It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another weekly dip into the pool of music news, interviews and videos that I like to call This Week In Music! Yes, in addition to the normal Pick Your Poison mp3s and Soundcloud streams, I like to toss out links to a bunch of other music-related content that I’ve found interesting or worthwhile over the course of the week. I encourage you to check some, if not all of these things out, particularly if you’re looking to waste some time. There’s plenty to see, read and hear:

Music Video: Kevin Drew – Mexican Aftershow Party

Watch Arcade Fire cover Blondie’s “Heart of Glass” live in Houston

The Smashing Pumpkins will reissue Adore with 3 discs of unreleased music plus a live DVD

Music Video: Lykke Li – No Rest for the Wicked

Watch Real Estate perform “Talking Backwards” on Letterman

Watch St. Vincent cover Nirvana’s “Lithium” live in Chicago

An unreleased Aphex Twin album Caustic Window is being sold digitally on Kickstarter

Music Video: The Both – Milwaukee

Music Video: Queens of the Stone Age – Smooth Sailing

YouTube Audio Stream: tUnE-yArDs – Wait for a Minute

Once you’re done with that set of distractions, let me offer up another set via some song downloads and streams. Don’t miss tracks from Cajita, Francobollo, Gidge, The Hudson Branch, Owls of the Swamp and Yalls. In the Soundcloud section after the jump, stream cuts from Curtin, Gorgon City, MNEK, New Madrid, plus remixes of tracks from Phantogram and Say Lou Lou.

Audialist – Serpent

Cajita – Shake

Cosmonaut Grechko – Anytime

DaVinci & Sweet Valley – Hello Stranger

Francobollo – Hot Cars

Gidge – You

The Hudson Branch – Korea vs. Canada

Owls of the Swamp – Shapeshifter

Pharrell – Happy (Damaged Goods Remix)

Sebastian Carter – Stranger Sights (ft. Henry Green)

Shambles in a Husk – Medications

UZ – Trap Shit V19 (ft. Problem)

Yalls – DC
Yalls – High Society

Yung Lean – Gatorade (Dolphin Tears LIDO Edit)

SOUNDCLOUD

Curtin – Better Ride

Gorgon City – Here for You (ft. Laura Welsh)

MNEK – Every Little Word

New Madrid – Manners

Phantogram – Fall in Love (Until the Ribbon Breaks Reimagination)

Say Lou Lou – Everything We Touch (Yannis Remix)