Weekly digest #62
Featuring Pulp, Sunglaciers, Wet Leg, Cancer Bats, The Hives and more
I’m feeling slightly jaded today. Maybe it’s the loss of an hour as clocks here in the UK leap forward an hour, or just maybe it’s the party for 30 we hosted last night for the culmination of Mrs T’s 50th birthday celebrations.
Marking the point at which my wife’s age caught up with my own, the last week also included a musical element to her three-week-long schedule of festivities, but more on those gigs in Wednesday’s newsletter.
For now, I’m being powered by leftover Turkish borek, Indian samosas and green tea (because, unlike Milo, there’s only so much coffee I can drink).
So, onto 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.
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
Punk masks, Walkmans and Choppers: Museum of Youth Culture to open in London (The Guardian)
Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus announces Violent Soho reunion (NME)
Sublime announce first LP in 30 years ft. Jakob Nowell, Bad Brains’ H.R., more (Brooklyn Vegan)
Pulp digitally release new EP featuring Johnny Cash cover and two new songs (NME)
Good Riddance release tenth studio album Before The World Caves In (The Punk Site)
New releases
Sunglaciers release video for ‘Ballad for Eddy’ (Punk News)
Miki Berenyi Trio share new single + video ‘Island Of One’ (Louder Than War)
Hillsboro announce new album, share “woah” video (Punk News)
Kristin Hersh returns with new solo song ‘Sundial’ (Stereogum)
Dead Pioneers release ‘No Kings’ single & announce Wagon Burner album (The Punk Site)
Listen/watch
Watch Wet Leg perform on SNL UK series premiere (Pitchfork)
Chvrches’ Martin Doherty and Jonny Scott become The Leaving, announce debut album Ultimate Buzz (NME)
Wolf Parade’s Spencer Krug announces new solo LP, shares ‘Timebomb’ (Brooklyn Vegan)
Watch Arcade Fire’s Win Butler join The Killers for ‘Rebellion (Lies)’ and ‘When You Were Young’ in Colombia (NME)
Snail Mail debuts new song ‘Tractor Beam’ on Fallon (Pitchfork)
Long reads
Interviews: Celebrating 20 years of Birthing the Giant with Liam Cormier of Cancer Bats (Punk News)
Interview: Portland punks Dry Socket (Our Culture)
The Hives + The Chats - House of Blues (Boston) - March 20, 2026 (The Big Takeover)
A lot of Opportunities: Pet Shop Boys’ Please revisited (The Quietus)
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Tim Burgess of The Charlatans (Spin)
Elsewhere on Substack
And finally…
The Kinks’ Ray Davies asked “who the fuck is Moby?” after he said ‘Lola’ was “gross and transphobic” (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.)