Weekly digest #23

Featuring Joy Division, Bad Nerves, Thom Yorke, Scowl, Superchunk, and more

📷 Still from Joy Division’s ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ video

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

2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees include Joy Division/New Order, Oasis, Soundgarden and The White Stripes (Spin)

David Byrne is working on a new solo album featuring The Walkmen’s Hamilton Leithauser (NME)

The Clash's Mick Jones to open the Rock n Roll Public Library and associated launch magazine (Louder Than War)

Green Day developing comedy about life on the road (Spin)

Bon Iver announce new album Sable, Fable (Pitchfork)

New releases

Thom Yorke and Mark Pritchard share new single ‘Back in the Game’ and its creepy video (pictured above) (Brooklyn Vegan)

Bdrmm release “aggressive” new single ‘Lake Disappointment’ (NME)

Laura Jane Grace in The Trauma Tropes release new song (Punk News)

The WAEVE announce new EP with anti-Valentine’s single ‘Love Is All Pain’ (NME)

Goth icons unite as Bauhaus’ Peter Murphy teams up with Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor for pulsing ‘Swoon’ (NME)

Listen/watch

“The First Record I Ever Bought” part 1, featuring Superchunk, Redd Kross, The Edge, Richard Thompson, and more (The Record Store Day Podcast)

Stream Wilco’s A Ghost Is Born expanded reissue with loads of unreleased tracks (Stereogum)

Santa Cruz hardcore band Scowl pick tracks by Gorilla Biscuits, Ceremony, Bad Brains and more for an NME playlist (NME)

TV On The Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe unearths “Young Liars” demo from 2001 (Stereogum)

Mclusky return with first album in 20 years, share video for new song (Pitchfork)

Long reads

Gen Z have brought goth back (The Independent)

Garage punk bands Bad Nerves and Spiritual Cramp interviewed (Louder Than War)

Horsegirl try a little tenderness (Bandcamp)

Behind the album: Out of Time, the record that shot R.E.M. into the stratosphere (American Songwriter)

“I lost a part of my personality”: the pain of losing your entire record collection in a wildfire (Stereogum)

Elsewhere on Substack

Nick Drake : Inspiration for Chris Cornell and Mark Lanegan

The Most Beautiful Song I Know

And finally…

Richard Ashcroft spotted walking dogs with wife ahead of Oasis UK tour (Manchester Evening 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.)