OK, that's your lot for today folks

Scroll down for bad news from Posh Spice, bad news for Josh Homme (naughty boy) and good vibes from Jay-Z.

Plus Q magazine names its best album of 2017, Reggie Yates says sorry after making controversial comments about music managers and Gwen Stefani turns on New York's Christmas lights.

Royal Blood fans have also been warned against filming at gigs, for their own sake and in Newbie Tuesday #3 we introduce a group of new grunge girls with riffs to spare.

Check it out.

Speaking of riffs we'll leave you with an absolute classic from last week's Radio 2 In Concert show with Deep Purple.

Air guitars at the ready...

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Ed, Dua, Rita Ora, Craig David and James Arthur will all make their way to the Top of the Pops studio this festive period for a Christmas and New Year special on BBC One.

Fearne Cotton and Reggie Yates will present the one-hour specials which will also feature artists including James Arthur, Craig David, Bastille and Paloma Faith.

Perfect for that post-Christmas dinner veg out.

Fluorescent adolescent Alma made her live lounge debut this afternoon.

You have to go big or go home in the LL and so the 21-year-old Finish singer-songwriter went for Zayn and Sia's Dusk Til Dawn.

Check it above.

The Lounge was on fire though as she also joined forces with London singer Raye on her own track Phases.

Here Raye plays the rapping role of French Montana.

You can check a bit of that above too and the full performance will be up on the Radio 1 YouTube channel soon.

The singer literally lit up the Empire State Building last night.

The 48-year-old Californian took the opportunity while spreading festive joy over on the east coast to plug her new single You Make It Feel Like Christmas too.

Check it out below.

Sorry to be like The Grinch again but we just can't get into the Christmas vibe until 1 December.

We'll be well in the mood by then, No Doubt.

That said, as Christmas lights go, the NYC ones always do look particularly epic.

Oh well, only 34 more sleeps....😬😬😬

BBC Newsbeat

Royal Blood's manager has warned fans against filming at their shows after a number of thefts during the band's UK tour.

The group's manager, Ian McAndrew, tells Newsbeat that recording at concerts could make fans a target for thieves.

A man was arrested after Royal Blood's Birmingham gig, accused of taking 53 phones.

"They operate on the floors, not generally the seated areas," Ian told Newsbeat.

"It tends to be around the mosh pits of shows, the more crowded and compact areas. That's where people need to be most vigilant."

Read more.

BBC star Reggie Yates has apologised for using the phrase "fat Jewish guy" in a recent podcast.

In the interview, he said: "The thing that makes it great about this new generation of (music) artists is that they ain't signing to majors.

"They're independent, they're not managed by some random fat Jewish guy from north west London, they're managed by their brethren."

Yates said in a statement: "I'm hugely apologetic for this flippant comment."

He was speaking to DJ Chuckie Lothian in an episode of Halfcast Podcast, which was recently shared on SoundCloud.

Read more.

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Ed Sheeran, Stormzy and Rag N Bone Man have all received multiple nominations for this year's BBC Music Awards.

They are all in the running for artist of the year and album of the year, alongside the likes of Dua Lipa and Harry Styles.

Unlike previous years, there will be no awards ceremony. Instead prizes will be handed out during a BBC Two programme reviewing the best music of the year.

Rag N Bone Man will also perform on the show, which will be filmed before a studio audience.

Strictly Come Dancing's Claudia Winkleman will host the show alongside Radio 1's Clara Amfo on 8 December.

Read more.

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Music News LIVE reporter

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Back in the early 90s, Nirvana's Kurt Cobain declared their brand of grunge rock to be a rejection of the prevailing US football jock culture.

Remember the ironic cheerleader-filled sports hall video for Smells Like Teen Spirit, external, anyone?

Well now, 25 years on, are the cheerleaders finally about to get their rock 'n' roll revenge?

New UK grunge trio Hey Charlie are out to prove that girls wearing matching mini skirts, T-shirts and college sports jackets can still rock as hard as Kurt - or anyone else for that matter.

Their Humbug era Arctic Monkeys-sounding track She Looks Like a Dreamer contains the lyrics:

"Girls can be pretty / Girls can be cute / But don't [mess] with them because they'll...[mess] with you".

Got it?

Singer and bassist Sophie told us: "We're trying to break the stereotypes of a 'rock musician'.

"The lyrics to that song pretty much sum up our thoughts in terms of how girls dress and act.

We can't bring you that one, due to the "powerful" language contained within but you can find it on their YouTube channel.

Instead here are the girls - who first emerged through BBC Introducing Shropshire - re-affirming their ability to do "what we want, when we want" in the title-track to their EP Young & Lonesome...

The now London-based rockers performed their first ever headline show last week in their new home city, having just finished supporting All Time Low on their first ever tour., external

"We had a lot of fun. It was a bit different, but sort of better as everyone was there to see us!", jokes Sophie.

They were invited to traverse Europe with the Baltimore rockers after they selected the girls' track Hey on their Radio 1 Artist Takeover playlist.

Singer Alex even surprised the band by joining them on stage one night, clad in full Hey Charlie outfit, for their sing along cover of Wheatus's Teenage Dirtbag.

Not a bad start then, for the band who have been going for only a year.

"We were playing 5,000 capacity venues the first time our parents had ever seen us play!"

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Sophie plays alongside guitarist/singer Lizz and the final piece of the Charlie jigsaw; drummer/singer Lauren.

So far they've been determined to make the band work on their own terms.

"We had this vision for the band; three girls, matching outfits - and we wanted to make it happen.

"I remember Reading and Leeds Festivals got a lot of flack about a lack of female acts and that was at the stage when we were still forming a girl band.

"So that was a driving force."

She added: "It's more difficult for women or young girls making in it in a male dominated industry. But there have been those acts like the Runaways and Joan Jett who were inspiring for us.

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"We found that going round Europe, loads of young girls came up to us saying 'oh my God, we loved your set...I play bass, I play guitar, I want to start a girl band now!'

"So that's important for us to inspire young girls and just young people to pick up their instruments and just do it."

Whatever you may have read today on here about the Spice Girls "not happening" again anytime soon...rest assured that girl power is still very much in bloom, external.

Read more: Newbie Tuesday #2 Matt Maltese.

BBC Radio 1

That's not us being smug about a prediciton.

That's the name of the track from the LA-based R&B singer.

DJ Annie Mac describes him as a "gentle calm dude" with a "voice like velvet".

The track is taken from his terribly named album War & Leisure (sorry Miguel but those two things do not go together well), which is out on Friday.

Listen above.

Billboard magazine

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If you tried (and like Justin Bieber, failed) to sing along to the Spanish verses in the hit of the summer, then you might want to look away now.

The song is due for a Spanish/Mandarin makeover courtesy of Luis Fonsi and Singaporean artist JJ Lin.

They've reorded the new version for the lucrative Chinese market, where the original has not been released.

In the new cut, Fonsi sings in Mandarin, and Lin sings in Spanish and it's due to premiere later today.

Lin told Billboard “I had immense fun... Music breaks all boundaries in a most pleasant way. I see this collaboration as a cultural bridge, as well as a tribute to a generation of free people.”

The song scooped a hatful of Latin Grammys at the weekend.

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Pitchfork

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The Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne certainly does.

He's designed his own wrapping paper in order to help raise money for a homeless charity in his hometown of Oklahoma City, as local paper The Oklahoman, external reports.

Check out the singer's psychedelic design below.

Suitably colourful for Wayne as anyone who has ever seen the band live before will know.

All proceeds go towards the Oklahoma City street paper Curbside Chronicle and their Wrap Up Homelessness, external initiative.

Top work Wayne.

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She's already had the biggest selling album of the year in the US but Tay Tay's reign at the top of the UK chart could come to an... ahem... swift end on Friday.

New mama Paloma Faith is leading the chart at the midpoint this week with her new album The Architect.

It's around 4,000 combined chart sales over nearest rival, Morrissey's Low In High School at number two. But will his recent controversial comments stop his sales in their tracks?

Number three is Britain's Got Talent winner Tokio Myers with Sam Smith’s The Thrill Of It All at four and Jeff Lynn’s ELO at five.

BBC 6 Music

A big MNL happy birthday goes out to Icelandic maverick Bjork, who is 52 today.

Her new album Utopia is out on Friday and she's been chatting to 6 Music's Lauren Laverne about her own musical loves.

The birthday girl said: "I’m in love with Kelela, I think she’s incredible on every level. I love Serpent With Feet, I like him a lot. Anohni, I think she’s genius. I mean, I like a composer called Jurg Frey, who’s from Switzerland. I love Rihanna, she’s the best.”

Listen above to some of Bjork's recommendations.

And while you're at it here's ten things we learned about Björk from her chat with Lauren which you can listen into now.

Q Magazine

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The rapper formerly known as K-Dot has pulled off a shock by topping the list of the usually guitar-heavy Q Magazine's album of the year poll.

His album Damn is "beyond even Jay-Z's reach" according the music mag. And after everything Jay has done for America too (scroll down)...

Stay humble now Kenny.

Rough Trade recently went for Aldous Harding's Party as their #1 album of 2017 but she doesn't even make Q's top ten.

Q editor Ted Kessler said, in this month's edition: "...the top ten makes a good case for us all living through a golden age. Just look at that top three!

"Wolf Alice cementing their place as Britain's most dynamic young band, LCD Soundsystem back from the dead but as good as new (maybe better even), and the greatest rapper alive Kendrick Lamar continues to raise the bar beyond even Jay Z's reach.

"2018 has a lot to live up to."

Confusingly Gorillaz album Humanz, which won best album at the recent Q Awards, just makes the top five.

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Q Magazine's top 10 albums of 2017:

1. Kendrick Lamar - Damn

2. LCD Soundsystem - American Dream

3. Wolf Alice - Visions Of A Life

4. Lorde - 'Melodrama'

5. Gorillaz - 'Humanz'

6. St. Vincent - Masseduction

7. Father John Misty - Pure Comedy

8. Baxter Dury - Prince Of Tears

9. Queens Of The Stone Age - Villains

10. The National - Sleep Well Beast

Manchester Evening News

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Queens of the Stone hero Josh Homme made himself the villain of the piece this week after pictures emerged of him sparking up a cigarette on stage at the Manchester Arena on Sunday night.

Josh we love your new album - but it's not big and it's not clever.

According to the Manchester Evening News, external, the frontman admitted to the crowd that he was "a little drunk" on stage. Now he could be hit with a fine to go with yesterday's potential hangover headache.

The MEN says the venue - who could in theory lose their license after smoking indoors was banned in England in 2007 - has reported the issue to Homme's management.

We doubt that Abby (below) meant to dob Josh in but you can see the star enjoying a crafty fag.

In a statement, the Arena said: “It is very disappointing and regrettable that the artist chose to smoke on stage during their performance in Manchester.

"This was an individual decision taken by the artist, despite us making it very clear to their management that it is illegal to smoke in any area of the arena.

"We are extremely vigilant in ensuring our venue remains a no-smoking environment and our extensive front of house ‘no smoking’ signage is duplicated throughout our backstage area.”

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Sorry, fans of 90s Girl Power, Victoria Beckham has firmly shut the door on the reported anniversary reunion album and tour.

Speaking to This Morning on Monday, external, the designer-formerly-known as Posh said: “It is not happening. At some point you’ve gotta know when it’s time.

"Girl Power will always be out there and is something that we all still believe. What I do now is still all about girl power, but it’s empowering women through power.

"I don’t think I’ll be slipping into a PVC catsuit anytime soon."

Just for you - here's a little blast from the past (featuring the PVC catsuit)

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Jay-Z's 4:44 album tour arrived in Cleveland on Sunday night and as well as banging tunes it came with the now standard motivational speech from Jigga.

At previous gigs on the tour, he's addressed the issue of social injustice in the States regarding black rights protests in the NFL.

Now, some fan-shot footage has emerged of him giving some motivational advice to a nine-year-old girl in the crowd.

"You can be anything you want to be in this world," said the second richest rapper in the world.

"At this very moment, America is way more sexist than they are racist, but you young lady, you got the potential to be the next president of the United States, you believe that.”

"You understand? OK."

Check out some fan-shot footage of the American dream in action (below).

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Welcome back to Music News LIVE.

Today on the show (well page - but show sounds cooler)...

Jay-Z has an inspirational message for a young fan, there's no smoke without fire for Josh Homme in Manchester and Posh Spice says what she really really wants to happen regarding the rumoured Spice Girls reunion.

Q magazine names its best album of 2017, presenter Reggie Yates says sorry for controversial comments about music managers, Gwen Stefani turns on the Empire State Building Christmas lights and Royal Blood fans have been warned against filming at gigs.

Plus we'll tell you why Flaming Lips man Wayne Coyne is getting all wrapped up for Christmas.

Later on we'll bring you #3 in our new feature Newbie Tuesday, where we take a look at some exciting new acts.

Who will we hang a new name on today?