Music News LIVE: 13 October

So quite a few hours now since it was announced that Bob Dylan had been awarded the the Nobel prize for literature and there's still no word from the man himself. 

He's playing a gig in Las Vegas tonight at The Chelsea at the Cosmopolitan - there are still tickets if you happen to be in town. 

And if you do go, let us know if he mentions it. 

Many more have been having their say though...

But some people still aren't happy about it...  

And here's a final interesting fact for you...

Two Door Cinema Club have been talking about the psychological effects of being on tour, and say they're "shocked we haven't lost more bands in terms of just breakdowns and things like that".

"Everything’s under a microscope and all the ingredients are there for big melt downs and big problems to arise," they added. 

You can listen to the clip below...

They were talking to Phil Taggart on Radio 1's listening party last night. 

Their album Gameshow is out tomorrow(Friday 14 October) and to celebrate they'll be performing live on their Facebook page from 18:00 tomorrow.  

Blossoms have shared a new video for their track Blown Rose. 

It's off their self-titled debut album, which topped the UK chart for two weeks earlier this year. 

The promo sees the Stockport band performing in a big stately home, where a mysterious girl stalks the corridors playing with fire (and frontman Tom Ogden). 

It was shot at Hammerwood Park, a house once owned by Led Zeppelin and the location of the opening scene of Led Zep film The Song Remains The Same.

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Newsbeat spent a large portion of their summer hanging out with the band - you can see how that went in their special documentary which is available to watch online now.

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There's just one day left to wait until the release of Kings of Leon's seventh album WALLS.  

And there's more good news if you're a fan - they've just announced some UK arena dates for next year. 

They're their first UK dates in over two years and start in Leeds on 19 February and end on 27 February in Glasgow. 

Tickets go on sale on 20 October.

We can't be the only ones a tiny bit confused by the return of Crystal Fighters and Crystal Castles at the same time, even if they do sound nothing alike - but it's happened, and Crystal Fighters debuted their new track on Annie Mac's show last night. 

The upbeat Good Girls was Wednesday's Hottest Record and Bast (short for Sebastian) from the band spoke to Annie on the phone about the "little ukulele love song". 

"It's a sort of love story I suppose, about a guy - maybe myself, who knows - getting into a relationship with a girl and her sort of leaving. 

"It's a jolly song about a sad situation. The guy in the song gets upset, he thinks there are no good girls left in the world - but of course there are, we know that."

Listen to the track and interview below...

Crystal Fighters also shared a lyric video for Good Girls online. The album Everything Is My Family is due out on Friday 21 October.

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Shakin' Stevens has revealed that researching his family history for a new album led to him discovering a brother he never knew. 

As he started examining birth certificates and electoral registers, the singer uncovered a few family secrets.

"I mean, I didn't know that my dad was married before he met my mum," he told the BBC.

"He was married for a year and he had a son. Even when I was grown up, that secret was still not let out."

The family revelations even inspired a new Radio 2 documentary, Who Does Shakin' Stevens Think He Is?, which went out this week.

The singer was the UK's biggest-selling singles artist of the 1980s, with hits like This Ole House, but Cardiff's answer to The King says he doesn't want to trade on his former glories.

His new album Echoes Of Our Time - his first album in almost a decade - is out now.

Read more on the album

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Azealia Banks has revealed she "finally" has a new record deal. 

She's signed with RZA from the Wu-Tang Clan and she posted the happy news on Facebook...

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She also posted that she wished she'd never got involved in politics and said she made a "major mistake endorsing" Trump...

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Here are a few more reactions to today's announcement that Bob Dylan has won the Nobel Prize for Literature...

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Earlier this week Depeche Mode announced they were returning with a new album Spirit and a massive world tour. 

They broke the news with a big press conference in Milan and BBC 6 Music's Matt Everitt was there to catch up with the band. 

Due out in spring next year, the record's been produced by James Ford who has worked with Arctic Monkeys, Florence and The Machine and Simian Mobile Disco. 

Here Matt chats to frontman Dave Gahan about the new album, playing at the home of West Ham as part of the upcoming tour and the often complex dynamic within the band... 

He also caught up with keyboardist Andrew Fletcher and songwriter Martin Gore to hear more. They revealed they're not quite sure what director Anton Corbijn - who's in charge of visuals and the stage set for that huge tour - has planned and what they keep back stage. 

Listen to the interview

My Chemical Romance member Frank Iero has tweeted fans after being caught up in a bus crash in Sydney, Australia earlier. 

He is over there touring with his band Frnk Iero and the Patience. 

He revealed he and his bandmates are "pretty banged up but miraculously alive and in [a] stable condition". 

He admitted he was still in a "state of shock" after the accident, which saw a crash between a bus and his tour van...

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Nicki Minaj has been talking entrepreneurship and inspiration with Marie Clare magazine. 

The rapper, who is the cover star of the November issue, says she wants to inspire young women to make money for themselves...

Quote Message: Nowadays, I feel like [young women] see marrying into money - I think that's a big thing now. I don't want that to be a woman's goal in life. I want your goal in life to be to become an entrepreneur, a rich woman, a career-driven woman. You have to be able to know that you need no man on this planet at all, period, and he should feel that, because when a man feels that you need him, he acts differently.

Nowadays, I feel like [young women] see marrying into money - I think that's a big thing now. I don't want that to be a woman's goal in life. I want your goal in life to be to become an entrepreneur, a rich woman, a career-driven woman. You have to be able to know that you need no man on this planet at all, period, and he should feel that, because when a man feels that you need him, he acts differently.

But she says there is one man that she is inspired by...

Quote Message: I don't need to read a book about [business]. I can look at someone's career and just pinpoint the dos and the don'ts, and the one person I've done that with for my entire career was Jay Z. He did such a great job being an authentic street guy and a businessman, and I was like, 'Why aren't there women doing that, taking the success from rap and channeling it into their empire?' I felt like anything he could do, I could do.

I don't need to read a book about [business]. I can look at someone's career and just pinpoint the dos and the don'ts, and the one person I've done that with for my entire career was Jay Z. He did such a great job being an authentic street guy and a businessman, and I was like, 'Why aren't there women doing that, taking the success from rap and channeling it into their empire?' I felt like anything he could do, I could do.

And she has a lot of love for the other half of Jay Z's power couple Beyonce. She hopes that she and Beyonce inspire women everywhere...

Quote Message: Every time Bey and I do something together, I see how women are inspired, and it has nothing to do with how we look. It has to do with how we are owning who we are and telling other women you should be the boss of your own career and the brains behind your life or your decisions or your art. I just love that feeling.

Every time Bey and I do something together, I see how women are inspired, and it has nothing to do with how we look. It has to do with how we are owning who we are and telling other women you should be the boss of your own career and the brains behind your life or your decisions or your art. I just love that feeling.

There's a lot of happy people on Twitter celebrating the news that Bob Dylan has won the Nobel prize for Literature...

There are also some amusing reactions...

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We've been hearing from the head of the committee that decided to award Bob Dylan the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature. 

Sara Danius, permanent secretary of the Swedish academy, said she hopes there isn't criticism for giving the prize to a songwriter for the first time and explained why they picked Dylan...

Quote Message: He is a great poet in the English speaking tradition and he is a wonderful sampler, a very original sampler – he embodies the tradition – and for 54 years now he’s been at it reinventing himself, constantly creating a new identity.

He is a great poet in the English speaking tradition and he is a wonderful sampler, a very original sampler – he embodies the tradition – and for 54 years now he’s been at it reinventing himself, constantly creating a new identity.

And she denied widening the horizon for the prize because he hasn’t written novels or poetry in the usual sense...

Quote Message: It may seem that way but we haven’t. If you look far back you discover Homer and Sappho and they wrote poetic texts that were meant to be listened to, they were meant to be performed often together with instruments and it is the same with Bob Dylan. And we still read Homer and Sappho and we enjoy it and the same can be said of Bob Dylan - he can and should be read and he is a great poet in the grand English poet tradition.

It may seem that way but we haven’t. If you look far back you discover Homer and Sappho and they wrote poetic texts that were meant to be listened to, they were meant to be performed often together with instruments and it is the same with Bob Dylan. And we still read Homer and Sappho and we enjoy it and the same can be said of Bob Dylan - he can and should be read and he is a great poet in the grand English poet tradition.

When she announced the news she hadn't spoken to Bob Dylan yet but said she was going to do so now. 

Breaking news now and Bob Dylan has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. 

The press release announcing the news says he won "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition." 

Yep, you read that right - In Tune presenter Sean Rafferty got his hands on a lock of Beethoven's hair in the studio last night. 

It arrived with Sotherby's Simon Maguire, who was a guest on the Radio 3 show to talk about some rare Beethoven manuscripts coming up for auction.

Maguire surprised Rafferty with another lot, the lock of hair - a "must have for any Beethoven collector" - which was apparently lopped off while the famous composer lay on his deathbed. 

Catch up with the full programme online, or listen to this clip to hear how much that hair is expected to fetch...

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We can't wait to read this one...

Elton John has announced he's writing his "first and only official autobiography" and we're promised it will be a "no holds barred" account of his life.

He's writing the book with music writer Alex Petridis and he says he's already started...

Quote Message: I'm not prone to being a nostalgic person. I'm often accused of only looking forward to my next gig or creative project. It's come as quite a surprise how cathartic I am finding the process of writing my memoirs. As I look back, I realise what a crazy life I have had the extreme privilege of living. I have grown up in a period of extraordinary change in our world - and have had the joyful honour of rubbing shoulders and working with so many of the people at the heart of these changes. My life has been one helluva rollercoaster ride and it's still lumbering on. I hope readers will enjoy the ride too.

I'm not prone to being a nostalgic person. I'm often accused of only looking forward to my next gig or creative project. It's come as quite a surprise how cathartic I am finding the process of writing my memoirs. As I look back, I realise what a crazy life I have had the extreme privilege of living. I have grown up in a period of extraordinary change in our world - and have had the joyful honour of rubbing shoulders and working with so many of the people at the heart of these changes. My life has been one helluva rollercoaster ride and it's still lumbering on. I hope readers will enjoy the ride too.

But we have a while to wait... It's being published by Pan Macmillan and Holt who are calling it "the biggest worldwide publishing event of 2019".

Jeremy Trevathan his publisher at ​Macmillan ​​UK is pretty darn excited...

Quote Message: Elton John's memoir is a Holy Grail of book publishing. Publishers around the world have long contemplated the excitement and potential of such a wonderful project. When the material arrived we were overwhelmed by how authentic, open, charming and, yes, commercial it was. I'm more than proud that we will be working with Elton and David to bring​ ​out​ ​this fantastic book.

Elton John's memoir is a Holy Grail of book publishing. Publishers around the world have long contemplated the excitement and potential of such a wonderful project. When the material arrived we were overwhelmed by how authentic, open, charming and, yes, commercial it was. I'm more than proud that we will be working with Elton and David to bring​ ​out​ ​this fantastic book.

Fans of Bastille will know their track Good Grief features a sample of actress Kelly Le Brock talking in 80s movie Weird Science. 

Well the band got the real life Kelly Le Brock to join them on the Ellen DeGeneres show to perform lines like "What would you little maniacs like to do first?".

She even wears the red dress like the film and appears in a haze of dry ice...

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Zayn Malik is moving into the fashion world, and we're not talking a line for H&M here.

The former One Directioner has signed up with Donatella Versace to create his own capsule collection for men and women called Zayn X Versus. 

The range will be launched in May and he'll appear in the Versus label's next two ad campaigns, starting in February. 

Zayn has issued a statement saying he'd always wanted to design clothes. 

"The bonus is that I get to collaborate with Donatella, whom I love and admire. I know we’ll create something amazing.”

The Beatles and their famous Yellow Submarine have been immortalised in Lego. 

John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr all feature in the new 550-piece Lego version of the 1968 surreal musical fantasy film inspired by the band.

Beatles fan Kevin Szeto put the idea forward to the toy giant's 'ideas section', as his way of showing his affection for their music.

Designer Justin Ramsden said seeing The Beatles in Lego form is "a dream come true". We hear you Justin.

The set's due out on 1 November and there's even an animated trailer. It's still early doors, but we're pretty convinced this is the best thing you'll see all day...

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