Weekly digest #76

Featuring Kelley Stoltz, The Yummy Fur, Doghouse Rose, Interpol, TV On The Radio and more

📷 Still from Kelley Stoltz‘s ‘Watts Moon Starr’ video

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

New supergroup ft. Billie Joe Armstrong, Travis Barker, Tim Armstrong, more covering Ramones at tribute show (Brooklyn Vegan)

Music with explicit lyrics is in decline, report shows (NME)

The Linda Lindas announce first major label album Gotta Get Out with Hayley Williams collab ‘Closer’ (Our Culture)

Sex Pistols’ legendary Filthy Lucre Live album to be reissued with bonus tracks (NME)

The Yummy Fur detail first album in 27 years (The Quietus)

New releases

Doghouse Rose release video for ‘It Gets Worse’ (Punk News)

Jawdropped announce new album Secret To Spare: hear ‘Split Lip’ (Stereogum)

The Last Dinner Party bring us “final tale from The Pyre” with cinematic new single ‘Knocking At The Sky’ (NME)

Converge release video for ‘It Used to Matter’ (Punk News)

A-100s drop debut album Rude & Lovely via Pirates Press Records (The Punk Site)

Listen/watch

Interpol stare down AI on atmospheric new single ‘Iron City’ (NME)

Green Day diss the devil and defy death on new song ‘I’m Never Gonna R.I.P.’ (Rolling Stone)

Reunited Brighton indie band The Maccabees debut passionate new song ‘Ballad Of So Long’ live in Edinburgh (NME)

Alabama Shakes announce first album in 11 years, share ‘I Feel Hope Coming’ (Pitchfork)

Watch Kelley Stoltz‘s trippy animated video for drummer tribute ‘Watts Moon Starr’ (Brooklyn Vegan)

Long reads

TV On The Radio‘s Return To Cookie Mountain turns 20 (Stereogum)

Cancer Bats: “People genuinely get something out of our music. That's why I want to still be doing this, I want to be there for those people” (Kerrang)

The Passions of John Darnielle (Spin)

Twenty years of Snow Patrol‘s ‘Chasing Cars’: “It’s the song that took us to the whole world” (BBC)

Sprints: “I’m really proud to stick up for people and to use our platform for something good” (Kerrang)

Elsewhere on Substack

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And finally…

John Waters went to a Nine Inch Nails concert just to look at the audience (Consequence of Sound)

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.)