That's your lot for today.

If, like us, you were back at work today, we hope it wasn't too painful. As a little treat for making it through, here's Stormzy singing his single Blinded By Your Grace Pt.2 on the Top of the Pops Christmas special.

While those soulful melodies wash over you, scroll down to see how Mariah Carey had a much better NYE this time around, why Lorde has been labelled "a bigot" and find out what the first book is for members of the new David Bowie book club.

Plus Britney ends her Vegas stint, Sir Macca hails Sir Ringo and we tell you all about our first Newbie Tuesday of the new year; Isaac Gracie - one to watch for 2018.

We're both off to the gym to work off all those mince pies (honest).

See you tomorrow.

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Just time to bring you a brief music news roundup of a few other stories from the past few days...

• Veteran franchise composer John Williams (pictured above) will write the theme, external for the new standalone film about Han Solo, slated for release on May 25.
• Rapper Joey Bada$$ has taken credit for ghost-writing, external chart-topper Rockstar by Post Malone.
• Country star Carrie Underwood has told fans a fall which left which left her with a broken wrist also left her needing 40 to 50 stitches, external in her face.

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It really does feel like that doesn't it? It's a short week though (even shorter if you're in Scotland who have ANOTHER day off) so power through.

Radio 1 are prescribing a healthy dose of Camila Cabello's Superstar Playlist from Christmas Day.

Cam was up against Her Majesty The Queen at 15:00 on the big day so if you missed it you can listen again.

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The Biebs - who apparently saw in the New Year with on-off-on again (maybe) girlfriend Selena Gomez, in Mexico - is selling one of his own paintings of a crucifix floating next to some hills for charity.

Check it out below.

The 23-year-old singer posted an accompanying message on Instagram saying that all proceeds from the sale of the painting will go to help those effected by the wildfires in California.

Sadly Justin's efforts failed to make the cut for our Arts Editor Will Gompertz's list of things to see this year.

We can't think why.

Film director and Bowie's son Duncan Jones has launched an online book club inviting fans to read some of his father's favourite pieces of literature.

"My dad was a beast of a reader," he wrote on social media.

"I've been feeling a building sense of duty to go on the same literary marathon in tribute to dad."

First up for the new 'Bowie Book Club' is Peter Ackroyd’s Hawksmoor, which he describes as "an amuse cerveau before we get into the heavy stuff."

Mon Dieu.

In 2013, Bowie's official website revealed the Starman's top 100 Books, including F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, The Waste Land by T.S Eliot and A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess.

If you're interested in being part of the club you have until 1 February apparently to finish reading the first novel before your next homework assignment shall be revealed.

Paul Glynn
Music News LIVE reporter

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Welcome to the (not so) distant future.

The year is 2018.

Music is changing fast, but can the humans keep up?

From holograms to bitcoins, via floating AR stages, here's a handful of possible outcomes this year,

Go boldly everybody.

Read more.

Kev Geoghegan
Music News LIVE reporter

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Pitched somewhere between Jeff Buckley, Ed Sheeran and James Bay, singer-songwriter Isaac Gracie has been careful not to let the hype get to his youthful 23-year-old head.

"Whilst those things are really nice to hear and when I'm feeling comfortable some day, maybe I'll take it all in and it'll make me smile," he told us at the Wilderness festival back in August.

"But in reality there's a load of anxiety and pressure just being at this position because the prospects are theoretically so high and the potential is there and my ambition is there, so living up to that is like fear."

Isaac first uploaded some songs to BBC Music Introducing in Norfolk in 2015, which led to a session at the BBC's Maida Vale studios in February 2016 and on to South-by-Southwest in Austin Texas.

He capped off an amazing summer with a slot on the Introducing stage at Glastonbury (below).

With such a live pedigree at an early age and for someone who comes across as a confident performer, it's a little surprisingly that he still feels the effect of anxiety while performing at festivals.

"Being in large places gives me some anxiety, it can be stressful. But in places like this, there are some festivals where the vibe is a lot more chilled and spacious and comforting."

Words like 'fear'' and 'anxiety' which appear often in the young singer's answers, give hints at just how much he has personally invested in his music.

Despite those fears, he told BBC Music News LIVE that playing to people unfamiliar with his work - which has been championed by the likes of Annie Mac, Jo Whiley and Huw Stephens - still gives him a great thrill.

"Before people know your music, no-one knows your music so you always come from a position of trying to convince them why they should care.

"Shows where I've played where people do know the music rival each other in terms of enjoyment because having a crowd of people who don't know you and watching them learn to take part, that's a feeling that you can't replicate.

"I try and enjoy these times as much as I can because the future will be what it will be but I'd be a fool not to make the most of these moments, it's quite special."

Isaac is out on tour at the end of this month and it sounds we can expect his debut album soon.

It's been produced by the famed Markus Dravs ("a prolific G, a mentor" says Isaac) - who has won Grammy album of the year awards with Arcade Fire and Mumford Sons.

"The album was living in limbo because it took a while and was such an exhaustive process to make something really good and I think we achieved that. When you invest so heavily mentally and emotionally in something, it's really difficult to finish that process and find out what you've made.

"I got the final copy and had a listen to it and thought, 'oh I'm really happy with this',

"For the first time, I could see where I was going musically because the path was laid out by the music.

"When you're doing these things you have to feel really confident about what it is that you're doing it for and having that confidence and reassurance helps, so the album's on its way and I'm quite excited by that."

Read more: Newbie Tuesday #7: Naaz

He presented his final Sunday Service show for the station on Sunday night.

If you didn't mqanage to catch it, then thanks to the magic of iPlayer, it's still available for another 28 days.

"Its been a great pleasure to play with you lot over the last few years," said Jarvis, following an archive interview with Brian Eno on the nature of art.

"I'm going to leave but I'll be back at certain times, you've just got to keep yours eyes open or more importantly your ears open.

"In the meantime keep playing, keep learning, keep enjoying and I'll be in touch."

Don't stay away too long Jarvis, mate.

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Miss Spears, check out is at 11:00 AM. Sharp.

Please leave your room key with reception on the way out and thanks again for your stay.

Britney's long-running Piece of Me Las Vegas show came to an end on New Year's Eve with a special gig in New York City.

The show, which was broadcast live on US TV, has been running since 2013 at the Axis Auditorium, Planet Hollywood in Sin City but traveled to the East coast for the night to welcome in 2018.

Britney described the end of her residency as "bittersweet" and thanked fans for coming out to "sing, dance and party."

Just imagine, when Britney began her residency Barack Obama was still the US president, Kanye West had yet to headline Glastonbury and no-one had even heard of the word 'brexit'.

Lady Gaga was recently confirmed as the latest star to go down the Vegas residency route, like Britney and Elvis (and a few more) before her.

The 36-year-old singer and boyfriend Sam Asghari seemed pretty chuffed too that the metaphorical fat lady was about to sing.

The Irish Times provided one of the more memorable - albeit pretty harsh - album reviews of 2017, when they gave Noel Gallagher's Who Built The Moon a meagre one star.

Its reviewer wrote:

Ouch. We wonder what he got the one star for?

Noel saw the funny side though by posting the review on his Instagram, external and later quoted from it on his official album poster.

Now from Noel Gallagher v The Irish Times to Nick Knowles v the Amazon customer reviews (!) here's seven of the best examples of when critics got very critical indeed.

They only do it because they really care...

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It's exactly what you might expect really... a week celebrating Independent Venues.

From Halifax to London, gig venues up and down the land have been threatened with closure due to licensing issues and noise complaints, but they continue to provide a platform for burgeoning musicians.

This year, 187 official venues nationwide will take part and 6 music's Elizabeth Alker spoke to founder Sybil Bell about their plans for 2018.

"Go to a gig where you'll meet people with a same taste in music," she urged people;

The fifth edition of IVW will take place from 29 January to 4 February.

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Just in the nick of time.

At the end of 2016 Aussie psych rockers King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard promised to release not one but FIVE albums the following year.

They kept us sweating like a possum in the sun but on Saturday - with a whole day to spare - the Melbourne band put out Gumboot Soup

The record follows Flying Microtonal Banana, Murder of the Universe, Sketches of Brunswick East and our favourite (name wise, at least) Polygondwanaland.

You can actually listen to the whole album, external on YouTube now or check out Greenhouse Heat Death, from the record, below.

Or don't.

Your choice and maybe you've already decided not to take other people's advice this year.

However, if you're thinking about making some changes, BBC Music have compiled some sage advice from the likes of Woody Guthrie (pictured above), Elvis Costello, Kendrick Lamar and Jessie J.

We particularly love protest singer Woody's guide to good health and hygiene.

"Wash teeth if any".

Indeed.

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Lorde has been called "a bigot" by an American Rabbi after the Kiwi pop star cancelled a gig in Israel.

Shmuley Boteach took out an advert in the Washington Post accusing the singer’s native New Zealand of prejudice against Israel.

The ad criticizes the 21-year-old for joining “a global antisemitic boycott of Israel”.

It features a large photo of the singer superimposed over a picture of men running through rubble cradling babies.

The article carries the pull-out quote; "21 is young to become a bigot."

Lorde cancelled the gig just before Christmas, explaining her reasons why in a statement.

"I pride myself on being an informed young citizen, and I had done a lot of reading and sought a lot of opinions before deciding to book a show in Tel Aviv, but I'm not too proud to admit I didn't make the right call on this one."

UK Artists for Palestine, external - which includes Pink Floyd's Roger Waters - were last year critical of acts like Radiohead and Nick Cave for going ahead with gigs in the Israeli city.

Read more.

Poet Tony Walsh has gifted all future rights and royalties of his inspiring work This is the Place, which gained global praise following last year's terror attack, to the people of Manchester.

The charity Forever Manchester, which supports grassroots community activity across Greater Manchester, will benefit from the donation.

His poem caught the world's attention when he performed it on the steps of Manchester Town Hall at a vigil the day after the Manchester Arena attack which killed 22 people.

The poem has already raised more than £150,000 for three charities.

Nick Massey from Forever Manchester said: “Back in 2013 we asked Tony Walsh to bring our cause to life, to give it a voice and a personality to our local communities. What we got back was the amazing poem ‘This is the Place’.

The two remaining Beatles are now both knights of the realm after Ringo - aka Richard Starkey was recognized in the New Year Honours list.

His old pal Sir Paul McCartney had a few words of congratulations for the drummer (above) over the weekend.

"Sir Richard Starkey has a nice ring to it" he said.

We prefer Sir Ringo.

Elsewhere is was a case of "arise Sir Barry Gibb" as Bee Gees singer was also honoured.

Read more.

Barry smashed the Sunday afternoon legends slot at Glastonbury 2017.

Check out his journey to legendary status below.

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We all had our favourite album of 2017 (Kendrick, SZA, Lorde - to name but three) but now after yesterday's hangover, all eyes today turn to this year's forthcoming releases.

Ariana Grande, Arctic Monkeys and The 1975 are all preparing new albums for your aural pleasure this year.

Our music reporter Mark Savage has been taking a look at what you can look forward to from 2018.

Fans of Selena Gomez and The Fratellis are going to want to read this.

Read more.

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The Brooklyn rapper heads to the confession booth in church alongside wife Beyonce in the new music video for his track Family Feud.

The song is taken from his latest album 4:44 and chronicles his well reported marital infidelities.

Daughter Blue Ivy also appears in the video, which sees Jay-Z rap the words "Nobody wins when the family feuds."

The all-star production features Jessica Chastain, Michael B. Jordan, Thandie Newton, America Ferrera and Brie Larson, as well as Rashida Jones, Mindy Kaling and Rosario Dawson.

As usual, the video is only available to subscribers to Tidal, but you can check out his performance of the track in the Live Lounge in September below.

Just 12 short months ago, we were writing about Mariah Carey's spectacular belly flop during her 2016 NYE performance in New York's Times Square.

On Sunday night, she returned to sing two songs, external - her classics Vision of Love and Hero - to ring in the New Year this time (mostly) without incident.

Mariah complained on stage about not getting a hot cuppa during Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest.

"They told me there would be tea," she said.

"Oh, it's a disaster. Okay, well, we'll just have to rough it. I'm going to be like everybody else, with no hot tea."

Luckily, the situation was soon rectified...

Morning people!

Happy New Year one and all and welcome back to the first 2018 edition of Music News LIVE.

Our NY's resolution is to provide you all with the best possible daily rolling music news service and we'll start today with Jay-Z confessing his sins to wife Beyonce in a new video, Lorde is attacked for cancelling a show in Israel and plenty of reaction to a Beatle and a Bee Gee becoming knights of the realm.

While we get up and running, why not have one last look back at the 52 things we learned last year (seems so long ago now).

And have a watch of Ed Sheeran, above, performing his Christmas number one track Perfect alongside Jools Holland and his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra at their 25th annual end of the year Hootenanny, where Beth Ditto also did her best Candi Staton impression.