Hot songs: You Blue It!; Surf Wax America Priory; Weekend Protocol Afro; Streetside Saint Raymond; Ghosts Cocoon; Catfish and the Bottlemen I’ve created a Spotify playlist with my choice picks, which you can subscribe to via http://open.spotify.com/user/jenster13/playlist/0gYXunFqF4QGZahdvTtjFU or by searching Jenster13. If you want to share your own top tracks, send me suggestions for a readers’ playlist.

Upcoming festivals: Doune The Rabbit Hole; 22-24 August at Cardross Estate, Port of Menteith. Bands include Peatbog Faeries, Errors and The Wave Pictures. www.dounetherabbithole.co.uk Electric Fields; 30 August at Drumlanrig Castle, Thornhill, Dumfries. Bands include Fatherson, We Were Promised Jetpacks, The LaFontaines, Honeyblood and Prides. www.electricfieldsfestival.com Top read: Dear Daughter by Elizabeth Little; You might fight with your mother, but Janie Jenkins could have killed hers. Former “It Girl” Janie is acerbic, whip smart, and fresh out of prison. Ten years ago, at the height of her glamour and fame, she was incarcerated for the murder of her mother, a philanthropist best known for her string of rich husbands. Now, released on a technicality, Janie chops off her trademark hair and is determined to chase down the one lead she has about her mother’s killer. The only problem - Janie doesn’t know if she’s the one she’s looking for. In an isolated South Dakota town whose secrets rival Janie’s own, with the unwitting help of the locals she pieces together a shocking picture of her mother’s supposedly pristine past. On the run from the press, the police, and possibly even a murderer, Janie is forced to choose between the anonymity she craves and the truth she so desperately needs.

Cinema this week: Lucy is an action film directed, written and edited by Luc Besson (Leon, Taken). Starring Scarlett Johansson in the title role, the movie revolves around a young woman who is forced to become a drug mule but then turns the tables on her captors when she accidentally becomes infected with the ability-enhancing substance.

James Bond 24: Veteran 007 writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade have delivered their script for the next Bond instalment. Purvis and Wade - who have credits on The World Is Not Enough, Die Another Day, Casino Royale and Skyfall - were reportedly called in to rewrite John Logan’s original script. Filming is now scheduled to begin in late November/early December and the movie is slated to open in October 2015. Daniel Craig will step out once more as Her Majesty’s secret service agent and will be joined by Ralph Fiennes (M), Ben Whishaw (Q) and director Sam Mendes. Although model-of-the-moment Cara Delevingne hinted that she’d love to appear onscreen as a Bond girl, Lea Seydoux (Blue Is the Warmest Colour, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol) is the rumoured frontrunner to star alongside Craig. Sam Smith is also tipped to record the next theme song after Adele reportedly rejected the offer despite her success with Skyfall.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Cowabunga! Although it’s yet to hit our screens, a sequel to Michael Bay’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot is already in the works. The movie - starring Megan Fox alongside Leonardo, Donatello, Michaelangelo and Raphael - has already made $185 million from a $125m budget in less than two weeks of opening in the US. Paramount - clearly delighted with its Box Office success - has now commissioned a sequel and given it a 3 June 2016 release date. TMNT will open in UK cinemas on 17 October.

Ghostbusters: Sony Pictures is rumoured to have given up on making Ghostbusters 3 and is instead planning a reboot with a female team. Following the passing of Harold Ramis - who played Egon Spengler in the first two films - in February, the studio was forced to revise the script they had already written and were dealt another blow when director/producer Ivan Reitman pulled out after his friend’s death. Bridesmaids director Paul Feig has since emerged as the surprise frontrunner to take the helm and now whispers have surfaced that the classic franchise will be revamped with an all-female squad. If true, Melissa McCarthy and Rose Byrne could be in with a shout. The actresses have already worked with Feig on Bridesmaids and upcoming action-comedy Spy, and he has additionally directed McCarthy in The Heat alongside Sandra Bullock. Regardless of whether the main cast is male, female or a mixture of both, as long as the story is fresh yet remains faithful to the family-ish feel of the first two films, it’ll go down a storm with audiences. Ghostbusters 3 is expected to begin filming in summer of 2015.

Westworld: Ed Harris is the latest Hollywood star to sign up for HBO’s Westworld reboot. The four-time Oscar-nominated actor will play The Man in Black, described as “the distillation of pure villainy into one man”. Online rumours suggest Brazilian hottie Rodrigo Santoro has been cast in the Yul Brynner killer-cowboy robot role, whilst Harris is actually a human character who sadistically abuses the androids. The television pilot - produced by J.J Abrams, Jerry Weintraub and Bryan Burk - will update Michael Crichton’s 1973 classic in which robots are used to fulfil dark human desires within a futuristic theme park. Anthony Hopkins (Silence of the Lambs), James Marsden (X-Men), Evan Rachel Wood (Mildred Pierce), Jeffrey Wright (The Hunger Games) and Shannon Woodward (Raising Hope) are already attached to the project, indicating that it will most likely be picked up.

Until Dawn: Strap in - Sony’s spine-tingling slasher is coming exclusively to the PS4. The horror game has been in the pipeline since 2012, but was delayed and re-developed specifically for the next-generation console. No release date has been set as of yet, but the eerie trailer - which debuted at Gamescom 2014 - will leave you shaking. Until Dawn revolves around eight friends who become trapped on a remote mountain when their getaway goes wrong. Things quickly turn sinister and the group start to suspect they aren’t alone. Gripped by fear and with tensions running high, gamers will be forced to make snap decisions that could mean life or death for everyone involved. Every choice you make while playing as each of the eight characters - even the seemingly trivial ones - will carve out your own unique story. Hayden Panettiere (Heroes, Nashville), Rami Malek (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn) and Brett Dalton (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) have starring roles in the game - but whether they survive the night or not is entirely up to you.