Right then, we are out of here.

Best of luck with your A-Level results guys.

Time for us to go and find out if we passed the Music News LIVE test today. We feel our answers on Dolly Parton's children book and additions to the We Are Manchester lineup were fairly good.

The new music video posts from LCD Soundsystem, Lorde, QOTSA and Rudimental were strong - and the Bonnie Tyler entry was surely a hit.

You never can tell though. Best not to worry about it, isn't it?

Scroll down for a Throwback Thursday to end all #TBT's from 400 years ago (that's really throwing it back!) courtesy of PJ Harvey. Like Polly Jean and 6 Music we're off to the Green Man festival, so more on that tomorrow and Monday.

The big hand claps at the start of her track above go out today to everyone and anyone who tried their best with their college work/exams.

Don't stress too much about the results though and remember:

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, everything comes back around.

A preview of the forthcoming Wolf Alice tour documentary has appeared online.

The Michael Winterbottom (The Trip & 24 Hour Party People) production On The Road follows the west London band on their tour in support of debut album My Love Is Cool last year.

The real life tour diary is intertwined with a fictional love story between a made up member of the managerial team called Estelle and Joe; an equally fictitious member of the crew.

That's the fourth wall firmly smashed in.

Singer Ellie Rowsell admits to a radio journo in a moment of weakness that life on the road can be tough.

"Not really ever going home is the biggest change I suppose" she said.

"It's quite hard."

Well Ellie if you've studied harder with those A-Levels you could stop all this rock 'n' roll nonsense and get yourself a real job.

The film is coming soon but you can sneak a peak below.

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You've got the album, seen the live show, played the video game and now you can read the book as Iron Maiden launch their first ever official comic book series.

The new comic books, which see the band partner with US science fiction publishers Heavy Metal Publishing, are apparently based on their mobile role playing game, Iron Maiden: Legacy Of The Beast, where players assume the identity of their mascot Eddie.

The first of five issues will go on sale on 11 October.

Heavy Metal's Jeff Krelitz said: “As a lifelong fan of Iron Maiden, it is a privilege to publish the first official comic giving a narrative to their iconic mascot, Eddie."

Good to see that after 37 years in the showbiz spotlight, Eddie has yet resisted the lure of the surgeon's knife.

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'Lit has been a slang term meaning 'intoxicated' for over a century. More recently, it has acquired the meaning 'exciting', as well as a broader meaning along the lines of 'excellent.' - Merriam-Webster.

It's also the name of Steve Aoki's latest track, featuring Gucci Mane and T-Pain and you can watch the new video below.

Just a little warning, there are quite a lot of the swears but they have been muted.

Pink was on the Radio 1 brekkie show today talking Grimmers through her backstage routine ahead of her headline slot at V Festival this weekend.

Her main concerns these days appear to be locating her child and remembering the setlist, though she's adamant that she can still party and pull-off a memorable stage entrance.

Just don’t expect to see her flying out of a cannon anytime soon though...

We love a bit of classic dance music played by an orchestra and there's nothing better than a French orchestra playing some dance music by a French act.

Les Siècles and conductor François-Xavier Roth performed at the Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday night and closed their show with a bit of Daft Punk.

If you're feeling Lucky (massive clue), then listen above.

Don't worry this is not exam related. Hopefully you've started to get your head around that news by now, good or bad.

KP has little need for A-Level results but she still has some thumbs up news and some thumbs down news for us all today.

The good news is that Noah Cyrus, Purity Ring, Carly Rae Jepsen are joining the North America leg of Purpose tour.

Two smiley faces from us for that news.

The bad news is that some dates have been re-scheduled due to "unavoidable production delays".

Wonder if the education board would accept that as a reason for not turning up for exams. Probably not.

She wants to make sure the show is right and will now kick off her tour in Montreal on 19 September.

Anyone whose holiday plans are affected by this news can check the new list of rescheduled dates over at her website., external

Due to the confusing nature of the Instagram arrows we initially thought the bad news was that Katy had a perfume out.

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Billboard magazine

Award-winning rapper turned actress Queen Latifah is to receive an Icon award at Diddy's annual Revolt music conference in Miami in October.

Performers at the event include Lauryn Hill, SZA and 2 Chainz.

Latifah's award will list her accomplishments in music, film and TV which have won her an Emmy, Golden Globe and Grammy Award.

Diddy launched his Revolt music channel in 2013.

Don't ever say that Lorde doesn't do enough for her fans, she has just shared six new performance videos of reimagined tracks from her recent album Melodrama.

The stripped-back renditions were filmed at New York's Electric Lady Studios, where she recorded the album.

She said: "I don't really do acoustic sessions or anything, but with this record, it had roots in acoustic instruments, in live musicianship.

"I think when you start to strip a song back, you really come back to this place of where you were building it."

In the performance above, she channels her inner Kate Bush for Writer in the Dark, accompanied by her album producer Jack Antonoff and an all-female string section.

The whole series are on her Youtube channel, external.

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PJ Harvey is set to headline Green Man, external festival in Wales this Weekend.

We'll be down on site tomorrow giving you a flavour of what's going on in the Brecon Beacons and speaking to some of the artists, which we'll bring you next week on MNL.

Ahead of Polly Jean's Sunday night set, today's #TBT takes us back to Glastonbury 2016 when she read out John Donne's 400-year-old poem No Man Is an Island.

Check it above.

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Tickets for the Manchester Arena charity reopening gig - headlined by Noel Gallagher - sold out in approximately 0.07 seconds (approximately) after they went on sale this morning.

And inevitably, that's led a few people to try to sell them on for a profit - which has inevitably led lots of people to call them out.

The Arena has put out a statement urging people not to buy from touts because they might not get in.

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But they didn't do it on their own.

The London drum 'n' bass act have teamed up with Sub Focus, Chronixx & Maverick Sabre for their hot new track Trouble.

Turn this up to 11 if you got into uni today...or even if you didn't.

Don't care about the struggle / free your mind

Don't be about the trouble / seize your time.

Fitting lyrics for those planning their immediate futures today.

Listen above.

It's a big day for fans of eclipses, cruise ships, Bonnie Tyler and members of the Jonas Brothers.

Glorious news has reached us that Bonnie Tyler is going to perform her 1983 hit Total Eclipse of the Heart.

1. On a cruise ship.
2. During a total eclipse.
3. With one of the Jonas brothers.

Amazing.

The eclipse will take place on 21 August and last for around two minutes and 40 seconds.

Tyler will perform (a presumably shorter version of) the song while the eclipse is taking place.

The ship - or the Royal Caribbean's Total Eclipse Cruise - will be positioned in the path of totality for the critical moment.

Let's hope the sky will be clearer than it has been in the UK this month.

"It's going to be so exciting, it doesn't happen very often, does it?" observed Tyler when she spoke to Time magazine, external.

You're not wrong Bonnie. On average once every 375 years in any given place.

Nothing more we can say really...but Total Eclipse of the Heart.

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So he may be 40 years gone as of yesterday, but the spirit of Elvis still lives on in the body of Queen of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme.

Check him out above popping his collar and strutting his stuff in a snippet of the new video for The Way You Used To Do.

Sadly you'll have to head to Apple to watch the whole thing.

The track is taken from the LA band's new album Villains which is out on 25 August.

The Queens tour the UK and Ireland in November.

BBC Newsbeat

Spotify has removed several white supremacist bands from its service, following recent events in Charlottesville, America.

Far right supremacists staged a torch-lit rally in the Virginian city on Friday night and there were violent clashes with protesters the following day.

Earlier this week, a music news website published a list, external of 37 "white power" bands which were being streamed online.

Less than 48 hours later, Spotify announced they had removed some of the bands from its service.

The Swedish company says it is also considering taking down the other named artists on the list.

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Billboard magazine

Canadian singer Shawn Mendes delighted his NYC fans on Wednesday when he took a special guest on stage with him at Brooklyn's Barclays Center.

Billionaire busker Ed Sheeran duetted with Shawn on his song Mercy (which you can check out above).

Judging by the look of Ed's outfit, he was called in from a hectic day of sightseeing in the big apple.

We haven't seen calves that pale since that week we spent shearing sheep on Craggy Island.

"That was just as crazy for me as it was for you guys," Mendes told fans after Ed waved his goodbye and headed back to the open top bus tour of Long Island.

So like us, did you spin a bit of Elvis last night on your way home to mark the 40th anniversary of his death.

He was always on our mind yesterday.

He's been on the mind of Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood too it seems.

The guitarist, who recently revealed that he had undergone surgery for throat cancer, has been out and about plugging his new art book - entitled Ronnie Wood Artist.

He told Radio 2's Steve Wright (above) what Elvis meant to him and his memories of first hearing him on the radio.

After chatting to Steve, the 70-year-old hot-footed it over the road to be a guest on The One Show (below) and revealed that he actually once chickened out of meeting The King of rock 'n' roll.

Don't worry Ron, you're still one of the main princes.

The Rolling Stones head out on their No Filter European tour next month.

Variety

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Multi-talented US singer/musician/actress St Vincent is to direct a female-led film adaptation of Oscar Wilde's only published novel and cautionary tale to vanity; The Picture Of Dorian Gray.

The classic novel centres around Dorian; a narcissistic young man whose self-portrait ages while he remains forever young.

Now, as Variety, external reports, St Vincent - or Annie Clark as she's also known - will turn Dorian into a woman.

Her short film Birthday Party, which she directed, co-wrote and scored herself, premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival in Utah.

Carl and Pete from The Libertines once wondered, external in song format what it would be like to be Dorian Gray for the day.

Now Annie will be able to tell them.

Yesterday we told you about the huge gig which will re-open the Manchester Arena, less than four months after the terror attack which killed 22 people following an Arian Grande cocert.

The night on 9 September will be headlined by Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds and there are now some new names which have been announced by the venue.

They include Manc grime artist Bugzy Malone (pictured above), Pixie Lott and X factor winner Louisa Johnson.

They join previously announced artists like Blossoms, The Courteeners and Rick Astley.

5 live spoke to Courteeners frontman Liam Fray who said it will be "a tough gig" and an emotional one too but they were "honoured to be asked".

Listen below.

Rolling Stone magazine

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She's been entertaining generations for 50 years but now Dolly Parton is looking for a younger fanbase as she prepares to release her first ever children's album.

Titled I Believe in You, its Dolly's 44th album and is due out on 29 September.

"It just seemed like it was the time," the 71-year-old country legend told journalists at a press launch in Nashville.

"Since I'm getting so old, I'm going back into my second childhood."

The 14-strong tracklist includes the title track, described by Rolling Stone as a "confidence-building 9 to 5-style" song and the anti-bullying song Makin' Fun Ain't Funny.

"These kids, I hope they'll be fans, because a lot of them, their parents liked me, and they became their grandparents and introduced me to them," said Dolly.

"I think kids can kind of relate to me, like a Mother Goose character."

Proceeds from the records sales will go towards Dolly's Imagination Library program, which has donated 100 million books to children in need over the past 21 years.

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