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Happy Columbus Day, my fellow Americans. Today is the day we “celebrate” Christopher Columbus and his journey to the West Indies, which ultimately resulted in his stumbling upon America. Given that the explorer had a penchant for slavery, disease and general whoremongering, I find it somewhat amusing that we have a holiday in his honor. I’d prefer to honor the film director Chris Columbus on a day like today, for making classic films like “Home Alone” and “Mrs. Doubtfire”. Maybe that’s just me. So let’s tackle a Monday edition of Pick Your Poison. Tracks I can recommend today come from Bad Vibrations, The Hours, Mutiny Mutiny, Silver Wren, Terry Malts, and We Can’t Enjoy Ourselves. And hey, in the Soundcloud section, Miracle Fortress’ remix of Snow Patrol is probably better than the non-remixed version of Snow Patrol.

Age of Consent – The Beach (The Toxic Avenger Remix)

Astrid Swan – Gold Soundz (Pavement cover) (Burning Hearts Remix)

Bad Vibrations – What Now

Deaf Joe – The Softest Touch

Goapele ft. Los Rakas – Play (Los Rakas Remix)

HEMENDEX – Microscope

The Hours – I Want More

Monarchy – You Don’t Want to Dance With Me (Vivien Remix)

Mutiny Mutiny – The Damage Is Done

Old Fashioned War – No One There But You

Petter Seander – When Something Dies

The Sea Around Us – Walls
The Sea Around Us – Capital Punishment

Silver Wren – Me & You

The Society of Rockets – Telescopic Man

Terry Malts – Something About You

Theophilus London – I Stand Alone (Gigamesh Moonlight Remix)

The Through & Through Gospel Review – I Firmly Believe

We Can’t Enjoy Ourselves – Your Darkest Thoughts Will Shine

SOUNDCLOUD

Ben Rector – Let The Good Times Roll

[Me] – Naked

Primary Structures – The Farm

Small Pyramids – I Want Blood (Goldroom Remix)

Snow Patrol – Called Out In The Dark (Miracle Fortress Remix)

How many movies is Ryan Gosling going to be in this year? Between “Crazy, Stupid, Love”, “Drive” and now “The Ides of March”, the guy has a lot to promote these days. Good thing he’s a good actor and tends not to choose crap projects. Which also reminds me – George Clooney, also in “The Ides of March”, has another movie coming out soon called “The Descendants”. That’ll make two for him this year. But perhaps nobody is having a bigger, more crowded year than Jessica Chastain. She went into 2011 basically unknown, but is emerging as one of the hot new stars to watch. Her grand total will be 7 movies by the time 2011 is up. That’s less from being a workaholic and more from having movies already made but unreleased now finally all getting unleashed at once. Best of luck to her in handling all that. Oh, why am I talking movies? It’s Friday, there’s new stuff out, and I’m out of topics to discuss otherwise. Let’s get into Pick Your Poison for today. I’ll send some love in the direction of artists like And So I Watch You From Afar, Big Tree, Breathe Owl Breathe, Dreamers of the Ghetto, Leema Mountain, Misfits, The Mommyheads and Tennis System. In the Soundcloud section, you can stream some excellent new tracks from Guillemots and Iceage. Enjoy your weekend!

And So I Watch You From Afar – BEAUTIFULUNIVERSEMASTERCHAMPION
And So I Watch You From Afar – Search:Party:Animal

Big Tree – Seattle Bound

Breathe Owl Breathe – The Listeners (The Mole & The Ostrich)

City of Satellites – Machine Is My Animal

Dreamers of the Ghetto – State of a Dream

Ed Hale and the Transcendence – Blind Eye

Flashguns – No Point Hanging Around (In Golden Tears Remix)

Hello Electric – Hook

Inspired and the Sleep – While We’re Young

Jupe Jupe – Once Around the Sun

Leema Mountain – Bike Rides After Dark

Misfits – Twilight of the Dead

The Mommyheads – Hello Friends

Pillars and Tongues – Oaky (doting, in late summer)
Pillars and Tongues – Live Song

The Reminding Ideas – Good Clown, Bad Clown

Tennis System – Arcane

The Town Monster – Bela Lugosi

Vadoinmessico – Teeo

SOUNDCLOUD

Bombay Bicycle Club – Lights Out, Words Gone (Dark Sky Remix)

Guillemots – I Don’t Feel Amazing Now

ICEAGE – IIIIIIII

The Matador – Underground

Xaver Von Treyer – Lunar Rover

In this week’s somewhat weird music news, I want to talk ever so briefly about the upcoming tour of college campuses that’s set to happen with Neon Indian and Kreayshawn performing. I find it odd because there’s not a whole lot I find in common with those two artists. Okay, maybe they both share a common love of the 80s, but musically speaking, between Alan Palomo’s chillwave synth-based sound and Kreayshawn’s hip hop stylings, the pairing is…interesting to say the least. Are there people that love both artists? Does anybody really LIKE Kreayshawn period? Given the number of times her music videos have been viewed, I guess so. As I’m not quite close enough to a college campus where the tour stops, I won’t have a chance to see the spectacle for myself, but if you go, let me know if it works. Okay, so let’s get on with Pick Your Poison today. I can affix a gold star to tracks from 200 Years, Boats, Holiday Shores, Icebird, and The Scrap Hotel. In the Soundcloud section, perhaps you’d like to stream Jamie Woon’s remix of Lana Del Rey’s “Video Games”, or hear a new cut from Pinback’s Rob Crow. It’s pretty delightful.

200 Years – Solar System

Ben Lear – Scuba Lessons

Boats – T.V. Scientist

Carlos Paredes – Movimento Perpetuo

Eight Bit Tiger – Numbers

Holiday Shores – Spells
Holiday Shores – Threepeat Got Old

Home Video – A Quiet Place

Icebird – Charmed Life

Kraddy – Black Box

New London Fire – Other Side of Town

Oreo Jones – Stay Away (Nirvana cover)

Phantogram – Don’t Move

The Scrap Hotel – Crazy Old Man

Silver Wren – Fall Sky
Silver Wren – Winter’s Hum

Zoe Boekbinder – Bakery

SOUNDCLOUD

Altered Beats – Technicolor

Lana Del Rey – Video Games (Jamie Woon Remix)

Levi Lowrey – No Good Dreaming Kind

Luxe In – Come Forward

Rob Crow – Pat’s Crabs

Yuzima – Mysterious Ways (U2 cover)

Well, it finally happened: Steve Jobs has passed away. This was something that wasn’t entirely unexpected, given he was terminally ill with cancer and stepped down from his post as Apple CEO a few months ago. At that time he essentially said that he promised to continue on with the company for as long as he possibly could, which really meant he’d keep going until he was at death’s door. The guy revolutionized many things in his time with Apple, from the earliest of computers all the way through the iPod, iPhone and iPad. His impact will likely be felt for generations to come, and I’d like to take a moment to extend my condolences to his family and close friends. He will be missed, that’s definitely for sure. One of the biggest things that Steve Jobs ever did was to create iTunes to work alongside the iPod, and in many ways that has changed the music business forever. It certainly goes a distance towards the creation of Pick Your Poison. Today’s track highlights include cuts from Bitch Magnet, Finn, G-Side, Jeffrey Lewis, Pressed And, Shy Mirrors, Stevie Jackson (of Belle & Sebastian fame) and Tycho. Oh and a cool little discovery I made in the Soundcloud section: St. Vincent remixing of Montreal. Good stuff.

Bitch Magnet – Mesentery

David’s Lyre – Hidden Ground (D/R/U/G/S Remix)

Dream Love – Wrong Distance and Time

Finn – Who’s Gonna Drive You Home

Giant Sand – Music Arcade

G-Side – Hot Sex and Cold Wine (ft. Johnny Spanish)

Jeffrey Lewis – Cult Boyfriend

Jonny Lives! – Parking Lot
Jonny Lives! – We Will Not Die Quietly

No Ceremony/// – Wearme

Pressed And – Raid

Shy Mirrors – Breakout

Stevie Jackson – Man of God

Turn Off Your Television – I Just Cleaned the Floor

Tycho – Dive

Unicycle Loves You – Sun Comes Out and I Don’t Care

SOUNDCLOUD

Jay-Z & Kanye West – Otis (A.Skillz Remix)

Man Like Me – Peculiar (Des Demure Remix)

No Big Deal – Losing Light

of Montreal – Sex Karma (St. Vincent Remix)

Plapla Pinky – Heather

Saso – Facts

Another Tuesday, another week of new album releases. Let me give you a quick rundown of some notable records being released today, in the hopes that you’ll perhaps be so inclined to purchase one or a few. New records are out this week from Annie Crane (who is also featured with an mp3 below), Big Tree, The Cool Kids, Craig Wedren, Dessa (a song from the record is up for streaming in the Soundcloud section), Dreamers of the Ghetto, The Drift, Feist, Jack’s Mannequin, Jesse Payne, Lights, Loney Dear, MUTEMATH, PAPA, Prince Rama, S.C.U.M., Talkdemonic, We Were Promised Jetpacks, and Zola Jesus. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy also has a new EP coming out this week, also as an FYI. In terms of Pick Your Poison, let me actually recommend a few things to you. Annie Crane for one, Bella Clava for another, King’s Daughters & Sons makes a third, Korea in the Space goes for four, and then Moon Bounce, New Look and New Navy fill out that portion. In the Soundcloud section, I’ll recommend you stream songs from Dessa, High Highs and of course the legendary Jimmy Cliff, covering a Clash classic.

Annie Crane – Money Only Hates Me

Annie Williams – Roll On Hills
Annie Williams – Midnight Window

Bella Clava – Ding Dong Ditch

Big Wave Riders – Republic of the Average (Paperfangs Remix)

The D.A. – Big Woman
The D.A. – Pastels

Jesse Sykes – Your Own Kind

Jodie Marie – On the Road (Summer Camp Remix)

King’s Daughters & Sons – Volunteer

Korea in the Space – Hi

Loves It! – My So Called Life

Matt Toka – Say10

Moon Bounce – Gone (ft. Steffaloo)

New Look – Janet

New Navy – Tapioca

Yournalist – No Time to Kill You

SOUNDCLOUD

Alex Clare – Damn Your Eyes

Dessa – The Beekeeper

High Highs – Ivy

Jimmy Cliff – Guns Of Brixton (The Clash cover)

The Kills – The Future Starts Slow (Death In Vegas Remix)

For the very first Pick Your Poison post in the month of October, here’s a special little rarity for you: 100% mp3s. Yes, every day there’s pretty much at least one track available for streaming only via Soundcloud, some of them being good enough where you wish you were able to download and keep it on your hard drive. Not today, though honestly it’d be nice if I could make these songs available to stream as well as download. There’s proper technology that would help me do it, but the attempts I’ve made to install it have gone less than perfectly. So that remains a work in progress, but hey, feel free to download all these tracks to your heart’s content, and if you’re desperate for a stream to hear what you might be getting, check The Hype Machine as they usually aggregate these posts anyways. Tracks I can recommend today come from A.A. Bondy, Blessed Feathers, Catherine AD, Marissa Nadler (covering Leonard Cohen, no less), Mwahaha, and Young Antiques.

A.A. Bondy – Surfer King

Benji Cossa – Who Took the Rebels (Vault Vol. I Version)

Blessed Feathers – Winter Sister

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Quail & Dumplings (Remix)

Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble – Pretend (ft. Emika)

Catherine AD – Going Wrong

The Gang Violets – Black Clouds

The Golden Pony – Million Pieces

Inspired and the Sleep – Chops

Marissa Nadler – Winter Lady (Leonard Cohen cover)

The Moth & The Mirror – Germany (Headron Remix)

Mr. Gnome – Bit of Tongue

Mwahaha – Sleep Deep

The Reveling – Left at Forkright

Roomdance – Birdsong

Shelby Earl – Under Evergreen

Soviac – French

Tasseomancy – Soft Feet (Heidi MOrtenson’s Gentle Dane Remix)

TEETH – Flowers (Gross Magic Remix)

Today the Moon, Tomorrow the Sun – We Were Wild

You Won’t – Fryer (Honey I’m Home Session)
You Won’t – Who Knew (Honey I’m Home Session)

Young Antiques – Supermodel

So if you keep up with the latest goings-on with Radiohead, then you know they’ve spent the last week in New York. In that time, they’ve done a surprisingly large number of things. Considering how quiet they’ve been since the release of “The King of Limbs” early on this year, it’s remarkable they’ve been doing so much press now. From “Saturday Night Live” to “The Colbert Report” to 2 shows in NYC to an appearance on “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” early next week, the band seems to be making the most of their visit to the city. One wonders if they were to spend a week in several major cities whether or not they might do similar things. Tragically, we’ll probably never find out. Also, given that New York is one of the most highly populated cities in the world, you can hardly blame them for taking advantage of the opportunities offered to them there. Okay, let’s get to this Friday edition of Pick Your Poison. It’s a little larger than usual, populated by a host of excellent choices. Chief among them are tracks from Cate Le Bon, The Fatty Acids, Inca Gold, and Mild Mannered. How to Dress Well’s cover of the Elite Gymnastics track is probably the biggest piece of awesome up for download below. In the Soundcloud section, there are great tracks from Alberta Cross and Shannon Curtis to soothe what ails you. And should you like some reggae versions of Beatles classics, be sure to glance at Yellow Dubmarine. Just for, you know, kicks.

Amtrac – Came Along

Built Like Alaska – John Henry

Cate Le Bon – Puts Me to Work

Cherub – My Time…

THE-DRUM – Euthanasia

The Fatty Acids – Oven Mitts
The Fatty Acids – Creature

Favors – D.D.D.
Favors – The ATM

Filip Filipi ft. Mansions on the Moon and Work Drugs – Big City Chaser

Giant Sand – Recovery Mission

Gross Magic – Sweetest Touch

The Handcuffs – Baby I Love You

How to Dress Well – h e r e i n h e a v e n (Elite Gymnastics cover) (ZIP)

Inca Gold – League

Matadors – The Matador’s Mission (ft. Katy B)

Maximino – Quitters

Mild Mannered – Wonder

Patrick Wolf – Time of My Life (No Ceremony Remix)

Sick Figures – Murdercycleaire

Steven Smirney – Deeply Wrong Merits

We Cut Corners – The Leopard

SOUNDCLOUD

Alberta Cross – Money For The Weekend

Mustang – Shooting Love (Original Mix)

Shannon Curtis – Let’s Stay In

Shark Vegas- Pretenders Of Love

Yellow Dubmarine – Something (Beatles cover)

In music news today, it has been announced that Courtney Love is set to write her memoirs. I don’t know about you, but a book detailing her life, pretty much filled head to toe with crazy, seems like it’d be remarkably fascinating to me. Particularly the Kurt Cobain years. Funny how this info comes out the same week as the Super Deluxe 20th Anniversary Edition of Nirvana’s “Nevermind”. Consider it almost too coincidental. So that’s something you might want to keep tabs on, because it’s sure to have plenty of juicy tidbits when it gets released. Speaking purely in the here and now though, today’s Pick Your Poison has a few juicy nuggets as well. I’ll recommend tracks from Beef Terminal, Carnivores, Mike Quinn, Pallers, A Shoreline Dream and Vanish Valley. In the Soundcloud section, there are a few great cuts available for streaming, including new ones from Fanzine, Mark Sultan and Yuck.

Beef Terminal – Birthday

¡BORRACHO! – Alpine (Lucy ‘Lo Remix)  

Carnivores – Second Impulse

Christina Bautista – Heartless

Clockwork Radio – Liege

Diamond Life – Just An Illusion

Korallreven – As Young As Yesterday ft. Victoria Bergsman (Girl Unit Remix)

Mike Quinn – Reforming

Oreaganomics – Blanket on the Edge of Town

Pallers – Years Go, Days Pass

Rich Aucoin – It

A Shoreline Dream – Dreamsong  (ZIP)

Sidi Touré – Ir Kagay Alada (Live at Old Town School of Folk Music)

Sola Rosa – Turn Around

Vanish Valley – The Bottom

Visions of Trees – Sirens (Novocaine (The Voyeurist Remix)

SOUNDCLOUD

Cave Painting – Rio

Fanzine – Roman Holiday

Icona Pop – Sun Goes Down ft. The Knocks

Last Night’s TV – I Can Picture My Friend

Mark Sultan – Song In Grey

Yuck – Soothe Me

I realize we’re already halfway through the week, but I wanted to mention briefly that not only is a Pink Floyd catalogue remastering/reissue campaign kicking off this week, but as part of that celebration the fine folks at “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” are having some great musical guests on to cover classic Pink Floyd songs every day this week. Monday featured The Shins performing “Breathe”. Tuesday had Foo Fighters (with Roger Waters) doing “In the Flesh”. Tonight (Wednesday) will feature MGMT doing “Lucifer Sam”, while Dierks Bentley does “Wish You Were Here” on Thursday and Pearl Jam does “Mother” on Friday. Impressive stuff, both the performances that have already happened and what looks to be the ones coming up. Be sure to watch the show each night, or check out the performances via internet video later. Go to the Late Night With Jimmy Fallon website for that, as well as more details. The details of today’s Pick Your Poison are almost as interesting. I can give a good old recommendation to tracks from The Drift, Jacuzzi Boys, PAPA, Tyler Ramsey and We Can’t Enjoy Ourselves. There are two interesting covers mixed in as well, with PLAINS covering Nirvana and Silent Rider covering TV on the Radio. In the Soundcloud section, the TATF remix of Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s “Ffunny Ffriends” is noteworthy as well.

Atari Teenage Riot – Black Flags (Tony Senghore Remix)

The Birthday Suit – Do You Ever?

The Drift – Horizon

Eric Sarmiento – These Little Winters

Fairwell – Born Under A Bad Sign

The GTW – Sublime

Jacuzzi Boys – Automatic Jail

Kyla La Grange – Lambs (Leopard of Honour Remix)

Mandala – I’m No Echo

Moholy Nagy – Brute Neighbors

PAPA – Ain’t It So

PLAINS – Lithium (Nirvana cover)

Ross and the Wrongens – Summer Sun

Ryan Holiday – Why Can’t I Be Like You?

Silent Rider – DLZ (TV on the Radio cover)

Statue of Liberty – Only

Throwing Up – Mother Knows Best

Tyler Ramsey – The Valley Wind

We Can’t Enjoy Ourselves – Miss Maris Morris

SOUNDCLOUD

General Fiasco – Waves

Surkin – Ultra Light

Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Ffunny Ffriends (TATF remix)

As usual, Tuesday is new album release day. I’m not explicitly recommending any of these albums, at least not in this space, but simply informing you that these bands are putting out records that you can purchase today via your favorite retailer, online or physical or other. I’ve featured a number of these bands in the weekly Pick Your Poison roundup, and if a name strikes you right and you’d like to hear something from one of these bands, the search function on the right side of the page might be able to help you out in finding an mp3 or song to stream. So new albums this week are out from Alessi’s Ark, Apparat, Big Troubles, Blink 182, Carolina Liar, Dominant Legs, The Duke Spirit, Dum Dum Girls, Gem Club, The Gift, Kasabian, Mark McGuire, Mastodon, Matthew Sweet, Mekons, Pallers, Radiation City, Soley, Twin Sister, Tyler Ramsey, Van Hunt, VHS or Beta, Walls, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Wilco, Youth Lagoon, and Zechs Marquise. Oh, and lest I forget, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy is putting out a new EP and Nirvana’s “Nevermind” gets the Super Deluxe Reissue treatment filled with more extras than you can shake a stick at. That’s just a short list of a much longer one. Happy hunting in what I hope will result in an actual purchase of new music for you this week. For today’s Pick Your Poison, let me offer some actual recommendations as to tracks worth your time. Be sure to have a listen to songs from Autumn Owls, Binary (covering Ministry, no less), Boots Electric, The Immaculates, Moon Bounce, Parentz, Radiation City, and Sunbears. There’s also a new track from Is Tropical in the Soundcloud section you might want to give a listen to, among others.

Autumn Owls – A Thousand Blind Windows

Binary – Everyday Is Halloween (Ministry cover)

Boots Electric – Complexity

The Cinema – My Blood Is Full of Airplanes
The Cinema – Say It Like You Mean It

The Immaculates – Hey, Joe Kelly

Mandolin Orange – Haste Make

Moon Bounce – First of All and In Conclusion

The Moor – You’ll See

Parentz – Big

Publicist – Hardwork

Radiation City – Park

Saint Motel – Puzzle Pieces (Junk Remix)

Smile Now Cry Later – Favorite Song

Sunbears – Give Love A Try

Torkelsen – Lavkarbovar

Vadoinmessico – Pepita Queen of the Animals (Lapalux Remix)

The Whip – Keep or Delete (Blue Satellite Remix)

SOUNDCLOUD

Art of Dying – Get Thru This

Chateau Marmont – Receive And Follow

Is Tropical – Lies

The Pierces – Kissing You Goodbye

Young Magic – Night In The Ocean

Le sigh. Another Monday, another start of another week. Depressing, right? Rain in Chicago isn’t helping matters, so I hope it’s warm and sunny wherever you are. To help get you through those work day blues, I’ve got an extra nice, extra long edition of Pick Your Poison for your downloading pleasure. Today I’m happy to recommend tracks from The Asteroids Galaxy Tour, Death Songs, The Do, Eternal Tapestry, Leema Mountain, Sun Hotel, Walls, Wild Beasts and Woodsman. Mogwai’s remix of the Laki Mera song “Crater” is excellent as well, and available to stream in the Soundcloud section. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got some week-starting ass to kick.

The Adamski Kid – I Dance Alone

The Asteroids Galaxy Tour – Major

COYOL – Pharmacist

Death Songs – Water in the Eyes of Man

The Dø – Slippery Slope

Eternal Tapestry – Doorways in the Sand

Hello Electric – Introduction

Leema Mountain – I See the Summer in You

Marina & the Diamonds – Radioactive (Tom Staar Remix)

Orchestra of Spheres – Hypercube

Ruben & Ra – Street Machine

Sonoio – Can You Hear Me?

Sun Hotel – Alchemy
Sun Hotel – Talks

Walls – Raw Umber/Twilight

We Are the City – Happy New Year

Wild Beasts – Thankless Thing

Woodsman – Specdrum

You Can’t Win Charlie Brown – I’ve Been Lost

Zun Zun Egui – Fandango Fresh

SOUNDCLOUD

Cold Specks – Holland

Jessica Rae – 24 Hour Church (in Memphis)

Laki Mera – Crater (Mogwai Remix)

People Get Ready – Uncanny

Happy Odd Future Prank Day everybody! If you haven’t heard yet, those young, bratty and controversial hip hop stars pulled one over on a number of unsuspecting fans. To be fair, had I not caught onto it after it was all over, I probably would have fallen for it too. The set up is as follows: Odd Future started their own record label a couple months back – that much is true. The idea was to release their own music that way and not really anybody else’s. Well, via a press release sent out by their publicist, Odd Future announced they had discovered this amazing new talent that calls himself Young Nigga and just couldn’t pass up the opportunity to sign him. After teasing that they’d be unleashing the first single from Young Nigga a few hours later via their website, the end product turned out to be good ‘ol Tyler, The Creator changing his voice to try and sound like somebody else. At least that’s what it seems like. If this Young Nigga really does exist and has an album titled “Expensive Pasta” nearly in the can as reported, and he just so happens to sound a whole lot like Tyler, The Creator, well, perhaps it wasn’t a prank at all. But yeah, 95% sure they’re just messing around. Have a listen and judge for yourself. Okay, let’s talk a weekend-starting Pick Your Poison. I can give gold stars today to tracks from Anthem Facility, ARMS, Gardens & Villa, Gauntlet Hair, New Shouts, Rain Over St. Ambrose, and Wooden Wand (with the Briarwood Virgins).

Anthem Facility – Left to Defend

ARMS – Fleeced

Bio Ritmo – La Verdad

Bluom – Hello!

Bus Stop Dreams – The Kiss

Daughter – Love

Dirty Dishes – Slow Curse

Gardens & Villa – Spacetime

Gauntlet Hair – Keep Time

The Go Round – Open Hearted

Jason Corcoran – Kiss the Hive

Mocean Worker – Swagger

New Shouts – The Reins to Your Heart

Pan – Seeking the Sea King

Rain Over St. Ambrose – Campfires

Southerly – All Abandoned

Southern Culture on the SKids – Zombiefied

Wooden Wand and the Briarwood Virgins – Big Mouth USA

SOUNDCLOUD

Altered Beats – Cool Lies

Hello Echo – Birdbeat

Outasight – Tonight Is The Night

Paper Crows – When Friends Survive

Today is the first “official” day of fall. I used quotation marks there because I guess there’s a difference between meteorological fall and what the calendar says. Your local weathercaster may have told you a couple weeks back that fall had officially begun, but that was really just when temperatures began to dip. Now that we’re in full fall swing though, there’s the leaves beginning to change color, and my favorite time of year – sweater weather. For me though, it’s closer to hoodie weather. I’m basically happy over bundling up just a little more than usual, but I do love summer and the warm temperatures. I hope you enjoy it too, a precursor before the doldrums of winter finally strike. Pick Your Poison will hopefully wrap you up in sweater-like comfort today. Tracks I can give a thumbs up to come from Amanda Mair, AZITA, Pallers, Van Hunt, The Wandas, and Zechs Marquise. Panda Bear’s remix of Korallreven is a good one to stream in the Soundcloud section, and if you like some hip hop, “Community” star Donald Glover’s music project Childish Gambino has a new cut up for streaming as well.

Amanda Mair – Doubt

AZITA – September

Dylan LeBlanc – If the Creek Don’t Rise (ft. Emmylou Harris)

Evidence – Late for the Sky (ft. Slug and Aesop Rock)

Filligar – Knock Yourself Out

Mr. Miranda – Key to Success

Pallers – Humdrum

Rah Rah – Parkade

Secret Shine – No More Inside

The Seldon Plan – Fractionation

Tyson – After You’re Gone (Solo Remix)

The Unsacred Hearts – Where Are You?

Van Hunt – Eyes Like Pearls

The Wandas – Long Time Running

Wesley Wolfe – Who’s Going to Truly Love You?

Xaver Von Treyer – Device of the Devil (Original Demo)

Zechs Marquise – Everlasting Beacon of Light

SOUNDCLOUD

Childish Gambino – Bonfire

Kathleen Edwards – Wapusk (featuring Bon Iver)

Korallreven – As Young As Yesterday (Panda Bear Remix)

Sam Gray – Brighter Day

Tragedy has struck, and its name is R.E.M. More specifically, I mean the break up of R.E.M. While I am saddened to hear that the guys feel like they can’t or shouldn’t work together as a band anymore, we did get 31 years worth of great music, even if there were a few misfires along the way. What disappoints me most is hearing the break up talk from people that obviously aren’t big R.E.M. fans, because they first comment that it’s tragic, then follow it up by saying something like, “it’s not like they’ve done much in the last 10 years”. First and foremost that’s an ignorant statement, especially since their last two albums, “Accelerate” and “Collapse Into Now” were at the very least better than half of the rest of their catalogue. The real R.E.M. fans know that the band appeared to have plenty of life still left in them. Apparently they felt otherwise. So I wish Michael Stipe, Mike Mills and Peter Buck all the best in their future endeavors, and look forward to their reunion tour in 2016. Let’s do Pick Your Poison today. I can say complimentary things about tracks from The Beets, Chris Letcher, Grand Atlantic and White Denim.

Astrid Swan – Zurich Is Stained (Jori Hulkkonen Remix)

The Beets – Doing As I Do

Chris Letcher – Twin Fins

Daft Punk – Crescendolls (Mr. Valentine Remix)

Devereaux – Espejo

Ellie Goulding – Lights (RASCAL Remix)

EULA – Maurice Narcisse

Grand Atlantic – Carved From Stone

Groove Armada ft. Bryan Ferry – Shameless (Tim “Love” Lee Dub Version)

Mad Major Melvin – Pinchero (Original Mix)

The Matador – Señorita Negra

The Weeknd – The Morning ft. Kenton Dunson (Chi Duly Remix)

White Denim – Hot Thought

Woodkid – Iron (Trumpdisco Remix)

You Won’t – Three Car Garage

SOUNDCLOUD

Breton – Kensington System

Canyons – See Blind Through

Daymare – Ice Famine

Far Away Planes – Stow Away

Monarchy – You Don’t Want To Dance With Me (feat. Britt Love)

St. Rupertsberg – In Albania

Tuesday is new album release day, so let me give you a quick rundown of some of the more notable releases that are available in stores and online for you to purchase this week. New albums from CAVE, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Halloween Alaska, Ivy, Korallreven, Megafaun, Needtobreathe, Nurses, The Pack AD, Southerly, SuperHeavy, Tori Amos, Veronica Falls and Weekend are all fresh for your listening pleasure. You may also be interested in EPs from IfIHadAHiFi and Jens Lekman, not to mention Pearl Jam releasing a double disc soundtrack to their Cameron Crowe film “20”, which features a number of live cuts from throughout their career, among other things. Check out what strikes your fancy. The same can be said about today’s Pick Your Poison. Today I’ll give gold stars to tracks from Devo, Jesse Payne, Jim Ward, Katie Herzig, Porcelain Raft (covering Nirvana), Quilt, Still Corners, Trips & Falls and Twin Shadow.

Christina Bautista – Long Divisions

The Daredevil Christopher Wright – The Animal of Choice

David’s Lyre – Hidden Ground

Dead Western Plains – People Beat

Devo – Watch Us Work It

Goldenboy – Sleepwalker

Gregory Scott Slay – Keep It Secret

Jesse Payne – Take Me

Jim Ward – Take It Back

Katie Herzig – Free My Mind

MEN – Simultaneously (LESANDS Remix)

Outasight – Loosen Up

Palpitation – We Don’t Need To, We Don’t Have To

Porcelain Raft – Come As You Are (Nirvana cover)

Quilt – Penobska Oakwalk

Still Corners – Into the Trees

Tensnake – Something About You (Christian Strobe Remix)

Trips and Falls – Marginally More Than Mildly Annoying

The Trophy Fire – Modern Hearts

Twin Shadow – Changes

SOUNDCLOUD

Mozart Parties – Black Cloud