Weekly digest #54

Featuring Kim Gordon, Trauma Ray, The Horrors, Tom Verlaine, Green Day and more

📷 Kim Gordon by Moni-Haworth

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

Kim Gordon announces new album Play Me (Pitchfork)

Cat Power celebrates first gold record (Stereogum)

Faith No More’s Roddy Bottum reveals he made millions off early Apple investment (Stereogum)

Sugar reissuing Copper Blue, Beaster and File Under Easy Listening on colored vinyl ahead of reunion shows (Brooklyn Vegan)

Bandcamp becomes the first major music platform to ban AI content (The Verge)

New releases

Heavy shoegazers Trauma Ray announce new EP Carnival: Hear ‘Hannibal’ (Stereogum)

Dropkick Murphys’ new anti-I.C.E. song includes the lyrics “Too Scared to Join the Military, Too Dumb to Be a Cop” (Consequence of Sound)

Seattle punks Filth Is Eternal announce new LP Impossible World, share ‘Stay Melted’ (Brooklyn Vegan)

UK shoegazers deary announce debut album, share ‘Seabird’ (Brooklyn Vegan)

London punks Rifle drop self-titled debut album (The Punk Site)

Listen/watch

Watch The Libertines, The Horrors, Anna Calvi, The Molotovs and more perform David Bowie covers for new ‘Heroes Never Die’ tribute special (NME)

Neko Case podcast appearance on Neon Grey Midnight Green, making an album about music, and why spiders deserve better PR (Consequence of Sound)

Sunn O))) don their cloaks for a new album - their first for Sub-Pop (Pitchfork)

Bad Brains’ H.R. teams with New Age Doom for collaborative album, unveils song ‘Amaseganalo Pt. 2’ (Consequence of Sound)

Long reads

Tom Verlaine was a mystery. His archives reveal more of his story (The New York Times)

DS Interview: Stacey, Myra, and Alex of Bad Cop Bad Cop (Dying Scene)

Sleaford Mods‘ Jason Williamson interviews Ben Wheatley… and vice versa (The Quietus)

Patti Smith: still blazing after 50 years of Horses (Spin)

Time of your life: Green Day bassist Mike Dirnt’s favourite albums (The Quietus)

Elsewhere on Substack

Kim Gordon defies

And finally…

Jenny Lewis married her dog for her 50th birthday (Stereogum)

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.)