Weekly digest #17
Featuring The Clash, Interpol, The Replacements, Sleater-Kinney, Nirvana, and more
📷 Adrian Boot
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 (ish).
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
The Clash (pictured above) and Prince to receive Lifetime Achievement awards at the Grammys (Stereogum)
Interpol unveil short film, Live at Zócalo, Mexico City, 2024 (The Line of Best Fit)
The Replacements’ Slim Dunlap has died (Brooklyn Vegan)
Nirvana’s Nevermind reaches its 700th week on Billboard 200 Chart (NME)
Dead Boys have selected a new singer... but the name is secret for now (Punk News)
New releases
Canadian screamo/emo, post-hardcore band Burial Etiquette release new song ‘Onyx, Iridescent’ (Punk News)
German punk rockers Christmas have a Fear of Romance (The Punk Site)
Punk singer-songwriter Matty Grace! shares ‘The Great Canadian Going Out of Business Sale’ (Punk News)
New York indie-pop duo Toledo release ‘When He Comes Around’ (Stereogum)
Listen/watch
Watch Turnstile’s Brendan Yates sing piano duets with Liam Benzvi at Jack Antonoff’s ally coalition talent show (Stereogum)
Watch the Sex Pistols’ 1977 Christmas Party for Kids – which happened to be their final Gig in the UK (Open Culture)
Watch Sloan’s Jay Ferguson appear on Antiques Roadshow with his signed copy of ‘The Who Sings My Generation’ (Brooklyn Vegan)
Watch Sebadoh reunite for first show in five years (NME)
Watch surviving Soundgarden members reunite (Brooklyn Vegan)
Long reads
Amyl and the Sniffers on leaving Melbourne, channeling the Beastie Boys, and facing their fears on their biggest, boldest album yet (Brooklyn Vegan)
The Cure’s Robert Smith talks Chappell Roan, Brat Summer, his viral 2019 Rock Hall interview (Stereogum)
Sleater-Kinney on their favorite albums and songs of 2024 (Brooklyn Vegan)
The best shoegaze songs of 2024 (Stereogum)
Elsewhere on Substack
And finally…
Study finds Pink Floyd are the most popular rock band tattoo (Consequence of Sound)
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Women are revolting
London doesn’t have a punk rock museum, unlike Fat Mike’s well-regarded Las Vegas enterprise. Neither does the UK capital have anything as band-specific as Berlin’s (temporarily closed) Ramones museum.