Weekly digest #15
Featuring Arctic Monkeys, Frank Turner, Blur, Nine Inch Nails, St. Vincent, and more
📷 Zackery Michael
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).
Headlines
Spotify Wrapped 2024: Arctic Monkeys (pictured above) and Oasis rank as top indie bands in UK (NME)
Surviving Soundgarden members to play Seattle benefit (Spin)
The Cure announce Songs of a Live World album from Troxy gig I'm London (Consequence of Sound)
Nine Inch Nails are working on new material (NME)
da Googie (Debbie Googe from My Bloody Valentine) announces her album with Cara Tivey (Louder Than War)
New releases
Parisian indie punks Alvilda (pictured above) release their debut LP C'est D​é​jà L'heure (Punk News)
LA indie rock band Dutch Interior release ‘Sandcastle Molds’ (Stereogum)
Toronto gothy post-punks Bonnie Trash announce new album, Mourning You, release ‘Veil of Greed’ (Brooklyn Vegan)
The Wildhearts reveal epic new single ‘Failure is the mother of success’ (The Punk Site)
Thursday’s second comeback single ‘White Bikes’ brings emo nostalgia into the future (Brooklyn Vegan)
Listen/watch
Watch St. Vincent (pictured above) read kids’ bedtime story for CBeebies (NME)
Chelsea Wolfe made a playlist of 2024 songs she loved (Brooklyn Vegan)
Watch MJ Lenderman join Dinosaur Jr. In LA (Stereogum)
Footage resurfaces of MGMT playing ‘Kids’ as college students (NME)
Josh Homme, Dave Gahan, Chrissie Hynde honour Mark Lanegan at London tribute show: video + setlist (Consequence of Sound)
Long reads
Frank Turner talks about songwriting and endless tour life (The AU Review)
1994 : Thirty Years On – another great year for albums? (Louder Than War)
Blur's Alex James: "Rock’n’roll is normally what sends people off the rails and into excess, so it was slightly alarming that my band was going to be rehab for me" (The Express)
Read an excerpt from new AFI book on the band’s signing to a major label (Brooklyn Vegan)
The National’s Bryce Dessner on All Of This Unreal Time (The Quietus)
Elsewhere on Substack
And finally…
Tony Hawk announces Kraftwerk’s 2025 North American tour (Stereogum)
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.)Â
