Look at this young pup. He's an absolute Charlatan.

That's your lot for today but if you're just joining us scroll down to find out why some of rock 'n' roll's other top dogs are having a pop at some equally big pop stars.

Plus lots of tributes to influential rapper Craig Mack, who has died age 46, Taylor Swift fans think they know where she got the idea for her latest video from and the Arctic Monkeys continue to tease folk on this side of the Atlantic with a slew of dates in the US

And we catch up with Nashville's Soccer Mommy to see what all the hype is about.

Gooooodbye, Newbie Tuesday...

BBC Radio 1

While rap music can often be about money, cars and fame, Radio 1 have been following three hip hop stars who believe they are on a higher plane.

Watch above as Muslim, Christian and a Sikh rapper pray before gigs and discuss how their faith has got them through hard times.

They're using the art form to spit their truths.

Check out the full programme on the iPlayer now.

The world of hip hop is still reeling from the news of the death of rapper Craig Mack at the age of just 46.

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Here is a further selection of tributes from some of the biggest players in the rap game.

After announcing a massive date at London's Alexandra Palace on 27 October, the lads and lassies of Rudimental are embarking on a short tour of the capital this afternoon.

Our reporter Mark Savage is with them and caught some of their performance at Leicester Square.

Great little venue but the drinks are pricey.

And we heard "he can be kind of shaky."

The Canadian rock 'n' roll legend features in a new Netflix film - or 'loud poem' - by actress/activist Daryl Hannah.

Paradox, which is out on 23 March, is described by the makers as: "A fantasy, a loud poem and a free-spirited tale of music and love."

Watch a clip above, which carries the title track from Neil's 2016 album Peace Trail.

BBC 6 Music

Electro-artist Jon Hopkins is back with his new album Singularity and you might want to close your eyes to get the full effect.

The musician - who is headlining the Wilderness festival this summer - says the new release has been partly inspired by his devotion to meditation

It's his first record since 2013's Immunity and is out on 4 May.

Speaking to 6 Music's Georgie Rogers (above), Jon said the aim is "to try and create a transcendent feeling".

Taylor unveiled her new video for the track Delicate during the iHeartRadio awards at the weekend and we brought it you here on MNL yesterday.

The video shows the apparently invisible singer dancing around a hotel.

However, some fans were quick to point out some apparent similarities to a Kenzo perfume advert, directed by US producer and actor Spike Jonze, which was released last year.

Read more.

Worth pointing out the Kenzo ad itself was perhaps inspired by one of Spike's earlier videos (below).

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Tyler, the Creator has pulled out of his South American tour, offering a cryptic explanation to fans.

"I know y'all was really, really looking forward to it," the rapper wrote on Twitter. "But sometimes a duck isn't a jean jacket."

We're sure it made sense at the time.

While shows in Brazil, Argentina and Chile have been called off, European festival dates - including Dublin's Longitude and Barcelona's Primavera - are currently unaffected.

Tyler isn't the first musician to scrap tours for unconventional reasons.

Here are seven other notorious concert cancellations.

Kev Geoghegan
Music News LIVE reporter

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Twenty-year old Sophie Allison aka Soccer Mommy has been recording music since finishing high school.

But to be clear, she's actually been making music since picking up a guitar at the age of five and writing her own songs.

"They were nonsense, they didn't make sense, they were just, like, stories," she explains.

"I didn't really start writing anything that made sense until middle school and even then, it wasn't any good, it was just stuff about going to school."

School, boys, loneliness, being an outsider - they're all themes explored in Allison's critically-acclaimed debut album Clean, released earlier this month.

With rave reviews from the likes of Pitchfork, external and Rolling Stone, external, it's still a surprise she still has some anxiety over the release.

Speaking to Music News LIVE on the day of its release and ahead of a free show at an east London record shop, she insists she is "not bothered if some dude doesn't like it".

"It's stressful, there's a lot of reviews and stuff I have to read and repost [on social media].

"I don't always read them, I just find and repost them, I don't like reading, I skim them but I don't make too big a deal out of it, I know there will be hate, there's always going to be someone who doesn't like it, so I try not to freak out over them."

Born and raised in the home of country music, Nashville, Tennessee and inspired by lo-fi artists like Mitski, Elvis Depressedly, Alex G and Foxes in Fiction, Allison bought herself a Tascam recorder and began to share her music through Bandcamp in 2015, under the name Soccer Mommy.

"It was my Twitter name when I was in high school and when I was starting to make this project, it was just funny to make a joke out of the 'soccer mom' thing, eventually it was my name and I was doing it for real."

She released two mini albums before her debut proper which was released through Fat Possum Records - home to the likes of Yuck, The Districts and Fat White Family

But she is still a firm believer in a DIY attitude to making music.

"If you make something genuine and make it sound ok, like good enough that it's not annoying to listen to, people will like it even if it isn't a massive production.

"It's all about the writing, it's not that hard to record vocals and a guitar."

Allison has played support slots with the likes of Phoebe Bridgers and the aforementioned Mitski and recently completed her debut UK tour with a sold out night at the Moth Club in London.

She says she is drawn more to female artists as "it tends to have more of an emotional appeal to me".

"I don't react to showing shredding skills as I do to amazing writing or instrumentation," she adds.

It's a feminist attitude that has seen her calling out some of her male friends when they discuss their own musical influences.

"I think it's important to call out male friends, like a lot of the artists they idolise are men," she explains.

"Most of my male friends don't say sexist things but sometimes men around me, when they talk about music, it's all like Rolling Stones or Television or AC/DC - so many all-dude bands and I think its important to point out sometimes they are all men.

"There are so many other really important female artists out there."

And as for the president of the Recording Academy's call for the next generation of women to "step up"?

Allison is happy to deliver the message that for men who agree, their time is definitely up.

"I'm not shocked, it's like of course, at all these award shows women and people of colour aren't winning as much and white dudes who aren't very good are winning,

"It makes me pissed off but it's not shocking, it's something I'd expect, that's the root of the issue - people thinking like that.

"We should be getting rid of people who think like that," she smiles.

Read more: Newbie Tuesday #17 - Lewis Capaldi swapped fish and ice cream for music

Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker is to play a short tour of caverns and tiny clubs around the UK later this month.

The tour has been inspired by the Yorkshireman's one-off appearance at Sigur Ros’s festival in Iceland at the end of last year.

Now 'Jarv', which is described in the press release as "entirely implausible... a rave in a cave... and ancient & modern at the same time," kicks off at Patterns in Brighton on 26 March before heading to Peak Cavern in Castleton, hear his hometown Sheffield for two gigs on 6/7 April.

Head over to Jarv's website, external for full details.

Last one out please turn the light off.

James has, of recent years, become as well known for his humorous tweets as his music.

Remember this beauty, following the deaths of David Bowie and Prince, the Brexit vote and the election of President Trump.

Now he's back and this time John Mayer is the butt of the joke.

The You're Beautiful singer replied to a tweet from Mayer in October, in which the US singer poignantly declared: “If you’re pretty, you’re pretty; but the only way to be beautiful is to be loving. Otherwise, it’s just ‘congratulations about your face.'”

With reference to his own hit single, Blunt this week replied; “Mate, I’ve covered this already.”

Well worth the five month wait for that one.

Timing is everything.

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A French singer who killed his girlfriend 15 years ago has pulled out of all his planned summer festival appearances, after almost 75,000 people signed an online petition, external for one festival to drop him from the lineup.

Bertrand Cantat, the former frontman of Noir Desir, killed his girlfriend, actress Marie Trintignant, in a Lithuiania hotel room in 2003 and subsequently served four years of an eight year sentence, before being released on parole in 2007.

Now, as the NME, external reports, France’s Papillons de Nuit festival had been asked to drop the singer, with protesters declaring that; "By inviting Bertrand Cantat, you condone domestic violence and violence against women."

Cantat told AFP that while he would continue with tour dates to promote his solo album, he was calling off all festival appearances "to bring an end to this controversy and end pressure on organisers".

The Guardian

London Mayor and Labour MP Sadiq Khan became the first UK politician to speak at the music industry event in Austin, Texas, this week.

He took the opportunity to read out racist tweets he had received, in a bid for tighter technology regulation.

Mr Khan accused the UK government of a “dereliction of duty” for leaving big tech companies unregulated, telling the festival that online abuse puts many people off political careers.

According to The Guardian, the London Mayor said: “Ask yourself this.

“What happens when young boys and girls from minority backgrounds see this kind of thing on their timelines, or experience it themselves? Or someone thinking about becoming a politician? And what about young girls and women who are being driven from these platforms, reversing our long fight for gender equality?"

You can head to The Guardian website, external if you want to see some of the nasty tweets in question but be warned some of them are of a sensitive nature.

The BBC's coverage of SXSW kicks off tomorrow night with Huw Stephens broadcasting his Radio 1 show from Austin at 23:00 GMT.

So be sure to check it out.

TMZ

The iconic guitarist has apparently asked a US judge for a restraining order against a man who he says turned up at his house requesting to attend a Super Bowl party.

A report in TMZ said that London-born/Stoke raised Slash - whose real name is Saul Hudson - claimed Kevin Coleman arrived uninvited at his home in California during the sporting event in February.

Slash claims that when he was denied entry, he rang the doorbell several times and got so angry he violently bashed the security camera.

Mr Coleman then apparently arrived at an event two weeks later claiming to be the musician's friend.

Read more, external.

In other Slash news, his band Guns N Roses will be joined for three dates on the European leg of their Not In This Lifetime Tour tour by the the Manic Street Preachers.

So if you like your hedonism sprinkled with a bit of Marxism then check out the tour details below.

The Welsh band's 13th studio album Resistance is Futile is out on 13 April.

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No, that isn't the draw for the first round of next week's Miami Open tennis tournament.

It's two emerging musical beefs today and we shall address each one now in turn.

First up, US bluesman Jack White (above) has taken a dig at DJ Khaled in a new interview with Rolling Stone, external.

Jack essentially questions what exactly the US/Palestinian artist actually does, claiming his hit Wild Thoughts - with Rihanna and Bryson Tiller - is "just Santana's song [Maria Maria, external] in its entirety".

(Carlos Santana is listed among the track's co-writers)

Khaled performed the track at this year's Grammys although Jack wonders how much actual 'performing' was going on as he proceeded to shout his own name over a familiar sounding riff.

"It was nice of DJ Khaled to sit down and write and perform and record that - that was good of him! He's an incredibly talented man," said Jack.

Round two of our rock 'n' roll star beef concerns Julian Casablancas (above) v Ed Sheeran/ One Direction/ the whole of pop music basically.

The Strokes-turned-Voidz frontman is blaming poor Ed and co's success on "cultural brainwashing".

In a piece with Vulture, external, the rock 'n' roll singer stated his belief that a more just modern society would value artists like Ariel Pink- who he compares to David Bowie - more than Ed and 1D and the Velvet Underground more than The Rolling Stones.

He said: “I really believed that the internet’s capacity to let people access the best of the best of music.

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"One Direction will have four billion views and the best artists of today will only see a fraction of that attention."

He added: "Today someone like Ariel Pink is relatively unknown. In another era he would’ve been much more popular… People think that public opinion in their own time is the truth."

It's all we have Julian.

Well we all know what Ed Sheeran looks/sounds like already but what about Ariel Pink?...

If you hadn't already figured it out for yourself these strong opinions are suddenly coming out now as they are both plugging new albums.

Julian's other band The Voidz release their second album Virtue on 30 March, while Jack's third solo effort Boarding House Reach is out a week before.

Along with the Notorious BIG, Craig Mack was one of the first artists to sign to P Diddy's Bad Boy Entertainment label and scored a big hit in 1994 with the track Flava in Ya Ear.

A remix, featuring Biggie, brought the track further success.

But he released just one album with the label, being overshadowed by the more commercially successful Biggie album.

Fellow rapper Biz Markie said on Twitter: "He had two perfect singles and the platonic rap remix. That's more than most."

Mack died of heart failure at a hospital near his Walterboro in South Carolina on Monday, reported the New York Daily News, external.

Alvin Toney, who produced Mack’s albums Project: Funk Da World and Get Down Remix said "He was a good friend of mine”.

He visited Mack last week at the Overcomer Ministry church to film a documentary about the star's decision to quit music and find religion.

He told the paper: “I wanted the world to know the talent he had. It was something I wanted people to enjoy, but it was cut short because he was very religious and wanted to go to church.”

Mack is survived by a wife and two children and tributes have been pouring in.

The Sheffield band have now added a full US tour to go with their sporadic European festival dates this sumer but STILL no news of a UK leg.

At present, their headline slot at Glasgow's TRNSMT Festival on Sunday 1 July remains the only officially announced comeback gig on these shores.

Notice though that there are big gaps in that Stateside itinerary.

Come on now lads - we're not from New York City, we're from Rotherham*...

*not technically true

Don't know about you but those are the two things that get us out of bed in the morning.

Mostly the first one if we're being totally honest.

Hello again, it's our job and honour to once again bring you Music News LIVE throughout your working day.

There's fighting talk this morning as Taylor Swift is accused ripping off another music video, Jack White goes after DJ Khaled and Julian Casablancas has a few words about Ed Sheeran.

Plus, tributes to rapper Craig Mack who has died, according to reports, guitarist Slash is seeking a restraining order against a man who turned up at his house and Poldark actress Eleanor Tomlinson is releasing a folk album.

Later on, we'll have a Newbie Tuesday artist for you all the way from Nashville that you're gonna love, almost as much as your own mommy.

Let's start today with the trailer for Arcade Fire's new two-song short film, which is out on Friday.

And remember folks - money can't buy you love (though it probably helps).