Weekly digest #57

Featuring Foo Fighters, War On Women, Ted Leo, Jimmy Eat World, Pulp and more

📷 Foo Fighters website containing new song snippets

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

Foo Fighters share taster of new album with 11 new song snippets: “Consider this an evaluation” (NME)

Tributes paid as Television and original Blondie bassist Fred Smith dies, age 77: “He was a natural – never flashy, always essential” (NME)

Damon Albarn, Fontaines D.C.’s Grian Chatten, and Kae Tempest join forces for new song (Pitchfork)

Disgruntled ex-Turnstile guitarist fired by his new band for trashing Turnstile (Stereogum)

Melvins and Napalm Death releasing collab LP Savage Imperial Death March (Brooklyn Vegan)

New releases

War On Women announce new album Time Under Tension: hear ‘Messages Unsent’ (Stereogum)

Filth Is Eternal release ‘Long Way’ video (Punk News)

Knocked Loose team with Denzel Curry for new song and video, ‘Hive Mind’ (Brooklyn Vegan)

The Paranoid Style release Lucinda Williams Cover ‘Passionate Kisses’ (Stereogum)

Ecca Vandal share ‘Bleach’ video (Punk News)

Listen/watch

Ted Leo shares new post-punk tracks, Pharmacists album update (Stereogum)

Good Riddance announce new album Before the World Caves In, share new song (Brooklyn Vegan)

Pro-Pain announce first new album in over 10 years, unleash ‘Oceans of Blood’ (Consequence of Sound)

Hear Manic Street Preachers rehearsing The Cure’s ‘Close To Me’ ahead of Robert Smith’s TCT Royal Albert Hall gigs (NME)

The Boo Radleys’ Martin Carr announces new album, shares ‘Connie Converse is Playing at My House’ (Brooklyn Vegan)

Long reads

Jimmy Eat World talk celebrating 25 years of Bleed American: “We were kids living in the moment” (NME)

Minneapolis punks are fighting ICE (Rolling Stone)

Lawn and Order - as a musician, Jason Narducy had performed with some big acts in big venues. Then came the pandemic (Chicago Magazine)

Matt Caughthran talks new Mariachi El Bronx album (The Big Takeover)

Interviews: Frank Turner, Somewhere Inbetween (Punk News)

Elsewhere on Substack

Another Side of Fast Product 1: The Blank Students

And finally…

Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker to read CBeebies Bedtime Story (The Independent)

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.)