Weekly digest #12

Featuring The White Stripes, The Smiths, Hole, Interpol, Amyl and The Sniffers, and more

📷 Still from The White Stripes’ ‘Black Math’ video

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 weekend.

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).

The White Stripes (‘pictured’ above) drop lawsuit against Donald Trump (Pitchfork)

New Go-Betweens box set comes with previously unreleased songs and a random book once owned by Grant McLennan (Stereogum)

Interpol announce new Live at Third Man Records album (Pitchfork)

Courtney Love covers Tim Buckley with 070 Shake, explains how Hole’s ‘Violet’ is “not just about Billy Corgan” (Stereogum)

Bonzo goes to Kreuzkölln: The Ramones Museum returns (The Berliner)

New releases

Throwing Muses (pictured above) release 'Drugstore Drastic', their first new music since 2020's Sun Racket album (Stereogum)

Julien Baker covers Belle and Sebastian’s ‘Get Me Away From Here, I’m Dying’ (Pitchfork)

Du Blonde releases ‘Solitary Individual’, featuring Laura Jane Grace (Punk News)

UK shoegaze band Bdrmm announce new album Microtonic with atmospheric single ‘John On The Ceiling’ (NME)

Kentucky horror pop punks Pumpkin Guts reveal Cats Corpses & Other Tales on new EP (The Punk Site)

Listen/watch

Watch comedian Adam Hills try to bleep Amyl & The Sniffers profanities on live TV (Stereogum story, full video)

The story behind The Church’s 'Under the Milky Way' with Steve Kilbey: Podcast (Consequence of Sound)

Mustard Plug cover Fugazi’s 'Waiting Room' in Massachusetts (Punk News)

Hüsker Dü’s career examined through the lens of five of their classic songs (One Band, 5 Songs podcast)

Watch the trailer for new documentary about Cro-Mags’ Harley Flanagan (Stereogum)

Long reads

Krist Novoselic on his supergroup 3rd Secret: “It’s not going to be a Soundgarden record, and it’s not going to be a Nirvana record." (Spin)

Something they’ll never have: Why Hatful of Hollow is The Smiths’ best album (The Quietus)

Punk doesn’t need Trump to be mad: 10 crucial political punk albums from 2024 (Brooklyn Vegan)

Reissue of the Week: TV on the Radio’s Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes (The Quietus)

MOJO's top 75 albums of 2024 (Brooklyn Vegan)

Elsewhere on Substack

The Wreckage

And finally…

Dinosaur Jr. is in the bourbon business now (Punk News)

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.)