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Happy official start to the 2011 Fall TV Season! That does deserve an exclamation point, if you ask me. Did anyone watch the Emmys last night? There were a number of good, award-worthy shows that actually won, even if many of them were the same shows we’ve seen win over and over again. Great to see Kyle Chandler win for “Friday Night Lights”, and though the show lost in the Best Drama category to “Mad Men”, I am in no real way upset about that, given how great that show is too. “Modern Family” did exceptionally well last night too, snagging a pair of Best Supporting Acting awards along with some writing and Best Comedy Series. Great for them too, they deserved to win. Other good wins include Melissa McCarthy for “Mike & Mollly” and “The Daily Show” in a pair of Best Variety, Music or Comedy Series categories. Congrats to all, now let’s get some new episodes on the air. Okay, so amidst my excitement for TV, let’s get back to music right now. Pick Your Poison today is a delight and I’m excited about that too. I can recommend tracks from A Classic Education, Co La, Empress Hotel, Guineafowl, Jukebox the Ghost, Mezzanine Owls, Reversing Falls and Way Yes.

A Classic Education – Forever Boy

Adrienne Drake – Awake at the End of A Dream

Ankit Love – Mental Revolution

The Chevin – Champion

Co La – Egyptian Peaches

Daisy McCrackin – I Think I’m A Ghost

e-dubble – Life Coach

Empress Hotel – Here Comes the New Challenger

Gigamesh – When You’re Dancing ft. Induce (RAC Remix)

The Glammers – Rock Your Town

Guineafowl – Little Fingers

Jukebox the Ghost – The Stars

Messy Marv – I Need It Back

Mezzanine Owls – Obstacle

MonoMono – Make Them Realise

Odonis Odonis – Ledged Up

Reversing Falls – Is This Thing On?

Snowmine – Beast in Air, Beast in Water

Way Yes – Automail

SOUNDCLOUD

Alex Clare – Up All Night (Skream’s Behind Closed Door’s Remix)

AM & Shawn Lee – Somebody Like You

Yes it’s Friday. Yes you have every right to be excited about it. I don’t have much to say, except that I hope you have a nice, relaxing couple of days off. If you’re working this weekend, try not to work too hard. Pick Your Poison is good for what ails you, in spite of the name. I can give some honorable mentions in this set from Cuckoo Chaos, High Places, The JUan Maclean, Mood Rings, Radio Moscow and We Were Lovers. In terms of remixes, Superhumanoids remixing Fool’s Gold is remarkably good, as is Portugal. The Man’s remix of Junip. If you like the lighter singer-songwriter fare, there’s a new song from Rachel Yamagata in the Soundcloud section. That, along with Efterklang’s remix of Trentemøller’s cut “Tide” are both worth streaming.

Cuckoo Chaos – Jamb Song

Fabian – Heatwave

Fool’s Gold – Wild Window (Superhumanoids Remix)

Glenn Jones – Of Its Own Kind

High Places – Year Off

John Heart Jackie – You’ve Been On My Mind

The Juan Maclean – Everybody Get Close

Junip – Without You (Portugal. The Man Remix)

Keith Masters – New Ghost City

Mandela – Flight

Marco Panella – The Aquifer

Mood Rings – Exorcised Painting

Not the 1s – Silverstein Status

Pieta Brown – I’m Gone

Radio Moscow – Little Eyes

Simon Spire – Liberate Your Love

Toy Bombs – Prairie Eye

Tropical Popsicle – The Beach With No Footprints
Tropical Popsicle – The Age of Attraction

We Were Lovers – We’ve Got It

Zun Zun Egui – Fandango Fresh

SOUNDCLOUD

Rachael Yamagata – Even If I Don’t

Trentemøller – Tide (Efterklang Remix)

Visions of Trees – Sirens (Novocaine)

Zulu Winter – Never Leave

Is anyone excited for the fall TV season? I’m something of a TV addict, from network shows to cable, so there’s a huge list of things I watch every fall. There’s a wealth of good shows that have made it beyond their first season, but one of the more exciting things are the new shows. As most shows will be premiering next week, is there anything you’re particularly anticipating? Did you see any great shows over the summer that either you’re going to miss or simply caught up with on DVD in anticipation of the new episodes? I’m intrigued to hear your thoughts. Let me know in the comments section if you’re so inspired. Getting back on track with music, today’s Pick Your Poison is a delight. I can recommend tracks from Casiokids, Korallreven, Shimmering Stars, Warning Light, and You Can’t Win Charlie Brown. In the Soundcloud section, you’ll find a new cut from Apparat, along with Trentemøller’s remix of Efterklang, among others.

Adele – Rolling in the Deep (dBerrie Remix)

Boy + Kite – Deciphering Static

Casiokids – Det Haster!

CSC Funk Band – Bad Banana Bread (Live in Providence)

Gabriel Miller Phillips – Memorial Drive

Jonathan Wilson – Desert Raven

Korallreven – As Young As Yesterday (ft. Victoria Bergsman)

Mask Man – Wigi Boards

Right On Dynamite – In Vino Veritas

Shimmering Stars – Nervous Breakdown

Theophilus London – I Stand Alone (Ocelot Remix)

Warning Light – The Universal Rewrite

The Whip – Keep or Delete

Y Luv – All Night

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

Yuzima – We Rock For NY

SOUNDCLOUD

Apparat – Song Of Los

Beaty Heart – 2Good

Efterklang – Raincoats (Trentemøller Remix)

Jovontaes – Mountain Pass

Metals – Like/Unlike

As the summer fully winds down and fall gets into full effect, weekends spent outdoors are becoming less and less possible. Keep in mind that only applies to places like Chicago, where it gets extremely cold in the winter. The point is, make the most of your time outside these days, because they won’t last too long. Marking the tail end of the outdoor weekend festivals is the first ever Brilliant Corners of Popular Amusements, debuting in Chicago’s Eckhart Park this Friday-Sunday. The goal of the festival is to try and reinvent the traditions of Vaudeville in a modern day setting. In other words, we’re talking about a trip to an old style carnival complete with food and game booths and performers like acrobats and magicians. In updating such an event for the 21st century, they’ll also be incorporating comedians, short films and bands. Attending the carnival and craft fair portion of the festival is free for all, but you can also catch a number of great bands each night for a relatively small ticket price. Friday boasts the lineup of CAVE, Bomba Estereo, Sidi Toure and Bill Callahan. Saturday has Dark Dark Dark, Charles Bradley, A Hawk and A Hacksaw, and School of Seven Bells. Sunday features Fool’s Gold, Dan Deacon, A Lull and Shellac. Tickets for the music portion of each night are $20 and will be available in limited quantities on-site at Eckhart Park. For more information, go to the official festival website.

Now onto today’s Pick Your Poison. I can give the hearty thumbs up to tracks from Daddy Lion, David Myles, Julian Lynch, Mekons, The Strange Boys, Tennis System and Toy Camera.

Alpine White – The Evidence

Daddy Lion – Werewolf

David Guetta ft. Taio Cruz – Little Bad Girl (Amada Bootleg)

David Myles – Nina

Edward Rogers – Porcelain

Henry’s Funeral Shoe – Dog Scratched Ear

Julian Lynch – Temple Dance

Mekons – Geeshie

Mint Julep – Aviary (Mogwai Remix)

Radio For the Daydreamers – Always in Hallways
Radio For the Daydreamers – I Am Not Coming Back Home

ShearGen1us – Bring the Boss Back
ShearGen1us – Get Hype

The Strange Boys – Me and You

Tennis System – Hey We Tried

Toy Camera – Your Heart
Toy Camera – Summer Days

TV Buddhas – Just Another Day in My Head

The Wombats – Our Perfect Disease (Plastic Plates Remix)

Yukon Blonde – Fire

SOUNDCLOUD

2 a.m. – Outsider

Lovedrug – Pink Champagne

Pictureplane – The Art of Feeling (!PAUS3 Mix Part One)

As I try to do on Tuesdays, given that it is new album release day, allow me to tell you about some notable artists that are putting out new records today. Again, this is just a selection of artists, and I’m not pointing you in one direction or the other in terms of what’s good and what’s bad among these. If you’re not visiting via the main page though, I’ll tell you that so far this week I’ve given one band an extremely positive review, and another band a very so-so review. Check both those out if you’ve not yet done so. But here’s the rather long list of artists releasing new records today: Barn Owl, Blind Pilot, Blitzen Trapper, CANT (Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor), The Drums, Girls, Grouplove, Holiday Shores, Jenn Mierau, Kathryn Calder, The Kooks, Ladytron, Mates of State, Memoryhouse, Mogwai, Neon Indian, Pajama Club, St. Vincent, Toro y Moi, Wild Flag and Wooden Shjips. If you can’t find something to love amidst all those artists, there’s something wrong with your ears. Speaking specifically to today’s edition of Pick Your Poison, I can say nice things about tracks from Big Troubles, Blackout Beach, The Bloody Hollies, Brown Bird, Class Actress, Girl In A Coma, Loney Dear, Luke Temple (of Here We Go Magic), The Morning Clouds and Pterodactyl. In other words, lots to recommend song-wise in this collection too.

Baby Baby – Fight Club

Big Troubles – Sad Girls

Blackout Beach – Beautiful Burning Desire

The Bloody Hollies – Dirty Sex

Brown Bird – Fingers to the Bone

Class Actress – Weekend

Cosmo Jarvis – She Doesn’t Mind

Ed Trauma – Purple High

Girl In A Coma – Smart

Grayson Capps – Jane’s Alley Blues

Gross Relations – When You Go Down

Loney Dear – My Heart

Luke Temple – More Than Muscle

The Morning Clouds – A Walk Home

Neptune – Canine Species

Pterodactyl – Nerds

Red Eye Fugu – Prophecies (I Don’t Mind)

Silver Wren – Crystalline (Expensive Looks Remix)

SOUNDCLOUD

Clock Opera – Lesson No.7 (Tom Vek’s Tripping Mix)

Great Mountain Fire – Late Lights

JMSN – Hotel

Hope everybody enjoyed some quality NFL football over the weekend. I realize that sports and music aren’t always the ideal pairing, unless you’re hard rock or hip hop, but I just thought I’d remind those less sports inclined that everyone and their fantasy leagues will be going on and on about teams for the next few months. Don’t worry – you don’t really have to care about football, at least not until the Super Bowl, during which you can pretend to care while enjoying some creative commercials. So there’s that. Happy NFL season everybody. I probably won’t mention it again until January. What I will mention over and over on consecutive weekdays is the edition of Pick Your Poison. In conjunction with today’s edition, I’d like to mention that three of the bands you can hear songs from on the list below will be playing a show together. Evolove, Stitched Up Heart and Gemini Syndrome will all be performing in Chicago at the Elbo Room on the 18th, which is this coming Sunday. GO pick up tickets if you like what you hear from those bands. Other things I can recommend today include tracks from Blouse, Borrowed Beams of Light, Fujiya & Miyaki, Kurt Vile, Last American BUffalo, Plates of Cake and Slow Animal.

Automatic Writing – Continuous

Blouse – Videotapes

¡BORRACHO! – Alpine

Borrowed Beams of Light – Half Light
Borrowed Beams of Light – Holy Cow
Borrowed Beams of Light – Run Rabid Through the Haze

Comet Gain – Clang of the Concrete Swans

Evolove – Wake Up Call

The Fairchilds – Unbreakable

Fujiya & Miyaki – Chichikov

Gemini Syndrome – Basement

Hunting Foxes – Chasing Thoughts

Is Tropical – The Greeks (Polarset Remix)

Kurt Vile – The Creature

Last American BUffalo – Thieves

Paul Hudson – Charlie

Plates of Cake – As If the Choice Were Mine

The Secret Whistle – Moon Top Mountains

Slow Animal – Heatwave

Stitched Up Heart – Is This the Way You Get to Hell

Tunabunny – Only at Night

SOUNDCLOUD

The Helmholtz Resonators – Hades

NeedToBreathe – The Reckoning

The Q – Mercury

Here we are, another Friday to celebrate the start of another weekend. This upcoming weekend will be the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the tragic day that the Twin Towers fell in New York. Unless you’re reading this site and you’re younger than about 15 years old, chances are you remember what happened like it was yesterday. One of the things that bothers me just a little is how small schoolchildren, almost all of which were born either after or just before 2001 are now being somewhat exploited and brought out to commemorate the events of that day. I’m not talking about the children of the loved ones that were lost, I’m talking about just random, everyday schoolchildren. I suppose it falls under the category of the children being our “future” and how we need to protect this new generation of youth from things like 9/11. My viewpoint is that we need to honor those that were lost, along with all the men and women who did everything they could to save as many people as possible on that fateful day. Even if you don’t know anybody that was directly involved in saving lives for 9/11, perhaps Sunday is a good day to tell a police officer or fireman/woman or a soldier thank you for looking out for our well-being (here or abroad). Okay, I’ve said my piece. On a more positive note, Pick Your Poison is just a touch larger than usual today. I can give my seal of approval to tracks from Blessed Feathers, HTRK, Kosha Dillz, and Night Shining. Big Black Delta’s remix of M83’s new one “Midnight City” is pretty dope as well. You can also stream new tracks from Modeselektor and Real Estate in the Soundcloud section.

Architecture in Helsinki – Escapee (Venice Remix)

The Asteroid Shop – Dandelion

Blessed Feathers – By Song Through the Americas

The Creepy Crawlies – Get Buried!

Deca ft. Ichibon & ROqy Tyraid – Clockwork

Hardboiled Wonderland – Jungle Fever

HTRK – Eat Yr Heart

Jupe Jupe – Suspicion

Kosha Dillz – Bars Mitzvah

M83 – Midnight City (Big Black Delta Remix)

Mag Lev – Gabble

Memory Flowers – Safety Net

The New Division – Shallow Play

Night Shining – The Moon’s Hand

Paper Diamond – Can We Go Up

Pree – Lemon Tree

Tonedeff – What Part of Forever (Cee-Lo Green cover)

Vadoinmessico – Marzia

SOUNDCLOUD

Anomie Belle – Ain’t No Sunshine

Kites – Yellow Letter

Modeselektor ft. Busdriver – Pretentious Friends

Psychic Ills – Mind Daze

Real Estate – It’s Real

Salli Lunn – The Invention of Steel (Manual Remix)

Friday is just a day away my friends. I don’t have any time to waste today, so let me give you the quick rundown of tracks I can recommend in today’s Pick Your Poison. My personal favorites come from Gold Beach, Hard Mix, Sick Figures, Steel Phantoms, True Womanhood and The War on Drugs. In the Soundcloud section, you’ll find a classic track from Can, who are launching a reissue campaign of their classic catalogue shortly. Lots of bands are influenced by Can, and if you’ve never heard them before, or aren’t familiar with the song, now’s a good time to educate yourself.

Fruit Flesh – Cater Gator

Gold Beach – Gold Beach

Hard Mix – Upkeep

Husband – Ordinary

Just Polaroid – My Body

Ming + 2Beeps – The Nutz

One in a Googolplex – You Were A Mess When You Were Seventeen

The Parish of Little Clifton – It’s Okay, Roseanne

Pink Holy Days – Skip on Sofa (ZIP)

Ralfe Band – Atlantis Rising

Sick Figures – Whiskey Song

Steel Phantoms – Bedouin

Torkelsen – Simple

True Womanhood – Sympathy

The War on Drugs – Snake Tongues

Wiretree – Tinyhearts

SOUNDCLOUD

Can – Bring Me Coffee Or Tea

Foreign Office – Hands & Knees

Jamie N Commons – Now Is Not The Time

Kali Mutsa – Tunupa

Penguin Prison – Don’t Fuck With My Money

I’ve never really mentioned Neil Diamond on this site before, and that’s partly with good reason. Singalongs to “Sweet Caroline” bother me to no end. That’s a small part of the problem. I do have some admiration for what the guy does though, and with all of its Neil Diamond quirks, the comedy “Saving Silverman” is still pretty funny to me. Whether it’s a good joke at or about or with him, Diamond remains a good sport, and for that I don’t entirely dislike him. So I take this moment to wish him the best as he’s just announced he will be getting married. He’ll no longer be a “Solitary Man”. He’s turned on his “Hearlight” and is saying “Hello Again” to the prospect of marriage. There’s about 10 more song title jokes I can make, but for now I’ll spare all of you the additional puns. No Neil in today’s Pick Your Poison, but there’s plenty of other good music for you to enjoy. That includes tracks from Abstract Artimus, Carter Tanton, Family Lumber, Goddamn Electric Bill (covering Metric), The Supreme Dicks and Wires Under Tension. In the Soundcloud section, Tokyo Police Club’s covers project comes to an end with their amusing cover of Miley Cyrus’ “Party in the U.S.A.”, and you can also hear a new song from Yuck as well.

Abstract Artimus – Quitter’s Face

Brown Shoe – Late Nights

Carter Tanton – Horrorscope

Cavaliers of Fun – Sharing Space Secrets (Space Edit)

Chiddy Bang ft. Q-Tip – Here We Go (Designer Drugs Remix)

Family Lumber – No Worries

Folks – Avalanche

Goddamn Electric Bill – The Police and the Private (Metric cover)

IfIHadAHiFi – Arson, You Let Me Down

Light FM – Mercy

:papercutz – Disintegration (The Cure cover)

Princess Chelsea – The Cigarette Duet  

Rainbow Arabia – Without You

The Supreme Dicks – In A Sweet Song
The Supreme Dicks – Jack-O-Lantern

Wires Under Tension – Bronx Science

SOUNDCLOUD

Jakil – Break For The Border

Nervo – We’re All No One feat. Afrojack and Steve Aoki (Jungle Fiction Remix)

Tokyo Police Club – Party In The U.S.A. (Miley Cyrus cover)

Tyson – After You’re Gone

Yuck – Cousin Corona

If you’re in the U.S., I hope your Labor Day was great yesterday. Always love the 3 day weekends when you can get them. Today is Tuesday, which means it’s new album release day, so let me take just a moment to tell you about some notable records making their way to stores this week. Keep in mind I’m not recommending all these albums (though I’m sure many of them are great), this is just a cursory list to keep you notified. Anyways, in stores today you’ll find new records from AM & Shawn Lee, HTRK, Luke Temple (of Here We Go Magic), Peter Wolf Crier, The Rapture, and Volume 3 of the “True Blood” soundtrack, which features a number of new songs including a collaboration between Neko Case and Nick Cave. Also, Charlotte Gainsbourg has a new EP out today. In terms of things I can give my personal stamp of approval to, let’s tackle Pick Your Poison. Among the things below that I can suggest you download, tracks from Dum Dum Girls, The Janks, Priory, Richard Swift, Touch People and Vanish Valley. In the Soundcloud section, I’ve got a solid track from Theophilus London’s record that came out earlier this year, plus Tokyo Police Club doing another cover, this time of “Strictly Game” by the Harlem Shakes.

The Drum – Omar

Dum Dum Girls – Bedroom Eyes

The Janks – Dead Man

Kandy Kolored Tangerine – You Are, Boy

Nappy Riddem – Rastar

Norman – No Clouds

The Parson Red Heads – Burning Up the Sky
The Parson Red Heads – Kids Hanging Out

Priory – Lady of Late

Richard Swift – Whitman

Sound and the Urgency – Sound and the Urgency

Touch People – Depth of Width Part 1

Vanish Valley – Races

SOUNDCLOUD

Split Personality – I’m Split Personality

Theophilus London – I Stand Alone/span>

Tokyo Police Club – Strictly Game (Harlem Shakes cover)

Volkova Sisters – Black Mountain

J-Sweet – Streethawk

Yo! Majesty – Cherry Pop

Labor Day weekend. It’s a holiday created to honor those that work hard at their jobs each and every day. The small dose of irony is that many are being forced to go to work on Labor Day. Apparently it’s not widely recognized as a holiday by a number of companies. If your boss doesn’t give you the day off, I hope you’re earning some extra money as a result of the holiday. I’m undecided yet whether or not to have a Monday edition of Pick Your Poison. Whether or not it happens will likely be dependent on either my mood or schedule for the day. Today’s extra long weekend-starting edition is a delight, as per usual. Tracks I can give the thumbs up to come from Captain Planet, Casey Shea, Faces on Film, The Features, High Pop, James Elkington & Nathan Salzburg, and Prophets & Kings. In the Soundcloud section you’ve got yet another Tokyo Police Club cover song. This time they take on M83’s great “Kim & Jessie”.

Age of Consent – The Beach (Is Tropical Remix ft. Foe)

Ambassadeurs – Rössler

Captain Planet – Get You Some

Casey Shea – Jennifer

Danielle Duval – Sundowner (ft. Jason Collett)

Faces on Film – Knot in the Vine

Family Lumber – No Worries

The Features – Content

High Pop – Drip From the Sea

James Elkington & Nathan Salzburg – A Free Amft

Keaton Henson – You Don’t Know How Lucky You Are

Lee Majors – Blocks & Knocks

Peg Simone – Scratching For Light  (ZIP)

Problem – Double Dip (ft. TyDolla$ig)

Prophets & Kings – Bear Milk

Rapids! – Comets

Right on Dynamite – Big Exciting End

SOUNDCLOUD

Dntel – Rock My Boat (The One AM Radio Version)

Gallant – Party Girl

The Magician ft. Jeppe – I Don’t Know What To Do

Tokyo Police Club – Kim & Jessie (M83 cover ft. Jamie Jackson of Hot As Sun)

Trophy Wife – Canopy Shade

Well, it’s all down hill from here. September 1st officially marks the first day of fall. That’s meteorologically speaking of course. The good news is that temperatures should hold pretty strong for another month or so before truly going down the toilet. That is to say if you live in one of those parts of the world that has seasons. I love fall, but am not looking forward to winter in the least. Something to look forward to though is today’s Pick Your Poison. I can recommend tracks from Big Tree, Death Songs, Flowers and Sea Creatures, Ski Lodge and Turf War. In the Soundcloud section, you can stream new songs from Erasure and TEETH. Continuing on Tokyo Police Club’s 10 covers of songs from the last 10 years, they get to LCD Soundsystem’s “All My Friends”. Solid.

Big Tree – This Fall

Caroline Smith & the Good Night Sleeps – Calliope

Count Effectz ft. Dr. Chong – Peanut Butter & Whip Cream

Death Songs – Ophelia

Flowers and Sea Creatures – International (Live Session Version)

Magicks – Angry Tiger

Mathieas Kom – Nellie Coming Home From the Wake

My M.O. – Modus Operandi

Pat Jordache – Get It (I Know You’re Going To)

Ski Lodge – I Would Die to Be

St. Even – Dreams/My Rope

Turf War – Summertime Booze

SOUNDCLOUD

Erasure – When I Start To (Break It All Down)

Goapele – Play

Grillade – Dream of You (Emotionally Yours)

Man Like Me – Peculiar (Othello Woolf Remix)

TEETH – Flowers

Tokyo Police Club – All My Friends (LCD Soundsystem cover)

Wild Child – Silly Things

In today’s healthy dose of WTF, have you heard the latest news that Jack White has crafted a song with the Insane Clown Posse? Not only that, but it’s a re-imagining of an obscure Mozart song? The mere thought of it makes me laugh, but the whole thing is legit and available for purchase on the Third Man Records website. Go find it and have a listen if you’re intrigued. Outside of that though, there’s plenty to listen to in today’s Pick Your Poison. Tracks I can give my stamp of approval to come from Atari Teenage Riot, Hella, Holloys, Old Wives’ Tale, Purity Ring, Sea Pinks and Young Knives. In the Soundcloud section, there’s a new one from Jack’s Mannequin, as well as something new from Spank Rock and the band New Ruins out of Champaign, IL (one of my favorite towns and it has a GREAT music scene). Also, continuing with the Tokyo Police Club covers all this week, today the band covers Phoenix and their classic “Long Distance Call”. Check that out too.

Arcade Fire – No Cars Go (Christian Strobe Remix)

Atari Teenage Riot – Black Flags (ft. Boots Riley)

Friska Viljor – What You Gonna Do?
Friska Viljor – Passionseeker

Hella – Self Checkout

Holloys – #25

Jesse Payne – Take Me

Labyrinth Ear – Amber

Lid Emba – Dawning

M+A – Liko Lene Lisa

Old Wives’ Tale – Josephine

The Phoenix Bros. – Love & Bass

Purity Ring – Bellspeak

Sea Pinks – Fountain Tesserae

Thralls – Fogger

Young Knives – Woman

SOUNDCLOUD

Jack’s Mannequin – My Racing Thoughts

New Ruins – Blackbird

Sissy and the Blisters – Got No Home

Spank Rock – Nasty ft. Big Freedia & Tyette

Tokyo Police Club – Long Distance Call (Featuring Ray Suen of Mariachi El Bronx)

Today’s Tuesday, and that means new album release day. I’ve already reviewed new records from Beirut and the Red Hot Chili Peppers this week, but other notables coming out today include plenty of Pick Your Poison favorites including Afrobeta, Balam Acab, Blood Orange, Butch Walker, Dirty Beaches, Halloween Alaska, Hard-Fi, Hella, Jacuzzi Boys, Male Bonding, Peter Murphy, The Static Jacks, Tinariwen, Tommy Stinson and Wise Blood. That’s just a brief rundown of the many releases coming your way this weekend. I can’t recommend them all, but I mentioned them just so you’re fully aware. In terms of Pick Your Poison today, there are some tracks I can recommend, including ones from Cheyenne Marie Mize, The City and Horses, The Japanese War Effort, Mathieu Santos (of Ra Ra Riot), The Migrant and Wavves. In the Soundcloud section, hear a new one from DJ Shadow (featuring Tom Vek), and Tokyo Police Club covering popular songs from Kelly Clarkson (I know, right?) and Queens of the Stone Age.

Abbie Barrett – Draw Me In

Cheyenne Marie Mize – Wishing Well

The City and Horses – We Will Never Be Discovered

Clockwork Radio – So Will I

Elba – Statues and Shipyards

Fear of Dawn – Money Madness

Humans – Mon Ton Ton 2

The Japanese War Effort – Summer Sun Skateboard

Keegan DeWitt – Colour

Kris Delmhorst – You Might Think (Cars cover)

Letters – Hideaway

Lisa Hannigan – A Sail

Mathieu Santos – Northern Mentality

The Migrant – The Hurricane

Super Melody – Tinder Hearted

Sweet Baboo – The Day I Lost My Voice

Trwbador – Sun in the Winter

Wavves – I Wanna Meet Dave Grohl

SOUNDCLOUD

DJ Shadow – Warning Call (featuring Tom Vek)

Magic Panda – Days Are Numbered

Steffaloo- On Fire

Tokyo Police Club – Since U Been Gone (Kelly Clarkson cover)

Tokyo Police Club – Little Sister (Queens of the Stone Age cover feat. Orianthi)

Hope your weekend was killer. And by killer, I mean that you or someone you know didn’t wind up dead because of Hurricane Irene. It was a dangerous situation along the East Coast, and if you suffered severe damage to your home or body, I hope things turn out okay for you. If you’re just getting your power back after a couple days of not having it, welcome back to the world. Personally, I spent my weekend somehow finding a way to get sick, despite really nice weather. It sucks when you’re sick and it’s nice out. I imagine it’s less of a problem in places like Los Angeles and Florida, where it’s nice all the time, but in Chicago, we don’t get sick until the weather turns cold and nasty. So this whole thing is a situation I’m none too pleased with. But I’ll deal. Hopefully you’ll deal too, with plenty of solid stuff in today’s Pick Your Poison. Songs I can affix a gold star sticker to today include ones from Boots Electric, Jonathan Coulton, Memoryhouse, and Sleeping Bags. Also, in the Soundcloud section you can hear a new song from Charlotte Gainsbourg (that I think is great), and check out Tokyo Police Club covering Jimmy Eat World alongside Michael Angelakos of Passion Pit. Speaking of Tokyo Police Club, I will hopefully have 1-2 different cover songs from them each day this week, as they’ve embarked on a project to cover 10 songs from the last 10 years. It’s a fun little thing and they’re good covers too, as you’ll hear below.

Acid Invaders – Change (Summer Party Mix)

BigBee of Whitetree – She Can Take Me

Boots Electric – Boots Electric Theme

Femme Fatality – Southwest Syndrome

The Funk Ark – El Beasto

Gross Magic – Sweetest Touch

Jonathan Coulton – Good Morning Tucson

Memoryhouse – Quiet America

SBTRKT – Wildfire ft. Little Dragon (Paper Diamond Remix)

Silver Wren – Estranger

Sleeping Bags – Pehr

Tommy Svensson – Moraali

SOUNDCLOUD

Charlotte Gainsbourg – Terrible Angels

Datarock – Roller Coaster (Souldrop Remix)

Karin Park – Tiger Dreams

Nick Galea – Conductor

Parties – Black Budgets

Tokyo Police Club – Sweetness (Jimmy Eat World cover ft. Michael Angelakos of Passion Pit)