Music News LIVE: 6 October

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The Paisley Park studio complex in Minnesota where Prince lived and worked is to open to the public for the first time later.

The Today Show in the US was given a tour of massive studio which will now become a museum and which has been left largely untouched since Prince's death in April.

The star's handwritten notes are still visible on the console in Studio A, while a Purple Rain Room features the film's motorcycle, script and Oscar for best original song score.

The 1984 film is also projected in a loop on the purple walls.

Prince's sister Tyka Nelson told presenter Al Roker: "I want them [fans] to maybe feel like maybe they saw Prince up close.

"Sometimes when you’re a fan, you get to only to see them from a seat, but this way, you’re almost face-to-face with him."

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John Legend's announced he's got a new single Love Me Now landing tomorrow (Friday, 7 October) and he's going to debut it during a Facebook Live Q&A tonight (Thursday).

It's being live streamed at 22:30 ET (about 03:30 for super-keen UK fans) and users can tell the singer on Facebook which questions they want answered. 

He's shared a snippet of the track already...

Legend says his new album will have more of "a live band sound" and so "a more soulful feel" than before.

But, in the interview with Notion magazine, he added there was no radical new direction...

Quote Message: I don’t think it’s a dramatic change. I believe that it’s progression; continuing to push myself and trying to perfect my craft and, to me, that really is to write the best songs you can write, then try to record and produce them in the best way that you can. That’s what we focused on; trying to write great songs that told my story.

I don’t think it’s a dramatic change. I believe that it’s progression; continuing to push myself and trying to perfect my craft and, to me, that really is to write the best songs you can write, then try to record and produce them in the best way that you can. That’s what we focused on; trying to write great songs that told my story.

Legend also spoke about his relationship with early collaborator Kanye West...

Quote Message: He was an up-and-coming producer that wanted to be a rapper but no-one yet believed him at that time and I was an up-and-coming singer and pianist who wanted to be a solo star also. We both believed in each other, helped each other, and obviously have both had pretty successful careers since then.

He was an up-and-coming producer that wanted to be a rapper but no-one yet believed him at that time and I was an up-and-coming singer and pianist who wanted to be a solo star also. We both believed in each other, helped each other, and obviously have both had pretty successful careers since then.

With 31 Grammys between them, you could indeed say that John...

New band Nimmo premiered their latest track as Annie Mac's Hottest Record last night, with a title after the Radio 1 DJ's own heart, Dancing Makes Us Brave.

"It's a bit earnest," laughed the electronic duo, who revealed they met on the first day of secondary school at Hampstead School in Kilburn.

After a hectic festival season, Sarah Nimmo and Reva Gauntlett are touring with Swedish singer MØ and have a debut album on the way.

"It's finished. We're just putting out the singles now, feels amazing to be honest," they told Annie.

Listen to the interview and Dancing Makes Us Brave below...

Punk duo Slaves joined Clara Amfo in the Live Lounge on Wednesday.

Alongside a typically enthusiastic performance of their latest single Spit It Out from new album Take Control, they also covered Canadian R&B star The Weeknd's song The Hills.

You have NEVER heard it sang like this...

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Well, the clues were all there, a giant blue tongue appearing on London landmarks, the fact that the band have been talking about it publicly since April...

Anyway, the worst kept secret in music today is now official, The Rolling Stones are set to release their first studio album in over a decade.

Blue & Lonesome - a covers album - is set to come out on 2 December.

The album was apparently recorded in just three days at the British Grove Studios in west London and was produced by Don Was and The Glimmer Twins.

Two of the twelve tracks will also feature Eric Clapton.

Blue & Lonesome will sees the band cover blues artists including Jimmy Reed, Willie Dixon, Eddie Taylor, Little Walter and Howlin’ Wolf.

The new music video from Radiohead is several definitions of stripped-back, featuring only vest-clad singer Thom Yorke and guitarist Jonny Greenwood.

But then again, when the song is this beautiful, what else do you really need?

Directed by Hollywood filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson, producer Nigel Godrich revealed on Twitter he had kept it close to home...

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A mini-documentary about the rock band Delta Seven will be played in Picturehouse Cinemas around the UK after winning a short film competition.

We Rise tells the story of seven musicians with special needs, who formed a group to express themselves and challenge stereotypes.

It was selected from more than 400 entries by a jury including Amy director Asif Kapadia; Bond producer Barbara Broccoli and Gurinder Chadha, the director of Bend It Like Beckham.

The two-minute film, created by Rosie Baldwin, will be played before the main feature at Picturehouse venues across the UK throughout the year.

The BBC's Nafisa Sayani went to Eastbourne to meet the band and the filmmaker...

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The Rolling Stones teasers have been coming thick and fast as the band gear up for "a big announcement" at 14:00 BST today, and their famous tongue logo has turned blue. 

Ours does that when we drink blue raspberry Slush Puppies, but we think it has more significance here. 

Several members of the band have already revealed they've been working on an album of Blues covers - their first new studio album in more than ten years - and they've been tweeting all kinds with the words "Coming October 6". 

London's Marble Arch was turned blue last night and they've also shared some footage from the studio...

And Twitter really is a music lover's playground today - after news of a new Lady Gaga emoji (scroll down for details), it seems the Stones have gone and got one too...

Emeli Sande's shared a video for Hurts, the first single we've heard off new album Long Live the Angels, which is due on 11 November.

The visually stunning black and white promo is directed by Charles Mehling, who also worked with Sande on Next To Me. 

You can watch the video here, but we are attaching a language warning so consider yourselves warned.

The Aberdeenshire singer-songwriter is currently touring Europe for some intimate live dates, with a show at St John church in Hackney, London this evening. 

Emeli played Manchester last night and Aberdeen earlier this week where she told BBC Scotland's Fiona Stalker she was "determined to enjoy" music this time round...

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More Daft Punk tour rumours are circulating today, thanks to a new website and a mysterious hidden countdown.

The site alive2017.com is thought by some fans to be connected to the elusive French duo, who generally leave ten years between tours.

They last toured in 2007 and prior to that in 1997 with appropriate titles Alive 1997 and Alive 2007.

The new website shows very little to the untrained eye, but Newsbeat reports experts (aka a group of Daft Punk loving Reddit users) have found several hints to its true purpose.

In a cunning development more suited to the pages of a Dan Brown novel, the word "Alive" hides a countdown on the "i", set to 27 October 2016 - when it is believed the website's true purpose will be revealed.

Apparently the HTML spells out the longitude and latitude coordinates of Paris, Los Angeles, London, New York, Tokyo, Sao Paolo, Ibiza and Indio in California and a location close to Perth Australia.

There have also been many rumours they could headline Glastonbury 2017.

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No, not those ones MTV are hosting in Rotterdam in November.

Moby is instead getting an award from the Environmental Media Association, for his "influential contributions and steadfast commitment to environmental issues".

The Hollywood Reporter says Moby is being recognise for several reasons, from "starting his own nonprofit, to advocating on Capitol Hill for net neutrality, to opening his own 100 percent organic vegan restaurant".

Read our interview with the artist on his new album.

The ceremony on 22 October will be hosted by Nicole Richie.

“We can think of no better person to host the EMA Awards than our very own Nicole Richie,” said EMA president Debbie Levin.

"She has a deep philanthropic history and commitment to the environment.”

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We're big fans of the Tiny Desk Concerts NPR produce in the US, with everyone from Adele to Paul Weller having performed a live session sat by a - you guessed it - tiny desk in their office.

Now they've done their first ever gig on location, and not just any location - they took Common to perform in the White House library. 

The twenty minute set featured three new tracks and one classic, I Used To Love H.E.R., with a special six-piece band of close friends that included Robert Glasper on keyboards and longtime friend and collaborator Bilal on guest vocals.

"This Tiny Desk Concert was a convergence of art and soul, mixing politics with heart," said presenter Bob Boilen. 

"Common's choice of songs dealt with incarceration as the new slavery, imagined a time where women rule the world and honored the man he looked up to all his life, his father."

Common told fans on Twitter the experience was "EPIC".

Watch the full session on the NPR website

Electro-soul singer Jamie Lidell has shared another new song from his forthcoming sixth album Building a Beginning, which is coming out on 14 October.

The track Julian - on a definite Stevie Wonder Innervision-ish groove - is named after Lidell's young son and first child. 

"I wanted to write something that he wants to jump around to," said Lidell.

Jamie is playing three UK dates later this month in Brighton, London and Manchester.   

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First, Bastille pull out of a gig in New York because of singer Dan's sore throat...

Now, Drake has announced he is postponing several shows in Toronto, Philadelphia and New Jersey due to an ankle injury. 

"We are over 50 shows in and I have done everything to power through my recent ankle injury and leave it all out there on the stage every night," Drizzy wrote on his blog.

"I hate to be told I can't do something, but under doctor's orders to allow me time to recuperate." 

He said he was "crushed to even be typing this announcement", adding: "I can't wait to see you all again with new music and a stronger ankle."

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Quote Message: Sorry guys, I'm just not feeling up to it. from Drake's ankle

Sorry guys, I'm just not feeling up to it.

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Quincy Jones, the producer of Michael Jackson's Thriller - still the bestselling album of all time - has led the continuing tributes to songwriter Rod Temperton, following his death from cancer at the age of 66.

"There are simply no words to express how heavy my heart is at the news of the passing of my friend, brother and colleague Rod Temperton," Jones told Rolling Stone. 

"It all starts with the song, and Rod was one of my go-to songwriters. He was one of the best, period.

"He wrote three songs for Thriller…Baby Be Mine, The Lady in My Life and Thriller; and wrote the Vincent Price intro to Thriller in the car on the way from the airport to the studio."

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Quote Message: To say his talent was insane is an understatement. He was the best friend and brother you could ever work with, and I will forever treasure our friendship and all those decades together in the studio. from Quincy Jones

To say his talent was insane is an understatement. He was the best friend and brother you could ever work with, and I will forever treasure our friendship and all those decades together in the studio.

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Lady Gaga has debuted new track Million Reasons, the second from her forthcoming album Joanne, performing it live for the first time as she kicked off her Dive Bar Tour in the US.

A Rhinestone-laden Gaga took to the stage in Nashville, live-streaming the show on her Facebook page where you can still watch it (Million Reasons starts about 39 minutes in).

Nashville songwriter Hillary Lindsey, who produced the song with Mark Ronson and BloodPop, joined in with backing vocals for some full on country harmonies. 

Gaga meanwhile ditched her New York accent to introduce the song in her best country tones, saying: "All these men - my dad, my boyfriends, all the men in my life - they give me a million reasons, but I just need one good one to stick around."

You can also listen to the track below...

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Gaga also performed two more new tracks, Sinner’s Prayer and A-Yo, and the new vibe seems to be going down well with her fandom, aka the Little Monsters...

Meanwhile we're possibly most excited about the fact that if you're tweeting about Gaga today, you can #Joanne (or pretty much anything else Gaga-related) for this little beauty...

We're back! And so is Lady Gaga, and she's gone all country. All the details of that coming up very soon.

Also today, we've got news on Radiohead, Moby, Slaves, Grimes and Drake, a look inside Prince's Paisley Park studios and big news coming from a certain veteran British band later too. 

If you missed yesterday's page, catch up now for all the gossip from the Goss brothers at their Bros reunion announcement, plus news on Shura, Robbie Williams, Garbage, Adele and Bastille and tributes to Thriller songwriter Rod Temperton.