English Teacher, Green Day, New Order, Frank Turner, TV On The Radio
A curated weekly digest of punk rock, alt rock and indie music news and writing
📷 Denmarc Creary
This issue also includes: Future Islands, Weezer, Foals, Dropkick Murphys, A.R.Kane, and more
Welcome to Fire Red Sky’s weekly digest of punk rock, alt rock and indie music news and writing.
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
Leeds indie band English Teacher (pictured above) win Mercury prize (The Guardian)
Green Day side project Pinhead Gunpowder shares "Unt" from forthcoming new album (Scene Point Blank)
New Order announce 'definitive' box set reissue of classic album 'Brotherhood’ (NME)
Weezer announce Blue Album box set enclosed… in a sweater (Stereogum)
The War on Drugs announces a live album ahead of its tour with The National (The Independent)
New releases
Laura Jane Grace (featuring Lee Ranaldo, Jayne County, Kathi Wilcox, Jay Dee Daugherty, Am Taylor) and many, many more contribute new songs Red Hot’s voluminous TRAИƧA compilation (Stereogum)
TV on the Radio return with first shows in 5+ years & ‘Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes’ reissue (Brooklyn Vegan)
Future Islands release stand alone single “Glimpse” (Consequence of Sound)
Connecticut experimental hardcore punks Space Camp share "DEADNAME ME ALL NIGHT" from forthcoming new album how could i not be your girl? (Punk News)
A.R.Kane return with a digital-only rarities collection and a short-notice series of UK gigs (Louder Than War)
Listen/Watch
Watch Joe Keery as Stephen Malkmus and Jason Schwartzman and Tim Heidecker as Matador Records execs in a clip from the new Pavement film (Stereogum)
Oceanator releases video for "Happy New Year" from new album Everything is Love and Death (Punk News)
Dropkick Murphys stream “This Machine Rising” Woody Guthrie documentary (The Punk Site)
R.E.M. live recording from 1999-08-31 at the Chastain Park Ampitheater in Atlanta, Georgia (Archive.org)
Toyah & Robert Fripp revisit their cover of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (Brooklyn Vegan)
Long reads
Frank Turner: I read [Get in the Van] over and over and over again like it was an instruction manual crossed with the Bible. It’s largely responsible for what I do with my life. (Punk News)
There Are No Horizons: Manic Street Preachers’ The Holy Bible Turns 30 (The Quietus)
Foals’ Yannis Philippakis: ‘I don’t see myself as being tethered to the band’ (The Independent)
5 great post-hardcore/screamo albums from 2024, so far (Brooklyn Vegan)
10 best Britpop albums from 1995 (Brooklyn Vegan)
Elsewhere on Substack
And finally…
Got a spare $20k and want a certain iconic Flying V? One of Bob Mould’s Hüsker Dü-era guitars is up for sale, allegedly the one he played at the legendary punk rock band’s final gig (Willie’s Guitars)
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.)
