That's your lot for now but scroll back down for news on Kanye and Flavor Flav's legal actions, new music from Paloma Faith, Mogwai, U2, Halsey and Courtney Barnett.

Plus, The Strokes to get their own picturebook and The Simpsons fire their composer.

For today's #TBT, we'll leave you with a little Jimi H, as a note he once wrote to a British fan goes under the hammer.

No, it didn't begun with: "Hey, Joe..."

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Probably not the first question you want to ask on a first Tinder date but that's what is being offered by a firm in north Yorkshire.

"It makes the perfect family record, which can be passed down the generations," says Jason Leach, 46, the founder of And Vinyly, which produces the disc.

John Hobson, a 69-year-old sculptor, says his mother Madge, a devout churchgoer, would thoroughly approve of her record.

"I had to weigh out a quantity of the ashes [which had been kept in an urn], and put a large teaspoonful into a number of small plastic bags, one for each disc," he says.

Fifteen records were pressed for family and friends.

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Flavor Flav is suing Chuck D and members of Public Enemy' management team claiming he has been stiffed on royalty payments.

The rapper (above right), whose real name is William J. Drayton, has accused Chuck and his team of attempting "to minimise his role in the Public Enemy business, while continuing to rely upon Drayton's fame and persona to market the brand".

Flav says he hasn't been getting regular songwriting royalties for several years, even though he's written more than 50 of the Public Enemy's songs.

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Jason Donovan has been forced to postpone his UK tour "due to reasons associated with my speaking voice".

The singer said the decision was not "taken lightly" and that his vocal cords were "strained" but "treatable" with time and rest.

In his statement, below, he added he "will continue to fulfil all scheduled singing dates".

He has listed the revised dates, external on Twitter.

At the same time, Liam Gallagher has announced a tour of the UK and Northern Ireland starting in Belfast on 20 October.

Swings and roundabouts folks...

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A note written by rock star Jimi Hendrix to an "awestruck" young fan from Lincolnshire on a packet of guitar strings is up for auction.

Anthea Connell was handed the note by the late star after he spotted her, aged 19, at Boston Gliderdrome in March 1967.

She had been watching her boyfriend's band set up when Hendrix came over to talk to her.

The note, which is expected to attract bids of up to £3,000, read: "To Anthea - Love and kisses to you forever. I wish I could really talk to you. Stay sweet, Jimi Hendrix."

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The pair swap voices for the black and white promo - shot in Melbourne and Philadelphia - for the track Over Everything.

Once you get over the slightly jarring effect, it's a lovely alt-country slacker rock ballad.

Solo stars turned-musical cohorts Courtney and Kurt are releasing an album Lotta Sea Lice on 13 October and play a short tour of the US.

Their backing band includes members of Sleater-Kinney and Warpaint.

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Paloma Faith has premiered her new song Crybaby on Radio 2's breakfast show.

It's her first new music since she gave birth to her first child, a daughter, just before Christmas last year.

"The love is ridculous isn't it?' she told host Sara Cox.

"It's like there's no-one else in the room. Now that I'm coming back to work, that's a very spontaneous unpredictable realm, I'm like, 'I'm going to miss the boring parent stuff'."

The song is from her forthcomign album The Architect.

Listen back to the show to hear the new track in full.

The Guardian

The V&A museum's Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains exhibition has attracted just 11,000 visitors shy of the record set by a David Bowie exhibition with six weeks still to go until its close.

So far, 300,000 people have seen the exhibit which closes on 15 October.

The gallery announced demand had been so great, its stay at the venue had been extended by two week.

The Bowie retrospective, staged in 2013, three years before his death, attracted 311,000 visitors.

The Floyd attraction tells the band's story through pictures, films, stage sets and album covers.

V&A curator Victoria Broackes attributed its success to a "combination of authentic staging, amazing sound, [and] rock’n’roll spectacle".

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Q.What do Blossoms, Slaves, Nao, George Ezra and The Big Moon have in common?

A. They all came through the ranks of BBC Introducing.

B. They are all playing a BBC Introducing birthday bash at London's Brixton Academy on 4 October.

C. Both of the above.

That answer is of course C and the night will be hosted by Radio 1 DJs Huw Stephens, Annie Mac and Phil Taggart, alongside 6 Music’s Steve Lamacq and Tom Robinson.

Since it first started in 2007, Introducing artists have gone on to release 28 UK number one albums.

George Ezra (below) said: "The music industry was a very intimidating and confusing world for me when I was 18.

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"BBC Introducing was and still is the most amazingly inclusive platform I could have asked for."

Mercury Prize-nominees The Big Moon (below) added: “They've championed us from the beginning and given us the opportunity to play amazing festivals in the UK and abroad.

"We're incredibly grateful for their support and are so so happy to be playing at their 10th anniversary.”

Here's how you get tickets for the event.

BBC Newsbeat

Eyebrows were raised on the faces of many a rock aficionado when Queens of the Stone Age announced their new album Villains would be produced by Mark Ronson, famed for his pop work with the likes of Amy Winehouse and Bruno Mars.

The album is out on Friday and songs like The Way You Use to Do, external, have already become fan favourites.

The band played a barnstorming 'secret' performance at Reading and Leeds at the weekend and singer Josh Homme and Mark have been speaking to Newsbeat about the unusual collaboration.

Halsey turns outlaw in the new video in the promo for Bad At Love.

Its a continuation of her Romeo and Juliet styled Now or Never video and sees the the 22-year-old American singer swapping a motorbike for an open top car and a bunch of her friends as she bemoans her previous relationships.

You can also check out her live performance of the song at last weekend's Reading festival, it does come with a language warning though.

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In a roundabout way...

The early years of the definitive NYC band of the millennium are the subject of a new photo book coming out in October.

The Strokes: The First Ten Years uses shots taken by photographer Cody Smyth and features colour and black and white images of the band "in public and in private.”

It also features an introduction by legendary British rock photographer Mick Rock.

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Composer Alf Clausen, a two-time Emmy winner has been fired from TV show The Simpsons after 27 years.

He composed some of the most beloved songs from the shows back catalogue including The Stonecutters' We Do, external and We Put The Spring in Springfield, external.

Speaking to Variety, Alf said he received a call from Simpsons producer Richard Sakai that the company was seeking “a different kind of music”.

It's been speculated his sacking was part of cost-cutting measures, as the composer used a 35-piece orchestra every week which costs millions of dollars per year.

Fox have not commented.

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If you didn't catch it last night, then you can now listen again to 6 Music's Mary Anne Hobbs hosting a listening party for the new Mogwai album Every Country's Sun which is due out on Friday.

The Glasgow post-rocker's new album has been described as "56 concise minutes of gracious elegance, hymnal trance-rock and transcendental euphoria".

Frontman Stuart Braithwaite said ahead of the ninth album's release: "I think we're really lucky that people have stuck by us and we've tried different things, people have been quite trusting in what we've done over the years."

The reactions below have been positive so far...

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Kanye's dispute with Lloyd's of London over his cancelled 2016 US tour has taken another turn as the insurance firm is counter-suing Kanye West, after he filed legal papers against them earlier this month.

He cut the tour shot and spent time in hospital in the States, suffering from exhaustion.

Kanye's lawyers had said insurers were refusing to pay out, saying they were claiming his marijuana habit was the cause of the cancellation and filed a legal action for $10m (£7.7m).

Now, Lloyd's says there are "substantial irregularities" in the his medical history, and said it does not owe him a penny.

An independent medical examiner confirmed Kanye was unable to continue with the tour, but Lloyd's want "further relief" and have demanded a trial by jury.

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U2 have shared another prime example of their own brand of stadium rock with a thumping new track The Blackout, which premiered around Wednesday tea-time.

The band posted an arty-looking live video on their social media accounts, external.

The video was apparently filmed during the European leg of the band's 30th anniversary Joshua Tree tour at Amsterdam's Westerunie venue in July.

The Blackout is from U2's forthcoming Songs of Experience album.

BBC music reporter Mark Savage said: "U2 have been busy touring their 1987 classic The Joshua Tree this summer, and some of that album’s magic seems to have rubbed off on their new song. Recorded live in Amsterdam, The Blackout finds the band sounding more vital and forceful than they have since releasing Vertigo way back in 2004.

His overall message – “we can find light in the darkness” – is more platitude than polemic; but maybe that’s where the Bono of 2017 differs from the angry young man who wrote Sunday, Bloody Sunday or The Joshua Tree’s Bullet The Blue Sky. He’s called the new U2 album Songs of Experience, after all.

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And welcome back to another day that is fit to burst with the best in music news.

We have the return of U2 with a new song The Blackout and if that is not to your particular taste we have new music from Paloma Faith, Courtney Barnett (above) and Kurt Vile, plus a new video from Halsey and an exclusive listen to the entire new Mogwai album courtesy of 6 Music.

Some legal problems are a-brewing for Kanye West and Public Enemy, The Simpsons lose a musical genius, a new book captures the early years of The Strokes and Pink Floyd look set to surpass David Bowie as London's most visited music exhibition.