Weekly digest #28

Featuring Fugazi, Okkervil River, Kims Deal and Gordon, Gene, The Decemberists and more

Fugazi’s Guy Picciotto at 1988 Philadelphia show (📷 Sean Gustilo)

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 (…or thereabouts).

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

Zine on 1988 Fugazi “basketball hoop show” to be released (Punk News)

Members of British punk rock band UK Subs denied entry into the US (The Guardian)

Courtney Love applies for British citizenship, calls Trump administration “Emperor-Core” (Consequence of Sound)

Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy will tour R.E.M.’s Life’s Rich Pageant next (Stereogum)

The Bear star Matty Matheson unveils his new hardcore band Pig Pen (Stereogum)

New releases

Real Sickies drop new album Under a Plastic Bag (The Punk Site)

Knocked Loose offshoot XweaponX return with 'Everybody Breaks' (Brooklyn Vegan)

The Dialtones (members of Okkervil River, White Denim, The Polyphonic Spree, The Heartless Bastards, and the Golden Dawn Arkestra) share first sone from their upcoming Static Sky EP (Scene Point Blank)

Listen/watch

Kim Deal and Kim Gordon perform Sonic Youth’s ‘Little Trouble Girl’ (NME)

Shudder To Think reunite for surprise first shows in 12 years (Stereogum)

Eddie Vedder joins Jack White for 'Rockin’ in the Free World' in Tokyo (Consequence of Sound)

Bob Mould’s power trio rip through 'When Your Heart is Broken' on Fallon (Stereogum)

Long reads

"We said yes to everything!" John Reis on his blistering punk career, from Hot Snakes to Rocket From The Crypt (The Guardian)

Gene on reuniting for first live show in over 20 years: “We don’t want any half measures – it needs to be spectacular” (NME)

The Decemberists' Picaresque turns 20 (Stereogum)

Frank Turner on the touring life (Americana UK)

Elsewhere on Substack

Interview: Liz Pelly

And finally…

Joey Ramone to be the subject of a new children’s book (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.)