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 (or thereabouts).
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
Terrorism charges dismissed against Mo Chara from Kneecap (pictured above) amid relief and rejoicing outside Crown Court (Louder Than War) while the BBC partly upholds complaints over Bob Vylan’s performance at Glastonbury festival (The Guardian)
Darius Rucker, R.E.M.’s Mike Mills, and The Black Crowes’ Steve Gorman form new supergroup Howl Owl Howl (Consequence of Sound)
Noel Gallagher, Sleaford Mods, Paul Weller, Primal Scream for Pet Shop Boys Disco 5 remix album (NME)
Domino Records announces new ‘Vault’ imprint for “unearthing and reissuing rare treasures” (NME)
Descendents announce I Don’t Want to Grow Up reissue (The Punk Site)
New releases
Lush’s Gala Set for 35th anniversary reissue (The Quietus)
Atomic Rule (Every Time I Die guitarist Andy Williams’ new band) release debut demo (Brooklyn Vegan)
Agnostic Front to release new album, share ‘Way of War’ lyric video (Punk News)
German pop-punkers Indecent Behavior release fourth studio album Sick (The Punk Site)
Tennessee hardcore band Gumm shared ‘New From the Pain’, the first single from their upcoming new record Beneath The Wheel (Scene Point Blank)
Listen/watch
Watch Bratmobile cover Misfits and The Runaways with Jawbreaker‘s Blake Schwarzenbach and The Linda Lindas (Brooklyn Vegan)
Hanson and Stephen Egerton play Descendents tune at Riot Fest (Punk News) and Blink-182 also perform with Stephen Egerton at Riot Fest, playing ‘Hope’ (Punk News)
Watch The Beta Band play their first show in 21 years: video, setlist (Brooklyn Vegan)
Watch Butthole Surfers reunite for surprise first performance in eight years (Stereogum) as a new documentary cements their experimental legacy (Spin)
‘The Gits’ doc gets 20th anniversary edition, streaming and screening in theaters - watch new trailer (Brooklyn Vegan)
Playlist: When the music is over, the memory remains
Welcome to Fire Red Sky’s latest playlist of the 20 best punk rock, alt rock and indie music tracks released in the last month recently.
Long reads
Good Grief: Sonic Youth’s Washing Machine at 30 (The Quietus)
Every Foxing album, ranked (Brooklyn Vegan) as the band announce an indefinite hiatus (Stereogum)
A Rough Guide to: hardcore (Rough Trade blog)
Panic At The Disco‘s A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out turns 20 (Stereogum)
The Brian Jonestown Massacre rides again (Spin)
Elsewhere on Substack
And finally…
Mother who lost son at Riot Fest finds him on stage with Green Day (NME)
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.)
Some time for the sound to gather
All through the tail end of last year and halfway through this summer I’ve had a ghost soundtrack from The Replacements rattling around my thoughts.