Mickey Rourke finds redemption in a role he was born to play

Danny Boyle does TV shows and gangsters... in Mumbai

Fairly predictably, I suppose, I’ve been watching the unravelling Best New Bands Of 2009 business with some bafflement. Not that my taste was ever going to chime completely with this sort of thing, of course (in my ballot for the BBC poll, I did actually include Florence & The Machine, alongside Telepathe and Crystal Antlers, for what it’s worth).

Plus European live dates announced

Is the singer delaying Archives for a(nother) brand new album?

First time the album performed live in it's entirety captured on disc

Forthcoming Blood Bank Tracks are streaming now

The founder member talks to Uncut about picking tracks they wish they'd written

Yesterday’s playlist provoked a bunch of requests from a few of you, requesting more info about the new things from Bon Iver, Six Organs Of Admittance, Arbouretum and Alela Diane (the Neil Young presence is caused by an Uncut staffer buying a bunch of CDs on the cheap, incidentally, rather than any new reissue campaign. Looks like “Toast” has slipped off the schedules again, by the way, while we’re on the subject of Neil’s capricious archives management).

Josh Homme's other band launch new album with series of shows