Music News LIVE: 28 July

The Last Shadow Puppets found a novel way to introduce the headliners of a music festival  in Canada over the weekend.

Miles Kane and Alex Turner were on stage at the WayHome Music & Arts Festival on Saturday ahead of the bill-toppers Arcade Fire.

"Are you ready for Arcade Fire?" they crooned...

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Womad festival has got itself some out of this world music this weekend. 

It comes from the Cern Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator, which you may remember was built to help uncover the building blocks of the universe. 

Well, while they really should have been working, scientists have also found they could convert the peaks and troughs of particle research from the Collider into musical notes.  

Jamming with the Universe will take place at the festival in Wiltshire on Friday and will see scientists from Anglia Ruskin University joined by jazz pianist Al Blatter. 

Dr Genevieve Williams, of Anglia Ruskin University said the music is "both melodic and fascinating".

Quote Message: The audience can close their eyes and experience science with their ears. Through a process called sonification, we are able to make music from scientific data and experience that data in new and beautiful ways. The music can also help us to explore and further our understanding of that data. This works because structure and regularity is fundamental to the natural world, but variability plays its part too.

The audience can close their eyes and experience science with their ears. Through a process called sonification, we are able to make music from scientific data and experience that data in new and beautiful ways. The music can also help us to explore and further our understanding of that data. This works because structure and regularity is fundamental to the natural world, but variability plays its part too.

It's not their first festival though - they also played last year at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland.

Here's a taster.

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God news for vinyl junkies, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Northern Irish band The Undertones their first two albums are getting a vinyl remaster and digital release. 

The first self-titled album and their second Hypnotised, are being remastered from the original master tapes on heavyweight vinyl and will be released on 7 October.  

Plus Pink Floyd have also announced details of a box-set comprising of the band's early material and rare recordings.

The Early Years 1965-1972 is a 27-disc, 130-track multi-platform box-set and will be out in November.

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Metal fans who are heading to the Wacken Open Air Festival in Germany are being advised that all bags will be banned from the site amid growing security concerns.

Following the recent suicide bomb attack outside the Ansbach festival, organisers of Wacken - where bands including Iron Maiden, Bullet for My Valentine and Foreigner are due to play - have said "Due to the recent events we decided that backpacks and all kind of bags are no longer allowed on the festival grounds." 

Speaking to Billboard, the festival's founder Thomas Jensen said: "We update our security plan constantly, counting in recent events such as bad weather or the security situation in Germany. Because of that our staff knows what to do and is well prepared." 

The event, which is marking its 25th anniversary, runs from 4-6 August and 85,000 people are due to attend.

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Zayn Malik has revealed he fancies following fellow One Directioner Harry Styles and getting into acting if the right role comes along.

"I started acting when I was in school with theatre studies and then music came after. It completely stopped when I joined the band but I'd definitely be interested if I was given the right role," he told Elle Magazine.  

He also admitted he has a constant struggle with self-doubt.

"I'm just stressed out trying to control how I'm perceived. I think about things a lot." 

He said his first solo album Mind Of Mine, was the result of "a build-up of six years and never being able to express what I wanted to say. I had something to get off my chest". 

And he said going solo allowed him to discover more about himself, "mostly how in love with music I still was". 

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A new feature film which tells the story of the recording of the latest Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds album is to get is world premiere at the 2016 Venice Film Festival. 

One More Time with Feeling has been directed by Andrew Dominik - who has made films like Chopper and Killing Them Softly.

The filmmaker was granted exclusive access during the recording of the forthcoming album Skeleton Tree. 

Filmed in black-and-white and colour, in both 3D and 2D, the experimental film interweaves the bands performances of the new album with interviews and is accompanied by Cave’s narration.

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Bastille have shared another new track for their forthcoming second studio album Wild World.

Fake It, which follows Good Grief, is "one of the last tunes we made for the album and it's one of our favourites", singer Dan Smith told the NME. 

The band's forthcoming second album Wild World is due on 9 September. 

There's no music video yet so you'll need to head over to Spotify or Apple Music to hear it.

We told you just over a week ago about how actor Michael J Fox had joined Coldplay on stage in New York to perform Johnny B Goode, which he famously performed in the movie Back to the Future - now the band have put out footage of the performance so we can all get to see it in quality. 

He is better known to TV audiences as boss from hell Douglas Reynholm in The IT Crowd or gaffe-prone thesp Steven Toast but comic actor Matt Berry is also a musician who has released five albums.

He's now shared a new track Gone for Good.

It's taken from Matt's next album The Small Hours which is due out on 16 September.

Or try Obsessed and So Obscure which namechecks actor Christopher Lee and even the BBC...  

"It sounds beautiful but it sounds a little classical."

Conductor Andre de Ridder is putting the Stargaze orchestra through their paces, as they rehearse Fame for tomorrow night's David Bowie Prom.

The 11 musicians leaf back through their score and start again - the song's familiar funk riff replicated on flute and clarinet. "Always stay on the groove," de Ridder demands, before asking the brass to add "a little bit of growly stuff".

Sitting in the middle of the semi-circle at the BBC's Maida Vale studios is Laura Mvula, the mic stand clasped between her legs as she awaits her cue. As the song builds, she grabs the microphone and leans into the groove. "Is it any wonder, I reject you first?" she growls, her head bobbing to the beat.

Over the next 15 minutes, the song slowly comes into focus... Tomorrow they take it to the Royal Albert Hall. 

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You know that feeling when you are incredibly famous and the person driving your Uber taxi has no idea who you are?

No neither do we, but now Lorde does and she decided to share the experience with her 4.3m followers on Twitter, made worse by the fact  the driver was still super-excited by his previous fare... 

Bless her. 

To make her feel better Ellie Goulding joined in with her own awkward taxi story. 

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Kent Jones' track Don't Mind has been a hit on both sides of the Atlantic, the bouncy summery tune features lyrics in six languages. 

He says the song was inspired by his adopted home of Miami, Florida.

"It's a melting pot - Spanish, Haitian, French, Asian," he tells the BBC. "And in that melting pot, I stuck with the greetings that were most comfortable to me.

Read more and watch him in 1xtra's Live Lounge below, covering a John Legend classic...

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If you like the idea of the Beatles animated TV series we told you about (scroll down), well it's been announced that the creator behind it, Josh Wakely, has also been commissioned by Netflix to make a series based on the songs of Motown. 

The, no doubt, star-studded line-up for this show has yet to be announced but they will be performing covers of songs by Marvin Gaye, The Jackson 5, Lionel Richie, The Supremes, The Temptations and Stevie Wonder among others. 

Set in the imaginary city of Motown, the animation will follow a shy eight-year-old boy named Ben who has an extraordinary ability to bring street-art to life.   

Smokey Robinson has signed on as Executive Music Producer.

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I am thrilled to be a part of this wonderful new series that will embrace the magic of Motown and present our songs to a whole new generation of fans and their entire families. I’m so impressed with Josh’s creative vision for the series and can’t wait to play my part in bringing it to the world.

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The Rolling Stones massive free concert in Cuba that took place in March is to be screened in cinemas. 

It was the first time a rock band has played a free outdoor concert to hundreds of thousands of people in Havana, Cuba and was filmed by award-winning director Paul Dugdale. 

Havana Moon will be shown in cinemas around the world on Friday 23 September for one-night only.  

If you're heading to V Festival next month,  the full line-up stage details have been announced so you can get planning on who you want to see. 

So you can decide between Faithless or Justin Bieber getting covered in 800 gallons of water, among other tough choices. 

You may not know them yet but Californian newcomers Muna are being tipped for big things over the next 12 months.

The LA based three-piece have released a new offering from their Loudspeaker EP, which was released earlier this year.

Definitely a band for fans of Haim, beware the video features a bit of light breaking and entering...

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And they will playing a special session for Radio 1's Huw Stephens next week.

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Three nephews of Michael Jackson are suing celebrity gossip website Rader for $100m over articles suggesting they were abused by their late uncle.

Taj, TJ and Taryll Jackson, who were members of the band 3T, say the stories alleging they accepted gifts to cover the abuse up - stemming from purported documents from a 2003 raid of Neverland Ranch- are "entirely false and defamatory".

"None of them was ever sexually abused by Michael Jackson or ever had any sort of sexual contact with him," said their lawyer Bert Fields. 

The legal action says the Jacksons - whose father is Tito Jackson  - demanded a correction of the stories and received a refusal from Radar.   

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Even more big names have been announced for the Netflix animated series Beat Bugs that creates stories around songs by The Beatles. 

The show which premieres on 3 August had already announced performances from Sia, Eddie Vedder, P!nk, James Bay, The Shins, Of Monsters and Men, Chris Cornell, Regina Spektor and James Corden - who is singing I'm a Loser incidentally. 

Now it's been announced Rod Stewart, Jennifer Hudson, Aloe Blacc, Robbie Williams, Frances, The Lumineers and Tori Kelly will also be performing covers. 

Highlights of season one include Pink's cover of Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, Robbie Williams sings Good Day Sunshine and Eddie Vedder singing Magical Mystery Tour. 

Rod Stewart's cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band will appear in the second season along with Jennifer Hudson performing I'll Follow the Sun and Regina Spektor with And Your Bird Can Sing.  

Here's a little taster of the show featuring The Shins' cover of The Word...

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And Sia does Blackbird from The White album...

New band D.A.R.K., made up of bass player Andy Rourke of The Smiths, Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan and New York-based producer-songwriter Olé Koretsky. 

The group have shared a new track Gunfight, ahead of their debut album Science Agrees.

They released their debut Curvy back in May.

O'Riorden is currently on tour with the Cranberries. D.A.R.K. are due to play at Bush Hall in London in September.

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