Weekly digest #10
Featuring Blondie, TV On The Radio, Superchunk, Lou Reed, Mogwai, and more
Welcome to Fire Red Sky’s latest weekly digest of punk rock, alt rock and indie music news and writing.
It’s a light read, a quick catch up on the week that lands with you every Saturday morning. (And that’s usually the case, but birthday celebrations this weekend waylaid me so I’m running late this time around.)
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
A new album from Blondie (pictured above) is coming in 2025 (NME)
Roddy Bottum: Faith No More are on “semi permanent hiatus” (Consequence of Sound)
TV On The Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe signs to Sub Pop and shares “Magnetic” from his debut solo album (Stereogum)
Dead Boys to release Live in San Francisco from 1977 (Scene Point Blank)
New box set collects BBC Radio sessions by The Fall, Stereolab and more (The Quietus)
New releases
Hot Water Music (pictured above) and Quicksand release split EP (Consequence of Sound)
Superchunk and Quivers cover Dead Moon and Yo La Tengo on new split (Stereogum)
Chicago punk vets The Effigies release final album with singer John Kezdy, announce memorial show (Brooklyn Vegan)
Twitching Tongues make another album of Misfits covers (Stereogum)
Gouge Away release video for Deep Sage cut “Newtau” (Punk News)
Listen/watch
The story behind The Jesus and Mary Chain’s “Just Like Honey”: Podcast (Consequence of Sound)
Throbbing Gristle releasing ‘TG Berlin’ box set: hear previously unreleased “Scabs & Saws” (Brooklyn Vegan)
Chvrches’ Lauren Mayberry details debut solo album, shares video for new song (Pitchfork)
Mogwai announce new album, share “Lion Rumpus” (Brooklyn Vegan)
Full trailer for Mars Volta documentary shows Omar and Cedric’s enduring friendship (Consequence of Sound)
Long reads
The Strange World Of… Lou Reed (The Quietus)
The Sleeping Souls on ‘first gig’ nerves and avoiding a Frank Turner-lite sound (Punk News)
Celebrating the in-betweenness of punk art history: a conversation with Maria Buszek (Razorcake)
J Spaceman (Jason Pierce) on Stranded in Canton (Aquarium Drunkard)
Steve Albini left behind a towering music legacy - and a struggling business (Inc.)
Elsewhere on Substack
And finally…
The Cure’s Robert Smith says he “lives at night” and has “the only nocturnal sheep in Britain” (NME)
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.)
