Weekly digest #69

Featuring Weezer, Broken Social Scene, Home Front, Chapterhouse, Split Chain and more

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.

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

Weezer album (pictured above) inducted into the Library Of Congress’ National Recording Registry (Stereogum)

Ian Curtis exhibition to open in New York with personal letters, handwritten Joy Division lyrics and more (NME)

Red Hot Chili Peppers sell music catalogue to Warner for $300 million (Pitchfork)

Man arrested in Panama for Cold As Life vocalist’s murder after decades on the run (Stereogum)

Mural tribute to Stone Roses and Primal Scream‘s Mani unveiled (BBC News)

New releases

Home Front record KEXP session (Punk News)

Split Chain drop intense new single ‘Scatterbrain’ (Kerrang)

Tegan And Sara join Alex Lahey on new version of ‘You Don’t Think You Like People Like Me’ (Stereogum)

Show Me The Body return with new album Alone Together (The Quietus)

Dutch punk band Ink Bomb explodes with ‘Rome Is Burning (again)’ (Scene Point Blank)

Listen/watch

Ash announce 1977 30th anniversary expanded reissue (The Punk Site)

Turnstile cover Zack De La Rocha’s pre-Rage hardcore band Inside Out in The BBC Live Lounge (Stereogum)

My Chemical Romance announce Danger Days deluxe reissue ft. 9 bonus tracks (Brooklyn Vegan)

The Strokes are ‘Falling Out of Love’ on new song (Consequence of Sound)

The Mountain Goats namedrop Layne Staley, Candlebox, Venom and more on new LP Days - hear 1st single (Brooklyn Vegan)

Long reads

Broken Social Scene’s Charles Spearin on 7 inspirations behind their new album Remember the Humans (Our Culture)

Kevin Lyman still has plenty of Warped [Tour] ideas (Spin)

Screaming at Traffic break down every track on their new record Songs to Steal Copper Wire to! (Punk News)

Social Distortion’s Mike Ness on Born to Kill, cancer battle, more: “I came back singing like there was no tomorrow” (Brooklyn Vegan)

How Slide Away got Hum and Chapterhouse back onstage (Spin)

Elsewhere on Substack

CR 095: Rae Haas on Mx Lonely’s Melodic Hardcore Debut Album

And finally…

Belle and Sebastian write Scotland anthem after dramatic World Cup qualifier (The Guardian)

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.)