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Scroll down for items that did make it in time, including Aerosmith's dilapidated van re-appearing in someone's garden, Rita Ora signing to Kate Moss's modelling agency and Drake passing 50 billion streams.

Plus a new Cher-meets-Abba sample, Idles in session and changes on the way for Radio 1 and 6 Music. All that and lots more.

We'll leave you with the full-length version of Cher's cover of Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!, which we teased earlier; and features on her album of Abba covers called Dancing Queen.

It's due out on 28 September, so glitter balls at the ready.

See you tomorrow for New Music Friday.

It's been seven years since the band, led by charismatic frontman Eddie Argos, released new music.

Wham! Bang! Pow! Let’s Rock Out! is the first single from the group’s upcoming album due in the autumn.

Eddie explained the band's seven year hiatus:

“I moved to Berlin, I nearly died with Peritonitis. I was in a hospital for a bit. I had a son, I had a relationship that broke up. I wrote a comic, a memoir, a musical, and had a one man show.”

Listen above to the new track.

More new music for you now courtesy of a collab between Danish electro-pop star MØ and US DJ Diplo.

The new video finds the Dane struggling to shield her eyes from the sun aboard a big old fishing ship. Eventually, she goes below deck for a snog instead which seems like a sensible short term solution.

Her second album, Forever Neverland, is out in October and the singer says the inspiration for the video came from "Peter Pan and the lost boys - sailing instead of flying - setting out for distant shores in hopes of finding and living out their dreams.

"Collectively they are rejecting the harsh reality of the lives and the world they used to live in" she added.

Follow your own dreams by clicking play above.

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The singer has just tweeted the news, adding: "I hate to disappoint my fans & apologise for any inconvenience caused".

She was due to play Haydock Park Racecourse in Merseyside on Friday night and Lingfield Racecourse in Surrey on Saturday night.

She is due to resume her lives show at Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh on 17 August.

"I do hope to continue my tour once recovered & look forward to seeing you in the future," she said.

The family of the Soweto-born musician say he died of a seizure in Johannesburg on Wednesday evening.

ProKid, whose real name was Linda Mkhize, is survived by his wife, Ayanda, and their three-year-old daughter, as well as his parents and two brothers, says the Sowetan Live news site, external.

One of his best-loved songs, 2012's Makasana, spoke of coming from a township.

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Bristol punks Idles got the nod for album of the year by 6 Music DJ Steve Lamacq back in 2017, for their debut Brutalism.

Fair to say he's a believer.

"I didn't know I was looking for this band until I found them", said Lammo.

Ahead of the launch of their follow-up record, Joy as an Act of Resistance - out later this month - the lads popped in for a chinwag and a live session yesterday evening.

Listen below from two hours in.

The US duo join a fire-breathing cult in the new music video for their latest track.

Levitate is taken from their forthcoming album Trench, which is out in October.

Apparently You can levitate too with just a little help, according to frontman Tyler Joseph

Watch above.

If you are thinking about attempting it then please try and take off from the ground first.

Scots brothers Craig and Charlie Reid have been speaking to 5 Live about their latest album Angry Cyclist

Calling the current political situation "as exciting" as the 1960s, they said they “wonder at the lack of political writing in mainstream pop”.

Craig Reid said he thought it was because "the internet allows an outlet for your views ... people think: 'what’s the point in music?'”.

Watch above.

Earlier we told you how the US rock band's former tour bus had wound up in some lucky/unlucky soul's back garden in Massachusetts.

Last year, their farewell tour was cut short for health reasons but there was a suggestion it would resume at some point. If and when it does we're sure that Steven, Joe and the lads will travel in much more comfortable surroundings.

Our #TBT today then takes us back to 2004, when the Bad Boys from Boston covered the Big Joe Williams blues number, Baby Please Don't Go, for their 14th studio album Honkin' on Bobo.

In fact the band were reminiscing about it only last night as it happens, which was handy.

Check it above with your air guitars at the ready.

As long as you're not driving or operating heavy machinery then you may want to sit back with your eyes closed for this video.

It's from Friday night's Folk Music Prom and features Julie Fowlis, The Unthanks and Sam Lee, alongside the BBC Concert Orchestra.

The track is a traditional folk song from Shetland and Orkney.

To be honest, we lost most of the lyrics as they're sung in Gaelic but when the music is this lovely...

Liela Moss has announced that she's to release her debut solo album, My Name is Safe in Your Mouth, in November.

The singer released five albums with her London rock band The Duke Spirit.

The announcement comes with a psychedelic new music video for first offering, Wild Fire, which is full of late summer hippy vibes

Check it above.

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The 28-year-old Russian-German producer/DJ may well have a point (below) about the shower gel but does it really require a tweet?

Our newsfeeds are pretty overcrowded as it is.

Then again, hotels can be confusing places.

Remember we told you about that Dave Grohl 23-minute long instrumental track?

It was recorded as part of a new mini-documentary called Play, in which Dave encourages music fans to learn an instrument - by playing roughly seven himself.

Well, it's now in BBC iPlayer.

You can watch it here though we should warn there are a few rockworthy curse words which pop out every so often.

Fun fact: Dave recorded pretty much all of the Foo Fighters' self-titled 1995 debut album himself.

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Freya Ridings has been all over Radio 1 this week after her track Lost Without You was selected by Scott Mills as his tune of the week.

Prior to that she was all over Love Island too, with all three of the 23-year-old singer-songwriter's opening singles having helped to soundtrack 'totes emosh' scenes in the popular ITV2 reality show.

Now, Freya's moving across America, playing major festivals and headline shows for the first time ahead of her biggest UK tour to date in October.

Not bad for somebody who was written off as a musical no-hoper as a kid, due to her severe dyslexia.

"At school I was really heavily dyslexic, so I really struggled academically with reading and writing," she explains.

"At the age of 11, I did my first open mic show, and it was one of those lightning-bolt moments where I suddenly found what I wanted to do."

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Spiritualized's Jason Pierce has been telling 6 Music's Clare Crane all about his forthcoming album, And Nothing Hurt.

The singer-songwriter said he intended to make "the perfect tape for a road trip"

It's their first new album in six years, since 2012's Sweet Heart Sweet Light.

Listen above as Jason discusses the ideas behind the record, the lyrics and whether or not (as he's previously hinted) this is the final chapter of the band.

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Ray was the first unsigned winner of the annual BBC Music poll at the tail end of 2016

She recently signed a deal with Island Records and has now shared Run Run

The song addresses knife and gun crime with a video directed by Tom Green, known for working on the E4 series Misfits, making his debut as a music video director.

“It was such an emotional experience making this video," said Ray.

"The scenarios became so real and at some points hard to watch and listen to, there were tears on set... I’m so proud of what we’ve made.”

You can check it out below though we should warn there is some potentially upsetting imagery in the video.

Ray recently announced her first headline show of 2017 at the Forum in Kentish Town, north London on 3 October and will support Rudimental on their UK tour.

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Lauren Laverne is to replace Shaun Keaveny on BBC 6 Music's breakfast show, it has been announced.

The presenter, formerly a singer in the Britpop band Kenickie, will make the move in January 2019, the station said.

"Some news guys, breakfast means breakfast," said Laverne, external in a tweet announcing the shake-up.

Keaveny and his co-presenter Matt Everitt will move to the afternoon, taking the slot currently occupied by Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie.

Keaveney tweeted he was "happy-sad".

Radcliffe and Maconie will move to weekend breakfast, while Mary Anne Hobbs gets promoted to weekday mid-mornings.

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The dilapidated old vehicle was discovered during the filming of the TV reality series American Pickers.

The 1964 International Harvester Metro, with a hand-painted band name and weird dancing hippy on its side, had spent decades rusting in a woodland property in Massachusetts.

Hosts Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz were told that the vehicle was already there when the current property owner took possession.

Finders keepers then.

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It's provenance was apparently confirmed by the band's co-founding guitarist Ray Tabano, who was replaced in 1971.

"It’s been like 40 years since we’ve been in this thing,” he said.

“We’d drive from Boston up to New Hampshire for $125 [show fee],” he added.

“Then after the gas, the tolls, and the food and back, we’d make like $3 apiece."

Ray didn't say who was in charge of parking the thing.

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US rappers Travis Scott and Post Malone will perform at this year's MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) in New York City.

They'll join previously announced performers like Shawn Mendes, Ariana Grande, Logic and this year’s video vanguard winner, Jennifer Lopez

According to Rolling Stone, external, Scott will perform a medley of tunes from his new album, Astroworld and Malone will do likewise from his latest record Beerbongs & Bentleys.

Cardi B leads the nominations at the Radio City Music Hall event later this month, with ten.

The Carters - aka Beyonce and Jay-Z - have eight, while Childish Gambino and Drake have seven.

Billboard magazine

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If you needed more proof the Canadian rapper is the reigning king of the music world...

Drake has become the first artist to pass 50 billion streams, according to his label Universal.

In My Feelings has spent four weeks at the top of the US Billboard chart (and three at the top of the UK chart) while his double-length album Scorpion has topped the chart for five weeks.

The LP became the first album to hit one billion streams globally in a single week and Drizzy also broke Spotify and Apple Music's single-day streaming record.

He's also coming after Taylor Swift and is apparently close to beating her record for the most times atop the Billboard top 100.

And he has the cheek to rap about being upset. Really Drake. Really?