Stephen Malkmus, Carrie Brownstein, Doug Martsch, More on New Protest Album
By Noah Yoo.
Doug Martsch, Stephen Malkmus, Carrie Brownstein, Boss Hog, and many more have been announced as contributors to a new protest album, Battle Hymns. Available now as a pay-what-you-want download, the compilation was “created in direct response to the current political situation in the U.S.A” and benefits three different organizations: Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union, and climate change non-profit 350.org. Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss of Quasi assembled the compilation, and also served as the backing band on several songs. Check out the tracklist and cover art below, and get the album here.
Battle Hymns:
01 Love Always (Kathy Foster): “We Won’t Go Back”
02 Mac McCaughan: “Happy New Year (Prince Can’t Die Again)”
03 Boss Hog: “Save Our Soul”
04 Stephen Malkmus: “Midnight Cruisers”
05 Drew Grow: “Time Bomb”
06 MEDS (Carrie Brownstein and Katie Harkin): “No More Fizz”
07 Mary Timony: “Fight the Hate”
08 Quasi: “Ballad of Donald Duck & Elmer Fudd”
09 Libraness (Ash Bowie): “A Kind of Survival”
10 Filthy Friends (Corin Tucker, Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey, Kurt Bloch, Bill Rieflin): “Love in the Time of Resistance”
11 Carl Newman: “Our Nero”
12 Rebecca Gates: “NO DIVISION”
13 Doug Martsch: “Fuck 2016”
14 Sean Croghan: “Spider House”
This story originally appeared on Pitchfork.
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