Weekly digest #16
Featuring Iggy Pop, Mannequin Pussy, Sonic Youth, Geese, Beck 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 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
Iggy Pop releases live video for ‘The Passenger’ from upcoming live album (Punk News)
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross collaborate with Low’s Alan Sparhawk and BJ Burton on alt version of 'Vaster Than Empires' from the Queer soundtrack (Brooklyn Vegan)
Pulp sign to Rough Trade Records (Pitchfork)
The Damned’s Rat Scabies is in new Netflix spy series ‘Black Doves’ (Brooklyn Vegan)
Robert Smith says The Cure’s Songs Of A Lost World companion album is “ready to go”, third LP of “random stuff” coming too (Stereogum)
New releases
Houston pop-punks The Lockdowns release debut LP (Punk News)
Surf-punks Redshift, featuring Articles of Faith’s Vic Bondi, will release new album Chaos As Planned in January (Scene Point Blank)
Spares' Better Days Will Haunt You in 2025 (Scene Point Blank)
Reckoner release ‘She is the Knife’ (Punk News)
LA pastoral indie rockers Goon share ‘Death Spells’ (Stereogum)
Listen/watch
Sonic Youth members Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, and Steve Shelley reunite for rare performance: watch (Consequence of Sound)
Beck covers George Harrison’s ‘Be Here Now’ (Stereogum)
Roger Miret of Agnostic Front talks about his new book, collecting records and more (Punk News podcast)
Amyl and the Sniffers release pro-shot video of live show (Punk News)
Watch Geese cover Televison’s ‘Marquee Moon’ and Green Day’s ‘American Idiot’ at Geesefest 2024 (NME)
Long reads
Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips: ‘It was insane. We all could have died’ (The Guardian)
Mannequin Pussy members on their favorite music of 2024 (Brooklyn Vegan)
A New Biography Unlocks the Secrets of R.E.M. (InsideHook)
Jawbox’s J. Robbins lists his favorite albums, live shows and more of 2024 (Brooklyn Vegan)
The 10 best hardcore albums of 2024 (Stereogum)
Elsewhere on Substack
And finally…
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.)
