Weekly Digest #3

Punk rock, alt rock and indie music news and writing, a curated collection from the last seven days.

📷 Deb Googe (@googoogiegoo)

Welcome to Fire Red Sky’s curated collected of punk rock, alt rock and indie music news and writing.

It’s a light read and a quick catch up on the week that lands with you every Saturday morning.

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

Courtney Love, Thurston Moore, & Members Of My Bloody Valentine & Portishead (pictured above) are covering Marianne Faithfull songs for a mysterious project (Stereogum)

Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood gives fans hope for the band’s future (The Independent)

Refused are breaking up… again, announce final tour with Quicksand & ‘Shape of Punk to Come’ tribute LP (Brooklyn Vegan)

The Cure send fans postcards confirming new album title and release date (NME)

Bandcamp announces remaining Bandcamp Fridays for 2024 (Consequence of Sound)

New releases

Planes Mistaken for Stars (pictured above) announce first album since 2016, share new song (Pitchfork)

Slowdive share ‘Kisses’ remixes by Grouper and Daniel Avery (The Quietus)

Touché Amoré release post-hardcore banger “Hal Ashby” (Stereogum)

Franz Ferdinand return with new album The Human Fear, share video for new song (Pitchfork)

Norwegian indie punks Sløtface share fiery new single ‘I Used To Be A Real Piece Of Shit’ (NME)

Listen/Watch

New Order’s rise from the ashes of Joy Division - the Transmission podcast returns for a second series (The Guardian)

The dB’s reunite for first show in 12 years - watch (Stereogum)

The Linda Lindas let rip on title track from upcoming album No Obligation (Consequence of Sound)

Long reads

5 albums I can’t live without: Dave Pirner of Soul Asylum (Spin)

30 years of Bis - from Top of the Pops to Beastie Boys (BBC)

St Louis indie/emo band Foxing interviewed about their abrasive new album (Stereogum)

Elsewhere on Substack

Those Were Different Times

And finally…

CDs up, downloads down? Latest data from the US suggests a revival for every physical format (Music Radar)

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.)