The Lynching tells the story of the murder of 19-year-old Michael Donald in Alabama in 1981, and the criminal and civil trials that follow.

Though now a more polarizing band than at any other time in their history (cue “that” Nick Cave quote getting pulled out at any available opportunity by haters), there’s clearly still much love in the world for Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Two young women manipulate the global economy through a half-scientific, half-mystical process from a ramshackle house in a picturesque Maine hamlet.

The sun shone brightly for entirety of this year’s Montréal Jazz Festival, right through until the festival’s close, when the skies turned grey and rainy. It’s a nice metaphor for just how much the two weeks of music that the event brings to town utterly transforms the lives of everyone in the Quartier des Spectacles and beyond.

It comes so close. Josh Davis’s best album in at least a decade starts off with the excellent title track, a lush sounding landscape that’s as pretty as anything he’s ever done, and he follows that up with the killer “Nobody Speak” featuring Run the Jewels.

Acclaimed documentarian Ivy Meeropol’s film focusses on the nexus between the NRC, the nuclear industry, and anti-nuclear campaigners.

Two and a half hours. 50 songs. People were complaining it was $35 a ticket but break that down and it’s 23 cents a minute, for two and half hours of Pure Rock ‘N’ Roll. Robert Pollard’s still got the pipes and the poses. And made great use of them without any sign of flagging during the entire striped-white-jet-powered show.

The pairing of Jarvis Cocker’s sardonicism with another master storyteller, author Neil Gaiman (Coraline, The Graveyard Book) is pure genius. Cocker has written the music for the British television series, Likely Stories, based on four short stories by the award-winning Gaiman.

The liner notes refer to The Soft Bounce as “a trip album in the wildest sense.” With that in mind, expect this string of tunes from electronic duo Erol Alkan and Richard Norris to provide a change of scenery around every corner.