Weekly digest #7
Weekly digest #7
Featuring Green Day, The Linda Lindas, Amyl and the Sniffers, Suede, New Order, and more
📷 ‘When I Come Around’ on wax cylinder from Dookie Demastered
Welcome to Fire Red Sky’s new weekly digest of punk rock, alt rock and indie music news and writing.
It’s meant to be a light read, a quick catch up on the week that lands with you every Saturday morning.
The links are mainly taken from my social media feeds, so if you want more of this sort of thing than you can follow me on Facebook, Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon (I’m also on Instagram).
Headlines
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes announce they’re taking a hiatus (NME), as do METZ (Consequence of Sound)
Henry Rollins explains why he’ll never make music again (NME)
Hopeless in discussions to buy Fat Wreck Chords (Punk News)
New Order mark World Mental Health Day by teaming up with CALM for suicide prevention video (NME)
Scowl, recording at Studio 4 (Punk News), sign to Dead Oceans, share new song “Special” (Stereogum)
New releases
The Linda Lindas release video (pictured above) directed by guitarist Isabela Salazar for their new song ‘Nothing Would Change’ (Punk News)
R.E.M., Fleet Foxes, MJ Lenderman, Sharon Van Etten & more feature on 135-song NC hurricane relief benefit comp (Brooklyn Vegan)
Converge release live album to benefit Mutual Aid Disaster Relief (Punk News)
Indie rock band/project Mount Eerie releases ‘I Saw Another Bird’ from forthcoming first album in five years Night Palace (Stereogum)
UK DIY punks Wonk Unit prepare to release their 9th studio album, Good Good Glad To Hear It (Scene Point Blank)
Listen/watch
NOFX joined by members of Bad Religion, Rancid, The Offspring and more at final show - watch (Brooklyn Vegan)
Watch R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe perform with Jason Isbell at Kamala Harris event in Pittsburgh (Pitchfork)
Listen to new mixes of New Order’s Movement, Low-Life and Blue Monday - review and interview (Louder Than War)
The Breeders’ Kim Deal shares new song “A Good Time Pushed” featuring her bandmates Jim Macpherson and Kelley Deal - listen (Pitchfork)
Long reads
Forget Blur v. Oasis, the true heart of Britpop was the satanic plummet of Suede’s Dog Man Star (The Quietus)
Amyl and the Sniffers take on the world: ‘If you don’t like us, then that’s on you’ (The Guardian)
Placebo on bringing David Bowie and Robbie Williams together in their “honest and vulnerable” new film (NME)
Jonny Greenwood on The Smile’s ‘Cutouts’ and the “fun and natural” Radiohead reunion (NME)
Shoegaze revivals I have known, by Sonic Cathedral’s Nat Cramp (The Quietus)
Elsewhere on Substack
And finally…
You can now buy songs from Green Day’s ‘Dookie’ in lo-fi formats like doorbell chime and – pictured at the top of this post - wax cylinder (Tech Crunch)
Do you have a Substack article, news tip or other piece of writing you’d like to be considered for the digest? Send it to tangleofwires@gmail.com (same goes for press releases etc.)
