Dig into this week’s Saturday Alternative playlist! The Fitting Room album was Villains by Queens of the Stone Age, out now on Matador Records.
When you learn that Queens of the Stone Age linked up with the great pop producer Mark Ronson for their album, Villains, you get it in your head that this will be some of the more accessible music that we’ve heard from Josh Homme and company, and while that assumption is accurate, that’s not to say this album doesn’t rock out with that kind of sultry and sinister grit and attitude that makes them one of the coolest bands out there. Villains grooves and cuts with enough edge and intensity to scratch that itch. And when you think back to Ronson’s award winning work with Amy Winehouse, the collaboration begins to make more sense. Dave Growl doesn’t play any drums on this album like he has on albums past, but with Baltimore native and former Mars Volta drummer Jon Theodore holding it down on the kit, there’s not a thing to be missed. Villains is an album worth sinking your teeth into.
—hour 1—
Lower Worlds – Rainer Maria – S/T
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Watching From A Distance – David Ramirez – We’re Not Going Anywhere
You and I – Toro y Moi – Boo Boo
Cuffed (Jamie Lidell Remix) – Nick Hakim – Green Twins
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You’re Dreaming – Wolf Parade – Cry Cry Cry
Time After Time – The Parson Red Heads – Blurred Harmony
Bad Ones (feat. Tegan and Sara) – Matthew Dear
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Lotto In Reverse – Alex Lahey – I Love You Like A Brother
I Only Lie When I Love You – Royal Blood – How Did We Get So Dark?
Humble Pro – Cherry Glazerr – Apocalipstick
Winter in the South – A. Savage – Thawing Dawn
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Can’t Go Back – Ted Leo – The Hanged Man
Opposite House – Cass McCombs – Mangy Love
—hour 2—
Blossom – Milky Chance – Blossom
Porcelain – Shout Out Louds – Ease My Mind
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Permanating – Steven Wilson – To The Bone
Cave – Future Islands – The Far Field
other voices – LCD Soundsystem – american dream
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Spirit – The Belle Game – Fair / Nothing
Lil Dead Eye-d – Richard Edwards – Lemon Cotton Candy Sunset
Orthodox Man – Blaenovon – That’s Your Lot
Exhumed – Zola Jesus – Okovi
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Day I Die – The National – Sleep Well Beast
Past Lives – Local Natives – Sunlit Youth
God Save The Jungle – Benjamin Clementine – I Tell A Fly
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Brother – The Rural Alberta Advantage – The Wild
I Don’t Wanna Be Funny Anymore – Lucy Dacus – No Burden
—hour 3—
Enter Entirely – Cloud Nothings – Life Without Sound
The Sound – Noah Gundersen – White Noise
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Over Everything – Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile – Lotta Sea Lice
Shake Your Heel (feat. Tristen) – Steelism – ism
Seekers and Finders (feat. Regina Spektor) – Gogol Bordello – Seekers and Finder
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Feet Don’t Fail Me – Queens of the Stone Age – Villains
Head Like A Haunted House – Queens of the Stone Age – Villains
The Evil Has Landed – Queens of the Stone Age – Villains
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Violet – The Districts – Popular Manipulations
Julie’s Place – Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
Bless This Acid House – Kasabian – For Crying Out Loud
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Up The Creek – Tori Amos
