Weekly digest #38

Featuring David Bowie, Screaming Trees, Leatherface, Turnstile, Interpol, and more

Jul 06, 2025

Welcome to Fire Red Sky’s latest weekly digest of punk rock, alt rock and indie music news and writing.

And an additional welcome to all the new subscribers who signed up on the back of this week’s new Hüsker Dü live release post. I can’t guarantee I’ll always be the first to break news like that, but then again I was also the first to write about that band’s Tonite Longhorn early live collection, so who knows…

If you’ve not come across these digest posts, they’re intended to be a light read, a quick catch up on the week that lands with you every Sunday morning.

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Headlines

The Last Dinner Party and Nile Rodgers to curate exhibitions for the David Bowie Centre (The Independent)

‘Today’ is the day for a new Foo Fighters song, with the band also recently joining Substack (Spin) and releasing a Minor Threat cover recorded across three decades (The Independent)

Screaming Trees reissuing Clairvoyance featuring outtakes (Brooklyn Vegan)

Rise Against to release Transistor Revolt Demos on limited 10'' vinyl (Punk News)

Vinnie Stigma goes country with new album The Outlaw Vinnie Stigma (Dying Scene)

New releases

Youth Novel to release new album, share 'Made In Heaven' (Punk News)

Leatherface release The Peel Sessions (Scene Point Black)

Noise rock trio Editrix return with 'Flesh Debt' (Stereogum)

The Dickies release What Once Was live album (The Punk Site)

Agnostic Front, Sick of It All and Gorilla Biscuits to release archive live LP from 1991 (Punk News)

Listen/watch

Robert Smith joined Olivia Rodrigo at Glastonbury for The Cure's ‘Friday I'm in Love’ and ‘Just Like Heaven’ (Brooklyn Vegan) and The Cure were also covered at the festival by Gracie Abrams (Stereogum)

Mina Tindle and Sufjan Stevens share new song 'Heaven Thunder' (Pitchfork)

Glastonbury 2025: Watch epic mosh pits form at explosive Turnstile set (NME)

Oasis announce new reissue of (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?, share ‘Acquiesce (Unplugged)’ (Pitchfork)

Interpol's Paul Banks covers Iggy Pop on his soundtrack for new film Sister Midnight (Brooklyn Vegan)

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Long reads

‘It’s always on a fucking knife edge’: inside Blur’s latest reunion in To The End (Spin)

We’ve Got A File On You: Dropkick Murphys’ Ken Casey (Stereogum)

The Strange World Of… Part Chimp (The Quietus)

Gina Birch (The Raincoats): top ten influential albums (Louder Than War)

Geoff Kresge talks thirty years of AFI’s Answer That and Stay Fashionable (Dying Scene)

Elsewhere on Substack

Dispatches From the Fringe

The Drawback to Living: Unwound on Grief, Gratitude, and Finding Yourself

Was Unwound really the best band of the ‘90s? I’ll say this: If you were at all interested in underground music at the turn of the millennium, you were at least aware of them. Haunted, jagged, wrenching and beautiful, they sounded like no one else. Then, in the midst of promoting their 2001 album…

2 days ago · 12 likes · 4 comments · Seth Lorinczi

And finally…

Jarvis Cocker records special version of the Shipping Forecast to celebrate its BBC 100th anniversary (BBC)

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