Weekly digest #37
Featuring The Lemonheads, Wet Leg, Jon Spencer, Blondshell, Kurt Vile, and more
📷 The Lemonheads by Gareth Jones
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 Lemonheads unveil first original album in 19 years, Love Chant (The Quietus)
Jack White announces new book of collected lyrics and selected writings (Consequence of Sound)
The Smashing Pumpkins detail long-promised Machina box set with 32 bonus tracks (Stereogum)
Radio Silence: A Selected Visual History Of American Hardcore Music gets reissued and expanded (The Punk Site)
El Hefe of Nofx releases solo track (Punk News)
New releases
Heavy shoegazers Slow Crush release 'While You Dream Vividly', the third taste of their upcoming new album Thirst (Stereogum)
Rye Coalition cover Shellac’s 'Wingwalker' for first new recording in 20 years (Pitchfork)
South Korean shoegaze auteur Parannoul launches new Mydreamfever album series with Silence is the New Noise (Stereogum)
Higher Power surprise-release new album There’s Love In This World If You Want It (Brooklyn Vegan)
Kurt Vile and Luke Roberts announce new Classic Love EP featuring a Beach House cover (Stereogum)
Listen/watch
Wet Leg release video for 'Davina Mccall' (Punk News)
Radiohead and the Smile’s Thom Yorke shares new video for 'Dialing In' (Pitchfork)
Blondshell played Brooklyn Steel with Daffo - pics, video, setlist (Brooklyn Vegan)
Watch Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong join Sex Pistols and Frank Carter to perform ‘Anarchy In The UK’ (NME)
The Offspring release video for 'Come to Brazil' (Punk News)
Women are revolting
London doesn’t have a punk rock museum, unlike Fat Mike’s well-regarded Las Vegas enterprise. Neither does the UK capital have anything as band-specific as Berlin’s (temporarily closed) Ramones museum.
Long reads
The Strange World of… Jon Spencer (The Quietus)
Zak Starkey on being sacked from The Who, dreams of playing with Oasis, and advice for Barry Keoghan playing Ringo Starr (NME)
Interview: Fishbone's Angelo Moore (The BigTakeover)
5 albums I can’t live without: Robin Wilson of Gin Blossoms (Spin)
Chicago indie rockers Smut dissect new album Tomorrow Comes Crashing, track by track (Consequence of Sound)
Elsewhere on Substack
Good moshes, bad moshes and why it’s Turnstile summer, by Amaya Lim over at Record Store
And finally…
Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus shares theme song for new Iron Man kid’s cartoon (Consequence of Sound)
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