Weekly digest #18
Featuring Bob Mould, Franz Ferdinand, Blondshell, Evan Dando, Throwing Muses, and more
Welcome to the first Fire Red Sky issue of 2025, which begins with the return of my 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, and then there’s usually one or two issues each week.
The articles linked below 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
Bob Mould (pictured above with Jason Narducy and Jon Wurster) announces tour and new album Here We Go Crazy, and shares video (Pitchfork)
The Lemonheads’ Evan Dando, now sober - aside from LSD, will finally release his delayed memoir in May (Stereogum)
Members of Jane’s Addiction tease new music – without Perry Farrell (NME)
Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross win Best Original Score at Golden Globes 2025 for Challengers (Pitchfork)
Home Front return to the studio with Fucked Up's Jonah Falco to work on next LP (Punk News)
New releases
Throwing Muses announce new album, share ‘Summer of Love’ (Brooklyn Vegan)
Neil Young releasing another lost ’70s album Oceanside Countryside (Stereogum)
Ride's Andy Bell announces third solo album Pinball Wanderer featuring former Oasis bandmate Gem Archer (NME)
Dean Wareham reteams with Kramer for first time since Galaxie 500 for new solo LP, shares ‘You Were the Ones I Had to Betray’ (Brooklyn Vegan)
UK punks Haest announce ‘Wildfires’ / ‘Sight Unseen’ album (The Punk Site)
Listen/watch
Franz Ferdinand perform new song 'Bar Lonely' on CBS Saturday Sessions (Consequence of Sound)
Blondshell announces new album, shares video for new song ‘T&A’ (Pitchfork)
Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy cover R.E.M.’s ‘Driver 8’ on The Tonight Show (Stereogum)
Listen to Mogwai’s playful and “pretty different” new single ‘Fanzine Made Of Flesh’ (NME)
The Linda Lindas perform “All in My Head” on Kimmel (Consequence of Sound)
Long reads
Never mind the back pain: how rock’s drummers - including Rat Scabies and Paul Cook - cope with furious sets in their 70s (The Guardian)
Blondie’s Debbie Harry on turning 80 this year and “beauty of ageing” (NME)
Nothing compares to it: Revisiting the wild story of Sinéad O’Connor’s hit 35 years on (The Independent)
We’ve Got A File On You: Franz Ferdinand’s Alex Kapranos (Stereogum)
Elsewhere on Substack
And finally…
Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance to voice character on new D&D pinball machine (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.)
