• Ariana Grande appears to confirm engagement reports
• Kanye West is humbled by fans' appreciation of his new album

• The golden age of hip-hop in pictures
• Shame are our Newbie Tuesday rockers who want you all to have serious fun at their gigs.
• New music and videos from Spiritualized, Arcade Fire and Shawn Mendes

OK, let's turn the volume on our news amps up to 11.