Weekly digest #6

Featuring Gang Of Four, The Smashing Pumpkins, Franz Ferdinand, Butthole Surfers, Broken Social Scene, and more

Oct 05, 2024

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.

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Headlines

Gang of Four are breaking up after 2025 tour where they’ll play Entertainment (pictured above) in full (Brooklyn Vegan)

Lou Barlow's Sentridoh getting new retrospective comp via Steve Shelley's Vampire Blues label (hear ‘No Matter What’) (Brooklyn Vegan)

Dez Cadena and Paul Roessler in a new band (Punk News)

Emma Ruth Rundle to release book of poetry (Punk News)

Cro-Mags recording new material (Punk News)

New releases

Cult of Luna release Refused cover from upcoming covers compilation The Shape of Punk to Come Obliterated, which will also feature GEL, Quicksand, Fucked Up, Zulu and Touché Amoré (Punk News)

New Jersey ‘noisegaze’ band High. release ‘In A Hole’, the opening track from their forthcoming Come Back Down EP (Stereogum)

Mdou Moctar announce reworking of latest album with acoustic and traditional instruments (Stereogum)

Candy unveil the brutal metallic hardcore of ‘Football’ (Stereogum)

California’s Worst Ways unleash ‘Shattered’ single (The Punk Site)

Listen/Watch

Watch The Smashing Pumpkins bring out Deftones' Chino Moreno for ‘Jellybelly’ in Portland (Brooklyn Vegan)

The Horrors revamp lineup, announce new album Night Life, hear first single ‘The Silence That Remains’ (Consequence of Sound)

Broken Social Scene share trailer for new documentary it’s all gonna break: watch (Pitchfork)

Watch Franz Ferdinand debut new song ‘Hooked’ as they kick off run of Scottish dates (NME)

Podcast: Julian Casablancas talks new Voidz album on Lipps Service (Spin)

Long reads

Five hours of pints with Paul Heaton: ‘We’ve got distracted. Let’s get back to the album’ (The Guardian)

Butthole Surfers on the deranged and damaged 1980s (Pitchfork)

Internet Archive: Inside its $621 million legal battle with record labels (Rolling Stone)

Elsewhere on Substack

Anti-Matter

In Conversation: Jeremy Bolm of Touché Amoré

I don’t remember meeting Jeremy Bolm for the first time. He’s just one of those people in hardcore who seems to have always been there, someone who leaves evidence of his active presence and participation everywhere he goes. Since 2007, he’s been the singer of Touché Amoré, but over the years, he’s also been a writer and publisher, owner-evangelist of…

5 months ago · 4 likes · Norman Brannon

And finally…

Happily gator after: Lana Del Rey marries Louisiana swamp tour guide (The Guardian)

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