Music News LIVE: 30 June

Some more Rihanna news for you now (scroll down for details of her bringing both Drake and pizza to her Manchester fans)...

The singer's taken a trip to a surreal new planet in the video for her track Sledgehammer, which was written especially for upcoming film Star Trek Beyond. 

It's just become the first music video to debut in IMAX cinemas, due to it being the first video shot exclusively on IMAX film.

But luckily Rihanna's also posted it on YouTube, so we can see her other-worldly new look in all its glory...

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Bastille fans chomping at the bit for their forthcoming second album Wild World... get your diaries at the ready.

The band have confirmed the follow-up to their 2012 debut will be released on 9 September. 

There's a while to wait, so why not keep yourself busy by kicking back with the band's Glastonbury set or take a butchers at their performance of the album's recently released first track Good Grief below:

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Earlier this week, we told you about the "200 songs" Shaggy's recorded ahead of the release of a new album.

Well, now he's unleashed the first of them, I Got You -  featuring Jamaican singer-songwriter Jovi Rockwell - and a killer sample from James Brown's song of the same name.

It’s been three years since Shaggy's last album, the Sly & Robbie-produced Out of Many, One Music.

This one has summer written all over it...

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He told Billboard: "Many tracks now have a dancehall feel to them.

"But to come out with a record that’s dancehall and with a James Brown sample in it is keeping it authentic and cool."

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After Blood Orange (aka Dev Hynes) broke with recent tradition and released his album on Tuesday instead of New Music Friday, Snoop Dogg has decided he couldn't wait for fans to hear his new offering Coolaid either. 

He's released his 14th studio album a day earlier than scheduled as an exclusive on Apple Music. 

Non-subscribers can still get their hands on it tomorrow - while a few of the tracks have already been shared.  

The album includes collaborations with the likes of Wiz Khalifa, Swizz Beats, Jeremih, E-40, Too $hort, Suga Free and Trick Trick.  

Snoop's verdict on the record? He captioned this instagram shot with the words "Coolaid. Taste good". 

Is it Movember already?

An English-language rap aiming to tell foreigners "the truth" about China has been released by the country's Communist Youth League.

This is China was posted onto social network Weibo on Tuesday and has since been shared more than 40,000 times.

The lyrics admit China has "terrible problems" but is "peace-loving", affluent and at the forefront of scientific research.

And it even features a guest verse by Snoop Dogg.*

* okay, we made this bit up...

Some things in life are inevitable; death, taxes and celebrities appearing on Sesame Street.

Pharrell Williams is the latest music star to join Elmo and Cookie Monster on set with a new song professing his latent love of literature.

Here is the catchy B is for Book...

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Having your view of the stage blocked by someone too busy looking through their smartphone to watch the show has become a fact of gig-going life - but a new patent from Apple suggests technology could one day prevent fans using their phone cameras at concerts.

The patent describes a smartphone camera receiving coded infrared signals beamed from emitters in public places.

The handset could then offer on-screen information or disable the camera functionality to stop pictures being taken.

Fans might not be keen but it could please artists from Jack White to Foals, who've tried to curb the trend by issuing a "no photos" warning at their gigs.

Read more about the technology behind the patent.

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Some opera news now, as the Welsh National Opera is giving fans the chance to watch their adaptation of David Jones' epic WW1 poem In Parenthesis from the comfort of their own homes tomorrow night, by streaming it online for free. 

The production, premiering at 19:00 BST on 1 July, is part of the 14-18 Now centenary art events commemorating 100 years since the outbreak of WW1. 

So BBC Arts has been taking a closer look at the show and Jones’ largely autobiographical poem, which recounts the horrors of the battlefields of the Somme from a Welsh perspective.

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For more opera news, listen back to last night's In Tune on Radio 3 to hear Conductor Gianandrea Noseda on the Royal Opera’s new production of Verdi’s Il Trovatore - plus music from Alex Mendham and his Orchestra.

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BBC 6 Music premiered 2X202-ST5 - the first track from Aphex Twin's forthcoming Cheetah EP - on Lauren Laverne's show yesterday.

Now this weekend, the entire EP will be exclusively played track-by track on Now Playing @ 6 Music from 19.00 BST on Sunday following the ultimate Aphex Twin playlist.

If you missed it last week, you can still see the music video for his track CIRKLON3, directed by a 12-year-old boy.

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Fresh from their epic Glastonbury set closing the West Holts Stage on Sunday night, Earth Wind and Fire kick off their UK tour in Glasgow tonight. 

One of the band's 13 current members, Ralph Johnson, spoke to Radio 2's Chris Evans this morning about the tour and the warm reception they got down in "Mudville", aka Glastonbury's Worthy Farm. 

He also discussed the tour, which also takes in London's O2 tomorrow night, and whether they'd been booked to play President Obama's leaving party yet - listen below:

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Music fans have had to withstand their fair share of rain over the last week before being rewarded with their gig of choice - from Glastonbury to Beyonce's delayed show in Sunderland on Tuesday. But Rihanna decided fans queuing in the rain outside her Manchester show last night deserved another reward - free pizza!

It seems she sent fans outside Old Trafford 20 boxes of the cheesy treat, some of them signed by the singer herself, along with some much-needed towels. 

Fan Daniel Reading, 24, told Manchester Evening News: "We couldn't believe it. The pizza was only sent to our side of the queue. 

"It was sent with a message from Rihanna, apologising for the weather".

Meanwhile, the Manchester crowd lucked out on another treat, in the form of Drake. 

Not only did Rihanna bring him out on stage to perform their track Work, he also sang his hit-of-the-year One Dance.

However some fans are a little miffed they didn't get tickets for Old Trafford:

Years & Years have just released a steamy music video for the track Worship, which features singer Ollie busting some moves in an underground car park for a shadowy man in the back of a car.

It also features some pretty gratuitous windshield licking. 

We do hope that car was clean or else he'll be tasting flies all day...

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Singer Bat For Lashes has been talking to us about her new album The Bride, a concept record about a woman abandoned at the altar.

She plays the title character, a flawed heroine who discovers her groom has been killed on his way to the church. Devastated, she runs away in her honeymoon car, pursued by her own grief.

"I just love a tragedy," says Khan. "I love heartbreak as a vehicle for weaving through emotion."  

Khan also loves a wedding - although confesses she cries her eyes out at every one.

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Rapper Lil Wayne is set to release his long-awaited prison memoir later this this year.

Gone 'Til November is based on diary entries he wrote during his prison stint in New York's Rikers Island in 2010 for attempted criminal possession of a weapon. 

The book is set for an 11 October release - for good behaviour and time already served - through Penguin.

Crime could, in fact, pay... in book sales.

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Sir Van Morrison has announced an album of new music will be released on 30 September, the same day as its first single Too Late. 

Keep Me Singing will be his first studio album in four years and his 36th in total.

It will feature 12 new songs alongside a cover of Share Your Love With Me.

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Sir Van will also embark on a 7-date UK tour, starting with a headline performance at Bluesfest 2016 at London’s O2 on 20 October, along with a short US tour.

He was knighted earlier this year and, last year, won the highest honour from the Songwriter's Hall of Fame.

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Cher has apologised for using the bomb emoji in a tweet about the recent tragedy at the Istanbul's Ataturk Airport in Turkey.

She had tweeted in support of the victims of the attack, which killed 41 people and wounded 239. 

However, after a backlash from some of her 3 million followers she apologised in a further tweet, calling her choise of emoji "poorly placed" and "insensitively timed" - and adding there was "no excuse" for her actions.  

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Jamie T premiered his brand new track Tinfoil Boy on Annie Mac's Radio 1 show last night. 

The singer, whose real name is Jamie Treays, had tweeted fans with news of an imminent new single yesterday - which is now available to buy and stream. 

It follows last year's EP Magnolia Melancholia and third album Carry On the Grudge, which came out in 2014 after a break of five years.

Speaking to Annie Mac about his Hottest Record, he revealed the rockier-than-usual track originated during a session in Detroit: 

Quote Message: It was recorded in a different place under slightly different rules which helped it sound a bit different. Hopefully that comes across. I wanted to put something out that was kind of... claustrophobic is the word. I was playing around with a lot of pedals and I was listening a lot to Rage Against The Machine's album and just getting blown away by how exciting it is. That explains the rockiness of it for sure.

It was recorded in a different place under slightly different rules which helped it sound a bit different. Hopefully that comes across. I wanted to put something out that was kind of... claustrophobic is the word. I was playing around with a lot of pedals and I was listening a lot to Rage Against The Machine's album and just getting blown away by how exciting it is. That explains the rockiness of it for sure.

Listen to the full chat and the track below for more details on what he's been up to and what's coming next.

Grammy-winning bassist, composer and producer Rob Wasserman - who worked with artists like Lou Reed, Elvis Costello and Neil Young - has died at the age of 64.

The news came from Grateful Dead founding member Bob Weir, who said Wasserman had been suffering with ill health.

On Wednesday, he tweeted: 

Classically trained violinist Wasserman took up the upright bass at the age of 20. 

His second album, Duets, earned three Grammy Award nominations, winning one for best jazz vocal.

Wasserman leaves behind his wife Veronica, daughter Sara, sister Cindy and brother Bruce.

Welcome to today's Music News LIVE, where we'll be keeping you up to date with more news and tunes than you can shake a stick at.

We've got new music from Jamie T, Snoop and Aphex Twin and we'll be hearing from Bat for Lashes on her new album The Bride and crying at weddings - plus heaps more.

If you missed yesterday's page, catch up now on delays to that Spice Girls reunion, tributes to Elvis guitarist Scotty Moore, a video exclusive from talented up-and-comers Blossoms and even St Vincent dressed as a toilet (no, we're not sure why).