The hot list

THE ESSENTIAL NEW ROCK TRACKS YOU NEED TO HEAR THIS MONTH AND THE BANDS TO HAVE ON YOUR RADAR

Pagan doom, Marmite metalcore, genre-smashing hardcore, razzle-dazzle arena metal… this has been the soundtrack to the decade to date

A trio you’d never expect, Rose Byrne, Conan O’Brien and A$AP Rocky, star in Mary Bronstein’s thriller If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, following a mother raising her mysteriously ill daughter with an abse

Praise be! Prog’s most devout figure, Neal Morse, gets the gang back together, dials back the sermonising and reaches for the stars on his band’s sparkling first album in five years.

THE BEST FILMS, BOOKS AND GREAT DAYS OUT TO MAKE THE MOST OF THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS

LOST LAMBS BY MADELINE CASH A chaotic family of five on the brink, a town held to ransom by a mysterious tech bro, a gnat-infested church, an ‘inner beauty’ pageant, a 20-something war criminal and on