Weekly digest #4
Featuring Jane’s Addiction, Mogwai, The Armed, R.E.M., Arcade Fire, and more
🎥 Image from Jane’s Addiction footage by Brooksey
Welcome to Fire Red Sky’s curated collected of punk rock, alt rock and indie music news and writing.
It’s meant to be a light read, 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
Jane’s Addiction (pictured above) cancel remaining reunion tour dates after on-stage fight (Spin), but still release new single (Spin)
Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus announces memoir 'Fahrenheit-182,' co-authored by Dan Ozzi (Brooklyn Vegan)
R.E.M. share ‘We Are Hope Despite The Times’ compilation to mark National Voter Registration Day in the US (NME)
The Darkness believe in a thing called Act 2 - announce new album as Taylor Swift sends them back into the charts (Brooklyn Vegan)
Morrissey claims Johnny Marr now owns “100 per cent trademark rights and Intellectual Property” of The Smiths name (NME), Marr later clarifies the situation with some facts (Brooklyn Vegan), then Morrissey fires his management (The Independent). Meanwhile, The Smiths’ Mike Joyce launches crowdfunder for permanent mural of Andy Rourke (NME)
New releases
Upcoming UK punks Ramona Marx (pictured above) release “Splenectomy” EP (The Punk Site)
Mogwai share new single “God Gets You Back,” announce 2025 world tour (Brooklyn Vegan)
Secret World - melodic post-hardcore from members of Speed, Downside and more - drop new single "Living Less" (Brooklyn Vegan)
Tanya Donelly (Belly) and Bill Janovitz (Buffalo Tom) cover The Kinks’ “Better Things” (Stereogum)
The Armed announce new EP, with contributions from Model/Actriz, Idles, and Water From Your Eyes, and share “New! Christianity” video (Pitchfork)
Listen/Watch
Hear Cloud Nothings cover Misfits, ’68 cover Beastie Boys & more on new Pure Noise covers comp (Brooklyn Vegan)
Hear Sponge take on Morrissey for new album Of 1994 covers that also includes Sonic Youth, Mazzy Star, and both Oasis and Blur (Stereogum)
Listen to Mates of State’s first song in 9 years, “Somewhere” (Brooklyn Vegan)
Long reads
Arcade Fire's Funeral turns 20 (Stereogum)
Reissue Of The Week: The Go! Team’s Thunder, Lightning, Strike (The Quietus)
Tindersticks’ Stuart Staples on how his big sister’s Northern Soul record collection influenced their new LP ‘Soft Tissue’ (Brooklyn Vegan)
Courtney Love reflects on 33 years of Hole’s ‘Pretty On The Inside: “I’m still battling Kurt’s damned demons – when do I get to battle mine?” (NME)
Elsewhere on Substack
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