Right we're off to enjoy the rest of National Relaxation Day, as should you.

Scroll down for news of an all-star tribute gig in the making for the Queen of Soul, a controversial Pearl Jam poster and Travis Scott splashing the cash on his fans.

Plus big Richard Ashcroft news, Mahalia in the Live Lounge and Bruno Mars needing the help of four acts to replace Cardi B. There is only one Cardi B after all.

We'll leave you with a taste of The Vamps covering George Ezra's summer hit in yesterday's live lounge.

See you tomorrow for her Madge-esty's 60th birthday celebrations.

Check out Maradona Riddim from the French DJ and producer.

The video stars star KidaTheGreat, who won TV talent show So You Think You Can Dance in 2016.

The sun may have gone from our shores (for now) but this is a slice of sunshine.

For those football/music nerds among you, here are a few more tunes about the beautiful game and the beautiful people who play it.

We're looking at you Zlatan.

The Midlands R&B star-in-the-making paid her first visit to the 1Xtra Live Lounge earlier today on DJ Ace's show.

"I've been waiting for this for seven years," declared the nervous singer - who has been performing since she was a kid - before ripping into her new song, I wish I missed my ex.

She then performed a cool cover of Mario Winans' Don't Wanna Know mixed in with J Cole's Kevin's Heart - make that Mahalia's Heart - for this version from the female perspective.

You can listen back to the show now from exactly two hours in.

We'll bring you the video as soon as we have it - promise - but until then check out some of the comments from people who got "the CHILLSSSS" just listening.

Yesterday, we told you N*E*R*D had signed themselves up for R + L and now the festival have finally confirmed it.

Pharrell and the boys will join returning Manchester rockers Twisted Wheel and Cambridge rapper Big Heath on the bill for the bank holiday double header.

If you're going we hope you have a festival hat ready, like Mr Heath does (above).

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The Manc grime star releases his debut album, B. Inspired on Friday, ahead of his big support slot for Liam Gallagher at the city's Old Trafford Cricket Ground.

He's been talking to Beats 1 DJ Julie Adenuga about how his tough upbringing may actually have helped his rap career, which felt like his only way out.

"I remember very clearly that I didn’t have a choice, domestic violence is a powerful thing when you witness these things as a kid," he said.

"I’m not sure if I’m even allowed to say, but there was also a point when I was attacked by people and ended up stabbed, when I was a kid, I was 11.

Bugzy performed earlier this month for Radio 1 in Ibiza and you can check that out now on the BBC iPlayer, if you don't mind the kind of language that is often overheard in club raves.

You can here more from Mr Malone tonight on Radio 1Xtra with DJ Target from 19:00 GMT.

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and former Journey frontman Steve Perry has announced his first new album since 1994.

Traces is due out on out 5 October and we have a taster in the form of the new single No Erasin' (above).

“Putting 30 years into 10 songs has certainly been an emotional experience for me," he said in a statement.

"I rediscovered my love for music. Each track represents traces of my past, but is also a hopeful look into the future."

You might know Steve from his previous work and a song (below) which a certain TV show about a US school choir breathed new life into.

We can see where the Lemon Twigs got their style.

It's National Relaxation Day today, which really should be on a Sunday if you ask us.

To mark the date, Radio 1's Annie Mac has a load of chillaxing Powerdown Playlists for your listening pleasure.

Enjoy - you deserve it.

Listen here.

The punk activist, one of the original members of the feminist protest group, has said she "escaped" Russia to travel to the Edinburgh Fringe for her new show.

Maria Alyokhina claims the Russian government banned her from leaving the country but she defied the ban to make it to Scotland's capital.

The show is a combination of electronica, theatre, documentary and protest and is called Pussy Riot: Riot Days.

The show runs until 19 August and is based on Maria's book of the same name and tells her account of the arrest, trial and imprisonment.

6 Music's Clare Crane has been speaking to Maria to find out more.

The D'Addario brothers from Long Island, New York are back with a lyric video for their new track The Fire.

It's taken from their forthcoming second album, Go To School, and is about Shane, a chimpanzee raised as a human boy. who takes revenge against his bullies.

As befitting of anyone who knows the band, there is a broad range of musical styles on the go in a single song.

Listen above.

The Verve frontman has announced he'll release his fifth solo album, Natural Rebel, on 19 October.

Describing the record, the 46-year-old said: “With experience comes knowledge and for me this is my strongest set of songs to date.

"All my favourite sounds distilled into something that will hopefully give my fans lasting pleasure. It is for them. Music is power.”

If that statement is true then it will be one helluva record.

Ashcroft who, this summer, supported The Rolling Stones at Old Trafford and then made a surprise acoustic guest appearance at Liam Gallagher's Finsbury Park show, will also play the following new tour dates:

Glasgow Barrowlands - 26 October

Middlesborough Town Hall - 28 October

Nottingham Rock City - 29 October

Manchester Albert Hall - 31 October

Kentish Town Forum, London - 2 November

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America's hottest new rapper and new baby mama pulled out of supporting Bruno on his 24K Magic US tour as she was not yet ready to return to the stage following the birth of her daughter Kulture.

The Hawaiian pop star has named not one, not two, not even three, but FOUR acts who will try to fill Cardi's shoes.

Ciara, Boyz II Men, Charlie Wilson and rising British star Ella Mai will now provide the support.

Bruno has posted a homemade singalong video announcement on his Instagram which is pretty funny but does contain a swear word so you'll have to find it for yourself.

Sorry folks, we don't make the rules and as you know Bruno and Cardi are all about breaking them.

Please accept this Boyz II Men banger instead, thanks.

Sam Fender's poignant new single, Dead Boys, was given the Annie Mac treatment last night.

"It's a darker one," said Sam.

"It's a song about male suicide and about my personal experience of that.

"I lost some people close to me."

Listen above.

The young Geordie rocker - and former Newbie Tuesday artist - has also just announced a new UK tour and you can check out the details below.

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To mark its 50th Anniversary, The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society is being reissued by BMG in October.

The concept album which documents life around a fictional village green cemented frontman Sir Ray Davies reputation as one of Britain's greatest ever pop songwriters.

The album's commentary on British life inspired bands like The Clash, The Smiths, Blur and The Libertines.

While it's now regarded as a classic, on its release in 1968, it sold just 100,000 copies worldwide.

"That would be the gold record nowadays" joked Sir Ray, who has been speaking to 6 Music about its release and how attitudes to the record have changed.

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In fact, make that Carnival.

Kanye recorded a collab album with Cudi, Kids See Ghosts, and the rappers will join forces again to headline Tyler (the curator's) Camp Flog Gnaw event at the Dodger Stadium in LA.

Lauryn Hill, A$AP Rocky, Post Malone, SZA and rising UK stars Jorja Smith and Rex Orange County are also on the bill at the event which takes place in November.

So if you happen to be in LA around that time check out the details below.

OK we slightly mis-sold that one Beatles fans but it's still technically correct.

John's and Yoko's son Sean posted the selfie, above, alongside Sir Macca's lad James with the caption "Peekaboo..."

A new and improved version of Imagine, a film produced by John and Yoko, will return to the big screen in September.

The film stars the couple and their famous friends, including George Harrison, Fred Astaire and Andy Warhol, as they make their famous record with Phil Spector.

“The people who all worked on Imagine were peace people and it was so enlightening and exciting all the way through to be one of them," said Yoko.

"Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world."

Perhaps she made this statement before Spector's conviction for second-degree murder.

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Elsewhere Beatles drummer Ringo Starr marked a special date with an emoji-filled tweet.

It's apparently 56 years to day that he was invited to drum for the Liverpool lads.

Like Yoko, Ringo is sending out "peace and love".

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The US rapper went straight in at number one with his new album Astroworld and it seems he's prepared to go to extreme lengths to keep it that way.

The album faces stiff competition this week from Nick Minaj's new album, Queen, but is she giving her fans cold hard cash?

Not that we're aware of but now Travis is apparently.

He tweeted that he knows life is "hard on the kids" so he "decided to unload [his] bank account".

Two people so far have received $50 (£39.33) each from Scott.

We're sure that Trav has a heart of gold but that's got to be bending the chart rules to breaking point.

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The Seattle grunge pioneers have been accused of producing a "blatant display of extremism".

The poster - designed by bassist Jeff Ament and artist Bobby Brown - depicts a blazing White House on fire, with the tiny figure of US President Donald Trump being eaten by an eagle.

It was designed for their gig at the Washington-Grizzly Stadium in Montana on Monday night, which was also a fundraiser to help re-elect Democrat senator Jon Tester.

Republican Matt Rosendale - who is hoping to unseat Tester - described the poster as “disgusting and reprehensible”, calling on his opponent to condone it as "act of violence and blatant display of extremism”.

Pearl Jam have yet to respond.

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The singer released dozens of albums and recorded three for Frank Sinatra's Reprise label but is perhaps best known for portraying the wife of Marlon Brando's Don Corleone in the first two Godfather films.

King suffered from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and died on 22 March in Palm Springs.

Her death had gone unreported until a friend wrote about her on Facebook.

She was born Maria Grazia Morgana Messina in New York in 1930 to Sicilian parents.

Her music breakthrough came in 1964 with an operatic version of A Taste of Honey, recorded by the Beatles two years prior.

At the 1965 Grammys, King lost out to The Beatles in the category of best new artist.

She was cast In Francis Ford Coppola's gangster epic The Godfather in 1972 as Mama Carmela Corleone and sang Luna Mezz' 'o Mare during the opening wedding sequence (pictured below).

Her on screen son in the Godfather, Michael, played by Al Pacino, was, in real life, just eight years younger than her.

King reprised her role in the second film in the trilogy but when she didn't want to be photographed in a coffin after her character's death, the director's mother, Italia, doubled for her.

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Stars are being lined-up to perform at a concert in honour of the ailing Queen of Soul, who is "seriously ill" at her home in Detroit.

Record executive Clive Davis, who signed Franklin to Arista Records in 1980, is organising the event at Madison Square Garden this November, according to US publication Billboard, external.

No further details as yet but Clive Davis Presents: A Tribute to Aretha Franklin, would no doubt include covers of the star's hits including R.E.S.P.E.C.T, Say a Little Prayer, Think and You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman by other top singers.

Franklin's publicist Gwendolyn Quinn told Associated Press that the 76-year-old has been visited by family and friends including fellow soul legend Stevie Wonder, US activist Reverend Jesse Jackson and her ex-husband, actor Glynn Turman.

US publication People, external add that the family have sent their official thanks to fans for their "love and support".

Quinn, speaking on behalf of her family, said: “The love she has for her family is above reproach and was evident in the warm smiles she was able to share with her nephew during his very brief visit two weeks ago.

Beyonce and Jay-Z dedicated their Detroit show on Monday to the singer, saying "we love you".

Stars including Rod Stewart, Mariah Carey, Chaka Khan, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Tyler Perry and Missy Elliott have also posted their well wishes.

Madonna, the undisputed Queen of Pop, turns 60 on Thursday.

It may be a day early but the Material Girl is so excited she posted a thrilled looking selfie (above)

Since her debut album hit the shelves 35 years ago, she's performed on 10 concert tours and sold more than 300 million records worldwide.

It's earned her a spot in the Guinness World Records as the best-selling female recording artist of all time.

BBC Data journalist Clara Guibourg has been crunching some numbers which tell us more about our beloved Madge.