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You may remember back in December Ed Sheeran embarked on a self-imposed social media break, telling fans on Instagram he needed some time to see the world through his eyes, not his phone, and that he'd be back in the autumn.

Well he's made a small exception, all in the name of charity, in a video that sees him pledging to eat fermented beans and a live sea-snail (apparently the most offensive food in Japan where he is travelling) while dressed in a tutu, if the second US version of Red Nose Day raises more money than it did last year. 

In keeping with his ban, the video was tweeted by TV producer Ben Winston:

Duran Duran are set to headline BBC Music Day next week, with a show at the Eden Project in Cornwall.

Formed in Birmingham in 1978, the band have sold more than 70m records worldwide.

Speaking to Radio 2's Steve Wright, John Taylor and singer Simon Le Bon said it was always their ambition to take their band global... 

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We love a bizarre musical collaboration and Marie Osmond and R&B star Sisqo are a prime example

The singer - who fronted variety series Donny & Marie with her brother in the 1970s - has been talking to Billboard about some of the collaborations on her new country album Music is Medicine, which also include Olivia Newton-John.

Osmond said she was in the studio recording the track Give Me A Good Song when Sisqo - of Thong, th-thong thong thong Song fame - happened to be next door. 

Quote Message: We were doing this rap thing, which was a salute to people like Prince, Judy Garland, and Alabama - all of whom made some great musical contributions in life. The engineer said that Sisqo was next door, so I said ‘Let’s ask him.’

We were doing this rap thing, which was a salute to people like Prince, Judy Garland, and Alabama - all of whom made some great musical contributions in life. The engineer said that Sisqo was next door, so I said ‘Let’s ask him.’

Quote Message: God bless him, because it was like back in the day where two artists did something because of the music. There were no agents, managers or attorneys getting involved. He heard it, said 'let’s do it' and we did it. It was so cool, and to have him on the song made it come alive. He came over and nailed it in less than an hour. That’s a true artist.

God bless him, because it was like back in the day where two artists did something because of the music. There were no agents, managers or attorneys getting involved. He heard it, said 'let’s do it' and we did it. It was so cool, and to have him on the song made it come alive. He came over and nailed it in less than an hour. That’s a true artist.

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DJ sets from Lily Allen, Hacienda legend Mike Pickering and Nicky Blackmarket feature on Glastonbury's latest line-up announcement - for the Unfairground area. 

Billed as "an art field for subversive and radical art and music" it features venues called Bez's Flying Bus and the Salon Carousel. 

The festival is slowly revealing the day splits and timings for many of its stages, ahead of the festival kicking off on 22 June.

Not strictly speaking music, but it is a brand new comedy series about a live music road crew - called Roadies.

And it's from the brilliant creative minds of Cameron Crowe and JJ Abrams.

And it stars Rafe Spall, Luke Wilson, Carla Gugino and Imogen Poots.

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More details are starting to emerge about the new series of The Voice UK, which is moving from the BBC to ITV next year

Firstly, it's been announced the winner will scoop a major record deal with Polydor Records - home to Take That, Ellie Goulding and The 1975.

ITV aren't wasting any time - with auditions starting on 15 June. These are the pre-audition auditions, of course - the ones in front of bored researchers rather than the main four coaches.

Undiscovered singers who want their UK Voice to be heard have been invited to apply through ITV's website. The network said all musical styles are welcome to apply, either as soloists or duos.

Unfortunately, the ban on groups of three or more means we won't be able to apply as The Entertainment Live Pagers, the band we all perform as at weekends, but Helen in the office was more keen on a solo career anyway.

The most recent series of The Voice UK was won by Liberty X alumnus Kevin Simm. Here he is jumping around in the air between some ropes which have caught fire:

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The audition tour will take in the following venues, with successful singers going one step further towards auditioning for the coaches during the blind auditions, which will be recorded later in the year:

Cardiff - 15 June

Birmingham - 18 June

London - 21 - 22 June, 2 - 3 and 6 July

Manchester - 25 - 27 June

Belfast - 29 June

Glasgow - 9 July

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Martin Fry's released a belated sequel to ABC's seminal 1980s pop album Lexicon Of Love.

"A lot has happened to me since I was wearing the gold lame suit and performing Look Of Love on Top of the Pops," Fry told the BBC.

"A lot of adventures, a lot of tough moments and a lot of brilliant moments."

He revealed a 2009 performance of Lexicon Of Love with the BBC Concert Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall sparked the sequel. 

"I got to thinking, wouldn't it be nice to do something that follows it up and brings the story to the present day? What's happened to all those characters?"

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Following the release of Dark Necessities a couple of weeks ago, Red Hot Chili Peppers have put out the second song from their new album - title track The Getaway.

The is their first since 2011 and was produced by Danger Mouse and mixed by Radiohead collaborator Nigel Godrich. It's out on 17 June.

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To mark the 20th year since the BBC's Proms in the Park first began in London's Hyde Park, a line-up has been announced for this year's anniversary event.

Musicians from the pop and classical worlds who will take to the stage include All Saints, Rick Astley, The Feeling, tenor Juan Diego Florez, flautist Sir James Galway and Australian actor and comedian Tim Minchin.

The Royal Choral Society, BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Richard Balcombe will also appear.

The event on Saturday 10 September marks the finale of the 2016 BBC Proms festival and will be broadcast live on Radio 2 throughout the day with a live big-screen link-up to the Royal Albert Hall for the Last Night of the Proms.

Bat for Lashes aka Natasha Khan has unveiled the dramatic video for her new single Sunday Love taken from her forthcoming fourth studio album, The Bride, which is set for release on 1 July.

The concept album is about a woman whose fiance is killed on the way to the altar. 

The video sees Natasha in a wedding dress on a lonely US highway and even features levitating rocks.

As we said, 'spooky'.

Film director Sofia Coppola has been speaking to the BBC about her debut as an opera director, having just opened La Traviata at the Rome Opera House.

The Oscar-winner told James Reynolds: "Everyone was so kind, it's really fun to be part of the theatre community and it was really exciting".

Guy Garvey - who's curating this year's Meltdown music festival at the Southbank Centre in London - has cancelled one of the events after Robert Plant pulled out. 

Plant announced earlier this week he would be needed at Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven copyright trial so with "great disappointment" would not be able to perform at The Boat We're In show on 19 June. 

In a statement on his Facebook page Garvey said: "In view of this and other unrelated factors, the organisers have decided to cancel the concert."

It added: "A free concert will be held in place of the event, in the Royal Festival Hall's Clore Ballroom, with acts picked by Guy and featuring the Southbank Sinfonia. Details of the full line up to follow."

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Meanwhile Garvey's new single Open the Door is out today in the UK to download and stream (next Friday in the US).

Apparently the track was written specifically with his summer festival appearances in mind and in Guy’s own words is a track to “get the party really started”.

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Based on the effusive reviews for their latest album A Moon Shaped Pool, it's hardly surprising that the nation's music critics were left panting in awe as Radiohead played their first London show in four years.

In the Guardian, Alexis Petridis wrote: "It’s not just that no current rock artist of comparable size is making music as exploratory and exciting as this. It’s that, in a world where lengthy careers are usually marked by slow decline, they seem remarkably like a band reaching an artistic peak nearly 25 years after their commercial breakthrough."

The Telegraph's James Hall agreed: "The Oxford five-piece (with ancillary drummer) did not disappoint, mining their extensive back catalogue and playing a vital, intense 25-song set that was by turns absorbing, challenging and, in places, almost heart-breakingly beautiful."

"Radiohead are still finding new ways to astonish us", said Roisin O'Connor in The Independent.  

And the NME proudly displayed its nerdy muso attributes when it reported: "During their first of two encores, Greenwood mistakenly played a harmonica instead of the ondes martenot, leading to Yorke mocking him for his error before asking the crowd: "You in a hurry?""

Who among us could not put their hand up and admit to occasionally mistaking a harmonica for a ondes martenot?

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New songs by The Strokes are like buses, you wait ages and then three come along at once.

After frontman Julian Casablancas debuted the tracks on his Sirius XM satellite radio show yesterday, they have since appeared on various streaming sites and been played by stations including Radio 1 - and there has been a lot of love online.

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Jessie Ware's unveiled a new track written especially for the soundtrack of a movie based on one of her favourite books, Me Before You by Jojo Moyes. 

Jessie told Elle.com that she had a personal connection to the best-selling novel long before she wrote the track, Say You Love Me.

Quote Message: I read Me Before You on my honeymoon after hearing so much about it. So to be asked to be in the film's soundtrack was really touching, as I couldn't put the book down when I read it. It's a song that means a lot to me and I hope everyone enjoys listening to it as much as I enjoy singing it.

I read Me Before You on my honeymoon after hearing so much about it. So to be asked to be in the film's soundtrack was really touching, as I couldn't put the book down when I read it. It's a song that means a lot to me and I hope everyone enjoys listening to it as much as I enjoy singing it.

You can listen to Jessie Ware's track exclusively on Elle.com. The film - starring Game of Thrones actress Emilia Clarke and Sam Claflin - is out on 3 June in the UK.

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Justin Bieber and the co-writers of his 2015 smash hit Sorry are being sued for allegedly stealing a vocal riff from another artist. 

Casey Dienel, who performs under the name White Hinterland, says she used it on her own song a year earlier and has accused Bieber of infringing her copyright to the song Ring the Bell, by using a "virtually identical" riff without permission. 

Producer Skrillex is among the other defendants along with Universal - neither they nor Bieber have commented on the legal case, which was filed in Nashville according to Reuters. 

The number one track Sorry appears on Bieber's album Purpose and has had more than 1.42 billion YouTube views.

You can listen to both the tracks below: 

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Summer vibes klaxon! Craig David has gone all Through the Keyhole for his sunny new video for One More Time - which is filmed in and around his very own apartment in Miami. 

He's recreated one of his famous TS5 parties, which started at his home while he was living in the US city before morphing into an international event. 

After storming The Great Escape in Brighton last week, he's bringing TS5 to Radio 1's Big Weekend in Exeter this Saturday, along with Bestival's Common People in Oxford and his hometown of Southampton over the weekend.

Lap up those rays to get you in the bank holiday mood... (if you're in the UK they may well be the only ones you'll see).

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They teased us about it yesterday, and now Clean Bandit have revealed the first track from their forthcoming new album - it's called Tears and features X Factor champion Louisa Johnson. 

It's the reality star's first release since her winner's single Forever Young made the top ten just before Christmas.

The track is available to buy or stream now but here's a teaser from YouTube... 

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It's also just been confirmed they'll be performing it live for the first time during the Britain's Got Talent final on ITV tomorrow night at 19:30 BST.

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Rapper TI has responded to a fatal shooting ahead of his gig in New York on Wednesday night saying his "heart is heavy" and offering his codolences.

Another rapper, Troy Ave, has been arrested over the shooting that left one man dead and four people injured.

Police say the rapper, whose real name is Roland Collins, was caught on CCTV firing a gun into the packed crowd.

It happened when a fight started backstage before T.I. had started his set.

He is being held on attempted murder and weapons charges.

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