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  1. Au revoir...

    Or indeed auf wiedersehen.

    That's all from us this Tuesday but we will be back tomorrow to ease you through your weekly humpday with news of Fabric, a forthcoming all-star charity gig and more.

    In the meantime scroll down for news on OneRepublic, Robbie Williams, Kraftwerk, Jarvis Cocker, Gorillaz and Thirty Seconds to Mars.

    Adieu to you (and you and you...).

  2. OneRepublic tease Cassius collaboration

    OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder and French dance duo Cassius have a long history of collaborating, and after Ryan lent his vocals to several of the tracks on recent Cassius album Ibifornia, they've now repaid the favour. 

    Ahead of the release of new OneRepublic album Oh My My this Friday (7 October), Ryan has teased fans on Twitter with a promising snippet of the title track featuring Cassius...

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    Meanwhile the band have also shared a new behind the scenes film from the making of their recent video Kids...

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  3. George the Poet takes over 5 live Afternoon Edition

    BBC Radio 5 live

    George the Poet

    Rapper George the Poet has taken over Tuesday's Afternoon Edition on 5 live to discuss how music can be used to raise awareness of mental health issues.

    He told hosts Nihal and Sarah: "We should be speaking about this, we should have the language and tools to deal with this. I've always bellieved that music can be functional.

    "For me in the urban scene, if you pay attention to the sentiments in grime music and hip hop and dancehall, the sentiment is very vulnerable, they talk about their deepest fears and vulnerability."

    You can listen live now until 16:00 BST .

  4. Bombay Bicycle Club bassist unveils new solo project video

    The Independent

    Ed Nash

    Ed Nash, erstwhile bass player for Bombay Bicycle Club, has unveiled the latest video from his new solo project Toothless.

    The Sirens features backing vocals from Watford sibling group The Staves and the video was shot on Ibiza, featuring people who lived on the Balearic White Isle.

    Head over to the Independent to watch it.

  5. Cryptic new Bon Iver lyric video

    Bon Iver has shared a new lyric video from his album 22, A Million, which came out on Friday and has since been the catalyst for a lot of emotion from fans.

    The promo for the album's track 8 (circle) is the eighth lyric video from Justin Vernon's band to feature a series of cryptic drawings and symbols over a black background, with the song's equally cryptic lyrics all around...

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    Fans have shared some intense emotional reactions to the album since its release - rounded up by both Billboard and Twitter. Here are a few of our favourites...

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    Meanwhile the Brooklyn-based, Minnesota-born artist responsible for the mysterious symbols - Eric Timothy Carlson - has been speaking about his process.

    Carlson gave an interview to the Walker Art blog, talking them through each image and how he collaborated with Vernon at his rural (and freezing) studio in Eax Claire, Wisconsin.

    Read the interview

  6. Robbie Williams to be honoured with Brit Icon Award

    Robbie Williams

    Robbie Williams is being honoured with the Brit Awards' prestigious Icon Award - following in the footsteps of Sir Elton John and David Bowie as only the third artist to ever get the award.

    It's the highest accolade handed out by the Brits and in the words of organisers: 

    "It is only presented to artists whose writing, recording and performances have set them apart as having made a lasting impact on British culture, recognising the very highest level of achievement in music."

    Robbie already has a whopping 17 Brit Awards to prove it, more than any other artist.

    The singer - whose new album The Heavy Entertainment Show is due on 4 November - called it "a real honour". 

    He added: "The Brit Awards are very special to me, and I’m humbled to be receiving the 18th of my career next month.”

    Robbie will play a special one-off show at London's Troxy on 7 November to celebrate, which will be aired on ITV in December. Tickets go on sale on Monday 10 October.

  7. Kraftwerk add extra Albert Hall date to 2017 tour

    Kraftwerk

    After most of the tickets to their first UK tour in over a decade sold out in minutes, Kraftwerk have now added an extra night at the Royal Albert Hall. 

    The German synth pioneers will now play the London venue on Friday 23 June, as well as the 21 and 22 June.

    Tickets for the extra date go on sale on Friday (7 October) at 10:00 BST. All of the other shows on the 3D tour are now sold out.

    Kraftwerk played an eight-night retrospective at London's Tate Modern back in February 2013 and played Latitude Festival and T in the Park the same year.    

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  8. Jarvis Cocker bids audiences to enter Room 29

    Pitchfork

    Jarvis Cocker

    6 Music presenter and Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker is embarking on a "multi-media musical entertainment" project with Canadian composer and musician Chilly Gonzales.

    Room 29: Jarvis Cocker & Chilly Gonzales is set to run at London's Barbican Theatre from 23-25 March 2017.

    Apparently, the show will concern "the goings-on in Room 29 of the Château Marmont hotel in Hollywood".

    Cocker added "the show will also attempt to unpick the way a heady concoction dreamt up in the immediate vicinity of the hotel went on to intoxicate the entire population of planet Earth". 

    Sounds intriguing...

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  9. Gorillaz continue to set pre-album buzz with a new band history

    As we inch (we hope) ever closer to that elusive fifth Gorillaz album, the band have been getting busy on their social media channels.

    The latest series of Instagram posts tells the story of guitarist Noodle since the band's Plastic Beach album in 2010.

    The as-yet-untitled fifth album is expected to include regular collaborators De La Soul with possible tracks with Snoop Dogg as well as composer Jean Michel-Jarre and Chicago rapper Vic Mensa.  

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    In an interview with 6 Music earlier in the summer, bandmember Damon Albarn somewhat vaguely suggested a Gorillaz album would be "coming fairly soon" and that he was "loving it".

  10. Straight Outta Compton legal action 'may not proceed'

    The Hollywood Reporter

    O'Shea Jackson Jr and Ice Cube

    Following the death of N.W.A.'s former manager Jerry Heller last month, a $110m legal action against the makers of the hit movie Straight Outta Compton may not go ahead.

    Heller died of a heart attack on 2 September while fighting a defamation case against the biopic's producers, which include rapper Ice Cube (pictured above) and others involved with the film.

    But court papers filed on Monday say that without a plaintiff, the action may not proceed. 

    According to a report in The Hollywood Reporter, most of the complaint has been thrown out during the course of the proceedings. 

    However there is still one claim that Heller was portrayed in the movie as exploiting an unsophisticated young artist by discouraging him from hiring a lawyer during contract negotiations.

    Heller's lawyer Michael Shapiro is seeking the court's permission to continue the suit. 

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  11. Kanye West reschedules gigs following robbery

    Kim Kardashian-West and Kanye West

    Kanye West has rescheduled two concerts on his current US Saint Pablo tour after his wife Kim Kardashian-West was robbed at gunpoint in France.

    Kanye cut his set short in New York on Sunday night after learning about the situation in Paris, which saw armed robbers make off with jewellery worth up to €6m (£5.2m).

    His shows at Philadelphia's Wells Fargo and the Palace at Auburn Hills in Detroit will now take place later this month.

    His tour is set to resume on Friday in Chicago.

  12. Toni Braxton treated in hospital for lupus

    Toni Braxton

    Toni Braxton has spent several days in a Los Angeles hospital being treated for lupus, but is now "resting at home and is fine", according to her spokeswoman. 

    The Un-Break My Heart singer revealed back in 2010 that she had been diagnosed with the autoimmune disease - which sees the immune system attack and inflame healthy cells, tissue and organs.

    Her rep Maureen O'Connor said that she was not in a serious condition but added that the disease must be monitored at all times. 

    She said Braxton plans to start rehearsals for her upcoming US tour this week.  

    Musician, actor and presenter Nick Cannon sent Braxton his well wishes via Instagram, posting a picture of the pair with a message: 

    "Sending love and strength to My fellow #LupusWarrior@tonibraxton The Queen is back!! We can't never let this diagnosed condition stop our mission!!"

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    Cannon added: "I get these type of setbacks all the time but it just makes us stronger against this invisible disease!

    "Now go give the people what they want!! A fabulous show! 💜

    "We got Lupus but Lupus don't got us!!!"

  13. Clean Cut Kid track championed by Annie Mac

    BBC Radio 1

    Liverpool four-piece Clean Cut Kid debuted their new track Make Believe as Annie Mac's Hottest Record last night. 

    Tipped as one of 2016's bands to watch (they performed a Live Lounge for Clara Amfo during New Music Month back in January), they joined Annie after spending the day in a London recording studio working on their debut album.

    "The album's really close to being done," they revealed. "It's mad because obviously you just release singles and they trickle out, but we're trying to make an album with a vision. 

    "It is like a concept record, so we've got like, the whole picture in our heads and we're trying to just put little parts of the puzzle out. Hopefully people will start getting it more."

    Listen to the full chat and Make Believe - a very happy-sounding sad song about the end of a relationship - below...

  14. Thirty Seconds To Mars invite us to Camp Mars in new film

    Thirty Seconds to Mars

    Following hot on the heels of recent concert film news from Mumford & Sons and Justin Timberlake, US rockers Thirty Seconds to Mars have shared the trailer for their new film. 

    Camp Mars: The Concert Film will take fans behind the scenes of the band's (very cool sounding) three-day "adult summer camp" in Malibu, California. 

    Directed by the band's frontman and actor Jared Leto, who also does the voiceover, the movie captures two nights of live performances in August 2015.

    Leto said they'd been dreaming of hosting a large-scale music event like Camp Mars for years, fusing live performances and DJ sets with hiking, yoga and campfire sing-a-longs.

    "The very first Camp Mars was pure magic. It was insane and amazing and we knew in the first five minutes we would be doing it again. Music, art, nature, friends, food and fun." 

    Camp Mars: The Concert Film will be released on Sunday 9 October on VyRT, the on-demand streaming platform that Leto founded in 2011. 

    You can watch the trailer below, although be warned - it may result in you planning a trip to Malibu and buying some tie-dyed goods...

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  15. Catch up on 6 Music Live performances

    BBC 6 Music

    Artists including Placebo, Michael Kiwanuka, The Pretenders and Super Furry Animals took part in 6 Music Live at the BBC's Maida Vale studios yesterday.

    You can catch up with all the live sessions, which started during the breakfast show at 09:00, on the iPlayer and check out video highlights of some the performances too.

    Headliners Wild Beasts, who brought the day of live music to a close during Marc Riley's show, brought singer Anna Calvi out to perform Alpha Female from their new album Boy King...

    While The Pretenders took an old classic out of the box and performed their 1980 hit Brass in Pocket...

  16. Craig David set to top chart with comeback album

    Craig David

    Craig David's positive vibes are really paying off for him in 2016 - with new record Following My Intuition currently at number one in the UK album chart at this week's halfway point.

    If it's still there on Friday it would be his first chart-topping record in 16 years, since 2000's Born To Do It.

    Bon Iver's new release 22, A Million is currently in second place, with The Shires' My Universe another new entry, currently sitting at three.

    If you missed our chat with The Shires last week you can catch up now for the British duo's take on selling country music back to America and what it's like to perform at Glastonbury when your wife has just given birth to your baby.

    Meanwhile in the singles chart, current number one James Arthur is hanging on to the top spot with Say You Won't Let Go, with The Chainsmokers' Closer at two.

    One Direction's Niall Horan is set to make a big impact on the top ten with his debut solo effort This Town.

    The track - which was surprise released late last week - is currently at number five and is topping this week's Official Trending Chart.  

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    Find out if things stay that way when this week's Official Charts are revealed during Greg James' Radio 1 show on Friday from 16:00 BST.

  17. Green Day to play British Summer Time in Hyde Park

    Green Day

    Punk veterans Green Day have been announced as the first headliners for next year's British Summer Time Hyde Park.

    The annual event in London is celebrating its fifth anniversary in July.

    This year saw performances by the likes of Carole King and Stevie Wonder.

    "London in the summer, us and tens of thousands of fans having the biggest party in one of the world's most legendary venues," said Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong.

    "We have the best year to look forward to and this has just made it extra special.”

    Their debut album Dookie was released in 1994. Since then, Green Day have gone on to sell 75 million records worldwide.

    The trio  - who were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last year - release their new album Revolution Radio this Friday, 7 October.

    Tickets for Green Day’s headline show go on general sale the same day.

  18. Good morning

    Welcome to Tuesday's Music News LIVE! Stick with us for a big Green Day announcement plus news on Prince, Gorillaz, Craig David and 6 Music Live performers Wild Beasts and The Pretenders. 

    If you missed yesterday's page, you missed out - but you catch up now on Lady Gaga, Moby, Michael Kiwanuka, Solange, Bruno Mars and Coldplay - plus Liam Gallagher being his brilliantly quotable self as he discusses the new Oasis documentary and his brother Noel (aka Potato).