Scroll down for why he's decided to quit Status Quo, plus news on the first Tribe Called Quest album in 18 years - which will also be their last, plus Justin Timberlake on his law-baiting voting selfie, why Joni Mitchell wore blackface in the 70s and watch Crystal Fighters cover Major Lazer.
We'll see you on Monday next week for more of the day's top music news stories.
KT Tunstall mashes up Black Horse and 7 Nation Army
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KT Tunstall is busy promoting her fifth studio album Kin but called on an old favourite when she appeared on 5 live's Afternoon Edition on Thursday.
The Scots singer, who is now based in Los Angeles, mashed up her track Black Horse and The Cherry Tree, her breakthrough hit from 2005, with the White Stripes classic Seven Nation Army.
Big up to KT for her kazoo skills as well.
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Video caption: KT Tunstall sings Black Horse and The Cherry Tree / Seven Nation Army.KT Tunstall sings Black Horse and The Cherry Tree / Seven Nation Army.
Shame, we could totally see him rocking an orange prison jumpsuit.
Stars relate their first memories of hip hop
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Music blog Pigeons and Planes has asked stars including CeeLo, Danny Brown and actor Elijah Wood about their first memories of hip-hop.
We warn you there is a bit of fruity language, they are after all talking about rap music - the sweariest of all the artforms.
We love how many of them are along the lines of: "My mum really wouldn't want me to be listening to this.."
Why did Joni Mitchell don 'blackface' for Halloween?
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If it wasn't us telling you this, I would say, '"that can't be true, can it?"
Well, weirdly it is. Sensitive Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell did indeed darken her face with make-up and wear a fake afro and pimp-style clothing for a party 40 years ago.
She was caught out by Rock photographer Henry Diltz who inadvertently captured Joni while snapping his own gypsy-costumed wife.
David Crosby REEEAAALLLYYY doesn't like Kanye West
Looking like a cross between a fisherman and a character from The Simpsons, legendary singer-songwriter David Crosby has thrown some serious shade Kanye's way.
He said he was particularly bothered by the rapper's proclamations that he was the "biggest rock star on the planet".
"Someone should drive him over to Stevie Wonder's house," said a non-impressed David.
Alexander Armstrong wanted 'authentic' second album
Alexander Armstrong is still best known to most people as one half of the comic duo Armstrong and Miller or as the host of the BBC game show Pointless.
But his second album is out today and he has been speaking to Chris Evans on Radio 2's Breakfast show about the recording of covers such as Sting's Fields of Gold and even Kygo's Firestone.
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Video caption: Alexander tells Chris about the recording of his second album Upon a Different Shore.Alexander tells Chris about the recording of his second album Upon a Different Shore.
A Tribe Called Quest announce final album
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Rapper Q-Tip has announced the next album from rap legends A Tribe Called Quest will be the last.
The as-yet-untitled album is due out on 11 November and features guest appearances including Busta Rhymes.
Laura Marling to premiere orchestrated songs at Celtic Connections
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Laura Marling is to hold the world premiere of orchestrations of her songs by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at next year's Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow.
Grease star Olivia Newton-John and singer-songwriter Billy Bragg are also among the 2,000 artists who will perform at the event on 19 January.
Martha Wainwright, Evelyn Glennie, Fairport Convention and King Creosote are also on the bill.
In an inspired piece of merchandising, Run The Jewels rapper Killer Mike is selling a line of t-shirts with one of the leaked emails from Hillary Clinton's election campaign on the front.
Following Mike's public support of her Democratic rival Bernie Sanders, the missive - leaked by Wikileaks - was sent to Hillary's campaign chairman John Podesta and read: "I guess Killer Mike didn't get the message."
Michael Buble 'terrified' over forthcoming stunt on BBC show
BBC Radio 2
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Michael Buble, who is set to perform at this year's BBC music awards (scroll down for more details) - has said he was terrified about a stunt on his forthcoming live at the BBC special.
Inspired by the success of Adele at the BBC, when the singer posed as an Adele impersonator called Jenny, Michael was packed off on a similar caper
"The best bit was the scariest thing I've ever done," Michael told Radio 2's Chris Evans. "They dressed my up and put prosthetics on me and I had to become someone else and they sent me out in a store and said 'Find a reason to sing and show people who you are'.
"I was so insecure, I thought there was no way they wouldn't see through the make-up but they didn't know - people genuinely did not want to speak to me.
"When you see the reactions, they're amazing, guys I thought wanted to punch me ended up crying."
BBC Music Awards line up announced
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The details for this year's BBC Music Awards have been announced with artists including Emeli Sande, Michael Buble and The 1975 (all pictured above) due to perform at the ExCel Arena in east London on 12 December.
Zara Larsson, Lukas Graham and the Kaiser Chiefs will also take to the stage with another four artists to be announced in the coming weeks.
There returning categories - British Artist of the Year, Song of the Year, BBC Music Introducing Artist of the Year will be joined by two new ones - Radio 1 Live Lounge Performance of the Year and Album of the Year.
The awards, which be televised live of BBC One will be presented by Fearne Cotton and Claudia Winkleman, who said: "As the song goes, music was my first love and it will be my last.
"I’m honoured to help present the BBC Music Awards and am so excited to be working with the very brilliant Fearne."
The awards will be televised live on BBC One from 2030-2200 GMT.
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Plus you can still check out Thursday's Live page for news on Kesha who has made more claims against producer Dr Luke, Justice on their 'lush' new album Woman plus Bruno Mars has been talking about working with 'diva' Adele.
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Scroll down for why he's decided to quit Status Quo, plus news on the first Tribe Called Quest album in 18 years - which will also be their last, plus Justin Timberlake on his law-baiting voting selfie, why Joni Mitchell wore blackface in the 70s and watch Crystal Fighters cover Major Lazer.
We'll see you on Monday next week for more of the day's top music news stories.
KT Tunstall mashes up Black Horse and 7 Nation Army
BBC Radio 5 live
KT Tunstall is busy promoting her fifth studio album Kin but called on an old favourite when she appeared on 5 live's Afternoon Edition on Thursday.
The Scots singer, who is now based in Los Angeles, mashed up her track Black Horse and The Cherry Tree, her breakthrough hit from 2005, with the White Stripes classic Seven Nation Army.
Big up to KT for her kazoo skills as well.
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You can listen to the full interview.
Blood Orange stretches out his legs in new music video
Blood Orange aka Dev Hynes has shared the latest video from his Freetown Sound album.
The video for I Know, which he co-directed, sees Dev do a free form dance duet with the sublimely talented ballet dancer Maria Kochetkova.
It's a fine effort from the singer-songwriter, though his toe point could be a lot better.
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Bobby Friction wins AMA
Congratulations to Bobby Friction who won best radio show at the Asian Media Awards.
Looks like he had a good night and that is quite a suit.
Rick Parfitt quits Status Quo for good
Bad news for fans of 'The Quo' as guitarist Rick Parfitt says he won't return to the band following a heart attack in June.
The 67-year-old was forced to pull out of the band's autumn tour.
Status Quo will only perform acoustic shows after the current tour, and Parfitt said he won't take part.
"No. I don't think I really want to," he told Classic Rock's Dave Ling. "In my heart I'm a rocker... If I'm going to make music it's got to rock."
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Justin Timberlake 'had no idea' voting selfie was illegal
Well, at least he can now laugh about it.
Justin Timberlake has admitted he had no idea that he had fallen foul of the law when he took a selfie whilst voting in the US.
It became illegal to take photos inside polling locations in Tennessee in 2015.
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Shame, we could totally see him rocking an orange prison jumpsuit.
Stars relate their first memories of hip hop
Music blog Pigeons and Planes has asked stars including CeeLo, Danny Brown and actor Elijah Wood about their first memories of hip-hop.
We warn you there is a bit of fruity language, they are after all talking about rap music - the sweariest of all the artforms.
We love how many of them are along the lines of: "My mum really wouldn't want me to be listening to this.."
Why did Joni Mitchell don 'blackface' for Halloween?
If it wasn't us telling you this, I would say, '"that can't be true, can it?"
Well, weirdly it is. Sensitive Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell did indeed darken her face with make-up and wear a fake afro and pimp-style clothing for a party 40 years ago.
She was caught out by Rock photographer Henry Diltz who inadvertently captured Joni while snapping his own gypsy-costumed wife.
It's a bizarre but very interesting tale.
Read more
David Crosby REEEAAALLLYYY doesn't like Kanye West
Looking like a cross between a fisherman and a character from The Simpsons, legendary singer-songwriter David Crosby has thrown some serious shade Kanye's way.
He said he was particularly bothered by the rapper's proclamations that he was the "biggest rock star on the planet".
"Someone should drive him over to Stevie Wonder's house," said a non-impressed David.
Ouch.
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Martin Garrix and Bebe Rexha in the Live Lounge
Last week, Dutch DJ Martin Garrix topped DJ Magazine's list of the world's top 100 DJs for the first time.
Now, he's stepped out from behind the decks to play guitar on Radio 1's Live Lounge as he performed his single In The Name Of Love with Bebe Rexha.
The pair even managed to squeeze out a cover of Twenty One Pilots' Heathens.
Man who launched Taylor Swift takes a chance on The Shires
British country duo The Shires could be about to hit the big time in the US, after signing on with the man who discovered Taylor Swift.
The group's latest album My Universe became the fastest-selling UK country album in history when it was released earlier this month.
Now they're with the Nashville-based Big Machine Label run by Scott Borchetta, widely credited with launching Swift's career.
Soon, they might even have their own beef with Kanye West.
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Roger Daltrey says rock music is at 'a dead end'
In a new interview with The Times, The Who singer Roger Daltrey has bemoaned the current state of rock and praised hip hop.
The singer, whose band finished a tour marking their 50 years together, said: "The sadness for me is that rock has reached a dead end."
He added: "The only people saying things that matter are the rappers and most pop is meaningless and forgettable…
"You watch these people and you can’t remember a bloody thing."
He also admitted that the band's recent set at the Desert Trip festival, earlier this month, was the same they had played for the past 40 years.
Crystal Fighters take on Bieber and Major Lazer
Crystal Fighters have given a Latin flavour to Cold Water by Major Lazer and Justin Bieber in Radio 1's Live Lounge.
Check out their performance below.
Don't know how you feel watching it but we're suddenly fancying a chilled cocktail on a warm beach.
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Alexander Armstrong wanted 'authentic' second album
Alexander Armstrong is still best known to most people as one half of the comic duo Armstrong and Miller or as the host of the BBC game show Pointless.
But his second album is out today and he has been speaking to Chris Evans on Radio 2's Breakfast show about the recording of covers such as Sting's Fields of Gold and even Kygo's Firestone.
Video content
A Tribe Called Quest announce final album
Pitchfork
Rapper Q-Tip has announced the next album from rap legends A Tribe Called Quest will be the last.
The as-yet-untitled album is due out on 11 November and features guest appearances including Busta Rhymes.
Writing on Facebook, Q-Tip said band member Phife Dawg who died in March "left us with the blueprint of what we had to do."
Laura Marling to premiere orchestrated songs at Celtic Connections
Laura Marling is to hold the world premiere of orchestrations of her songs by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at next year's Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow.
Grease star Olivia Newton-John and singer-songwriter Billy Bragg are also among the 2,000 artists who will perform at the event on 19 January.
Martha Wainwright, Evelyn Glennie, Fairport Convention and King Creosote are also on the bill.
Read more
Killer Mike uses leaked Clinton email on t-shirt
Billboard magazine
In an inspired piece of merchandising, Run The Jewels rapper Killer Mike is selling a line of t-shirts with one of the leaked emails from Hillary Clinton's election campaign on the front.
Following Mike's public support of her Democratic rival Bernie Sanders, the missive - leaked by Wikileaks - was sent to Hillary's campaign chairman John Podesta and read: "I guess Killer Mike didn't get the message."
This has to be a a merch first.
Michael Buble 'terrified' over forthcoming stunt on BBC show
BBC Radio 2
Michael Buble, who is set to perform at this year's BBC music awards (scroll down for more details) - has said he was terrified about a stunt on his forthcoming live at the BBC special.
Inspired by the success of Adele at the BBC, when the singer posed as an Adele impersonator called Jenny, Michael was packed off on a similar caper
"The best bit was the scariest thing I've ever done," Michael told Radio 2's Chris Evans. "They dressed my up and put prosthetics on me and I had to become someone else and they sent me out in a store and said 'Find a reason to sing and show people who you are'.
"I was so insecure, I thought there was no way they wouldn't see through the make-up but they didn't know - people genuinely did not want to speak to me.
"When you see the reactions, they're amazing, guys I thought wanted to punch me ended up crying."
BBC Music Awards line up announced
The details for this year's BBC Music Awards have been announced with artists including Emeli Sande, Michael Buble and The 1975 (all pictured above) due to perform at the ExCel Arena in east London on 12 December.
Zara Larsson, Lukas Graham and the Kaiser Chiefs will also take to the stage with another four artists to be announced in the coming weeks.
There returning categories - British Artist of the Year, Song of the Year, BBC Music Introducing Artist of the Year will be joined by two new ones - Radio 1 Live Lounge Performance of the Year and Album of the Year.
The awards, which be televised live of BBC One will be presented by Fearne Cotton and Claudia Winkleman, who said: "As the song goes, music was my first love and it will be my last.
"I’m honoured to help present the BBC Music Awards and am so excited to be working with the very brilliant Fearne."
The awards will be televised live on BBC One from 2030-2200 GMT.
It's Friiidaaay!!
Sorry about that.
But we've made it through to the funnest day in the working week. We've got details of this year's BBC Music Awards being held in London next month, plus there is new music from the likes of Alicia Keys and Dua Lipa.
Plus you can still check out Thursday's Live page for news on Kesha who has made more claims against producer Dr Luke, Justice on their 'lush' new album Woman plus Bruno Mars has been talking about working with 'diva' Adele.