Right, I'm calling time on this liveblog. Thanks for your 80s teen movie sequel suggestions today. One worthy late entrant here:

I'll leave you with Dinosaur Jr's monumental performance of Start Choppin on The Word from the early 90s. Refusing to stop soloing when the cameras pan out – now that's punk rock. Byee.

It really is a great day to be a fan of noisy 90s alt.rock. Not only did Afghan Whigs unveil their new album, but now can you hear the reissue of Slint's antsy post-rock touchstone Spiderland in full, demo tracks and all.

What's more, Rolling Stone have the stream of the new record by J Mascis side project Sweet Apple. Sullen air guitar frenzy! While you're listening, why not read my interview with J about his favourite guitarists of all time?

Here's something soothing and otherworldly for a miserable Monday afternoon: a new song from Sydney artist Ela Stiles, constructed from nothing but multiple tracks of her own voice.

Also on the flickering screen tonight: a new series of Great British Menu, Coffee Shop Hotspots, Made In Chelsea, one of those aforementioned ITV dramas, and Shut Your Facebook, a programme about idiots online that our own Filipa Jodelka describes thus:

Five fine contenders for being drowned in their own Cornflakes can be found on Shut Your Facebook (Monday, 10.50pm, Channel 4), which takes a look at the sorriest and most self-obsessed social-media fiends and the online dickery around which their lives revolve. The show aims to embarrass them into changing their ways, but there's a point of no return for redemption, and these people are way beyond it.

Read her full review here.

Look who's on Rev tonight: it's Baby Face / Spike off Press Gang / Soap off Lock, Stock / the car-crush baddie in Kick-Ass (delete according to age).

Dexter Fletcher is a massively underused British actor, I reckon. With this accent, I can't believe he didn't go straight to Hollywood.

A scarily prescient representation of Guide office banter, there.

Obviously Dexter's busier behind the camera these days, directing Sunshine On Leith and Wild Bill. But surely it's not too late to make him a snarky but charming leading man, the British Clooney?

Underworld's Karl Hyde and ambient godhead Brian Eno have a new collaborative album coming out on Warp next month. Here's the latest excerpt, and despite referencing two of 2014's key hipster music trends (Afrobeat and Steve Reich) it's a lot poppier than you might think.

The phrase "ITV Drama" may not be rich with promise, but there are exceptions to the usual mundane dramatisations of Daily Express magazine stories starring ex-soap actors. Broadchurch, for example.

And I'm wondering if Prey might be another exception. Maybe it's just the dubstep soundtrack and John Simm's manic expression, but this trailer makes it look pretty exciting.

There's a clip, too.

The tagline – "Police Man, Family Man, Wanted Man" – is a bit shonky, but if the whole thing's as tense and visceral as the crash/escape scene, Prey could be one to watch.

Once again, Guide readers, you've outdone yourselves.

Here are the new Top 5 singles in the UK:

1 THE MAN – ALOE BLACC (INTERSCOPE)

2 ALL OF ME – JOHN LEGEND (COLUMBIA)

3 I GOT U – DUKE DUMONT FT JAX JONES (BLASE BOYS CLUB)

4 MY LOVE – ROUTE 94 FT JESS GLYNNE (RINSE RECORDINGS)

5 CHANGES – FAUL & WAD AD VS PNAU (RELENTLESS)

So, worthy neo-soul trumps the pop-house revival this week, proving that there's nothing us Brits love more than Americans who dress like we did in the 1950s.

The album chart, on the other hand, is testament to what you can achieve as a meat-and-potatoes indie rock band if you just stay true to your ideals and keep plugging away (or manage to land a plum job as a judge on a TV talent show).

1 EDUCATION EDUCATION EDUCATION & WAR – KAISER CHIEFS (KAISER CHIEFS)

2 THE POWER OF LOVE – SAM BAILEY (SYCO MUSIC)

3 SYMPHONICA – GEORGE MICHAEL (EMI)

4 OUT AMONG THE STARS – JOHNNY CASH (COLUMBIA)

5 LOVE IN THE FUTURE – JOHN LEGEND (COLUMBIA)

So not only is Cumberbatch going to be playing Richard III for a new BBC adaptation of the Shakespeare play, but his Sherlock co-star Martin Freeman is having a crack at Tricky Dicky too.

It's certainly going to be a test for the affable Hobbit man, because if there's one thing to be learned by briefly surveying previous Richard IIIs it's that you've got to look mean.

Really mean.

Really, really mean.

...While at the same time trying not to smirk whenever you remember what Richard III means in rhyming slang. I can't be the only person who saw those 'Richard III Found In Leicester Car Park' headlines the other year and thought: dirty Leicester.

Not sure how we missed this momentous news last week, but John Lydon is going to be playing King Herod in a new US production of Jesus Christ Superstar, alongside Michelle Williams (of Destiny's Child) as Mary Magdalene, Brandon Boyd (of Incubus) as Judas Iscariot and JC Chasez (of N'Sync) as Pontius Pilate. What a lineup. Certainly gives 5th Story a run for their money.

Naturally, Johnny Rotten upstaged everyone at the press conference by throwing bananas into the crowd, telling the promoter to shut up and trying to take control of the Q&A session before being forced offstage. Punk's not dead!

Wonder how long he'll last on the production's 50-date North American tour? He doesn't have a particularly strong record as far as US tours go…

Fans of car crash cinema should note that a Goonies sequel is now definitely in the works, according to director Richard Donner. Just to make it really wrong, he's hoping to bring back all the stars of the original film – now in their 40s.

That would mean a return for actors such as Corey Feldman, Josh Brolin, Sean Astin and Jeff Cohen, whose lives have taken diverse paths since the 1985 movie. Feldman, who has for years been the biggest cheerleader for "Goonies 2" is a reality TV star and singer in a ska band (as well as occasional actor).

Tactful use of the phrase "diverse paths" there.

In case you were wondering, here's Corey's band. Can't hear much ska, but be thankful for small mercies.

Are there any 80s teen movie sequels that could possibly work when played by the same actors, now in middle-age? Mannequin might be a bit racier, I guess.

I'm in a weird Game Of Thrones limbo today, knowing that some of you will have stayed up to watch the first episode last night, while the rest of you will start screaming AAAGH SPOILER if I so much as mention that Theon's dismembered knob has gained sentience and recruited an army of white walkers to sail on King's Landing (joke).

If you're saving it til tonight, get yourself in the zone with our Westeros travel guide.

If you did watch, though, here's Sarah Hughes' episode blog.

For good measure, here's Andrew Collins reviewing the same episode, but in a video.

And, erm, here's former Australian PM Julia Gillard on the parallels between GoT and real-life politics.

Despite all the gratuitous nudity and violence, there's something about Game Of Thrones that still seems a little bit prissy and austere. The solution? Recut the trailers to a soundtrack of Ante Up by MOP. Boom!

Morning all. Sam here, welcoming you to today's Guide Daily liveblog. It's gonna be fun, I promise.

While you gather your thoughts, why not join me in listening to the new Afghan Whigs album, their first in 16 years. Rock music doesn't get much more luxuriant than this.

Saul Goodman's on board, too.