If you’re in Glasgow, go and see ex-Sonic Youth noise poet Thurston Moore at the School Of Art.

If you’re in Manchester, go and see soulful rapper Common at Albert Hall.

If you’re in Chelmsford, go and see righteously grumpy comic Jeremy Hardy at the Civic Theatre.

If you’re in Bristol, go and see sly noise terrorist Ben Frost at the Thekla.

And if you’re in London, you’re spoilt for choice. Choose between Black Bananas at the 100 Club, Kate Tempest at Village Underground or Adult Jazz at Corsica Studios. You may even spot some Guide staffers at the latter.

Interstellar, Leviathan, Set Fire To The Stars and Edwyn Collins doc The Possibilities Are Endless are all playing at the cinema.

Staying in? Choose between Bad Robots, Bette Midler and the Grand Slam Of Darts.

I’ll leave you with the new video from Deerhoof, featuring celebrity fan Michael Shannon acting starey and scary like only Michael Shannon can. Don’t have nightmares.

First up, nine minutes of loveliness from languorous folk-rockers The Amazing. They’re Swedish, so the band name is surely sarcastic, but don’t let their self-deprecation fool you.

On a not dissimilar tip, but also sounding a bit like a weirder War On Drugs fronted by Bonnie Prince Billy, this is Holy Sons. Good to see they’ve met the regulation indie video quota of forest in the video, too.

From Kindness’s immaculate recent album Otherness, here’s a video for the Robyn-featuring Who Do You Love? Taking the title literally, it’s a touching visual roll call of the two singers’ nearest and dearest. Presume that’s Robyn’s dad near the end? He looks like a dude.

But if you’re craving something more upbeat after all that wistfulness, friends of the Guide The 2 Bears are currently doing their thang live on NTS Radio.

Yet more streaming TV news! Three new episodes of charming weed-delivery webseries High Maintenance have just gone live, available once you subscribe to full second series (and roll a fat one in preparation, natch). Here’s the trailer:

Talking of Amazon Prime, the channel/service has just announced its 2015 pilot season for potential new dramas. Here are the most promising blurbs:

Cocked

Corporate lapdog returns to rural Virginia to help run his family’s gun business, disapproving liberal family in tow. Starring My Name Is Earl’s Jason Lee as the rootin’ tootin’ older brother.

The Man In The High Castle

Based on Philip K Dick’s 1962 alternative history, considering the question of what would have happened if the Allied Powers had lost World War II. Written by X-Files’ Frank Spotnitz and exec produced by Ridley Scott

Mad Dogs

Yes, it’s the US version of Sky1’s blokey Brits abroad caper, written by the same guy (Cris Cole), but starring Steve Zahn, Billy Zane and Michael Imperioli off the Sopranos. Could be fun.

You’ll be able to watch all of those from early next year, and give your feedback on which should be commissioned.

To give you an idea, series that got the green light last time are Whit Stillman’s Cosmopolitans, a wry drama about American ex-pats in Paris starring Chloe Sevigny and Adam Brody, and Stephen Soderbergh’s 80s com-dram Red Oaks, which looks pretty fun (see below). Both of those should be launching sometime next year.

Earlier this year, bloodthirsty cockney caper Ripper Street was saved from the chop by Amazon Prime. Good thing too, as our own Julia Raeside reckons the new series – launching this Friday on Amazon Prime, with a BBC1 run to follow in the New Year – is better than ever. Decide for yourself with these new clips, featuring much Victorian trash talk, including the phrase “rather a cockerel than a capon”. Must remember to use that somewhere.

It’s always a bit fishy when big brands start endorsing street music, but arguably without Kenco’s involvement we might never have come across spry Honduran rappers Socio and Dana Che, who were commissioned to write this song to highlight the company’s Coffee Vs Gangs project.

In a rather more clunking example of brand synergy, Usher has announced that his new single will only be available with boxes of Honey Nut Cheerios purchased in Walmart. That boy sure loves his sugary breakfast cereal.

Bequiffed horn-botherer Mark Ronson has enlisted some interesting collaborators for his new album Uptown Special, out at the end of January. Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker writes and plays on several songs, such as the agreeably groovy Daffodils:

Even more intriguingly, most of the lyrics on Uptown Special have been written by author Michael Chabon. But then there’s also Bruno Mars:

It could go either way.

In today’s Radio Times, Autumnwatch presenter Chris Packham has written an open letter to Ant & Dec (!?), urging them to reconsider the use of live animals on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here.

It spoils the show because it’s simply out of date, some would say barbaric. And actually it’s often pretty silly too, because many viewers recognise that the species used are not dangerous, or significantly toxic or venomous in the first place. Or that they’ve been ‘doctored’, their fangs sealed, their jaws bound, so even under the stress they’re exposed to they couldn’t possibly harm any of your guests. But then, let’s face it, as we all know, you couldn’t let that happen anyway. It’s a sham.

Fair enough, really. Although he also went on to complain about the show’s very portrayal of rats, spiders and other jungle beasties.

By orchestrating a fear of them among your contestants, I’m afraid you’re reinforcing and exaggerating a terrible ignorance and intolerance of these remarkable animals… The show has been running for years now. Surely it’s time for it to mature, for you to accept that, as pillars of the British broadcasting community, you should put an end to this inhumane, embarrassing and destructive aspect of an otherwise great show.

An otherwise great show? Which segments is he tuning in for? Once you’ve got rid of the bits where celebrities put their hands in a box of snakes or go a bit nuts because they think they’ve seen a rat under their bed, all you’ve got is Ant & Dec laughing at Dean Gaffney for having to survive on a cupful of plain rice a day. Frankly, the treatment of z-list celebs is just as cruel. Time to can the whole thing, ITV.

While we’re here though, let’s have a look a Chris Packham’s extraordinary career in haircuts.

Eminem has a new Shady Records comp out later this month. To promote Shady XV, he’s made a video of featured artists Crooked I, Joe Budden, Yelawolf, Joell Ortiz, and Royce Da 5’9″ rapping acapella on home turf.

It’s pretty impressive stuff, although Eminem has ensured that it’s not the verbal dexterity of his proteges that people are discussing on the internet today by turning up at the end to rap the line “Bitch, I’ll punch Lana Del Rey right in the face twice, like Ray Rice”. Obviously it’s intended as a throwaway, near-the-knuckle topical ref, but we thought he’d have grown out of threatening to hit women by now.

Here’s a track from the album, featuring yet more Detroit luminaries in the form of Big Sean and Danny Brown. Eminem doesn’t threaten to beat up any women on this one.

Morning all. Let’s get straight down to business with Kanye West’s remix of Lorde’s Hunger Games: Mockingjay theme, Yellow Flicker Beat. Sadly there’s no rapping, so it’s basically just the same song with a bit of Yeezus-esque distortion. Kanye probably wasn’t anywhere near it, delegating the legwork to Gesaffelstein or someone. But anyway, here it is.