Weekly digest #8
Weekly digest #8
Featuring Kathleen Hanna, Chelsea Wolfe, Screaming Trees, Drop Nineteens, Touché Amoré and more
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
Members of R.E.M., Black Crowes, and Screaming Trees (pictured above) form supergroup Silverlites, unveil debut single (Consequence of Sound)
The Cure have another new album that’s “virtually finished” – and a third on the way (NME)
Daniel Johnston’s Artistic Vice to be reissued with previously unreleased music (Pitchfork)
Less Than Jake to release new EP, share "Sunny Side" video (Punk News)
Flatspot adds Thailand-based hardcore bank Whispers to its roster (Scene Point Blank)
📷 Nicolás Sandino Moreno
New releases
Chelsea Wolfe announces acoustic EP with Spiritbox cover, shares “Place In The Sun” (Brooklyn Vegan)
Drop Nineteens announce “lost” 1991 album, share “Daymom” and new “Kick the Tragedy” video (Brooklyn Vegan)
Chicago hardcore band Si Dios Quiere announce debut LP ‘No Angels,’ share title track (Brooklyn Vegan)
Blue Smiley share previously unreleased track “Pond” (Stereogum)
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes cover Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs (Punk News)
Listen/watch
Michael Stipe sings R.E.M.’s “Wendell Gee” for first time in 39 years - watch (Consequence of Sound)
Touché Amoré release documentary about making of 'Spiral In A Straight Line’ (Punk News)
Never Mind The Bollocks with Glen Matlock (Dead’s Not Punk podcast)
NOFX played a brand new, unrecorded song at their very last show (Punk News)
Long reads
Kathleen Hanna on the surprising reactions to her book Rebel Girl, friendships with Shirley Manson and Amy Poehler, and why Chappell Roan talking about boundaries is “awesome.” (Stereogum)
Jason Narducy on how The Clash, Articles of Faith, Cheap Trick and more influenced Verböten’s debut album (Brooklyn Vegan)
On my radar: Evan Dando’s cultural highlights (The Guardian)
Elsewhere on Substack
And finally…
Bush’s Gavin Rossdale to host new cooking and conversation show Rockstar Kitchen Chronicles (Consequence of Sound)
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.)
