Dig into this week’s Saturday Alternative playlist! The Fitting Room album was What A Time To Be Alive by Superchunk, out now on Merge Records.
Superchunk are still going strong nearly 30 years later, and as always, they’re using their blistering punk rock medium to speak their minds. What A Time To Be Alive is their first new album since 2013’s I Hate Music, and as they say in a press release, “It would be strange to be in a band, at least our band, and make a record that completely ignored the surrounding circumstances that we live in and that our kids are going to grow up in.” And so, Mac McCaughan, Laura Ballance, Jim Wilber and Jon Wurster made an album with as powerful and clear a message as ever, out on their own Merge Records, the now iconic indie rock label they started themselves so many years ago.
—hour 1—
Cicada – La Luz – Floating Features
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Miss You – Born Ruffians – Uncle, Duke & The Chief
The Wandering Star – Saintseneca
Deathless f. Kamasi Washington – Ibeyi
Phoenix – Rhye – Blood
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Baby Luv – Nilüfer Yanya – Baby Luv EP
Voices in the Field – Calexico – The Thread That Keeps Us
God Save The Jungle – Benjamin Clementine – I Tell A Fly
I’m Out Mine – Dommengang – Love Jail
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Blue Coupe – Twin Peaks
Fallen Leaves – The Deep Dark Woods
Don’t Move Back To LA – Okkervil River – In the Rainbow Rain
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Middle America – Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
The Alien – Manchester Orchestra – A Black Mile To The Surface
—hour 2—
Another Weekend – Ariel Pink – Dedicated To Bobby Jameson
Best Of The Best Of Times – Darlingside – Extralife
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Agree – POLICA and s t a r g a z e – Music for the Long Emergency
Find Me – Porches – The House
Lemon Glow – Beach House
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Never Gonna Stop – The Family Crest – The War: Act I
The Weather – Pond – The Weather
Cold As Ice – Bekon
Golden Spiral – Holly Miranda – Mutual Horse
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Go Out Fighting – Dr. Dog – Critical Equation
Anna, Lisa Calls – Happyness – Write In
What’s So Entertaining – The Orwells
Kids These Days – Shakey Graves – Can’t Wake Up
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Follow Me – The Shacks – Haze
Time After Time – The Parson Red Heads – Blurred Harmony
—hour 3—
Little of Your Love – HAIM – Something To Tell You
In Between Stars – Eleanor Friedberger – Rebound
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Nameless, Faceless – Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You Really Feel
Point – The Districts – Popular Manipulations
You’re Dreaming – Wolf Parade
Purple Hearts – Jeremy Messersmith – Late Stage Capitalism
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——FITTING ROOM——
Break The Glass – Superchunk – What A Time To Be Alive
All For You – Superchunk – What A Time To Be Alive
Black Thread – Superchunk – What A Time To Be Alive
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Count It Up – Field Music – Open Here
Standing In The Middle Of The Field – Cut Copy – Haiku From Zero
Negative Space – Hookworms – Microshift
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Catch It – Iceage
