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Scroll down for Jurassic Park actor Jeff Goldblum on the joys of his debut jazz album, Pink announces a European tour and Eminem performs atop the Empire State Building.

Plus a Newbie Tuesday artist that developed his electronic psych rock in a St Helens library and a trippy new claymation video from a Grammy-winning pop rock band.

We'll leave you with the another new music video from Editors, taken from their latest album Violence.

See you tomorrow.

With festival season now over for another year all thoughts turn to... well... festivals next year of course.

Pays to be prepared.

The Cure performed their only UK gig of this year at London's Hyde Park to mark their 40th anniversary alongside the likes of Interpol.

Now they'll headline Exit Festival in Serbia in July 2019.

So for those of you who like your festivals with a more Balkan flavour, now you know...

The Grammy-winners have shared the video for their latest single Tidal Wave, which ses the band's clay avatars perform in what looks like a sewer.

It was made by British animator Lee Hardcastle and we imagine the painstaking process went something like this, external.

Just a tiny amount.

Check out the gooey delights above.

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Love It If We Made It is set to appear on The 1975's third album A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships, which is out next month.

The video shows images of a whole host of controversial figures and topical news stories including the Grenfell fire tragedy, US Supreme Court judge Brett Kavanaugh and the death of Eric Garner, as well as Lil Peep, Kanye West (and his pal Donald Trump), war in Syria and Harvey Weinstein.

All of this is going on while a technicolor silhouette of Matty Healy and the boys is shown playing the track.

There's also a nod to the #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter movements.

We can't bring you the video directly as we're not allowed gratuitous bad language or graphic images on the BBC but you can find it online.

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The rock singer and wife of the late Kurt Cobain has joined forces with the Rockin' 1,000 to re-record her band Hole's track Celebrity Skin.

The R1,000, as we call them, are the mass band of musicians who recorded a cover version of the Foos' Learn to Fly to persuade the band to play in their town in Italy.

“The first time I saw the Rockin’1000 video, I thought, ‘I want to do that!'," said Love.

“The sight and sound of a thousand musicians connecting with their audience in this open, transcultural way was incredible."

You'll have to watch it on her YouTube channel though as she uses some offensive language.

Jools Holland has another star-studded lineup for you all this evening, whatever your musical preferences.

Norwegian rising star Sigrid is back and she's shared some soundcheck scenes above.

Also on the show will be new album man Paul Weller, Jacob Banks and Villagers.

Click play below to see who else is on the show and tune into BBC Two tonight from 22:00 BST.

Big Jet Plane is taken from the Glasgow band's 1994 record Give Out But Don’t Give Up, which has been stripped-back and re-released as The Original Memphis Recordings.

Frontman Bobby Gillespie declared in a statement: “In 1993 Primal Scream went to Memphis to make an album with Tom Dowd and the Muscle Shoals rhythm section, that album never saw the light of day, until now.”

Check out the new version of track five on the record, along with some retro mid-90s archive footage.

This was back in the days when any self-respecting rock 'n' roll band had their own jet plane.

This looks more like a two-day festival than an album line up but the east London dance band have shared the full guestlist for their forthcoming third album Toast To Our Differences.

These Days, which featured Jess Glyne, Macklemore & Dan Caplen is currently the UK's biggest-selling record of 2018.

Click above for the rest of the squad.

The album's out in January.

Paul Glynn
Music News LIVE reporter

Image source, TVAM

Buried deep within the libraries of England, down the years, some creative gems have been unearthed.

In the late 19th Century, Lewis Carroll worked as a sub-librarian at Christ Church College in Oxford before penning his masterpiece novel Alice in Wonderland.

From 1955 onwards, poet Philip Larkin stuck it out in the Brynmor Jones Library in Hull for most of his career, while also knocking out literary works such as The Whitsun Weddings.

In 2018, Joe Oxley (above), the man behind electro psych rock outfit TVAM, spends his days working as a systems support manager for St Helens Library Services.

"I've never been compared to those before!" he jokes, "so you'll have to give me a minute."

Joe from nearby Wigan drops his band's debut album, Psychic Data, on Friday and agrees the quiet, reflective and academic nature of the library setting provides the perfect conditions for creative ideas to flourish.

"I think that libraries draw a certain type of person towards them," he tells Music News LIVE, "and in many cases those people are creative and imaginative and you can see that in some of the things that libraries do.

"It touches on parts that I'm interested in. Being an archivist, preserving certain things. I think that’s interesting, especially in the footage that I look at [see the music videos below].

The northerner - who mixes electronica with folk, punk, krautrock and disco - has been backed by BBC Music Introducing in Manchester and Merseyside, drawing comparisons to Tame Impala's Kevin Parker for the way he records all the music himself.

In truth, his major influences are My Bloody Valentine and Suicide, though as he notes himself there are a fair few reference points in between.

TVAM will expand to a two-piece for some upcoming gigs over the next few months but Joe admits he may have to recruit a full band soon, for two main reasons:

1. To recreate his layered sound live (vocals, guitars, drums, synthesizers, sequencers and visuals)
2. To help carry some of the equipment

"You’ve seen right through me haven’t you?," he laughs.

"I’ve been playing in bands for a long while really. TVAM has been me for the past two or three years and it’s the first time I've done a solo project.

"I’m interested to see how it would be with a live band, there’s parts of it that I miss so the opportunity to put a band together seems quite appealing right now."

He adds: "It's been interesting to see the difference between being in a band and being solo.

"The workload and the actual weight of equipment and you being the one to cart all your stuff into a gig! That’s certainly changed.

The lyrics on Psychic Data, which was mixed by Dean Honer (The Moonlandingz) come from that frightening place where real life and science fiction collide.

"I've always been a bit of nerd in that regard," admits Joe.

"It just so happens that we live in an era where sci-fi and the real world seem so much entwined as this nightmare dystopia unfolds before us.

But has he heard those very same lyrics sung back at him yet through the radio, as he works away in the library back room?

"Yes. Too often.

"It is awkward but I'm getting more comfortable with it. It’s something that I'm growing to be OK with and I take comfort in the fact that I do have a life outside of work and it's alright for people to recognise that.

"Lauren Laverne (BBC Radio 6 Music DJ) has been an amazing supporter and I'm really grateful but she’s always quite happy to tell everyone my real name and where I’m from so it's difficult to play it down.

"What's the point of a pseudonym if everyone knows my name!"

He may be keeping quiet as a mouse in the library for now but Joe and whoever he recruits are set to make a big noise on the alternative music scene very soon.

Psychic Data by TVAM is out on Friday 19 October

Read more: Newbie Tuesday #48 - Why Novo Amor wants to delete his G N' R cover version

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The British soul singer will belt out some Stevie Wonder classics live from the London Palladium next month as part of Radio 2’s Friday Night Is Music Night.

Backed by a 24-piece orchestra, former Keane singer Tom Chaplin will take the stage to perform the songs of Queen, while Grammy-winning soul star Peabo Bryson, will pay homage to Barry White.

The concerts are being recorded for broadcast in January 2019.

Beverley called Stevie "one of my lifelong idols," adding she is "counting down the days”.

• 7 November - Tom Chaplin performs the songs of Queen
• 21 November - Peabo Bryson performs the songs of Barry White
• 22 November - Beverley Knight performs the songs of Stevie Wonder

Tickets go on sale at 09:00 BST on Friday 12 October.

They're coming home / They're coming home / They're coming...

The Stockport band will play the town's Edgely Park football ground - home of Stockport County - on 22 June.

The news was broken to them on the hallowed turf itself by the matchday announcer - bass player Charlie Salt's "crazy grandad".

He revealed to the lads that an "an all-star Northern lineup" of The Coral, Cabbage, The Blinders and Fuzzy Sun will join them on the day.

Tickets go on sale on Friday.

The lads performed at another (slightly larger) football ground, Old Trafford, on Saturday ahead of the Super League Grand Final.

Drummer Joe Donovan proudly and perhaps bravely displaying his Manchester City FC logo on his kit while performing at the home of bitter rivals United.

All is fair in love and war and football and music.

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The band have hit back at their disgruntled former guitarist/singer, after he decided to sue them for loss of earnings on their current tour.

Buckingham was given the (Fleetwood) sack earlier this year and replaced on live dates by Mike Campbell and Neil Finn.

Now, Buckingham, who alleges the band's manager said fellow singer Stevie Nicks (above) "never wants to be on a stage with you again," wants his share of tour income, which is thought to be at least $12m (£9.1m).

Band spokesperson Kristen Foster said in a statement, external: "Fleetwood Mac looks forward to their day in court".

We haven't heard the last of this one.

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Director Luca Guadagnino, who who made the acclaimed Call Me By Your Name, has said in an interview he is working on a film inspired by Bob Dylan‘s 1975 album Blood on the Tracks.

He told, external the New Yorker he was approached by a producer who owned the “theatrical rights” to the record.

According to the article, the screenplay follows “characters through a multiyear story, set in the seventies” that draws on the album’s “central themes.”

Blood on the Tracks is often referred to as one of the great 'break-up albums' though Bob Dylan has previously denied that the record is autobiographical.

Check him out performing album opener, Tangled Up in Blue, below.

Guadagnino is just about to release his remake of the Italian horror Suspiria, which has a score composed by Radiohead's Thom Yorke.

James Cordon better watch his back, there's a new king of in-car comedy in the waiting.

"I never use GPS... I say always leave thing up to Chance," the rapper tells an unsuspecting passenger in a new video to announce ride-sharing app Lyft's partnership with his New Chance Fund, external charity.

Chance even feigns being a poor freestyler over the course of his rides as well as discussing activism, the school system and Kendrick Lamar.

Watch above.

The rapper and philanthropist has spearheaded several initiatives to help communities in his native Chicago.

Yesterday he also hinted online that he might even run for Mayor of Chicago one day...

The rapper - who is currently in Uganda, meeting dignitaries and working on new music - was due back in the States tomorrow to talk to US radio DJ Charlamagne Tha God about mental health.

The TimesTalk event, which was to be held at New York’s Town Hall, has now been sacked off as the DJ believes that Ye's input would not be entirely helpful at the present time.

Charlamagne posted the above cancellation picture alongside the following caption:

This comes after a host of confusing comments from Kanye, including an online Twitter rant this week about how social media is used for mind control.

Last week the hip hop star - who recently changed his name to Ye - declared his undying love for US President Donald Trump once again, at an official White House Meeting.

West was also supposed to drop his new album Yandhi in September but that has now been shelved until November, affording him time to visit "what is known as Africa."

While in Uganda, he and wife Kim Kardashian presented the country's leader Yoweri Museveni with a pair of his own Yeezy trainers.

"I thank Kanye for the gift of white sneakers," he said, "Enjoy your time in Uganda."

In return Mr Museveni gave both visitors Ugandan names to mark the occasion.

"Kanyesigye" for Kanye, which means "I trust" and "Kemigisha" for Kim, which means "the one with blessings from God" in the local language.

There's the name of Ye's next album right there folks, surely.

Kev Geoghegan
Arts and entertainment reporter

The Jurassic Park actor has been playing the piano since childhood but is soon to release his debut album of jazz standards with his band the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra.

It was recorded live at the Capitol Records building in Los Angeles and features vocals from the likes of Irish star Imelda May, former American Idol contestant Haley Reinhart and comedian Sarah Silverman.

Music News LIVE had a sit down with Jeff at the piano to talk about his "pure love" of music and how he got started back in Pittsburgh.

Naturally, Jeff says he expects the degree of cynicism that meets any actor who announces his musical ambitions but says, so far, people seem to be enjoying what he has to offer.

"I'm playing with people who have really put in the 40,000 hours and double and triple that.

"But I bow and sit at the feet of great musicians and I'm still trying to learn."

Listen above.

Jeff will be playing a couple of live dates with his band in London next month.

Until then check out his cover of Nina Simone's My Baby Just Cares for Me, below.

Em made a special trip up the famous New York City landmark to spit some bars for Jimmy Kimmel Live.

The top of the building was lit up brightly and a police chopper circled throughout to keep an eye on the controversial rapper.

Inside though he seemed to have the run of the place.

He stopped only for a brief comic exchange with Kimmel's sidekick and NYC tourist Guillermo Rodriguez in the lift... sorry, make that elevator.

Slim took the time to give him a few sightseeing tips for while in The Big Apple, which was good of him given that the cops were on his tail.

The track Venom is taken from his latest album Kamikaze and you can watch it all unfold above, just like the fans with camera phones on the ground.

The US pop star is bringing her Beautiful Trauma tour to our beautiful continent next June.

She'll get the UK/Ireland party started in Dublin on 18 June, then head to Cardiff, Glasgow and Liverpool, followed by two London dates at Wembley Stadium on 29 and 30 June.

The 39-year-old will be joined by Vance Joy, Kid Cut Up and Bang Bang Romeo.

She'll be well versed in the nation's football grounds by the end of this leg of the tour. In preparation, Liverpool FC - who will host Pink at Anfield - have already given the singer her own squad number to match the date.

What a signing!

Check out the full details below.

Pink UK/Ireland tour dates

18 June - Dublin, RDS Arena

20 June - Cardiff, Principality Stadium

22 June - Glasgow, Hampden Park

25 June - Liverpool, Anfield Stadium

29 June London, Wembley Stadium

30 June London, Wembley Stadium

Hey guys! Good to see you again.

Come on in and make yourselves at home - you know how it works by now.

Do what you've got to do and we'll quickly prepare some of the day's top music news stories.

Coming up:

• Eminem performs on top of the Empire State Building
• Kanye West’s talk on mental health gets cancelled
• Pink announces a huge new UK/Ireland tour
• Call Me By Your Name director plans Bob Dylan-inspired film

• A Newbie Tuesday artist directly from a St Helens library

Let's start with the hottest new record from Friendly Fires.

Heaven Let Me In is "about being comfortable in your own skin," despite having been denied entry to a club.

Easier said than done.

The track follow's Love Like Waves from earlier this year and you can check it out above.