Weekly digest #35
Featuring The Cure, Punk Rock Bowling, Guided By Voices, Swans, Amy Millan 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 Sunday 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
The Cure share awesome Daniel Avery remix of ‘DRONE:NODRONE’ from Mixes of a Lost World (Brooklyn Vegan)
Kim Gordon’s memoir Girl in a Band receiving 10th anniversary reissue (Consequence of Sound)
Guided By Voices respond to break-up rumours by announcing 42nd album (NME)
Peter Buck and Barrett Martin launch another supergroup Drink The Sea: hear ‘Outside Again’ (Stereogum)
Rise Against to release new album, share ‘I Want It All’ video (Punk News)
New releases
Heavy shoegazers Holy Fawn release ‘Beneath a Lightless Star’ (Stereogum)
The Silver Snails cover Elliott Smith’s Pretty (Ugly Before) (Punk News) and Brad Mehldau announces new Elliott Smith covers album featuring Daniel Rossen (Stereogum)
Boneflower share song featuring Touché Amoré's Jeremy Bolm, announce new LP for Deathwish (Brooklyn Vegan)
Salt Lake City fuzz-rockers Worlds Worst announce new album American Muscle: Hear ‘Angus’ (Stereogum)
The Hidden Cameras pivot from folksy indie-pop to synthpop on first album in 9 years - hear 2 songs and Pet Shop Boys remix (Brooklyn Vegan)
Listen/watch
The National’s Matt Berninger covers Nirvana’s ‘All Apologies’ and New Order’s ‘Blue Monday’ (NME)
MGMT’s Andrew VanWyngarden returns to Wesleyan, restages viral ‘Kids’ performance (Consequence of Sound)
Hear Pavement’s ‘Witchitai-To’ cover and Snail Mail’s ‘Shoot the Singer’ cover from new Pavements movie soundtrack (Stereogum)
Metallica jam Fugazi's ‘Waiting Room’ at DC-area show (Brooklyn Vegan)
Watch Wet Leg’s video for new song ‘CPR’ (Pitchfork)
Long reads
Michael Gira of Swans talks the end of the band's current incarnation (Punk News)
5 influences on Amy Millan's (Stars) new solo album I Went to Find You (Brooklyn Vegan)
An excerpt from In Too Deep: When Canadian Punks Took Over The World by Matt Bobkin & Adam Feibel (Stereogum)
10 years later, Sufjan Stevens offers a startling reevaluation of Carrie & Lowell (NPR)
Irish post-punks M(h)aol talk their new album Something Soft (Punk News)
Elsewhere on Substack
And finally…
Man wearing Nazi t-shirt gets a beatdown from fans at Punk Rock Bowling fest (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.)
Thanks for the shout out, Dom. Really digging The Cure remix!