If you’re in London, go and see Merchandise at The Laundry. That’s what I’ll be doing, so recommendations don’t come much bigger. If you can’t make it though, this generous French TV session is the next best thing.

If you’re in Glasgow, go and see Joey Bada$$ at the Garage.

If you’re in Newcastle, go and see Robert Plant at the O2 Academy.

And if you’re Birmingham, go and see Little Dragon at The Institute.

At the cinema, Cumberbatch does his Imitation Game and you can see one of last week’s Guide interviewees Matthias Schoenaerts in The Drop.

On telly meanwhile, there’s The Missing, The Leftovers, Life Is Toff and the small matter of the Scotland v England football scrum.

Have fun, won’t you? Tshepo is your host for tomorrow, please join her for more of the same. Nighty night.

It’s true – Belle & Sebastian have gone dance! The Party Line is the first taster from new album Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance and it finds the Glasgow tweesters finally entering the 21st century with perky electropop beats resembling CSS and New Young Pony Club circa 2006. Bless ’em.

An atypically reflective tune here from Malawian-Swedish duo The Very Best, who are back with a new album in March. The time-lapse video was shot close to where they wrote and recorded the album, on the shores of Lake Malawi.

Former Guide cover stars Sleigh Bells have teamed up with Chicago rapper Tink for a track called That Did It. Not such a smooth cultural fusion this one, I kept having to check that I didn’t have two files playing at once.

And finally, here’s a bit of Balearic action from Guiddo and Georges Perin on Beats In Space records. Heavy Jimmy Somerville vibes on this one.

Shoegazing heroes Ride are reforming and will be playing Primavera 2015. At least that’s the inference taken from a post on Creation Records’ Facebook page, showing a Ride banner adorning the side of what looks like a Spanish apartment block.

The Ride reunion rumour mill has been cranking into gear since Beady Eye split the other week, leaving Andy Bell free to rejoin his old band – no, not Hurricane #1, who appear to have conceded defeat and reformed without him.

Here’s a reminder of what Ride sounded like in their pomp:

Raucous girl grungers Babes In Toyland have also announced their reunion. They’ll play their first show in 18 years in LA in Feb. Here’s what they sounded like in their pomp:

While we’re in early 90s mode, want to hear the new single from Smashing Pumpkins? They got in on the reformation game as far back as 2005, albeit with only one original member.

In this post-Game Of Thrones/Peter Jackson world, it feels like any old fantasy cobblers is getting greenlit. So it’s a bit of a puzzle why Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore’s Seventh Son hasn’t come out yet, despite apparently wrapping in 2012. Surely it can’t be any worse than Snow White & The Huntsman? Anyway, here’s a new trailer suggesting the fantasy rulebook is being adhered to very closely.

Fantasy bingo cards at the ready:

• “Hell awakens” – check
  
• Dragons – check
  
• Vaguely celtic logo – check
  
• “Reign of darkness” – check
• Swordfights, wraiths, giants, evil queens – check
  
• Grey hooded figure figure who turns up out of nowhere and starts saying portentous things in an olde English accent to a seemingly unremarkable boy-hunk who must find the power inside himself – check (especially if your name is George Lucas)

Actually, I can see why post-production has taken so long now. I’m not sure there’s anything in this trailer that isn’t CGI, including Jeff Bridges’ beard.

After Wale and Seinfeld comes news of another unlikely rap collab: the Wu-Tang Clan’s deepest thinker GZA has dropped a verse on a new track by LA rocker Hanni El Khatib.

It’s not the first time that the Genius has got down with some moody garage rock, having formerly guested with the Black Lips.

The internet probably doesn’t need any more Frozen or Breaking Bad parodies. But a Frozen/Breaking Bad parody? Oh, go on then.

Proof that Breaking Bad: The Musical has legs.

A few years back, Washington rapper Wale released a Seinfeld-themed mixtape, The Mixtape About Nothing. Jerry Seinfeld himself reached out, and since then the two have become tight – Wale’s upcoming album, The Album About Nothing is a full-blown collab, as detailed in their current joint cover story for Complex magazine.

As well as posing for a series of cute photos in an uptown diner, the pair found time to record a skit, based on the fact that Wale had a little phone tantrum to Complex last year on discovering that his last album didn’t make their Top 50. He’s a good sport about it now, of course. Jerry plays the role of his life guru with aplomb: “I want you to use the N-word. Use it a lot, because then they’ll know you’re serious.”

Here’s Jerry giving Wale some more serious advice about how not to care. “Every time I go out on my terrace I think, ‘Maybe I’ll jump!’ Because the list of things I don’t have to do…”

You want more Jerry and Wale? You got it. Some classic Seinfeld wisdom here. “They say life’s too short – It’s too long! … There are people sitting on cruise ships, old people, doing crossword puzzles just trying to finish it up.”

You might have missed this one over the weekend – it was in the Telegraph, after all – but former Sex Pistol John Lydon has admitted to blowing £10k on iPad apps. Yes, some rock stars piss away their fortune on booze and drugs, others buy fast cars, Sting acquires a global property portfolio… but Johnny Rotten spunks his wad on armour upgrades.

I wasted – you’re the first to know this – 10,000 f‑‑‑‑‑‑ pounds in the last two years on apps on my iPad. I got into Game of Thrones, Game of War, Real Racing, and I just wanted to up the ante. And like an idiot I didn’t check myself. I’ve been checked now. But there’s a kid in me, see? A bit of my childhood was taken from me and I’m determined to bring it back.

£10,000? On Game Of War? Is that even possible? Although it does sound like you can quickly rack up the debt playing Real Racing. Why doesn’t he just buy a PlayStation?

Anyway, what we want to know, avaricious app developers, is: what game would you invent to, ahem, cream off Johnny’s Country Life fortune?

Morning all. A bit behind schedule today – apologies – so let’s get cracking with Dizzee Rascal’s droll, martial arts-themed video for his new track Pagans. I definitely prefer Dizzee when he’s not smiling.