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Record label Polyvinyl has dropped newcomers PWR BTTM after accusations of sexual assault involving singer Ben Hopkins.

"There is absolutely no place in the world for hate, violence, abuse, discrimination or predatory behaviour of any kind," the label said.

"In keeping with this philosophy, we want to let everyone know that we are ceasing to sell and distribute PWR BTTM's music."

The band said the sexual assault allegations came .

Polyvinyl says they will also offer refunds to people who have bought PWR BTTM products and are donating to charities tackling sexual violence and LGBTQ violence.

In a statement put out on Twitter last week, PWR BTTM said: "Ben has not been contacted by any survivor(s) of abuse.

"These allegations are shocking to us and we take them very seriously."

PWR BTTM played a live session for Huw Stephens on Radio 1 at the SXSW festival and have been playsd on specialist shows on Radio 1 and 6 Music.  

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Ok, so following the Pirate Paul McCartney news (scroll down) we asked you for your favourite musical appearances in feature films.

One of our faves was Keef playing Johnny's daddy in the third Pirates of the Caribbean movie (above). 

Here's what you came up with...

On Facebook Sarah Billingham said: "Definitely David Bowie in Labyrinth, love that film and his performance so much!"

Greg Evans agrees. And so do we. Great shout team. 

Mark Briarty votes Elvis Presley, while Christopher Mitchell thinks that "Tom Waits did alright." Another great set of shouts guys but in WHICH films?!

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Twitter threw up a load more names of musicians-turned-actors including Marky Mark Whalberg (above), the brothers from Spandau Ballet and Keanu Reeves...remember his band Dogstar anyone? Sét below clearly does.

Thanks for getting involved today peeps!

The late great Bob Marley's classic reggae album Exodus was released in June 1977.

Now, nearly 40 years later, his son Ziggy has revisited the original recording sessions and put his spin on some of the tracks for his own album, Exodus 40.

The original album contains the title-track, Three Little Birds and One Love/People Get Ready.

Ziggy spoke to Newshour about updating his dad's work and how he feels like less his son and more his "big brother" now.

Now, you need a pair of big hitters in any top baseball team and there were certainly two on show in LA this weekend.

That's as piano man Billy Joel's tour took him to the Dodger Stadium on Saturday night, where Guns 'N Roses and sometime AC/DC frontman Axl Rose was on hand to lend his vocal cords.

Between them, they've had plenty of hits of their own but they came together for a rendition of the Aussie band's Highway to Hell.

Check out the duo's innings above.

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Former Fifth Harmony singer Camila Cabello has revealed her solo album will be released on 19 May under the snappy title The Hurting, the Healing, the Loving.

In a lengthy tweet - well a 140 character-appropriate tweet linking to a MUCH longer blog - she said the record "is the story of my journey from darkness into light".

There is nothing that refers directly to her acrimonious split from her group Fifth Harmony, though she does write about being on a bathroom on tour and being "completely broken" in the kind of pain that "is uncomfortable to talk about".

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Musician Warren Ellis, who is known for the albums and film scores he has composed with his friend and collaborator Nick Cave has been speaking to 6 Music about their pair's creative process.

He also told Mary Anne Hobbs about watching the film One More Time With Feeling, about the recording of the Nick and the Bad Seeds' album Skeleton Key, which was written in the wake of the death of Nick's teenage son Arthur.

"To see it that first time, sitting back with Nick was devastating, he said. "But also fascinating to watch as a third person from the outside looking in." 

You can listen to the full interview with Warren as he reminisces about the band's early days and how he helped Nick find the focus he needed to finish his latest album.

Scots post-rockers Mogwai shared their newest track on 6 Music at the weekend and it precedes a new album which is coming out in September.

Coolverine, which you can hear above, is a suitably dreamy soundscape as well as being a cool Marvel-based pun

Stuart Braithwaite from the band spoke to Mary Anne Hobbs about the new record and how the departure of longtime guitarist John Cummings had galvanised the band. 

Listen to the full interview.

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Katy Perry's latest song Bon Appetit may not have been to everyone's taste and the new slightly NSFW new video also seems to have divided eaters...we mean fans.

It sees the singer being floured, basted and boiled ahead of a cannibal fest.

Vulture has picked out some of the tastiest nuggets from the video in GIF form.

Still the controversy hasn't done it any harm more than 22m hits and counting... 

Katy has also announced a new album, which is her follow-up to 2013’s Prism.

Witness (that explains her Met ball get-up below) will be out on 9 June and she will be playing dates across the US.

You can see/hear her on Radio 1's Big Weekend later this month in Hull.

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Last week we told you about the Pink Floyd, Their Mortal Remains exhibition at the V & A museum in London.

Well Radio 2 DJ Johnnie Walker must've been reading as he took a trip there this weekend and got a tour from curator and Hipgnosis's Aubrey 'Po' Powell. 

Luckily he took a camera person with him too so you can watch it for yourself above Floyd fans.

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We love a good chat show but in America they REALLY love a chat show.

There's roughly three million (ish) of them each night and this weekend saw performances from Californian sisters Haim and Dan Auerbach of Ohio bluesy-rockers The Black Keys.

Haim appeared as the musical guests on Saturday Night Live on... erm... well you know when.

They played two tracks from their forthcoming new album Something To Tell You, including Want You Back which you can watch below.

The Black Keys frontman appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert the night before, to plug his new solo album Waiting On A Song.

He's put down the electric guitar and found himself a new band in what seems to be the early onset of his Travelling Wilburys era.

Check out new track Shine On Me.

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Okay, this next story is not - repeat - not, a joke.  

A widespread conspiracy theory that Avril Lavigne is actually dead and has been replaced by a lookalike has resurfaced with more than 370,000 mentions of her name on Twitter in the last 24 hours.

The Canadian's debut single Complicated was released 14 years ago yesterday, which probably explains the fresh spike in online interest.

The theory suggests that the singer died in 2002 and that lookalike Melissa Vandella was been impersonating her ever since.

Some claim this is the reason for her massive style shift from rock chick to bubblegum pop star, that there are inconsistencies in moles and skin blemishes between the two and that "Avril Lavigne would never promote a slim secret bar."

It's one helluva claim. Over to you Melissa, We mean Avril.

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So Sir Macca is setting sail for the high seas for a small role in the next Pirates of the Caribbean film.

It got us talking in the office about other music stars that have popped up unexpectedly in films down the years.

We want your suggestions. This Radio 1 article might help to provide some inspiration.

Get in touch via our BBC Music Facebook page or Twitter.

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King of the goths Marilyn Manson will tour the UK and Europe in December.

His forthcoming album Heaven Upside Down is now belatedly set for release this summer and he'll play a series of dates in Manchester, Glasgow, Wolverhampton and Newport before arriving at Wembley Arena on 9 December.

So if you're dreaming of a very dark Christmas then now you know what to do.

And for a bit of fun, check out this brilliantly awkward interview with Marilyn, or Brian, as we like to call him at the King Arthur premiere.

Find out what his 'biggest pet peeve" is....

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"I was at Coachella, swinging on your shoulder, watching your husband swing in time."

Who on earth could Lana Del Rey be talking about in the wordd to her new track Coachella - Woodstock in My Mind.

It's the same song that a 'tired and emotional' singer shared a snippet of, on her way home from the festival in California.

At the time, she said it was after "watching tensions with North Korea mount."

There seems to be suggestion that she would trade of her fame and fortune for some kind of spiritual enlightenment.

Wouldn't we all Lana...

Legendary Beatle Sir Paul McCartney is set to follow in Rolling Stone Keith Richards footsteps by appearing in the forthcoming Pirates of the Caribbean film: Dead Men Tell No Tales.

He revealed how his swashbuckling character will look on social media on Saturday, in a picture captioned #PiratesLife.

Fellow 60s rock 'n' roller Richards played Jack Sparrow's dad Captain Teague in a previous film.

Question:

Why are all these ageing rock stars being cast as pirates?

Answer:

They just aarrrrrrrrr....

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Rap legend KRS-One has sent his "sincere apologies" to Beastie Boy Adam 'Ad-Rock' Horovitz after mistakenly adding him to the lyrics of a new track about rap heroes who have died.

"I mistakenly paid respect and condolences to the wrong Beastie Boy member King Ad-Rock when it should have been MCA," he wrote on Twitter, adding "I accept all responsibility for this error".

Adam MCA Yauch died of cancer in 2012.

KRS blamed the mistake on how fast the song was recorded: "My lyrics are mostly freestyle and off the top of my head" he said.

He added the song, Hip Hops Speaks from Heaven, will be removed from the album's digital release.

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Fresh off the back of his debut solo album being released on Friday (we've a feeling Kasabian will have a short reign on the album chart throne) Harry Styles announced a secret gig at the Garage in north London.

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His album's had some decent, if not rave reviews but could he carry off his first full solo performance on these shores without the backing of his three other (four if you count Zayn) 1D bandmates?

In a gushing five-star review, The Telegraph praise his interaction with the fans who paid £10 for the first come, first served tickets: "It’s this combination of charm, ease, flamboyance, and an actually very good singing voice, that sets Styles apart from his former bandmates and many of his peers."

In a slightly less enthusaistic review, the Guardian says of the songs: "Woman is a loping, Benny and the Jets-style stomper; the limp Two Ghosts is beige Beck; while an unexpected cover of Kanye West’s Ultralight Beam sees all the original’s gospel uplift deflated by Kings of Leon dad-rock posturing. More often than not, he’s also stuck behind an over-sized guitar (the ex-boyband members’ weapon of choice in today’s authenticity wars." 

However, it praised "a rousing, uplifting finale".

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We thought the day would never come...

...but after nine weeks at the top, chart-slayer Ed Sheeran has been cut down to size by Kasabian.

Their fifth studio album For Crying Out Loud went straight in at number one, having finished last week with 5,000 combined chart sales more than young Edward.

Speaking to the OfficialCharts.com, Serge Pizzorno thanked the fans.

"It’s absolutely incredible to have five Number one albums in a row. Thanks to everyone who has supported us. We can’t wait to play the new tracks on the road this summer."

That includes Radio 1's Big Weekend in Hull in a less than two weeks.

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In the singles charts Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee secured their first UK number one - with a little help from Justin Bieber.

The remix of Despacito amassed 31,000 downloads and 6.2 million streams to clinch the Official Singles Chart top spot this week.

If in doubt, call up the Biebs...

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The track, sung mostly sang in Spanish is the first foreign language UK #1 since Gangnam Style by South Korea’s Psy in 2012.

Sak Noel's Ibiza banger Loca People was the last Spanglish hit to top the singles charts over here. 

Here's a rather chuffed Luis below.

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Fresh off the back of their Euro 2016 success (ask your football fan friend) Portugal won the Eurovision Song Contest for the first ever time.

Salvador Sobral won with a love ballad Amar Pelos Dois (For the Both of Us) written by his sister.

Imagine Moon River but sang in Portuguese and you're halfway there.

The 27-year-old said on receiving the trophy: "We live in a world of fast food music. This is a victory for music... music isn't fireworks, music is feeling."

Take that music industry.

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Lucie Jones, representing the UK with I'll Never Give Up on You, came 15th, our highest placing since 2011 and boy-band Blue.

The former X Factor contestant, received 111 points for her performance but didn't seem too upset, tweeting: "I wonnnnnnn!!!..."

Elsewhere, last year's winner Jamala had her performance briefly interrupted by a man (not Jarvis Cocker) flashing his bottom.

Ukrainian TV identified him as "scandalous" Ukrainian prankster Vitaliy Sedyuk.

Naturally Azerbaijan's Dihaj sang alongside a man on a step ladder wearing a horse's head and Italy's Francesco Gabbani appeared with a dancing gorilla.

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Never mind the singing contest, how's this for added pressure?

In Thursday's second semi-final Macedonia's pregnant entrant Jana Burceska, squealed with delight as her fiance proposed to her in front of an audience of millions during the second semi-final in Kiev.

In Saturday's final there was also a full on snog with tongues and everything from team Belarus after they finished their performance.

You can check out some of the best pictures of the night from Kiev and re-live how the night unfolded too.

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