Weekly digest #22
Featuring St Vincent, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Hüsker Dü, Japanese Breakfast, Fugazi, 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
Grammys 2025: St. Vincent (pictured above) - Best Alternative Music Album, Performance (Pitchfork), Gillian Welch and David Rawlings - Best Folk Album (Pitchfork), Tame Impala - Best Dance/Electronic Recording (Consequence of Sound), Gojira - Best Metal Performance (Consequence of Sound), The Clash, Prince, and others - Special Merit Awards (NME), all the winners and shortlists (Spin)
Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs contribute to Los Angeles Rising benefit album (Consequence of Sound)
Siouxsie and the Banshees drummer Budgie to release new memoir (Pitchfork)
Bob Mould shares 'Neanderthal' from upcoming solo album Here We Go Crazy (The Punk Site)
Walkmen frontman Hamiltion Leithauser releases 'Burn The Boats' (Stereogum)
New releases
Indiana shoegaze power trio Cloakroom tell the 'Story Of The Egg' from upcoming album Last Leg of the Human Table (Stereogum)
NYC hardcore band Combust unleash 'Everyone’s Enemy' single (The Punk Site)
Unrest’s Perfect Teeth getting 30th anniversary edition with bonus tracks and rarities (Stereogum)
NYC shoegazers Heaven prep first album in 7 years (Brooklyn Vegan)
Throwing Muses share new track 'Libretto' (Stereogum)
Listen/watch
Podcast: The secret history of R.E.M. (Rolling Stone)
Militarie Gun plays two unreleased songs and covers MSPAINT with MSPAINT (Punk News)
Watch Japanese Breakfast play 'Orlando in Love' on Fallon (Pitchfork)
Destroyer shares 'Hydroplaning Off the Edge of the World' from upcoming album Dan’s Boogie (Brooklyn Vegan)
Go ‘Behind The Counter’ of UK vinyl shops in new YouTube series for Record Store Day 2025 (NME)
Long reads
A retreat into silence: Slowdive’s Pygmalion at 30 (The Quietus)
After 12 years, metalcore band Ithaca are breaking up – here’s what they learned (Kerrang)
Hüsker Dü albums, ranked (Spin)
The strange world of… Fugazi (The Quietus)
Frank Black: Catholic, Pixie, Teenager, Icon (Spin)
Elsewhere on Substack
And finally…
Royal Mail to celebrate AC/DC with 12 special stamps (NME)
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.)
