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Scroll down to learn more about Snoop Dogg's theatrical debut, fellow US rapper Kanye West is stumped by a Trump question and lots of new music from the likes of Nick Minaj (a whole week early, you lucky devils), LSD, The Coral, Miles Kane and Aphex Twin.

Plus, as always, the pick of the best stories from the last seven days in our weekly item 5 Things We've Learned This Week.

Join us next week, same place, from 09:00 on Monday and we'll do it all over again.

You may have heard the Bristol punks 6 Music Live session with Steve Lamacq on Wednesday but now you can watch a bit of it as well.

See if you can join in with singer Joe Talbot's rock 'n' roll aerobics as he belts out new track Danny Nedelko from forthcoming album Joy as an Act of Resistence.

Watch above and see what happens from around four minutes in.... too soon?

Last weekend Idles told us how their new songs were being transformed into art in an 'exchange of vulnerability'

West-London group WSTRN - who came joint fifth in the BBC's Sound of 2016 - are back with a new single, Sharna.

The group now consists of Louis-Rei and Haile after third member Akelle Shemai Charles - aka Akele - was sentenced to four and a half years in prison in 2017 for violent disorder.

He apologised to fans saying: "I'm sorry I have let you down."

Now back in the studio, the MOBO winners recently collaborated with Mabel for a remix of her Top 10 hit, Fine Line.

Check out the new song above.

Was that a week or was it not?

We started out with tributes from the likes of Dua Lipa and Peter Hook to the late Barry Chuckle, plus some of the stars of Wilderness Festival telling us who they would banish into the actual wilderness (above)

And, if you want to see this week's Newbie Tuesday artists Another Sky live, you'll need to be prepared to do it in the dark.

For now, let's crack on...

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1) Demi Lovato has 'always been transparent' about addiction

US pop singer Demi Lovato issued her first statement since being taken to hospital for a suspected drug overdose.

In an Instagram post (below) Lovato, 25, wrote: "I have always been transparent about my journey with addiction.

"This illness is not something that disappears or fades with time. It is something I must continue to overcome.".

She has since been released from hospital but has cancelled her South American tour (scroll down).

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2) Johnny Depp's Notorious B.I.G. movie has been put on ice

A movie about the murder of rap legend Notorious B.I.G. starring the actor has been pulled a month before its scheduled release.

City Of Lies, which also stars Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker, was due to hit US cinemas on 7 September, but is now undated, a spokesman for the distributor said on Monday.

The decision comes during a period of bad publicity for Depp, who was sued for assault by a member of the film crew last month. He had previously been accused of assault by his ex-wife, Amber Heard - claims which he denies.

A recent Rolling Stone profile, which was intended to rehabilitate his image, instead showcased the actor’s decline.

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3) Sister Sledge are getting the biopic treatment

Sticking with musical movies, the disco legends announced they're bringing the band's story to the big screen.

Kim Sledge - the second-youngest sister - has been developing the project about the band's rise to stardom and the backlash they faced from the racist "Disco Sucks" movement.

Their hits include He's the Greatest Dancer and Lost in Music.

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4) You never know what you might find in your back garden (just ask Aerosmith)

The Boston band's dilapidated old tour bus which they used in the 1970s was discovered during the filming of the TV reality series American Pickers.

The 1964 International Harvester Metro, with a hand-painted band name and weird dancing hippy on its side, had spent decades rusting in a woodland property in Massachusetts.

Hosts Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz were told that the vehicle was already there when the current property owner took possession.

It's provenance was confirmed by the band's co-founding guitarist Ray Tabano, who was replaced in 1971.

“We’d drive from Boston up to New Hampshire for $125," he said.

"Then after the gas, the tolls, and the food and back, we’d make like $3 apiece."

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5) Cher needs a man after midnight

Her words not ours.

Well the words of Benny and Bjorn from Abba if we're being totally honest.

The star shared her version of Gimme! Gimme! Gimme which will feature on her forthcoming album of Abba covers, called Dancing Queen.

It's due out on 28 September.

Hear it below and dance yourselves into the weekend.

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Fourteen-year-old Courtney Hadwin has been describing how her life has changed after wowing the judges on America's Got Talent.

The teenage singer told 5 Live's Chris Warburton she just wants to have fun, rather than winning the competition.

The video of her routine (below) has already racked up 45 million YouTube views.

It's for the reunited band's track Solara and it was filmed at the tiny Troubadour club in Los Angeles.

Singer Billy Corgan, drummer Jimmy Chamberlain and guitarist James Iha are heading for the UK in October to play at Wembley Arena.

Which is considerably bigger than the 400 capacity venue in this video.

Watch above.

Neil Smith
Entertainment reporter

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You hear all the time about performers suffering for their art, but it's not often you get first-hand evidence.

At a playback session for her latest album this week, however, singer-songwriter Lucie Silvas proved to be the exception to the rule.

Kite, the lead single from her forthcoming E.G.O. record, comes with a striking video in which Britsh-born Silvas is seen shaking her blonde locks around in true headbanger styl-ee.

Her exertions left the 40-year-old with a neck injury that meant it was touch and go as to whether she could make Wednesday's central London event at all.

"We did the video last week in Nashville and it was a disaster," Lucie admits.

"I’m not a dancer and I was moving my head around and on Friday I literally couldn’t move.

"All the muscles in my neck went and I couldn’t swallow or speak.

"I had an MRI on Tuesday because we thought I’d sprained something in my spine.

"It’s a good story to tell but it wasn’t fun," she continues. "It was a horrible couple of days."

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Previously signed to EMI and Mercury Records, Silvas hasn't troubled the UK charts since going on her own after the release of 2006 album The Same Side.

Yet she hasn't been idle, her subsequent move to Nashville resulting in a wealth of songwriting credits for, among other things, the short-lived but much-loved TV series Smash.

Now married to John Osborne, the older half of country duo Brothers Osborne (pictured with her below), she is back with a new record that combines country inflections with lyrics that reflect her occasionally rocky experiences in the music industry.

The title track, for example, stands for "Everybody Gets Off" and is variously followed by "...on the fame and the glory" and "...on the size of the trophy".

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Lucie says the song is "not pointing the finger at anyone" but is merely talking "about the day and age we live in".

"We are constantly attached to being seen and being heard, and that can be quite dangerous," she explains. "We feel like if we’re not elevated on a public platform, we’re not important.

"I don’t want my life to depend on being famous, though sometimes I fall into that way of thinking.

"That's why I moved to Nashville. I never cared if I’d be successful there or not; I just wanted to write songs that meant something to me."

E.G.O. is out on 24 August and Lucie will be back in the UK in November to tour with her husband's band.

Here's an interview we did with her way back in 2006, in which she spoke about a memorable encounter with Sir Elton John.

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Actor Lakeith Stanfield - who also stars in Get Out and Sorry to Bother You - has linked up with Tune-Yards aka musician Merrill Garbus (pictured below) to collaborate on a new song.

Stanfield also records as half of a duo, under the name Moors, with Hrishikesh Hirway.

Then new track is called Mango but you'll need to find it on YouTube as it comes with a language warning.

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Stanfield recently apologised for videos showing him freestyling and using homophobic lyrics.

He said he often "assumes characters that have different viewpoints and different views on life".

BBC Radio 2

The UK singer and "gorgeous human being" gave Radio 2 brekkie show host Chris Evans the first play of her new single, Love is You, today.

It's a cover of an old floor filler by Carol Williams.

But SEB has challenged us all to guess which later disco hit was sampled from the track.

Lots of people tried and failed to answer it correctly (ourselves included, apparently it isn't Candi Staton).

Listen above as all is revealed around two and a half minutes in.

Abbie McCarthy
BBC Music

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Last night I went to an album playback like no other.

A small group of fans and press were invited down to Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club in London to hear Slaves highly-anticipated third album, Acts Of Fear And Love, whilst sketching the two of them…

Laurie and Isaac strolled on stage in silky red dressing gowns, they then dropped those and assembled their positions - posing in union jack flag boxers, whilst everyone present did their best attempt at life drawing, with varying degrees of accuracy.

I know you’re not reading this to hear about my non-existent art skills, so how was the album?

It’s brilliant. It’s the best record the Kent duo have ever made in my humble opinion.

It shows a really different side to their band with it’s diverse and dynamic indie sound.

Highlights from the record include current single, Chokehold, external, sarcastic album opener, The Lives They Wish They Had and the tender Photo Opportunity, out today.

Everyone outside of the life drawing class will be able to hear the album on release day, which is next Friday (17 August).

Hoylake's finest purveyors of psych rock pop, The Coral, dropped their ninth studio album today.

Check out a sample of Move Through the Dawn above and their latest video for After the Fair below.

The Guardian, external gives the record 4/5, describing it as a collection of "vintage songs of sad euphoria."

The lads were on this morning's Radio 2 breakfast show alongside Denzel Washington and Sophie-Ellis Bextor (what a mix).

The Coral may still live over the water from Liverpool - where they filmed their latest music video for new track After the Fair, external- but another Wirral man,Miles Kane, is firmly an LA guy these days.

MK is actually the cousin of James and Ian Skelly from The Coral and he has a new record out today too. We spoke to the sometime Last Shadow Puppet a wee while back and he told MNL that the breakup-tinged Coup De Grace is his "Adele album."

He also revealed that he's into boxing these days, which part-explains some of his fighting moves in the rather graphic video for his latest single, Cry on my Guitar.

You can find that for yourselves though or simply try a taste of the new LP above.

A final Merseyside band worth mentioning today is The Vryll Society who have launched their debut Course of the Satellite. Check out the band performing for BBC Music Introducing at last year's SXSW in Austin, Texas, below.

Ride and former Oasis man Andy Bell is officially a fan.

Remember that awkward moment when the onstage shells containing the fictional rockers malfunctioned during their live performance of Stonehenge?

(If you don't we strongly urge you to seek out a copy.)

Well it's happened again but this time in real life, as Spanish top flight club Villarreal slightly over-did their unveiling of former Arsenal star Santi Carzola.

Kanye West was stumped by TV host Jimmy Kimmel when he quizzed the rapper about his support for President Trump.

The usually verbose artist seemed lost for words when Kimmel asked him why he thought Mr Trump cared about black people, "or any people at all".

His silence on Thursday's show prompted Kimmel to cut to a commercial break, watch from around 11.45 in above.

The 41-year-old hip hop star was more lucid earlier in his first appearance on Kimmel's late-night chat show since 2013 - following their Twitter spat - while discussing designing clothes, his wife Kim K-West, and mental health

Asked why he had decided to endorse Trump publicly, West said he hadn't wanted to succumb to pressure to take the predictable option.

"As a musician, African-American... everyone around me tried to pick my candidate for me," he said, suggesting there was a perception that "black people can only be Democrats".

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There's nothing nicer than when an international rap star buys your weekly shop for you, are we right?

We mean how often does that happen? Almost never.

Well, not unless you happen to be standing in line next to Ludacris.

According to a new investigation in the New York Times, the rapper and actor, whose real name is Chris Bridges, has been secretly indulging in a bit of retail philanthropy for years.

It follows a Facebook post by a woman named Therra Gwyn Jaramillo about how a man named Chris bought her shopping - worth £290 - in a moment of need.

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The trip hop producer/DJ spoke to 6 Music's Mark Radcliffe this week about new film, The Man From Mo’Wax’, which chronicles his life in music.

Apparently the film does not always paint James in an entirely flattering light.

"Do you like yourself after watching the film?" asks Mark. "Do you think it's fair?"

"Do I think it's fair? At times," replies the man from UNKLE.

"There are moments in it that I'm very very very very proud.

Listen above.

You can see the film in cinemas nationwide from Friday 31 August.

Don't worry this isn't a weekend weather warning, it's the new track from supergroup LSD.

In case you haven't already heard, the band comprises of Labrynth (L), Sia (S) and Diplo (D- get it?) and the track below is their third single.

Check it out below.

Judging by the look of the outfits above we can't wait to see the actual video once it's ready.

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The US singer has been forced to cancel the remainder of her tour dates after being treated in hospital in LA for a suspected overdose.

The news effects fans living in South America or those of you planning a holiday to Chile/ Argentina/Brazil to see her.

Promoters Live Nation said in a statement: “Unfortunately, Demi Lovato has canceled her upcoming Tell Me You Love Me tour dates in South America, as she is focusing on her recovery."

The Sober singer broke her silence last week, writing online that she needed "time to heal"., external

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Elsewhere singer-turned-TV star Kelly Osbourne is celebrating one year of sobriety, revealing she relapsed in 2017.

The daughter of Black Sabbath star Ozzy posted a picture of her Twelve Steps sobriety app on Instagram, along with a message declaring that "this past year has been one of the hardest years of my life"

She went on to thank her brother Jack, who "picked me up from where I had fallen yet again without judgement.

Warning: Video contains flashing images

You have been warned twice before clicking on the new video above.

The Cornish electro pioneer is back with the first taste of his new Collapse EP.

The disconcerting beats of new track, T69, come with an equally confusing new video, which was actually pulled from appearing on TV earlier this week after failed an epilepsy test.

It's not hard to see why.

The flashing images, including the DJ's own log, look like an early Microsoft screensaver that's got wildly out of control.

The five-track release, his first since 2014's Syro, is out on 14 September.

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A thief impersonating rapper Daddy Yankee has reportedly stolen two million euros ($2.3m; £1.8m) worth of jewels from his hotel room in Spain.

Spanish paper Las Provincias reports a man posing as the Puerto Rican performer, whose real name is Ramon Luis Ayala, phoned staff at his Valencia hotel to open the room's safe.

Daddy Yankee's representatives Nevarez PR confirmed the robbery , externalin a Twitter post in Spanish.

He performed on Despacito with Luis Fonsi and is currently touring Europe.

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The US rapper has announced that she’ll drop her new album, Queen, today - a week earlier than advertised.

The news came last night during an episode of Nicki's Queen Radio show on Beats 1.

Last week, it was reported she was holding back the star-studded album in order to clear a sample of a Tracy Chapman tune.

Now, the 35-year-old, who had initially planned to release the record in June, said it had been finished only three hours before she went on air.

"It’s a lot of corporate drama in here," she added.

Queen is set to feature appearances from Eminem, Ariana Grande, The Weeknd, Lil Wayne and more.

Not long now peeps.

Read more: 4 things we learned from Nicki Minaj's #QueenRadio