Weekly digest #52

Featuring Jane's Addiction, Peter Buck, Parannoul, Tommy Stinson, Bad Brains and more

🎥 Image from Jane’s Addiction footage by Brooksey

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

Jane’s Addiction call it quits after a tumultuous 15 months: “The legacy will remain” (The Guardian)

PJ Harvey confirms she’s working on a new album (Consequence of Sound)

Counterparts frontman calls out suspected AI-generated metalcore band Broken Avenue (NME)

Amyl and the Sniffers announce concert film Live at Ally Pally 2025 (Consequence of Sound)

The Cure’s Perry Bamonte dies at 65 (Pitchfork)

New releases

South Korean shoegazer Parannoul releases new single ‘연말 다짐’ [year-end resolution] (Stereogum)

Gouge Away release Live at BBC EP (The Punk Site)

Black Country, New Road release Big Star cover ‘The Ballad Of El Goodo’ - available for the price of your email address (Stereogum)

Kick off 2026 with Feels Like Heaven’s invigorating melodic hardcore album Within Dreams (Stereogum)

UK hardcore band Grail Guard sign to TNSRecords and will release Still No Future in 2026 (Scene Point Blank)

Listen/watch

The Mountain Goats played Colbert with Tommy Stinson in tow (Stereogum)

LCD Soundsystem play ‘Too Much Love’ for the first time in 14 years (Stereogum)

Radiohead bid emotional farewell as they play last scheduled gig in Copenhagen (NME)

Yo La Tengo cover Spinal Tap and bring out Built To Spill’s Doug Martsch at NYC Hanukkah show (Stereogum)

Yungblud teams up with Smashing Pumpkins for new version of ‘Zombie’ (Consequence of Sound)

Long reads

Deep Cut Friday: ‘At the Atlantis’ by Bad Brains (Spin)

Noodles from The Offspring gives advice and music recommendations (Dying Scene)

Read an excerpt of new Asian Man Records book Elvis Is Dead by Mike Huguenor (Brooklyn Vegan)

Mark Mothersbaugh on the new Devo doc, Grammys, and creating art (Punk News)

Outtakes: a poignant 1991 photo session with Henry Rollins (Spin)

Elsewhere on Substack

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, Rob Reiner's Final Film

And finally…

Nardwuar honoured with Order of Canada appointment (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.)