Weekly digest #60
Featuring Mike McCready, Drug Church, Thurston Moore, Broken Social Scene, Jack White and more
📷 Cover detail from Mike McCready’s Farewell to Seasons graphic novel
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
Mike McCready mines the many ‘Seasons’ of Seattle music in graphic novel and rock opera (Spin)
Turnstile, Rainer Maria members guest on American Football LP (Spin)
Broken Social Scene share a second new track, ‘Hey Amanda’ (Stereogum)
Gouge Away sign to Run for Cover, share ‘Figurine’ (Brooklyn Vegan)
Modest Mouse tap Janet Weiss for new single ‘Look How Far’ (Brooklyn Vegan)
New releases
Drug Church unleash new single ‘Pynch’ (The Punk Site)
Big | Brave detail new album, In Grief or in Hope (The Quietus)
Filth Is Eternal release video for ‘Hellfire’ (Punk News)
Koyo reveal ‘What I’m Worth’ on new single (The Punk Site)
Mei Semones shares John Roseboro collaboration ‘Tooth Fairy’ (Stereogum)
Listen/watch
Thurston Moore and Bonner Kramer cover of Joy Division’s ‘Insight’ (Brooklyn Vegan)
Iceage return with ‘Star’, their first new song in five years (Stereogum)
Melissa Auf der Maur joins Billy Corgan on his The Magnificent Others podcast (Consequence of Sound)
Gorillaz make their Saturday Night Live debut (Pitchfork)
R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe teams up with Andrew Watt, Josh Klinghoffer and Blink-182’s Travis Barker for ‘Rooster’ theme song ‘I Played The Fool’ (NME) and joins Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy on live versions of R.E.M.’s ‘These Days’ and ‘The Great Beyond’ (BrooklynVegan)
Long reads
Jack White: ‘I’m not going to put a painful thing out there for some idiot on the internet to stomp all over’ (The Guardian)
Mike Joyce of The Smiths speaks to the Ipswich Star (Ipswich Star)
How Pet Shop Boys sold city glamour to queer suburban kids (The Quietus)
Interview: Liam Creamer - Ken Park (The Big Takeover)
Garbage’s Shirley Manson on playing for Robert Smith with Placebo, beach balls, and the future of touring (NME)
Elsewhere on Substack
And finally…
MJ Lenderman pens foreword for Penguin Classics edition of Harry Crews’ Body (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.)