As some of you guessed last week, Neil Young’s exceptional “Le Noise” was one of the mystery records in Playlist 34. I’ve now got clearance to blog about it so, all being well, I’ll post something here tomorrow, deadlines permitting. As you can see, “Le Noise” isn’t the only auspicious arrival this week.

Bassist's appear to have forgiven each other

Cold, hard hillbilly thriller, set in Missouri’s unforgiving Ozarks...

Leering drone-rock from Cave & co. Good dirty fun...

More deliciously dark Americana. And a few surprises too...

I guess a lot of people have a John Peel epiphany, and mine definitely came at some point in the early ‘80s when, for no obvious reason, he dug out “She Is Beyond Good And Evil” by The Pop Group.

Former Oasis man will be changing nappies for the next few months at least, he says

U2 man gets in touch ahead of the Devon band's gigs at Wembley Stadium

The line-up for this year’s London Film Festival has now been announced - which means it’s time for me to give you a quick heads-up on some of the films we’re most looking forward to seeing during the festival. Apart from the new Mike Leigh and other festival die-hards, there’s plenty of promising stuff – docs on Lemmy, Mott the Hoople and Creation records plus Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, Patrick Keiller’s Robinson In Ruins and Anton Corbijn’s The American.

It's the sixth time his plea has been turned down