Weekend Kickoff July 2016

Twenty-nine tracks of the July 2016 Weekend Kickoff rotation — the summer-peak edition of the recurring Friday-evening list, locked in the week before the long Independence Day weekend. The Jayhawks anchor the alt-country and roots-rock bridge that ran through the summer’s indie-rotation pulls; The Strokes bring the early-’00s NYC rock-revival anchor that was finding renewed playlist relevance after a few years out of rotation; The Kills carry the late-night blues-punk peak that defined their mid-decade run; Red Hot Chili Peppers close the run with the ‘The Getaway’-era release-cycle-tied catalog peaks that drove the year’s alt-rock-radio rotation. The July 2016 working-rotation, intact and unedited.

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