Weekly digest #27
Featuring Raymond Pettibon, Propagandhi, Thom Yorke, The Bangles, IDLES, and more
📷 Black Flag at the Starwood, 1980 concert flyer by Raymond Pettibon.
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
Raymond Pettibon donates personal archives to Getty museum (Punk News)
Thom Yorke and Mark Pritchard confirm collaborative LP (Spin)
Glenn Danzig is done with albums, but may release new singles with Misfits or Danzig (Consequence of Sound)
Étienne de Crécy taps Damon Albarn for single ‘Rising Soul’; new album Warm Up out this week (Brooklyn Vegan)
Hardcore band Zulu part ways with singer following abuse allegations (Consequence of Sound)
New releases
Grails announce new album Miracle Music, share 'Silver Bells' (Brooklyn Vegan)
Propagandhi announce first album in 8 years, At Peace, share title track (Brooklyn Vegan)
IDLES, Sex Swing, JAAW, Pulled Apart by Horses, Manatees, Tall Ships and Petbrick members feature in the current incarnation of KLAMP, whose next album will be called Totaal Techniek (Scene Point Blank)
Mclusky share 'People Person' off first album in 21 years (Brooklyn Vegan)
Personality Cult will be Dilated on forthcoming third album (Scene Point Blank)
Listen/watch
Bob Mould releases lyric video for 'When Your Heart is Broken' (Punk News)
Four Tet debuts new remix of The Cure’s ‘Alone’ at London show (NME)
The National’s Matt Berninger new album, shares new song (Pitchfork)
J Mascis and Maggie Rogers join Hamilton Leithauser at Café Carlyle Residency (Stereogum)
Michael Stipe surprises at R.E.M. tribute in NYC (Spin)
Long reads
The Bangles: ‘If we were a boyband, we’d have just punched each other out’ (The Independent)
How Pest Control’s Leah Massey found her voice in hardcore (Kerrang)
All for the songs: Edwyn Collins’ favourite music (The Quietus)
The Horrors’ Rhys Webb talks Night Life, in-store shows and 20 years of the band (Sound Sphere)
Sex Pistols recall Vietnam vets with cattle prods hired to keep them in line on tour (The Independent)
Elsewhere on Substack
And finally…
Billy Corgan announces Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness opera concerts (Consequence of Sound)
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.)
Skin the sun
Some albums are bound up with such particular memories that, even decades later, you can recall exactly where and when you bought them.