Weekly digest #13

Featuring The Offspring, Scarlet House, Fugazi, Fleet Foxes, Bad Nerves, and more

📷 The Offspring’s live backdrop

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).

Before you peruse the stories below here’s a few extra updates:

• Brendan Canty talks about Rites of Spring, the end/hiatus of Fugazi, his film scoring work and current band The Messthetics in this great little 20 minute documentary, which I’ll embed below

• Singer, songwriter Sam Uctas releases his debut album, which melds post-punk influences with Hendrix-y guitars, I’ll embed that below too.

• Florida-based hardcore band Day By Day unleash hardcore fury on new single ‘Peace Or Annihilation?’, you can stream it now and pre-order the Dust and Ashes EP from Flatspot Records

Headlines

The Offspring’s ‘The Kids Aren’t Alright’ hits 1 billion streams on Spotify (Consequence of Sound). This puts the song in the same bracket as ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’, ‘Mr Brightside’ and ‘Losing My Religion’, at least as far as Spotify numbers are concerned.

Nick Cave shortlisted for 2024 Australian Music Prize (NME)

The Jesus and Mary Chain’s debut 7″ ‘Upside Down’ reissued by Third Man for 40th anniversary (Brooklyn Vegan)

Billy Corgan bid on Courtney Love’s handwritten lyrics for Hole’s ‘Violet’: “I’d love to put that on my wall” (Brooklyn Vegan)

The Cure go to number 1 in the US for first time with Songs of a Lost World (Consequence of Sound)

New releases

Scarlet House (video still pictured above) releases their invigoratingly grungy new single 'Let Go' (Stereogum)

Healthy Junkies return with their indie-punk-n-roll mix on 6th album Listen To The Mad (The Punk Site)

Hotline TNT release remastered and expanded edition of their 2019 compilation Trilogy (Stereogum)

Mx Lonely release ‘grungegazy’ new single ‘Beauty Lasts For Never’ (Brooklyn Vegan)

Los Campesinos! surprise-release new All Hell companion EP More Hell (Stereogum)

Listen/watch

PJ Harvey covers Joy Division’s ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ (NME)

Hear Al Green cover R.E.M.’s ‘Everybody Hurts’ (Spin)

Watch Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold cover Elliott Smith, Joni Mitchell, Karen Dalton, and more in NYC (Stereogum)

Watch TV on the Radio perform ‘Staring at the Sun’ on Fallon (Pitchfork)

Bad Nerves talk Still Nervous, punk power on Lipps Service podcast (Spin)

Long reads

5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Jim Lindberg of Pennywise (Spin)

Nothing else matters: an interview with bdrmm (The Quietus)

‘We didn’t intend to create outrage’: Huggy Bear on radical politics, riot grrrl – and causing chaos on live TV (The Guardian)

Wishy’s Kevin Krauter on his favourite songs in languages other than English (Brooklyn Vegan)

Kim Deal on how Steve Albini, George Jones, Florida, and more shaped her debut solo album Nobody Loves You More (Stereogum)

Elsewhere on Substack

Everything that happens is from now on

And finally…

Morrissey says “nobody” will release his music due to the war on “free speech” in England 🤡 (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.)