Weekly digest #67
Featuring D.O.A., Ratsalad, AFI, Mogwai, Noi!se and more
đˇ D.O.A.âs Joey âShitheadâ Keithley
I donât think I need to tell you that libraries are cool places. But lest you be in any doubt, item 1: the simple act of kindness that is a hand drawn sign in Epsom library featuring the trans flag and offering to make any changes needed to your library card.
Item 2: cheerleading your reading taste, specifically this comment when I returned a book of poetry yesterday:
âWalt Whitman? Represent!â
Item 3: opening you up to unknown worlds. Most recently for me these included East German punk as recounted by Tim Mohr in Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
Itâs less about the actual music and more a tale of how rebellion can not only exist within an authoritarian police state but shake its foundations by proving that change is possible, even when state spies are hell bent on bringing you to heel. Highly recommended in other words.
And now, your weekly digest. 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 (Iâm also on Instagram).
Headlines
D.O.A. announced a career-spanning compilation called Take on the Tyrants (Scene Point Blank)
New Elvis Costello boxset to feature never before heard punk era recordings (Mojo)
Descendentsâ Enjoy! gets 40th anniversary reissue (The Punk Site)
Amyl and the Sniffers win APRA (Australian Performing Rights Association) award for song of the year for second year in a row (The Guardian)
The Menzingers announce new album Everything I Ever Saw, share new single (Our Culture)
New releases
Australiaâs Ratsalad preview upcoming album Pest From The West (Scene Point Blank)
New York rocksteady punks The Doomstompers to release debut LP (Punk News)
Anton Pearson, guitarist with British post-punks Squid, announces debut ambient album Driving Through Belgium: hear âTintinnabulation Iâ (Stereogum)
Tiger Island unleash new video + album news (Louder Than War)
Die Spitz release video for âAmerican Pornâ (Punk News)
Listen/watch
AFI release video for âNooneundergroundâ (Punk News)
Placebo share âRe:Created Versionâ of classic âLady Of The Flowersâ (NME)
Foo Fighters rip through âCaught in the Echoâ and âChild Actorâ on SNL UK (Consequence of Sound)
Watch Queens Of The Stone Age play with Nick Oliveri for first time since 2014 (NME)
The Last Dinner Party cover LCD Soundsystemâs âNew York I Love You But Youâre Bringing Me Downâ in NYC (NME)
Long reads
Secret punt: Mogwaiâs Rock Action revisited 25 years on (The Quietus)
âFinding what I can share and write songs about has been the journey of my lifetimeâ: Inside the karmic circularity of Laurie Vincentâs new band Big Truck (Kerrang)
Napalm Deathâs Shane Embury goes in depth on Melvins collaboration (Treble)
Matt Henson on sobriety, Fate Of The Union, the new Noi!se lineup, and more! (Dying Scene)
âWeâre here to feed the pipeline and give visibility to artistsâ: How Loud Women are changing grassroots music (Kerrang)
Elsewhere on Substack
And finallyâŚ
The Primitives discuss âCrashâ covers, lyrical mistakes and which versionâs their favourite (The Independent)
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