Weekly digest #20
Featuring Craig Finn, Scowl, Neko Case, Nova Twins, Möterhead, and more
📷 Dan Monick
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 (usually!) lands with you every weekend.
The links are often 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
Craig Finn (pictured above) announces new album, Always Been, produced by The War On Drugs’ Adam Granduciel (Stereogum)
Neko Case working on ‘Thelma and Louise’ musical (Brooklyn Vegan)
Rise Against return with ‘Nod’, their first new single in three years (NME)
The Horrors release “driving and direct” new single ‘More Than Life’ (NME)
Edweena Banger, former member of Slaughter & The Dogs, has died (Louder Than War)
New releases
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs announce new album Death Hilarious (cover pictured above), unveil single ‘Stitches’ (Consequence of Sound)
Manchester Punk Festival releases name-your-price download compilation (The Punk Site)
The Moles prep new LP for Robert Pollard's label (Brooklyn Vegan)
Phoenix shoegazers Glixen release ‘All Tied Up’ (Stereogum)
Canadian punk rockers Drop It First drop their explosive debut full length Fundamentals (The Punk Site)
Listen/watch
Scowl (pictured above) announce first album for Dead Oceans, share video filmed at 924 Gilman (Brooklyn Vegan)
Low Culture Podcast: Sonic Youth’s Evol vs Dirty (The Quietus)
Motörhead announce 50th anniversary vinyl LPs, share early TV performance of ‘Louie, Louie’ (Consequence of Sound)
Hot Water Music release video for 2024 album track ‘Much Love’ (featuring The Interrupters)
New Jersey ‘post-noise, power sludge’ band Sunrot release video for ‘The First Wound’ (Punk News)
Long reads
Everything is colour: Kristin Hersh on the return of Throwing Muses (The Quietus)
Nova Twins on their ferocious comeback single ‘Monsters’ and “chaotic but beautiful” new album (NME)
Steve Jones interview: The return of the Sex Pistols (Louder)
LCD Soundsystem turns 20 (Stereogum)
New Jersey ‘noisegaze’ band High. interviewed (Stereogum)
Elsewhere on Substack
And finally…
Toto Guitarist wasn’t thrilled with Weezer’s ‘Africa’ cover, says “It Just Got Weird” with Rivers Cuomo (Stereogum)
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