Upcoming Releases

There's a quiet sort of vulnerability throughout these things happen, the upcoming second album from Kalamazoo, MI emo trio saturdays at your place.

Out September 12, the band takes take everything that made their early material resonate—twinkly guitars, heart-on-sleeve songwriting, a distinctly Midwestern ache—and stretch it into something even more resonant.

Their new song, “what am I supposed to do?” is a mid tempo reflection on individuality and people-pleasing, combined with the emotional labor of keeping your head above water while on the road. 

“I needed somewhere to rant about my feelings while on tour,” vocalist/drummer Gabe Wood shares. “But through finishing this song, I’ve learned a lot more about myself than anything else. I’m still figuring out who I am, but I’ve realized I have to respect my own emotions as much as I do everyone else’s.”

Formed by three friends who met at Western Michigan University, the band—Wood, Esden Stafne (vocals/bass), and Mitch Gulish (guitar)—have always used music as a way to map the wretched trajectory of growing up. But on these things happen, they’ve stopped asking for directions and started finding their own way through the chaos.

A lot of inspiration for the record came from Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1999 film, Magnolia. In the movie, strangers' lives collide in a grand way, for no reason. There’s no greater meaning to unfold, just happenstance, and similarly, the album doesn’t offer listeners any new information on what to do once you’ve ascended into adulthood; it simply provides a more relatable cushion.

These Things Happen tracklist:

1. welcome
2. cross my heart
3. waste away
4. what am I supposed to do
5. forest bubbles
6. I'd rather be in michigan
7. strawberry
8. stay
9. loon mobile pt 3
10. I give in