Weekly digest #59
Featuring Fugazi, Rosa Walton, Turnstile, Lush and Wolf Alice and more
📷 Cover detail from Fugazi’s Albini Sessions (Benefit for Letters Charity)
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
Fugazi share previously unreleased recordings made alongside Steve Albini (The Quietus)
Juliana Hatfield made an album with her contractor (Stereogum)
Zack de la Rocha-produced documentary Dead City Punx to premiere in April, reveals trailer (Consequence of Sound)
Touché Amoré tap Wisp and members of Deafheaven, Blood Brothers and Youth Code for Stage Four deluxe (Brooklyn Vegan)
Netflix releases trailer for new Chili Peppers documentary about Hillel Slovak (Consequence of Sound)
New releases
Let’s Eat Grandma’s Rosa Walton announces debut solo album Tell Me It’s A Dream: Hear ‘Sorry Anyway’ (Stereogum)
Gucci Chain Letter from Canada with melodic punk meets post-hardcore and post-emo (Scene Point Blank)
Long Beach duo Soft Palms announce new LP (Punk News)
Norwegian punks Hammok sign to Sargent House, prep new album: hear ‘The Scene’ (Brooklyn Vegan)
A Green Day tribute for charity (Scene Point Blank)
Listen/watch
Watch Turnstile’s dreamy rocked-up cover of The Stone Roses’ ‘I Wanna Be Adored’ (NME)
Social Distortion announce first new album in 15 years Born To Kill - hear the title track (Stereogum)
Lenny Kaye’s Nuggets Live at the BBC to be released on Johnny Depp’s IN.2 Records (Louder Than War)
Matt Berninger and Rosanne Cash Cover The Velvet Underground’s ‘Who Loves he Sun’ (Our Culture)
The New Pornographers release new single ‘Spooky Action’ (Our Culture)
Long reads
Excavating Gala: Lush before the canon (The Big Takeover)
Wolf Alice talk The Last Dinner Party and Harry Styles at the BRITs 2026 (NME)
Behind NME lines: The 1990s through the lens of Martyn Goodacre (The Quietus)
From anchor to author: Ride‘s Steve Queralt on the solitary echoes of Swallow (The Big Takeover)
Producer James Ford on the huge new War ChildHelp(2) album – track-by-track (NME)
Elsewhere on Substack
And finally…
Check out Gerard Way’s guest vocals on death metallers Frozen Soul’s menacing ‘No Place Of Warmth’ (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.)