Dig into this week’s Saturday Alternative playlist! The Fitting Room album was Losing by Bully, out now on Sub Pop Records.

Does the world really need a new grudge rock band? If you were to ask me that question 5 years ago, I’d likely have given you an emphatic “NO.” But here in the increasingly synthetic, ultra-polished present, Alicia Bognanno’s guttural howl is hittin’ the damn spot. Alicia is the ferocious frontwoman for Nashville’s Bully who just released their new album, Losing, on the only label that seems right: Sub Pop Records. Bognanno engineered and produced the album herself, surely using some of the techniques she learned while interning at legendary producer Steve Albini’s studio. That being said, while Bully are reminiscent of the Seattle grunge rock scene that dominated the mainstream in the 90’s, they’re doing so without trying too hard, and Bognanno’s passion, honesty and intensity keep it fresh and take it over the top.

 

 

—hour 1—

Rorschach – Typhoon – Offerings 

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Little Dark Age – MGMT

I Took Your Picture – Cults – Offering 

Simulation – Gladshot – These Are Vitamins 

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Love You So Bad – Ezra Furman – Transangelic Exodus 

Beat Down – Mister Heavenly

Temporary Gold – EZTV – High in Place 

Senseless Love – Max Gomez – Me & Joe EP

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Talisa (feat. Karen O.) – Daniele Luppi & Parquet Courts – MILANO

Shake Your Heel (feat. Tristen) – Steelism – ism 

She – Goon – Happy Omen EP

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Look At Your Hands – Tune-Yards – I can feel you creep into my private life 

Last Time I Saw You – UNA

—hour 2—

Trouble – Frankie Rose

Tic Tac Toe – Django Django – Marble Skies 

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Find Me – Porches – The House 

Standing In The Middle of the Field – Cut Copy – Haiku From Zero 

To The Moon And Back – Fever Ray – Plunge

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Rainmaker – Sleigh Bells – Kid Kruschev 

Looking for the Rain – UNKLE – The Road, Pt. 1 

Bad Luck Again – The Rural Alberta Advantage – The Wild 

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Forever Certain – Tracy Bryant – A Place for Nothing and Everything in its Place 

Oh So You’re Off I See – Kane Strang

Gross Secret – Partner – In Search of Lost Time 

Old Man – Blis. – No One Loves You

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I Wish You Lonely – Morrissey – Low In High School 

Slow Down – Art Feynman – Blast Off Through the Wicker 

—hour 3—

Motion Sickness – Phoebe Bridgers – Stranger in the Alps 

Stand By – Lawrence Rothman – The Book Of Law

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Always Ascending – Franz Ferdinand – Always Ascending 

All Hail – PINS – Bad Thing EP 

Can’t Do – Everything Everything – A Fever Dream 

Something To Believe In – The New Respects

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——FITTING ROOM——

Feel The Same – Bully – Losing 

Running – Bully – Losing 

Focused – Bully – Losing 

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Tinseltown Swimming In Blood – Destroyer – ken

December – Yumi Zouma – Willowbank 

Strange Effect – The Shacks – The Shacks EP 

Prince of Tears – Baxter Dury – Prince of Tears 

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Back In Your Head – Ryan Adams – Tegan and Sara Present The Con X: Covers