This week’s slightly jet lagged alt rock, punk rock and indie music digest features PJ Harvey, Bad Nerves, MIcky Dolenz, Chelsea Wolfe, Die Spitz and more. tangleofwires.substack.com/p/weekly-dig...

Here's high-quality footage of that Dan Boeckner + Spoon collab last night in Cleveland -- so great. (29:40 or so is when it starts.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4PY...

On this day 40 years ago, I was at the huge Artists Against Apartheid concert on Clapham Common. Here are some of my pics of Gil Scott-Heron, Sade, Billy Bragg and Sir Coxsone Outernational Sound System (THREAD 1 of 6)

Hi friends, I just dropped Volume 3 of my favorite "2026 Punk, Alt, Indie" jams. I guarantee you there is something for everyone in this batch. Please let me know what you like. I can't stop playing the Paulie Swan, Twisted Teens, and Born At Midnite tracks. 👍👍 www.gojeffgo.com/2026-punk-al...

From Tim Pope: Pre-order: UK linktr.ee/IShootRockSt... US www.diversionbooks.com/books/i-shoo...

This week’s slightly jet lagged alt rock, punk rock and indie music digest features PJ Harvey, Bad Nerves, MIcky Dolenz, Chelsea Wolfe, Die Spitz and more. tangleofwires.substack.com/p/weekly-dig...

Decemberists prep second live recordings volume for September release www.scenepointblank.com/news/records...

we've been needing to dial back that "_____ is punk rock" thing for a while now, and this is the final boss of it all

Punk rock, alt rock and indie music - it's all the digest, which this week includes Pulp, Phoebe Green, The Decemberists, Otoboke Beaver, The Smiths and more. tangleofwires.substack.com/p/weekly-dig...

45 years ago Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash is the first studio album by the American band The Replacements, released on June 1981 by Twin/Tone Records #punk #punks #punkrock #TheReplacements #history #punkrockhistory

Punk rock, alt rock and indie music - it's all the digest, which this week includes Pulp, Phoebe Green, The Decemberists, Otoboke Beaver, The Smiths and more. tangleofwires.substack.com/p/weekly-dig...

I’ve noticed that when the weather gets insane, I dig out all the noisy stuff. This is a top-of-my-head playlist of guitar-based stuff I liked 88-94. open.spotify.com/playlist/7vz...

my phone mic cannot handle sunn o)))

On this day: June 19, 1987. One of the earliest Babes in Toyland shows. 7th Street Entry. From the Star and Tribune the same day.

I refuse to accept this is classic rock now, goddammit consequence.net/2026/06/radi...

folks when we find a guy who's saying a bunch of dumbass shit can we get back to blocking them instead of screenshotting them and talking about their dumbass shit? these losers are not worth our time & when we let them waste it we insult the revolution

The Linda Lindas sign to Reprise/Warner with new single 'Burning Out' www.brooklynvegan.com/the-linda-li...

@slumberlandrecords.com is releasing a new compilation of early material from Velocity Girl Hear "Forgotten Favorite" www.treblezine.com/slumberland-...

25 years of Jimmy Eat World’s Bleed American 🩸🇺🇸 Jimmy Eat World | Bleed American Full Album LIVE | Brooklyn Paramount Brooklyn, NY | June 16, 2026 youtu.be/6bB9dRgKNK0

“Didn’t they split up?” “Don’t care. I’m sure they’ll be delighted to share an ad.”

They've somehow made the Faith No More reunion sound as exciting as the launch of a new crypto app.

Hats off to the headline writer: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Stereolab Live at 7th St. Entry, Minneapolis, MN on 1993-10-17 https://archive.org/details/ajc03624_stereolab_1993-10-17

Don Dixon, Coproducer of R.E.M.'s Murmur and Reckoning www.stereophile.com/content/don-...

Cancer Bats celebrate living in the present moment on new single 'Long Tooth' www.kerrang.com/cancer-bats-...

The drummer behind Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore, and decades of New York noise reflects on his first solo album, 'Beach Bongo Bloodbath,' a percussive distillation of a life lived at the underground's edge. The Tonearm's Steven Garnett bands a gong. An Audience with Bob Bert, Saint of Scrap Metal:

"I never knew when the records were going to be released. I make the record and the next day I go to the next record date or the next single or the next gig … I never was able to keep my finger on the date. You know, I didn't know that Plugged Nickel was out until a year after it was already out."

Don't mourn, organise.

Fontaines D.C.’s Carlos O’Connell and Tom Coll have produced the new Film Noir album – check out the two first singles ‘VIENS TIENS TOI / VEGITA’ www.nme.com/news/music/f...

Kristin Hersh announces new album Sugar On Blackstone: Hear 'Dark-Eyed Junco' stereogum.com/2500327/kris...

Video from Kat Moss (Scowl) solo show posted www.punknews.org/article/8830... #punksky

I wrote for the FT on lost music venues, the subject of a new exhibition at the V&A: giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

This is a great interview with Bob including a nice story about him going down to Athens to hang out with Peter Buck youtu.be/xpC3murAu1g?...

Listen to A Perfect Circle’s grandiose new single 'Starless' www.kerrang.com/listen-to-a-...

Watch Big Thief debut three songs in an Irish field for Belgium radio pitchfork.com/news/watch-b...

“They were the Unfab Four”: Ramones turns 50 www.spinmagazine.com/2026/05/they...

Panda Bear and Sonic Boom announce new album A ? Of When ourculturemag.com/2026/05/27/p...

Flea and Thom Yorke cover Marvin Gaye pitchfork.com/news/watch-f...

Foo Fighters follow in Nirvana’s footsteps by covering The Vaselines’ ‘Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam’ at BottleRock www.nme.com/news/music/w...

And here’s your occasional reminder that you can still order chicken chow mein and chop suey from the former Hong Kong Garden takeaway (now called Noble House) on Chislehurst High Street, just around the corner from where Siouxsie lived on Woodside Avenue

So, biiiiig ol' mailout from one Henry Rollins about how he's involved with a restart of the Cramps's label Vengeance Records and how it'll be a new official locus point for reissues and more going forward. Enjoy some screen caps:

Inspired by the recent Rolling Stone list, I came up with my personal top five list of favorite punk albums, and I’m asking my readers to give me their lists. tinyurl.com/yj2a87xd

RIP Sonny Rollins. Thanks for a lifetime of listening. my son shared this pic with me, lamenting that every adult in the shot has now passed. What a group of world changing artists and music that will ring out through the ages! Keep Listening.

I wrote this!

Thanks @rollingstone.com for the recognition. We made this album during a terrible snowstorm in the PNW, literally digging out our van from a snow bank, burning with a desire to make a record that could show the world what we could do, and the story we were living inside. (1/2)

You’re going to get what you deserve: After a 14-year break, we at @treblezine.bsky.social have finally updated our catalog review for every major Nine Inch Nails release. (Attn: @nin.com, @treznor.bsky.social, @theninhotline.com)

OTD 1996 Sonic Youth steal Frampton's watermelon backstage at Hullabalooza. "Homerpalooza" finished 57th in ratings for the week of May 13–19, 1996, with a Nielsen rating of 7.8, equivalent to approximately 7.5 million viewing households. (wiki) Does anyone remember the 56 shows ahead of them?

Here is the (belated) Feb 14, 1985 Rolling Stone magazine review of Zen Arcade, published 7 months after its release, written by David Fricke, who 41 years later is among the voters who ranked Hüsker Dü's LP the 13th greatest punk album of all time (he also reviews a 2nd 7/3/84 release by Minutemen)

Kevin Lyman still has plenty of Warped ideas www.spinmagazine.com/2026/05/kevi...