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Richard Osman has been announced as the UK's Eurovision spokesman, who will reveal how the country has voted during Saturday night's live final. 

The Pointless star says he's "very excited" about his new role. 

If you're yet to get excited about this year's Eurovision, do not worry - there is still PLENTY of time. And there is an iPlayer special that can help with that. 

Semi-finals host Scott Mills has been getting to grips with this year's contenders at a Eurovision star-studded red carpet event in Stockholm. 

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Dance producer Kaytranada got glowing reviews for his debut album, 99.9%, when it came out last week - but he's not finished with it just yet.

The Montreal synth-smith has just released a video for one of the album's more obtuse tracks, Lite Spots, which samples a 1970s tropical funk track Pontos de Luz by Brazilian singer Gal Costa.

It opens with Kaytranada building a robot, which he later teaches how to dance. Cute, funny, and worth a watch.

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Wolf Alice have been announced as the closing act for this year's Ibiza Rocks on 14 September. 

The show will also mark the end of the band's promo tour for debut album My Love Is Cool, which came out last June and earned them nominations for a Brit and the Mercury Prize. 

Singer Ellie Rowsell told Newsbeat: "We're all very excited, we've never been but it looks beautiful." 

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Fans of 90s indie Shoegaze should be happy to hear that Slowdive are back in the studio, recording their first full-length album in more than two decades. 

The band, who split in 1995 after releasing three albums, reunited for a world tour and Primavera festival date in 2014. Singer Rachel Goswell confirmed the news while speaking to Stereogum about her side project Minor Victories - a supergroup also including members of Mogwai and Editors which is releasing a debut album on 3 June.

She said Slowdive had recorded "a lot of songs" and hoped to have their new album finished by July. 

A quick Wireless update now for all you festival fans - some new names have just been added to the line-up, including Wizkid and former Black Eyed Pea Fergie.

It's also good news for fans of musicians with the surname Sean, with Jay Sean and Big Sean added to the bill.

Here's the newly-updated poster:

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19-year-old rapper Desiigner has had one of the biggest breakout hits of the year in America with his debut single, Panda.

An ode to the BMW X6 car (yes, really) the track spent two weeks at the top of the Billboard charts and has become ubiquitous on urban radio stations.

Desiigner - whose real name is Sidney Royel Selby III - looks set to repeat the success in the UK, with the song recently added to the Radio 1 playlist.

To give the song a helping hand, he's just released a video - which co-stars Kanye West as his chauffeur / getaway driver on a wild night out. (West also happens to be Desiigner's boss, having signed him to his GOOD Music label earlier this year).

It's streaming exclusively on Tidal for now, but both subscribers and non-subscribers can watch.

I'm down at the BBC's legendary Maida Vale where, very shortly, Paul McCartney will be recording an episode of Radio 4's Master Tapes - discussing his songs, new and old. 

As we walked into studio MV3, the front row was full of fans, who'll get to put a question to the Former Beatle during the show. 

In the row behind, we're expecting a few familiar faces. Brad Pitt, James Bay, Simon Pegg, Chris Difford from Squeeze - and these guys. 

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The content of the show is embargoed - but you'll be able to watch and listen to the interview from 24 May. 

New series of QI - Sandi Toksvig? Check. Alan Davies? Check. SlipKnot's Corey Taylor? What?

The masked frontman is indeed a forthcoming guest on BBC Two's general knowledge-based quiz show.

Comedian Aisling Bea tweeted this picture from the set. Nice devil horns guys. 

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Luxuriantly coiffeured dance producer David Guetta has teamed up with Zara Larsson to record an "anthem" for this summer's kicking a ball tournament, Euro 2016.

The full song isn't available yet, but who listens to full songs anyway in today's fast-paced attention-deficit always-on- culture? Losers, that's who.

So here is a 24-second preview of This One's For You, which features a crowd of football supporters chanting both "hey" and "ho".

It's good, but it's no Gute Freunde Kann Niemand Trennen.

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A hole has opened up in US rapper Azealia Banks' diary this June after she was dropped from the line-up of a music festival in London following a racist rant on Twitter.

The outspoken former BBC Sound of 2012 contender attacked Zayn Malik over his new single and video and used several racial slurs.

She then continued to rant about the UK rap scene calling artists "a disgrace".

Now, the Born and Bred festival in Hackney has posted the following message on Twitter:

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The critics were wowed by A Moon Shaped Pool, the latest release from rock giants Radiohead.

But with grown men fawning like children, what would a real child think of the record?

One women asked her 8-year-old son James to review it.

Our favourite bit:  "Reminds me of Kung Fu Panda"

James Corden has become known for the carpool karaoke segment on his US chat show.

The sketches have seen him sing alongside passengers such as Adele, George Clooney and Justin Bieber. But his latest star duet, with Cyndi Lauper, happened in the studio and had a more political edge.

Well, as political as you can get while wearing a bright pink wig...

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US rapper Azealia Banks has gone on what can only be described as a racist rant against former One Direction member Zayn Malik following the release of his latest video on Monday.

She posted a tweet suggesting the visuals were inspired by some of her earlier work, before launching into an astonishing racist and homophobic tirade.

She even managed to get in some digs about UK rap in general.

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The Red Hot Chili Peppers are on the verge of the releasing their 11th studio album, The Getaway, and for the first time since Blood Sugar Sex Magik, it has been produced by someone other than Rick Rubin.

Instead, Gnarls Barkley star Danger Mouse is at the helm, and singer Anthony Keidis told Jo Whiley the producer had been pickier than he expected. 

"If I look at it now, he knows what he likes very immediately," Kiedis explained. "He listened to about 25 songs that we'd written and he liked about 10 of them.

"You're like, 'Jeez, that's harsh or arrogant or presumptive' or whatever - but the more you get to know him and see how he operates and thinks, it's just a matter of taste and he wants every song to be classic."

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Corrine Bailey Rae joined musical guests including Bloc Party and Sir Elton John on last night's Later.... with Jools Holland.

In her first appearance on the show since 2010, the singer-songwriter performed Stop Where You Are, from her new album The Heart Speaks in Whispers.

After the surprise release of new album The Colour in Anything last Friday, James Blake has posted the first, slightly trippy, video from the record online. 

It's for I Need A Forest Fire - his collaboration with Bon Iver aka Justin Vernon. Though the video sadly doesn't also feature Justin in it. 

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Taylor Swift has been honoured for her "artistic talent and influence" at the Broadcast Music Inc (BMI) Pop Awards in Los Angeles - where she was presented with the Taylor Swift Award.

It's only the second time in the BMI's 76-year history that they've presented an award in an artist's name - the first being Michael Jackson in 1990. 

Quote Message: I'm really super-relieved that BMI decided to give me the Taylor Swift Award because if they had chosen someone else to give the Taylor Swift Award to, I'd be kind of bummed about it. This night has been unbelievable. My whole family is here. My brother Austin and everyone else. My dad is filming on his phone.

I'm really super-relieved that BMI decided to give me the Taylor Swift Award because if they had chosen someone else to give the Taylor Swift Award to, I'd be kind of bummed about it. This night has been unbelievable. My whole family is here. My brother Austin and everyone else. My dad is filming on his phone.

Quote Message: Thank you for awarding my favourite part of my life and all the adventures that this career path has brought. My favourite part is when I'm in the middle of a conversation with my friends and my eyes glaze over and I awkwardly run over to a corner. I have to explain to them that I have this issue called: 'I love song-writing so much that it interrupts my daily life'. from Taylor Swift

Thank you for awarding my favourite part of my life and all the adventures that this career path has brought. My favourite part is when I'm in the middle of a conversation with my friends and my eyes glaze over and I awkwardly run over to a corner. I have to explain to them that I have this issue called: 'I love song-writing so much that it interrupts my daily life'.

Other awards went to Uptown Funk, named pop song of the year, while Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, the song-writing team behind classic hits including You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling, On Broadway and Just Once, were presented with the Icon Award and Imagine Dragons (pictured below) won the Pop Award for Demons.

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Yesterday we told you how Meghan Trainor had pulled her new video off the internet, claiming her body had been digitally altered to make her waist look smaller. 

Well the new 'un-altered' version of the video for Me Too has now been posted online, and at the time of writing had already had 1.3m views.

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However, not everyone's convinced it wasn't a giant publicity stunt, with many sites, including Fusion, speculating on why Trainor may or may not have duped her fans. Cue the backlash on Twitter:

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Kiss singer Gene Simmons has apologised for saying Prince's death was "a choice" and that it was "pathetic that he killed himself", following claims Prince was addicted to painkillers

Simmons posted a note on Twitter (which contains some swears) referencing his "big mouth". 

Quote Message: I apologize - I have a long history of getting very angry at what drugs do to the families/friends of the addicts. I get angry at drug users because of my experience being around them coming up in the rock scene. I was raised in a culture/crowd where drug addicts were written off as losers and since that's the narrative I grew up with, it's been hard to change with the times.

I apologize - I have a long history of getting very angry at what drugs do to the families/friends of the addicts. I get angry at drug users because of my experience being around them coming up in the rock scene. I was raised in a culture/crowd where drug addicts were written off as losers and since that's the narrative I grew up with, it's been hard to change with the times.

Quote Message: Needless to say, I didn't express myself properly here - I don't shy away from controversy, and angry critics really don't bother me at all. If I think I'm right, I'll throw up a finger and dig my heels in and laugh. But this time, I was not. So, my apologies. from Gene Simmons

Needless to say, I didn't express myself properly here - I don't shy away from controversy, and angry critics really don't bother me at all. If I think I'm right, I'll throw up a finger and dig my heels in and laugh. But this time, I was not. So, my apologies.

In his apology Simmons also warned fans to "be wary of click bait". 

His initial comments came during an interview with Newsweek where he first praised Prince as "heads, hands and feet above the rest of them," before adding: "But how pathetic that he killed himself. Don't kid yourself, that's what he did. Slowly, I'll grant you… But that's what drugs and alcohol is: A slow death."

Meanwhile detectives in Minnesota have questioned a doctor who saw Prince twice in the weeks before he died last month.

It does not say what was prescribed or whether Prince took the drugs.