Weekly digest #70
Featuring NOFX, Pinkshift, Nothing, Dinosaur Jr, Spencer Krug and more
📷 NOFX at the Brixton Academy, London, 2024
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
NOFX unleash new post-breakup song as part of documentary soundtrack (Consequence of Sound)
New Order to release The Best & The Rest Of compilation featuring rarities and unheard remixes (The Quietus)
Bad Brains‘ Darryl Jenifer has a new instrumental album out this summer (Scene Point Blank)
The Coral surprise release new rocksteady-influenced album 388 (Brooklyn Vegan)
Mike Watt with George Hurley and J Mascis to release split 7-inch (Punk News)
New releases
Pinkshift drop new single and video ‘When We Were Friends’ (The Punk Site)
Blondshell drops new song ‘Heart Has to Work So Hard’ (Pitchfork)
Ecca Vandal performs on Jimmy Kimmel Live (Punk News)
Belvedere previews Seven Years of Bad Luck (Scene Point Blank)
Panic Shack return with new single ‘Grin & Bear It’ (The Punk Site)
Listen/watch
Hum, Nothing, Chapterhouse, Swirlies & more played night 2 of Slide Away NYC - pics, video, setlists (Brooklyn Vegan)
Watch Thom Yorke debut new song ‘Space Walk’ and check out his full speech calling for better artist treatment from industry at Ivors 2026 (NME)
Kevin Morby and Carrie Brownstein Perform Sleater-Kinney’s ‘Modern Girl’ (Pitchfork)
Paul Weller, Madness’ Suggs, Dexys’ Kevin Rowland, Sex Pistols’ Glen Matlock and Roxy Music’s Andy McKay form supergroup at London Artists For Gaza fundraiser (NME)
Madball to release new album, hear the lead single ‘Rebel Kids’ (Punk News)
Long reads
Rolling Stone’s top 100 punk albums of all time (Brooklyn Vegan)
We’ve Got a File On You: Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien (Stereogum)
Interviews: Talking ‘Same Fangs’ with Spencer Krug (Punk News)
Deep Cut Friday: ‘Never Bought It’ by Dinosaur Jr. (Spin)
Waking up with the Manic Street Preachers – 30 years of Everything Must Go (The Quietus)
And finally…
The Strokes’ Albert Hammond Jr. denies he’s pretending to like the band’s new album (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.)