Weekly digest #72
Featuring Green Day, The Linda Lindas, Cancer Bats, Rodrigo y Gabriela, The Mountain Goats 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 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
Green Day comedy film Nimrods shares first trailer (Brooklyn Vegan)
Suede reveal Antidepressants deluxe edition (The Quietus)
Beastie Boys’ Mike D lines up debut album (Pitchfork)
Pixies announce Bossanova and Trompe le Monde reissues with unreleased tracks (NME)
Brian Fallon readies first solo LP In five years (Spin)
New releases
The Linda Lindas sign to Reprise/Warner with new single ‘Burning Out’ (Brooklyn Vegan)
Sari Lightman shares ‘Give It All Up’ (Stereogum)
Snag release video for ‘Unarrest Me’ (Punk News)
La Sécurité’s Bingo! is the art-punk party record your weekend needs (Stereogum)
Show Me the Body dish out street-level radical love on ‘Eat for Peace’ (Consequence of Sound)
Listen/watch
Rodrigo y Gabriela announce new album OurHome, share the oddly hopeful ‘Monster’ (Consequence of Sound)
Watch The Cure play ‘Treasure’ and ‘In Your House’ for the first time in over a decade as they switch up setlist for North Festival 2026 (NME)
Cancer Bats celebrate living in the present moment on new single ‘Long Tooth’ (Kerrang)
Jack White releases ‘Dollar Bill’, the lead single from his upcoming solo album Frozen Charlotte (Stereogum)
The Mountain Goats share ‘Shallow Grave’ (Stereogum)
Long reads
Don Dixon, Coproducer of R.E.M.‘s Murmur and Reckoning (Stereophile)
Bill Stevenson talks Enjoy!, the Descendents’ most underrated album (Dying Scene)
Bob Bert, saint of Scrap Metal (The Tonearm)
Nerf Herder, 30 years of Comfort in the Golfshirt (Punk News)
Finally, Summer: A dispatch from Primavera Sound Barcelona (Spin)
Elsewhere on Substack
And finally…
There’s apparently an Angine de Poitrine imposter band in Russia (Consequence of Sound); no, there’s not a fake Angine de Poitrine touring Russia (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.)