Weekly digest #5
Featuring Bon Iver, The National, Hüsker Dü, Radiohead, Green Day and more
Welcome to Fire Red Sky’s new weekly digest of punk rock, alt rock and indie music news and writing.
It’s meant to be a light read, a quick catch up on the week that lands with you every Saturday 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
Bon Iver (pictured above) confirm 3-song ‘SABLE’ EP is coming and share video for its first track, 'S P E Y S I D E' (Spin)
The National announce new live double album ‘Rome’ and share four tracks from the record (NME)
The Cure detail first album in 16 years, share new song “Alone”: listen (Pitchfork)
Radiohead take on Shakespeare with Thom Yorke's plans to rework Hail to the Thief for a new stage production of Hamlet (The Guardian)
The Postal Service to go on indefinite hiatus after final 2024 concert (Pitchfork)
📷 Manuel Barajas
New releases
Drug Church (pictured above) drop Slide 2 Me, the last advance single before their new album Prude arrives (Stereogum)
Thirdface provide rip-your-face-off hardcore on “Meander” from upcoming sophomore album Ministerial Cafeteria (Stereogum)
UK shoegaze duo deary share “The Drift” from their second EP Aurelia (Stereogum)
Post-punks S.C.A.B. share new song “IDK New Reality” (Stereogum)
Sprints “pull from their love of grunge and gothic” on new single ‘Feast’ (NME)
Listen/Watch
Militarie Gun cover Hüsker Dü's "Makes No Sense At All" with Bob Mould - Watch (Brooklyn Vegan)
PJ Harvey shares new track ‘Holloway’ from ‘London Tide’ play soundtrack (NME)
Watch Laura Jane Grace and Catbite cover Operation Ivy (Punk News)
Hear Dinosaur Jr., Spoon, The Hold Steady, and more cover Jesse Malin on new tribute album (Stereogum)
Podcast: Chris Mars (The Replacements) and Jon Wurster (Superchunk, Mountain Goats, Bob Mould Band) are back (Turned Out A Punk)
Long reads
Pixies’ David Lovering names 10 albums that influenced his drumming (Consequence of Sound)
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Kate Pierson of The B-52s (Spin)
‘I started to hate who I was becoming,’ Simon Raymonde on his first memoir, Cocteau Twins career, brain tumour diagnosis, and label head/manager duties (The Independent)
Green Day’s American Idiot turns 20 (Stereogum)
Supergrass: “When you look back at the lad culture and messiness of Britpop, we weren’t part of it” (NME)
Elsewhere on Substack
And finally…
Catherine Wheel frontman hasn’t seen his former bandmates In 24 years but does think they’ll eventually reunite (Stereogum)
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