Music News

Taylor Swift will perform at the MTV Video Music Awards.
The 24-year-old pop star will reportedly take to the stage at the annual MTV VMAs on August 24 and is planning to blow away viewers with an "explosive" solo performance.
A source told E! News: "It's not a collaboration with another singer."
While organisers of the ceremony haven't officially announced the country star, Usher, Ariana Grande and 5 Seconds of Summer have all been confirmed as performers and will definitely be rocking out on stage at The Forum, in Inglewood, California next month.
Taylor has won two Moonman trophies in the past, taking home the prize for 'Best Female Video' in both 2009 and 2013 for 'You Belong With Me' and 'I Knew You Were Trouble' respectively.
This year will see Katy Perry go up against Lorde, Ariana Grande and Iggy Azalea for Best Female Video while Drake will battle Eminem, Kanye West, Childish Gambino and Wiz Khalifa for the Best Hip-Hop Video award.
Beyonce leads the way with an incredible eight nominations, including 'Video of the Year' and 'Best Collaboration'.
The 2014 MTV Video Music Awards will air live on MTV on August 24 at 9pm.

Guy Garvey is working on his debut solo album.
The Elbow frontman will step away from the band to work on his own offering but warned that it could be a disaster.
He told Gigwise: [It will] "either be great, and a right laugh, or a disaster, and a right laugh".
However, it won't be an entirely solo endeavour as Guy - who will record at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios - will ask some of his famous friends to collaborate with him on the project.
He explained: "I don't like the term 'solo project', because ... I'll be inviting friends to play on it and will let the [project name] itself as it progresses."
While Guy says this is not the end for Elbow and even explained: "I'm already working on lyrics for the next Elbow record," he is excited about doing his own thing away from the band.
He added: "I love being in the honest and even-handed democracy that is Elbow, but I fancy being the boss for a bit, so I'm going to do a side-project."

Jessie J says her third album is completely different to anything she has ever done before.
The 26-year-old singer believes she has grown up a great deal since her first offering and cannot wait to unveil a new sound on her latest record.
She told Capital FM: "This is the album to make a change. I feel like this album is what it's about for me.
"I've learned a lot, I've had my ups and downs and I reckon the third album is the one where you have finally found your feet."
And she couldn't wait to tweet fans after her first listen to the new music.
Jessie wrote: "LISTENING TO ALBUM 3 RIGHT THE WAY THROUGH FOR THE FIRST TIME. I CANT WAIT FOR YOU ALL TO HEAR IT! Woooooo!"
This week, Jessie's eagerly anticipated new track 'Bang Bang' featuring Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj debuted.
The song was written by Max Martin - who has been responsible for many Backstreet Boys hits - Savan Kotecha and Ilya.
Jessie took a break from music to star as a coach on BBC's 'The Voice' but has left the show to concentrate on her music career.

Chase & Status were shocked when Rihanna called them in the middle of the night.
The duo worked with the Barbadian beauty on her album 'Rated R' after she rang Saul Milton while he was asleep in bed with his girlfriend.
He said: "Our manager, Joe, had been talking with Jay Brown at Roc Nation. I got a call from Jay Brown who said, 'I've had a chat with Rihanna. You've got to do a session with us.' The night goes on and day goes on, then at 5am my phone rings and my girlfriend at the time is asleep next to me. 'Hey Saul, it's Rihanna' My girlfriend goes, 'Who's that?' and I whisper, 'It's Rihanna!' It was a strange time to get a call but Rihanna said she loved the tunes, particularly 'Eastern Jam'. Within a week we were in the studio with her, Mr Hudson, Pharrell, Drake..."
And his fellow producer Will Kennard was thrilled to get a MySpace message from Snoop Dogg.
Speaking on 'Relentless Ultra Presents Soundchain With Zane Lowe & Chase & Status', he said: "The first big thing that happened for us was a MySpace message from Snoop Dogg. It was something like 'Yo, I like your tune Eastern Jam. Send it to me. Church Ch-chow'. We sent him the track and two days later he sent it back - He did his own version, 'Snoop Dog Millionaire'!"
Catch 'Relentless Ultra Presents Soundchain With Zane Lowe & Chase & Status' on Sunday 3 August at 9.30pm, on MTV Music.

Damon Albarn thinks rock stars need to do more work.
The former Blur frontman believes artists should follow his example and put more time into their music rather than waiting for inspiration to pop into their heads.
Speaking to the Daily Star newspaper, he said: "When I'm at home, I work nine-to-five, five days a week, period. If you do that, you get a f***ing lot done!
"The mythology of rock 'n' roll encourages you to wait for inspiration. But if you go back to early songwriters, it was just their job. They got up in the morning, had a gin and tonic and worked.
"I'm the same. I just don't do the gin and tonic!"
Meanwhile, the 46-year-old hunk would love to team up with former Oasis star Noel Gallagher at some point because he believes they'd make good music together.
He explained: "I love the craic of having fun with other musicians. Noel is a great musician and such a funny guy to be around.
"He's great company, and sometimes that's as good a reason as any to make music with someone."
Damon is currently busy with his first solo album 'Everyday Robots', which was released in April, but he recently revealed he's signed on to write a musical.
He said earlier this month: "It's funny for me to say 'I'm writing a musical', but, yes, that's what I'm doing next.
"It's something I've always wanted to do because musicals are great when they're done well."

Foo Fighters will headline the Jaguar Land Rover Invictus Games closing concert.
The US rockers will lead a star-studded line-up including Kaiser Chiefs, Ellie Goulding, Ryan Adams, The Vamps, Rizzle Kicks and James Blunt, when they perform at the event in London on September 14, their first UK gig in some time.
The gig will be held at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London to celebrate Invictus Games, launched by Britain's Prince Harry to use the power of sport to inspire recovery, support rehabilitation and generate a wider understanding and respect of those who serve their country.
Foo Fighters said: "Invictus games, look out...THE FOO FIGHTERS ARE COMING. What a perfect way to finally return to the UK for the first time in years...been waaaay too long! Thanks for having us, it is truly an honour to come play for these incredible men and women. Can't wait to do our thing for you..."
Prince Harry added: "I am hugely grateful to all the artists and organisers for coming together in September to put on what will be a truly awesome concert. It will be a celebration of everything the competitors will have achieved over the four days of the Invictus Games, not to mention the efforts of the hundreds of other athletes we couldn't fit into the teams this year. And for those who didn't make it back from operations, this is also for you."
The concert will also include the medal presentations for the inspirational winning competitors. Starting at 5pm, the five-hour multi-artist event will have highlights broadcast by the BBC.
Tickets will go on sale at 09:00am BST on Friday 1 August priced £49 from axs.com / stubhub.co.uk

Ian Watkins' former Lostprophets bandmate Lee Gaze says the jailed singer was completely deluded about the future just days before his arrest.
The Welsh group disbanded after frontman Watkins was jailed for 35 years for child sex offences in December, but guitarist Lee has revealed Ian was "strangely positive and enthusiastic about everything," on a video shoot before he was taken in by police.
He told BBC's Newsbeat: "[He was] talking about the next record and how it's going to do really well and get back on our feet. It goes to show how deluded he was. He is just completely on a different level to everybody, happy and positive and convinced we were going to be successful again."
Lee also insisted he and with former Lostprophets bandmates Stuart Richardson, Mike Lewis and Jamie Oliver - who have formed a new band No Devotion with ex-Thursday singer Geoff Rickley - had no idea about Ian's depravity.
He said: "How could you know? How would anyone know? Who would disclose such a thing to five people, who between them have eight children? You just wouldn't because they would be killed on the spot."

Rockboi loves having pillow fights with Labrinth.
The rapper, who is the brother of both the 'Earthquake' singer and 'Britain's Got Talent' drummer MckNasty, has opened up about his close relationship with his famous siblings.
When asked if there was any rivalry between in their family, he exclusively told BANG Showbiz: "Not unless we're having a pillow fight or something like that, you know what I mean.
"We've all worked together since we were really young and stuff so one day you never know, you might see the whole Mac' pack getting poppin' together."
Rockboi also revealed that despite his brother's success in the music industry, he will be launching his career without the help of Labrinth.
He said: "Basically I'm on what I'm doing and he's on what he's doing, he's a really busy guy".
He described his music as having: "A lot of hype, a lot of good music and erm, something different."
'I Do This' is the first release from his debut mixtape 'Rockboi Express which will be released on 24th August.

Calvin Harris is giving songs he wrote for former girlfriend Rita Ora to Alexis Jordan.
Although Calvin was working on Rita's upcoming album while they were together, he has reportedly offered tunes he wrote for her to the 22-year-old singer who is hoping to relaunch her career three years after her debut single 'Happiness'.
A source told the Daily Mirror newspaper: "Alexis has an amazing voice that works really well with house music, she's a fan of the genre and hoping to put new material out soon."
This is more bad news for Rita, 23, who recorded a number of songs with her former beau - including hit single 'I Will Never Let You Down' before Calvin, 30, insisted she cannot release any more of the tunes they made together.
A source previously said: "Rita's album has hit a bit of a road block after Calvin pulled all the songs he had worked on for the project before they split.
"He'd made a lot of songs for her but they're now likely to go to other artists."
It's been reported that the pair made at least a dozen tracks together, which were to represent the bulk of the eagerly-awaited record.
The source added: "Calvin wants a clean break, personally and professionally. He's already given her one massive hit so doesn't feel her owes her.
"He doesn't want to be linked to her, especially now she's in a new relationship with Rich Hilfiger."
Rita's first studio album, Ora, was released in 2012 and spawned a number of huge hits, including 'RIP' and 'How We Do (Party)'.