Music News Top Five

Breaking news: Juan Atkins, the Detroit producer who co-founded Cybotron and the Belleville Three and helped give techno its name, has died at 64. He was found unresponsive in his Mexico City hotel room ahead of a scheduled performance; his agency confirmed the news, and no cause of death has been announced. Alex and Marcus with what happened and why he mattered.

Zach Bryan's triple-chart debut, Rolling Stone's 200 greatest rock songs of the century so far, Noah Kahan's stadium world tour, Foo Fighters back at number one on rock radio, and Manic Street Preachers with Suede opening their UK tour.

Alex and Marcus run down the five biggest music stories of the last few days: Ella Langley's 25-week Hot 100 record; Donnie Iris dies, aged 83; Neil Young's $10M lawsuit vs the Trump 47 Committee; The Flaming Lips announce The Teardrop Throbs; and Tate McRae's global chart debut. Sponsored by My 25 Free Songs — free music search and 30-second song previews at my25freesongs.com.

The Shires say farewell after thirteen years; we remember Irish traditional great Donal Lunny; Chvrches return with Roses; Greta Van Fleet tops the Hard Rock Albums chart; and the Tim Westwood case grows. Sponsored by My 25 Free Songs.