We're off home but you can still scroll down for lots more action from the weekend's Reading + Leeds Festivals and Notting Hill Carnival.

Also rapper/actress Lauryn Hill responding to accusations that she stole the music for her classic album, The Miseducation Of, Avicii's family launching a digital memorial in his memory and Mel B's battle with PTSD.

Plus Pete Doherty's big boy's breakfast is immortalised in art.

We'll leave you with the new video from R + L performers Panic! at the Disco, who have High Hopes for a living (nice work if you can get it).

They also have good grips on their shoes.

See you tomorrow.

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Singer-songwriter Tom Odell has just dropped a new single.

It's called Half as Good as You and features rising star Alice Merton.

Have a listen below...

The single is taken from his forthcoming third studio album Jubilee Road, which will be released on 26 October.

Tom kicks off a headline tour of the UK and Europe in Glasgow on 12 October.

OK, it's a short working week this week so all the normal rules are going out of the window.

We usually wait until Friday to hit you with a load of new music videos but here's an indie triple to help ease you back in.

First up, Imagine Dragons have dropped a cinematic new video for their track, Natural, taken from their third album, Evolve.

It's like a dark Scandinavian mini drama and you can check it out above.

Next up Scots rockers Fatherson have shared a new video for Charm School, taken from their forthcoming album Sum Of All Your Parts - out on 14 September.

The band, apparently in unison, described it as an: “An observation on having to mind your p’s and q’s all the time - and the need to jump through hoops for other people.

"A charm school is an elocution school where people are taught manners above all else - which might be a little unrealistic for real life”.

Well manners cost nothing, after all, do they? So it should be quite affordable to attend.

Last but not least Irish band Kodaline have released a mini film of their own to go with their track Head Held High.

Charm school aside there's another early lesson in this one for a little girl who has a bit too much to say for herself to the downtrodden dinner lady, who is dreaming of hanging up her apron in order to be in her own musical.

The track will feature on their upcoming LP, Politics Of Living, which arrives on 28 September.

We wonder what Johnny Borrell made of Pete Doherty's big breakfast win?

He was briefly in an early incarnation of The Libertines, did you know?

Now he's back with his band Razorlight, following a solo foray into world music.

Olympus Sleeping will feature on their forthcoming new album - their first in ten years - which is out on 26 October and you can check out the new video above.

The band have also released performance videos of another three new tunes: Japanrock, Sorry? and Got To Let The Good Times Back Into Your Life.

Speaking before his band's appearance at the recent Y Not? Festival, Johnny told us how he'd "lost the passion for rock 'n' roll" during the intervening years but was now "excited to plug an electric guitar in" again.

He said: "To play Golden Touch 15 years later and have people knowing the words is amazing. It's a real honour and privilege if people carry your song in their heart and conscience.

Razorlight will tour these shores in December.

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Taylor signed a record deal with indie label Big Machine back in 2005 which finally expires in November - a mere 13 years later.

It's unclear what Swift's next move will be - whether she'll decide to stay put, go independent or negotiate a deal with new representation - but Variety, external have spent some time thinking through all the different scenarios.

Last week we brought you the significant news that Libertines frontman Pete Doherty is set to have his name inscribed on a wall of fame in a Margate cafe after scoffing a "mega breakfast" to claim it for free.

He put away the feast which included four bacon rashers, four eggs, four sausages, a burger and chips, plus plenty of trimmings, inside 20 minutes to beat the challenge set by cafe owner Mark Ezekiel.

Now, a mural has appeared in Southend-On-Sea depicting the epic breakfast challenge (see above).

Safe to say, it's a moment in history that should never be forgotten - and now, it won't be.

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The busy lads from Nothing But Thieves have released a new single called Forever & Ever More, and our Annie Mac's show has snapped it up as their Hottest Record in the World.

Do you agree? Have a listen here...

The track's taken from their new EP, What Did You Think You Made Me This Way? which is released 19 October.

Here they are chatting to Dan P. Carter who's been standing in for Annie while she's been partying at Carnival (scroll down).

The Thieves embark on a November UK tour, kicking off on 19 November in Cardiff.

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Thousands of fans are expected to come to pay their respects to soul legend Aretha Franklin, who died nearly two weeks ago.

Aretha's body will lie in state for two days at the Charles H Wright Museum of African American History, an African American museum in her home town of Detroit, before her funeral takes place there on Friday.

The museum also hosted civil rights activist Rosa Parks's viewing in 2005.

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Detroit, seen as the home of soul and Motown music, is treating Franklin's death as the passing of royalty and a week of mourning is being held in the city.

The 76-year-old's body will be on public view on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Friday's funeral at the Greater Grace Temple is for family and friends only, but Chaka Khan, Jennifer Hudson and Stevie Wonder are among those due to sing there.

Former US President Bill Clinton will be among the speakers.

The streets outside are expected to be lined with pink Cadillac cars, in a tribute to Franklin's 1985 hit Freeway of Love.

The singer will then be laid to rest at the city's Woodlawn Cemetery.

Music and dancing came to a stop at the Notting Hill Carnival this weekend to remember the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire.

A 72-second silence was held at the west London event at 15:00 BST on Monday as a tribute to the people who died at the block, which is close to the parade.

Some people wore green to remember those who died during the blaze.

Watch above.

Meanwhile Radio 1 DJ Toddla T brought his Steezy Wonderland show to the packed streets of west London.

Fellow DJ Annie Mac (below) posed for pictures alongside Toddla, wearing some pretty snazzy matching outfits.

Check out some of the vibes above and see if you can spot yourself in the crowd.

Annie's pre-carnival Hottest Record on Friday night came courtesy of Shy FX's new jungle track Bad Boy Business, which you can enjoy above too.

While all that was going on, BBC London's Alice Evans spent a day hopping on and off the carnival's famous floats.

Here she is setting the scene:

"A performer checks there's not a feather out of place on her glittering green headpiece", writes Alice.

"And all the while, a reggae beat so loud you can feel it in your chest is pulsing from a 3m-high sound system in the middle of the street.

"There's no stopping it - it's Carnival time."

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Arts and entertainment reporter

“I’ve been renovating my flat, it’s a flat on my own, which is great because I can be naked and paint and not worry about being sweaty,” says Devonshire singer-songwriter Fenne Lily.

There is come context here. It is backstage at the blisteringly hot Wilderness festival in Oxfordshire where Fenne has just played on the main stage.

“You can wash it off,” she continues where she left off.

“You can’t wash paint off clothes but you can wash it off your body, also skin is waterproof, I think naked is the best way to do anything.

“Apart from maybe playing a gig.”

Fortunately for the early-afternoon Wilderness audience, Fenne kept any naturist urges under wraps as she performed songs from her self-released debut album, On Hold.

“It’s quite an embarrassingly long walk,” she says about her first time on a major stage.

“Because they’re like, ‘Fenne Lily’ and I have to come scuttling on and get my pick and tune my guitar and faff around on this huge stage.

“Also, I have nothing to do on stage but sing, I was like, ‘I could do a cartwheel but I won’t’, it felt like I was wasting the space.

“But it’s a wicked view and you can see the whole site, I spotted some pizza that I wanted to eat.”

Still just 20-years-old, Fenne picked up a guitar and began writing songs of heartbreak as a way of taking her focus away from school.

But she finds it hard to pinpoint the moment she decided to become a musician.

If it’s in academia that Fenne’s competitive streak rears its head, then how does it affect her songwriting? Doe she set a high benchmark for herself when it comes to lyrics?

“I try not to force anything, like there are periods where I don’t write anything. Six months is my longest just not writing a note and then I’ll have a week where I write five songs.

“The only aim I have is that they always stay genuinely relevant to what I’m going through at that moment. I don’t enjoy going back to a song after five months and trying to dredge those feelings up.”

Last year, Fenne played a session for BBC Music Introducing in the West and two years ago, landed a slot on the Introducing stage at T in the Park in Scotland.

Until now, she has played those gigs, largely, as a solo artist but now relishes the chance of having a band with her.

“I’ve written my next record and with the first one, I didn’t have the band to play things through with so it was very much me coming up with the parts and then allocating them to musicians and it was kind of a bitty process but now I’ve worked on them and I’m playing them through with the band.”

While she remains unsigned, it seems there are perks to being on the radar of indie labels.

“A label recently gave me all of their roster on vinyl. It’s the good thing about not being signed; it’s like, ‘Do you want to sign?’ I’m like, ‘Maybe, do you have any records?’"

Whilst she counts herself as a fan of artists like Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, she says the key to creativity is to generally avoid artists who play similar music to her own.

“I don’t listen to a lot of singer songwriter stuff, I think when people see a girl and a guitar they instantly are like, ‘You sound a lot like Laura Marling,’ and I absolutely don’t at all.”

Fenne is supporting US singer Lucy Dacus on her UK and European dates later in the year and she’s hoping that we will get a chance to hear the new album fairly soon too, though she admits it nearly didn’t happen.

“I went to Berlin for three weeks and wrote a lot of stuff and then my phone died and I lost it all, so I started from scratch again and I didn’t back it up on the cloud because I’m too stingy.

Fenne may have just imparted the greatest piece of music-based philosophy there and perhaps all bands should record some songs and then purposefully delete them.

“Often I’ll write a song and then play it to someone and they’ll say, ‘I like that bit’ and then because they said they like it, it’s the only bit I remember the next time I try playing it.

“I was so bummed though, I wasn’t as relaxed about it when I happened, I cried on my way back from the store.

"I keep a notebook because I don’t really trust computers, I‘ve got the lyrics which is the important bit.”

Read Newbie Tuesday #41 - The Regrettes: 'If you're not helping you're part of the problem'

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If anyone will get what this year's X Factor contestants are going through, it's Louis Tomlinson.

We all know the new X Factor judge found fame himself taking part on the show, way back in 2010, as a member of boy band One Direction (whatever happened to them?)

Speaking ahead of this year's series kicking off, Louis has said he feels he has a "duty of care" to the contestants.

"It was surreal for me as the contestants auditioning," he said.

"I think it also helps having me there, I don't think they have ever had anyone on the panel who has auditioned for the show.

"I feel a duty of care, I want to help people out."

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Louis added that "it wasn't that hard" for fellow judge Simon Cowell to persuade him to join the panel, admitting that he had long been a fan of the show before he was on it himself

"I think it was maybe two or three years ago that I started coming down to the show of my own accord and helped Simon with his acts on routining days in the studio.

"I found that really exciting. So as soon as I realised I could do both my own music and judge at the same time, it was a bit of a no brainer for me."

Tomlinson said he is "relishing" the pressure of mentoring acts in a public arena, and that he is keen on "trying to use my experience" to help new artists.

Robbie Williams and his wife Ayda complete the judging panel for the new ITV series, which kicks off this weekend.

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The rock 'n' roll star made the front page headlines for the wrong reasons last week when he was accused by The Sun newspaper of having grabbed at girlfriend Debbie Gwyther's throat on a night out in London.

Debbie has now taken to Instagram to deny the claims, describing the reports as "lies" and "lazy, sexist nonsense", adding there's a "legal case pending".

The newspaper released CCTV footage of an apparent skirmish between the two in the corridors of Chiltern Firehouse.

Last week Liam himself denied the allegations, posting "I have never put my hands on a woman in a vicious manner."

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Spotify has revealed its official Songs of the Summer chart, and Drake's In My Feelings has topped both the Global and US lists.

The song, which sparked a silly craze of people getting out of their moving cars and dancing along, received more than 393 million streams between 1 June and 20 August.

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Number two and three spots both featured new mum Cardi B, as Maroon 5's Girl Like You came in second, with around 293 million streams, and her own track, I Like It, featuring J Balvin and Bad Bunny, came in third with 289 million.

Check out the full list below.

Spotify’s Top Global Songs of Summer 2018:

1. In My Feelings – Drake
2. Girls Like You – Maroon 5 (feat. Cardi B)
3. I Like It – Cardi B (feat. Bad Bunny, J Balvin)
4. Lucid Dreams – Juice WRLD
5. SAD! – XXXTentacion
6. Better Now – Post Malone
7. One Kiss – Calvin Harris (with Dua Lipa)
8. Solo – Clean Bandit (feat. Demi Lovato)
9. Taste – Tyga (feat. Offset)
10. Youngblood – 5 Seconds of Summer
11. God’s Plan – Drake
12. Nice For What – Drake
13. Te Boté – Remix – Nio Garcia (feat. Casper Magico, Darrell, Ozuna, Bad Bunny and Nicky Jam)
14. Jackie Chan – Tiësto, Dzeko (feat. Post Malone, Preme)
15. Back To You – Selena Gomez
16. no tears left to cry – Ariana Grande
17. Moonlight – XXXTentacion
18. Don’t Matter To Me – Drake (with Michael Jackson)
19. Rise – Jonas Blue
20. Nonstop – Drake

Fancy seeing how well we at BBC Music did at predicting the Songs of Summer 2018?

Have a read of our own story here.

Though Drake fans might not want to bother...

We're sure you all had a memorable weekend, all you rockers and ravers down at Reading + Leeds.

But surely none more so than Hannah and Katie, who got engaged on stage during Wolf Alice's set at the southern leg of the bank holiday double header.

Singer Ellie Rowsell brought the couple up on stage ahead of their love song, Don't Delete the Kisses.

"I want to invite two lovebirds on stage", said Ellie, before the romantic scene unfolded - thankfully with a happy ending.

"She said yessssssss!" exclaimed Ellie before dedicating the track to the newly-engaged duo.

Watch above and try to hold back the tears of unbridled joy.

The festival was headlined by Kings of Leon, Fall Out Boy (above) and Kendrick Lamar.

The Compton rapper performed to a backdrop which boasted about his recent academic award: "Pulitzer Kenny".

Kendrick became the first non-classical or jazz artist to win the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Music when he received the award for his last album, Damn, back in April.

Elsewhere Mike Shinoda honoured his late Linkin Park bandmate Chester Bennington by stepping up as a solo artist.

Bennington died aged 41 in July, having taken his own life, an LA coroner said.

Shinoda thanked fans for helping him get over his own anxiety about performing the band's songs again and urged fans not to feel "ashamed" of their own personal struggles.

"Hopefully by coming to these shows and enjoying the music and by engaging in this type of thing it makes the bad feeling just go away" he said, before launching into a rendition of fans' favourite, In the End.

"I want you guys to sing it so loud that Chester can hear you... are you ready to do that?"

Watch above.

Shinoda also joined Blink-182 for a rendition of another Linkin Park track, Faint.

Travis Scott (above) also brought his US chart-topping album Astroworld into the orbit or the UK crowd and Dua Lipa (below) brought the pop to the traditionally rock fest.

In case you missed it - or you've just made it back - you can check out all the action from R + L online now or via the iPlayer.

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Spice Girl Mel B will enter a rehab facility to seek treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

The singer says the past six months have been "incredibly difficult" and claims she's been drinking "to numb (her) pain".

The 43-year-old has been finalising her divorce from Stephen Belafonte, a relationship she says was abusive.

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Belafonte, who is a film producer, was recently cleared of physically and verbally abusing Mel during their marriage.

Mel B retweeted a text message that her mum Andrea had shared about the singer seeking help.

In a statement Mel said that her divorce and the death of her father were the main reasons she was seeking treatment.

"Sometimes it is too hard to cope with all the emotions I feel. But the problem has never been about sex or alcohol - it is underneath all that," she said.

"No-one knows myself better than I do. But I am dealing with it. I love my three girls more than life itself."

The Leeds-born star said she was recently diagnosed with PTSD and was speaking about it because it's a "huge issue" for lots of people.

A recent video the star posted on Instagram showed her reading a book called Heal Your PTSD.

Despite currently working as a judge on America's Got Talent alongside Simon Cowell and plotting a Spice Girls reunion of some form or other, Mel says she plans to enter a UK-based treatment centre.

Sending healing vibes and best wishes to Mel.

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Comedian Weird Al Yankovic, who's best known for his hilarious song parodies, received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Monday.

“I kind of feel like this is maybe my one real shot at immortality because I know that now my name is gonna basically be here until the end of civilization, which, let’s face it, is probably like three or four months away.”

In July, US President Donald Trump's Hollywood star was vandalised with a pickaxe - and Yankovic was quick to joke about the incident during his own speech.

"Please don't pickaxe my star. I know it's all the rage these days, but that's not cool. Unless at some point in the future, I do something unfathomably monstrous and evil in which case, sure, fine, OK, go ahead.

"Limit yourself to spitting and urinating. Have some class, people."

Yankovic has earned four Grammy Awards and has been nominated for a Grammy 11 times and had four gold records and six platinum records in the US.

His memorable songs include Eat It, a parody of Michael Jackson’s Beat It that reached number 12 on the US charts, and Amish Paradise, a parody of Coolio's Gangsta's Paradise which we've included for a mid-morning chuckle, below.

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Ulti power couple Beyonce and Jay-Z have been filling arenas around the world with their On The Run II tour but at the end of their Atlanta show on Saturday, drama struck as 26-year-old Anthony Charles Thomas Maxwell ran onto the stage as the show was ending.

He has since been charged with disorderly conduct and simple battery.

In the US state of Georgia, the law defines simple battery as "physical contact of an insulting or provoking nature".

According to local police, Maxwell approached Jay-Z and made contact with him.

Security and backup dancers managed to stop him from getting backstage.

In a post on Instagram, Beyonce's publicist Yvette Noel-Schure said the couple were "fine and looking forward to" their second show in Atlanta on Sunday night.

Mr Maxwell was treated for minor injuries, and police said nobody else was injured.

Bey and Jay have chosen not to press charges.

You can watch the incident below courtesy of local Atlanta TV station 11 Alive News.

"At the end of last night's show, we had an intoxicated male enter the stage," their tour organiser said in a statement.

"At this point, we had a controlled evacuation of all crew on the stage in order to safely defuse the situation."

Thankfully everyone left the venue safe and sound.

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This weekend just gone marked 20 years since the release of the US star's seminal hip hop album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.

She's now responded to claims that she “stole” the music for the record, as well as accusations that she mistreated her touring band.

In a lengthy online statement, the rapper/actress - who says she last gave an interview "over a decade ago" - wrote: “I may have been inclusive, but these are my songs."

“The Miseducation was the first time I worked with musicians outside of the Fugees [whose] report and working relationship was clear. In an effort to create the same level of comfort, I may not have established the necessary boundaries and may have been more inviting than I should have been,” Hill wrote.

The claims were made by jazz musician Robert Glasper, who was briefly a member of Hill’s band in 2008, earlier this month in an interview with a Houston radio station, external

The collective of musicians who worked on the album later sued Hill over songwriting credits. The case was settled in 2001.

Glasper went on to accuse Hill of treating her touring band harshly.

He said: “Every day she comes in and changes the show, changes what she wants to do.

“The last rehearsal, she doesn’t show up. Her manager comes in and says, 'Lauryn’s not really feeling the way you guys have been learning the music, so we’re gonna cut your pay in half.'"

Hill, has now responded, writing: "Don’t have the details or recollection of cutting the band’s pay in half.

"If fees had been negotiated and confirmed without my knowledge, I may have asked for them to be adjusted. But I would never just cut a musician’s pay arbitrarily unless I had a legitimate reason. There are artists who do cut pay though, James Brown was notorious for docking musicians if they did something he didn’t like, I’m sure there are others.”

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Radio 2 DJ Trevor Nelson celebrated the big anniversary of Lauryn's 1998 breakthrough album with a special show, featuring an archive session and interview and you can listen back now.

At the time she told Trevor that the record was "based on some life lessons, some loves lost, some loves gained, some experiences learned... a whole lotta stuff.

Check out a snippet above.

The Everything is Everything star will undertake a UK and Ireland tour in November/December.

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Following the death of the 28-year-old Swedish music producer, Avicii's family have been inundated with messages and letters of support from grieving fans.

As a result, they've chosen to turn his website into a memorial page, where his legacy can be remembered together.

"Tim created music that brought people together with timeless memories from all over the world.

"We created this space so you could share your memories with all of us and let the world know what Avicii meant to you.

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Avicii - real name Tim Bergling - was found dead in his Oman hotel room from apparent suicide in April.

Earlier this month, his father, Klas Bergling, praised "every amazing tribute you have given Tim and his music" in a speech at an awards ceremony in Sweden, where he accepted an award on behalf of his son.

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South Korea's boy band sensation, BTS, continue to shatter records on what seems to be a weekly basis and now they've set a new YouTube record for the most views for a music video in 24 hours.

The video for their new track Idol, taken from their new album, Love Yourself: Answer, racked up over 45 million views in that time, making it the biggest music video debut in the channel's history.

If you fancy helping to make that 46 million, you can check out the video below.

Idol beat Taylor Swift’s Look What You Made Me Do, which clocked (a mere) 43.2 million views in 24 hours last year.

As well as beating Taylor's YouTube record the band also beat one of their own.

Another of their songs, DNA was previously the fastest viewed K-pop video online, with 21 million views in just 24 hours.

Records are their to be broken.