Weekly digest #58
Featuring Joy Division, Bruise Control, Gorillaz, Silversun Pickups, Guided By Voices and more
📷 Still from Joy Division’s ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ video
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
Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame 2026: Joy Division, New Order and Oasis among nominees (NME)
Foo Fighters go garage rock on ‘Your Favorite Toy’, announce new album (Brooklyn Vegan)
Guided By Voices announce LP44 Crawlspace Of The Pantheon (Stereogum)
Bon Iver to launch archival series with new live album (Pitchfork)
American Football go from boys to men on ‘Bad Moons’ (Spin)
New releases
Bruise Control release video for ‘If Yr Not Mine’ from their new self-titled EP (Punk News)
Gritty, shoegazey New Jersey rockers High. share ‘George’ featuring Sweet93 (Stereogum)
Mitski’s Nothing’s About to Happen to Me - an album of murder ballads that leans a little country (The Quietus)
The Menzingers return with new song ‘Nobody’s Heroes’ (Brooklyn Vegan)
Courtney Barnett unveils new songs ‘Mantis’ and ‘Sugar Plum’ (Consequence of Sound)
Listen/watch
Gorillaz unveil animated short film to accompany new album The Mountain (Consequence of Sound)
Pulp share new song, ‘Begging For Change’ (The Quietus)
The Hives release video for ‘Roll Out the Red Carpet’ (Punk News)
Tanya Donelly and Chris Brokaw detail medieval folk music EP (Brooklyn Vegan)
Watch the trailer for documentary Billy Idol Should Be Dead (Brooklyn Vegan)
Long reads
Silversun Pickups will never stick to the script (Spin)
Nothing on 7 things that inspired their new album A Short History of Decay (Our Culture)
Shawn Lopes on Local Unrest and the history of Hawaii’s punk, ska and indie scene (Dying Scene)
Rae Haas and Jake Harms from MX Lonely interviewed (The Big Takeover)
We’ve got a file on you: Bill Callahan (Stereogum)
Elsewhere on Substack
And finally…
Michael Stipe returns to Springfield to sing about crackers (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.)
Bruise Control!