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Wow is that the time already?

Time for us to split but if you're hanging around, scroll down for Adele 'marrying' two of her best pals, Rag 'n' Bone Man doing his bit to shift some vinyl and Little Mix's big TV announcement.

Plus build up to tonight's Folk Awards (on Radio 2 from 19:30), we attempt to make sense of Thom Yorke's latest Twitter ramblings and rapper Cardi B is set to break another record by co-hosting The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.

We'll leave you with another talented music star stealing Jimmy's show and heart last night in the form of UK country singer Jade Bird (above).

And to mark exactly 50 years since the assassination of the late great Dr Martin Luther King, BBC World Service's Cultural Frontline programme take a look at the ongoing legacy of his dream through the eyes of artists such as gospel and soul singing legend Mavis Staples.

So everybody knows by now that the California girl band's family and the film director go way back, right?

Back to the good old San Fernando Valley.

Fun fact: The Haim girls mum (or Mom) used to teach the Boogie Nights / Magnolia / There Will Be Blood / Phantom Thread director.

Well if you didn't... Consider yourself schooled - as Paul was by Mama Haim all those years ago.

Anderson has since directed several of the band's music videos, including Little of your Love (above). Now they'll collaborate live at Coachella Festival in their home state later this month.

The festival runs over two weekends from 13-22 April, with Beyonce, Eminem and The Weeknd taking the headline slots. But as Pitchfork, external reports, Haim's performance could be set to be another highlight, as it will include live visuals from you know who.

So on the off the off chance that you're going to Cali-forn-iyay next week then look out for that.

We are in no way jealous.

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The US slacker rock cult hero has posted a video of a mystery cat called Pickles, who apparently "lives behind the garage" on Youtube, accompanied by some rather funky experimental jazz (which is not a world away from some of Jack White's latest album).

We can't confirm whether or not this is Mac playing but his last album from 2017 was entitled This Old Dog, so maybe Pickles was feeling a little left out.

Understandably.

Pickles certainly knows where the camera is, that's for sure.

Here's one for all you football terrace chanters out there.

Kiaran from Yorkshire band The Sherlocks caught up with Huddersfield Town footballer Mathias 'Zanka' Jorgensen, courtesy of a mashup between BBC Music and MOTD: The Premier League show.

The rock and soccer stars set about helping local kids to come up with a catchy new chant for the big Danish defender.

Think you could write a better one?

Check it out above.

The Man of the Woods stopped a concert in Detroit on Monday night to announce to the venue that one ticketholder had some special news.

The singer had spotted Darcell Baxtresser in the front row of his show holding up a sign that read, “Will you help me announce my pregnancy?”

JT happily obliged, nickinaming the unborn child Baby Bax.

Darcell filmed the encounter (above) calling it "the most amazing, magical, unforgettable moment I have ever had in my life!!!"

Click above to find out exactly what.

Got it?

That's right,the girls are to appear on the first episode of the second series of the BBC's flagship music show Sounds Like Friday Night on... well, you guessed it.

The team will be catching up with Jesy, Jade, Leigh-Anne and Perrie on their tour of Japan.

Joining them and hosts Dotty and Greg James on the show will be Snow Patrol (scroll down for more from them), Meghan Trainor, Gary Barlow, Years & Years and US chart topper Halsey.

19:30, BBC One this Friday. Don't be late.

Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody has opened up about his struggle with depression, saying he "used to think about not existing".

The singer, whose hits include Chasing Cars and Run, said he had been battling the condition since he was a teenager.

"Winston Churchill had a great name for depression: His black dog," he told the Telegraph, external.

"I think that was probably it. It was just an animal of some sort that just lived with me. And that frightened me."

Speaking separately on Jo Whiley's Radio 2 show (above) the star said it was only the persistence of his friends and family that helped him emerge.

"Plenty of people reached out to me to try and find me in my darkness," he said.

Gary, who has written with Taylor Swift and Harry Styles, as well as for his own band, said his most recent episode of depression triggered a four-year period of writer's block.

That resulted in a seven-year gap between Snow Patrol albums - but the group recently returned with the aptly-titled single Don't Give In (above), which precedes the band's forthcoming seventh album, Wildness.

The album is out on 25 May and they'll play the Coventry leg of BBC Music's Biggest Weekend two days later.

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Mercurial Norwich duo Let's Eat Grandma are all set to return with the follow up to their 2016 debut album I, Gemini.

The slightly off-kilter, homemade sounds of the first album have given way to something a bit more polished with their singles Hot Pink and the latest Falling Into Me (below).

According to the girls, Rose and Jenny, they wanted to make something to make their fans dance.

They spoke to 6 Music's Georgie Rogers about the new album I'm All Ears and where the title comes from.

Rose and Jenny are playing The Great Escape in May.

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Luckily, he managed to find his way way to Annie Mac's London studio for a chat about his new track.

Lost in Paris is a jazzy little number featuring one of Tom's favourite rappers Goldlink and is taken from his debut album Geography, which is out on Friday.

Without spoiling the end of the story it turns out that he wasn't actually lost in Paris after all, but something very important to him did go missing.

Recline in your arm chair and listen above.

It marks the first time the annual award ceremony, now in its 19th year, will take place in Northern Ireland, at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast.

Singer-songwriter Nick Drake (below) is the inductee to the awards' Hall of Fame, in the year that would have marked his 70th birthday.

Performers include Cara Dillon, Paul Brady, Eliza Carthy & The Wayward Band, Lankum, Dónal Lunny and the Armagh Pipers Club.

You can listen to the awards live on Radio 2 from 19:30 GMT tonight.

Now get this...

Every Folk Awards trophy is completely bespoke, as created by sculptor Mick Kirkby-Geddes, to represent the winner.

He's made more than 200 Folk Awards trophies in 19 years in his workshop in West Yorkshire, welding them together from scrap metal.

So here's a BBC Music quiz that requires some specialist knowledge - see if you can identify the winner from the trophy.

We'll hear from some of the winners in tomorrow's Music News LIVE.

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More from that new Jay-Z Netflix special now.

Following Jay bigging up fellow rappers Eminem and Snoop yesterday, the channel has released a clip of him talking about his tears of joy when his mum first told him she was gay last year.

"I was so happy for her that she was free," the rapper told David Letterman on his new series My Next Guest...

The New York hip hop raps about the moment in the song Smile, on his latest album 4:44, which he says he wrote the very next day.

The lyrics read; "Mama had four kids, but she's a lesbian / Had to pretend so long that she's a thespian. Had to hide in the closet, so she medicate / Society shame and the pain was too much to take."

Check out the clip above.

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The Radiohead frontman is continuing his unrelenting campaign of opaque tweets with this latest one below.

He writes about his open mind being "crushed and faded".

Are they song lyrics or perhaps thoughts about the 45th President of the United states with phrases about "the wall" being "tall and black and white" and "a megaphone is conversation" - which goes a way to describing Donald Trump's method of communication.

They join earlier crackers like "I've noticed that the words are all fake" and "brutalised".

Earlier this month, he announced plans for a European solo tour in 2018, including dates in Edinburgh, London and Manchester.

Looks like you'll have to head to one of those if you want to help us crack the code.

Sorry, we kind of missed this one at the tail end of last week when we were packing up for Easter.

But a ten-year-old boy from Illinois by the name of Mason became an internet smash, when a video appeared on Instagram, external of him singing an A capella cover version of the Hank Williams' country classic Lovesick Blues, complete with authentic yodeling.

It was almost inevitable but now someone has done a club remix of it, and its pretty catchy.

This could be a real game-changer on the barn dance scene.

Listen above.

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The gory new video sees the city of Detroit on lockdown as one of its most famous sons, Marshall Mavers has escaped from "an asylum".

The track Framed is taken from his 2017 album Revival and is one of the few tracks on the record that doesn't feature some pop star or another.

It's a bit too bloody/sweary for a BBC News website but you can find it on Youtube now if you're not squeamish/easily offended.

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Not a great start to the year for the rapper who was convicted last week of tax evasion.

Now, according to a report in TMZ, he has been ordered to repay around £1.6m to the taxman.

The judge is apparently allowing him to pay in monthly installments of 10% of his gross monthly income.

As an additional showbiz angle, the judge is reported to have recommended the rapper serve his one year sentence at the same prison which inspired the Netflix show Orange is the New Black.

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The US talk show - hosted by Jimmy Fallon - has never had a co-host in its long 64 year history.

Until now.

So it's fitting that the record-breaking rapper has been chosen as Jimmy's first ever sidekick for the historic show on Monday 9 April.

Last year, Cardi became the first female rapper in nearly 20 years to score a #1 in the US charts, with her smash hit Bodak Yellow. The last being Lauryn Hill with “Doo Wop (That Thing), external” in 1998.

She then became the first female hip hop artist to have their first three singles in top ten at the same time.

And now this.

If Monday's show is half as good as her appearance as Jimmy's guest in December then it'll be a memorable one.

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Cardi's latest appearance is in support of her forthcoming debut studio album Invasion of Privacy, which drops on Friday.

Her new track, Drip, featuring her fiance Offset's band Migos is available to view online now but we can't bring it to you here I'm afraid due to the language.

For now you'll have to make do with the rapper's brilliant alcopop explanation as to how she got her name (above).

Rag 'n' Bone Man is the face of this year's event, now in its 11th year celebrating local, independent record stores.

To mark the occasion, the big man has recorded two new songs direct to vinyl.

Don't Set The World On Fire and George Has Got A Friend will be among special music releases on 21 April.

Speaking to BBC Newsbeat, he said: "This is one of the most amazing things I've done so far.

"These songs don't exist anywhere else. They've never been recorded before. They're not on the last album and they won't be on the next one either."

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BBC Music are doing loads of coverage of Record Store Day across Radio 1, 2, 3 and 6 Music.

On Friday 20 April, host Lauren Laverne will broadcasts her 6 Music show from the world’s oldest record shop: Spillers in Cardiff.

...and his partner.

No, this isn't some bizarre love triangle. We mean 'marries' in the sense that she officiated over their wedding.

The 29-year-old London singer posted the above picture of herself in a minister's gown, alongside the following caption:

"Seeing as the cats out the bag. I married two of my best friends in January. You know me any excuse to dress up...@chattyman, external #LoveIsLove."

Adele helped the TV comic get hitched to his partner Paul Drayton and according to The Evening Standard, external even got them tickets to see Celine Dion in Vegas.

Remember when a toaster used to be considered a lavish wedding gift?

Alan confirmed the news on ITV's This Morning, saying the ceremony was held in Adele’s back garden in LA.

Sadly, she didn't get the memo not to wear white for fear of upstaging the happy couple.

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Time to attack the day.

Today on Music News LIVE we'll tell you all about a historic TV role for the one and only Cardi B (above), as well as a brand new track to boot.

Plus Rag 'n' Bone Man is waxing lyrical about records in his new role too.

And Belfast gears up for tonight's Radio 2 Folk Awards.

All that and much more to check out throughout your working Wednesday, including Adele 'marrying' comedian Alan Carr, Jay-Z's tears (of happiness) at his mum coming out and a Hottest Record from Tom Misch.

OK, everybody - best foot forward.