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It’s gonna be one wild day six months from today. That’s when 11-11-11 hits, and while that’ll never be as charming as 7-7-07 or even 10-10-10, it’s still cool to look at and there will be so much commentary on it. After all, once we hit 12-12-12, the triple number combination won’t happen again until 3001 (assuming the Earth is still around that far into the future). Anyways, this pointless discussion about fun with numbers and dates was just to be that momentary distraction before I tell you about today’s Pick Your Poison. Great songs today from Cold Showers, Iceage and Purling Hiss. Some remixes you’ll want to investigate are Discoforgia’s remixing a Freelance Whales track, Two Door Cinema Club remixing Young the Giant, and then having Jungle Fiction turn the tables on Two Door Cinema Club and remix a track of theirs (in the Soundcloud section). It’s all about on par for a Wednesday, so enjoy.

Armand Margjeka – Momma

Barbie Hatch – Stars

Big Tone – Baby I’m For Real

Brian Olive – Left Side Rock

Cold Showers – I Don’t Mind

Deer Tracks – The Smallest Cube

Drew Ryan – Crying Blues

Freelance Whales – Hannah (Discoforgia Remix)

Iceage – Broken Bone

Joel Plaskett and Shotgun Jimmie – Jimmie’s Still Jimmie

Jon Langford – Sentimental Marching Song

Lemmy Ashton – Cocktail

Only Living Boy – Lonely Puppy Blues

Purling Hiss – The Hoodoo

Reject – Don’t Wanna Hear It (ft. Ed Og)

Young the Giant – My Body (Two Door Cinema Club Remix)

SOUNDCLOUD

Jolie Holland – Gold and Yellow

Two Door Cinema Club – Something Good Can Work (Jungle Fiction Remix)

Oh Tuesday, what are we going to do with you. Better than Monday, but still climbing up that hill and not even to mid-week. Maybe today’s Pick Your Poison will help you get past this faster. Highlights come from Antonymes, Hella, Mazes and Witches. In the Soundcloud section you’ll also find a pretty good song from Chicago’s own Filligar.

Abigail Breslin – Fight For Me

Antonymes – Lost in Waves of Light

Bekay – Remember

Black Dub – The Last Time (Live)

Chappo – Space Shoes

Hella – Untitled Track 1

Hospital Ships – Honey Please
Hospital Ships – Reprise

Mazes – No Way

Naz – Saawariya

NewVillager – Lighthouse (PUNCHES Remix)

Rat Trap – Songbirds
Rat Trap – Animals

TWR72 – Summer of ’91 (Acid Version)

Vaccination – I’m With the Others

Witches – Black Dog

SOUNDCLOUD

Big Deal – Homework

B I G S L E E P – SEX

Filligar – Guilty Good Intentions

Medicine 8 – Mercury Injection (ft. Leticia La Bruja)

Hope your weekend was great. Mine was jam-packed with movies, as I hadn’t been to the theatre in awhile. In one quick sentence, let me sum up for you what I saw and how good/bad it was. Both “Thor” and “Fast Five” were entertaining and entirely improbable (for different reasons), while “Jane Eyre” was excellently acted though certainly not the best-acted version of a story that’s been done and re-done a dozen times. In other words, I liked all the movies I saw, but didn’t love them. Have you got a movie recommendation for me? Let me know in the comments section. Otherwise, on with today’s Pick Your Poison. Lots of amazing stuff in here today. I can recommend tracks from Anamanaguchi, Austyn Sullivan, Fleet Foxes, Fucked Up, Kindest Lines and Richard Youngs.

1,2,3 – Work

Anamanaguchi – My Skateboard Will Go On

And And And – Buy You

Andy Petr – Rapper Turned Singer

Austyn Sullivan – A Waltz to Wonder

Big Scary – Autumn

Empty Space Orchestra – Intergalactic Battle Cruiser

Fleet Foxes – Grown Ocean

Fucked Up – Queen of Hearts

Hello Vegas – No One Knows

Hey Champ – Anything At All

Howth – I Will Always Love You (Dolly Parton cover)

Kindest Lines – Running Into Next Year

Mono Stereo – Orange Is Green

Oh My! – Run This Town (TMS Remix)

Peter Webster – Footprints

Richard Youngs – Tessellations

Sunburns – Soma’s Starting

Another weekend is here, and hopefully you’re in a place where the weather is set to be wonderful. Spend some time outside if you can and have a little fun. Pick Your Poison is a little fun today too, with a number of covers and generally good, summery tracks. Anni Rossi covering Aaliyah is great, and Bird Call covering Beck isn’t half bad either. Pay particular attention to tracks from Blue Eyed Shark Experiment, King Tuff and Sam Roberts Band featuring Lizzie Powell of Land of Talk.

Anni Rossi – Are You That Somebody (Aaliyah cover)

BAnanas Symphony – To Love Somebody

Bird Call – Lost Cause (Beck cover)

Blue Eyed Shark Experiment – What to Do
Blue Eyed Shark Experiment – Tap Dance

Bravestation – White Wolves
Bravestation – White Wolves (Teen Daze Remix)  

Choongum – Meteor Baths (White Mountains Remix)

Ghostly Dust Machine – Ode to A Baby Snowstorm

King Tuff – Hands

LCD Soundsystem – Tribulations (Acid Invaders remix)

Mike Meehan – So Easy

Mount Moriah – Only Way Out

Rx Bandits – My Lonesome Only Friend

Sam Roberts Band – Longitude (ft. Lizzie Powell)

Tim Easton & The Freelan Barons – Daily Life

Vadoinmessico – The Adventure of a Diver

Virgin of the Birds – Let Me Be Your Bride

You Can’t Win Charlie Brown – Over the Sun/Under the Water

SOUNDCLOUD

Abigail Washburn – Chains (Single Mix)

Benjamin Francis Leftwich – Box Of Stones

Happy Cinco de Mayo! I hope you had at least one meal today that involved Mexican food and alcohol. So delicious, and you’ve got to wonder how things might have turned out had the Mexicans lost their battle against France back in the 1800s. There are some spicy mp3s in today’s edition for you. Highlights include tracks from Abigail Washburn, Alexander Turnquist, aTelecine (porn star/actress Sasha Grey’s band), The Henry Clay People, Hex Dispensers, Thee Oh Sees and Unouomedude. In other words, lots of great stuff. You can also stream a new Sonny and the Sunsets track in the Soundcloud section.

Abigail Washburn – City of Refuge

Alexander Turnquist – Spherical Aberrations

aTelecine – Carry

Blithe Field – Crushing

Flipsyde – Act Like A Cop Did It

The Henry Clay People – California Wildfire

Hex Dispensers – Agatha’s Antlers

Thee Oh Sees – I Need Seed

Theme Park – Milk

Torpedo – Islands in Eternity

Unouomedude – Frequency

Ursula 1000 – Repetez Le Repetoire

Yellow Dogs – Gastronomic Meal

Yourself and the Air – Sick Days

SOUNDCLOUD

Brookes Brothers – In Your Eyes

The London Souls – She’s So Mad

The Lucid Dream – Love In My Veins

Sonny and the Sunsets – Reflections on Youth

It’s been a stressful week for me thus far, but my schedule has cleared up somewhat for what’s hopefully the rest of the week, so I’ll have more content and reviews and such in a more normal fashion. Pick Your Poison remains fully intact though, uninterrupted because it’s just a touch easier to get done than a lot of other stuff. Highlights today include tracks from Black Lips, Howth, Little Owl and Zachary Cale.

Amanda Mair – House

Black Lips – Modern Art

Deadmau5 – Raise Your Weapon (Haydn Hoffman and Paul David Remix)

Deligma – Vendetta
Deligma – Goodbye

Emerson, Lake and Palmer – Knife Edge

Germany Germany – Just Go (ft. Steffaloo)

HØLAS – Halos For Sale

Howth – Idaho #1

Little Owl – Black On White

Loon – Kiss Pit

Max Burgundy – Hey Love

Skyjelly – Acosta

Sna-fu Grand Desordre Orchestre – Firefriend (Electricity Remix)

To Disappear – To Be By Your Side
To Disappear – TBC

Under Electric Light – Someone Somewhere

Zachary Cale – Mourning Glory Kid

SOUNDCLOUD

Lady Citizen – Flower Bunch

The Muel – All Kinds Of Love

Sounds of Nonno – The Crush

If you’re on Tumblr, not that I’m trying to recruit anybody, but you might want to check out my page on there this month, where I’ll be doing a “Song A Day in May”. Just a little something fun to keep occupied for the time being, and a chance to highlight some tracks I think are particularly great outside of the daily Pick Your Poison. Today’s edition of that is below, and features great new stuff from Light Asylum, Sleepy Vikings, Vandervelde and Vetiver.

4-Ize – People

Bikini – R.I.P. (Grimes Remix)

Daniel Isaiah – High Twilight

Dope Body – Bangers and Yos

Gwyneth and Monko – Found In Benson

La Chansons – Spin the Bottle

Light Asylum – Dark Allies

Deadline – Hurry Up Pronto

Miles Jones – Time Machine

Processory – All Good Things

Quit Your Dayjob – Environmental

Sarabeth Tucek – Get Well Soon

Sleepy Vikings – Flashlight Tag

Slow Dancing Society – The Delicate Sound of Silence

Vandervelde – More Than You Can Feel

Vetiver – Can’t You Tell

White Mountains – Spectra

SOUNDCLOUD

Bass Science – Slip N Slide

Disk Jo Slim – Pursuit of Perfection

America! We got him! Yes, Osama Bin Laden got the gift of a bullet to the head yesterday, and many rejoiced as a result. It’s been a long time coming, so breathe a little sigh of relief that he won’t be planning any more terrorist attacks on anybody. If Pick Your Poison were a legitimate poison, I’d keep my fingers crossed that Osama would “accidentally” ingest some. As it stands though, this is the harmless sort of potential poison, though your ears might not like it if you pick some bad mp3s. I can give a personal thumbs up to tracks from Fan Modine, I and I, Kindest Lines, and The Silent League with their cover of Broken Social Scene’s “Texico Bitches”.

COYOL – Gone Gone

Fan Modine – Through the Valley

Hooray For Earth – True Loves (Hard Mix Remix)

I and I – Beekeeper

In Golden Tears – Urban Emotions (Radio Edit)
In Golden Tears – Urban Emotions (Marius Lauber Remix)

Kindest Lines – Destructive Paths to Live Happily

Leatherface – Melody Lee (The Damned cover)

Meredith Bragg – Birds of North America

Ray Ginzburg – Misty City Daydream

The Silent League – Texico Bitches (Broken Social Scene cover)

Sounds Under Radio – Sing

The Trews – One By One

The Warped 45s – Grampa Carl

SOUNDCLOUD

Lorcan Mak – Acid House (Get Nuts Remix)

Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside – This Crew

It’s fascinating to me to think that in just a couple days, we’ll be in May. Time’s moving fast, and the weather’s definitely not cooperating. May is supposed to be the start of summer, but it feels like spring has barely begun. Get me to sunny and 70 degrees and we’ll be okay. And hey, it’s Friday, which is nice and relaxing and fun no matter what’s happening outside. Not only that, but I think the mp3s in today’s Pick Your Poison are the strongest of the entire week. I can definitely give a thumbs up to tracks from A Lull, Callers, Dark Mean, FM Belfast, Ganglians and Sharon Van Etten’s team-up with Glass Ghost. Speaking of team-ups, there’s a neat collaboration between Amanda Palmer (of The Dresden Dolls and Evelyn Evelyn and her own solo stuff), her husband author Neil Gaiman, Damian Kulash (singer of OK Go), and piano wizard Ben Folds. They got together for the challenge of writing and recording 8 songs in 8 hours in an effort to see if the album cycle can be reduced to a single day. It’s also a test to see if the current record label standards are still necessary in today’s digital environment. All proceeds from the sale of their collaboration will go to charity. Have a look/buy/stream the album via Bandcamp.

A Lull – Weapons for War

Amanda Palmer, Ben Folds, Damian Kulash and Neil Gaiman – One Tiny Thing

Beth Jeans Houghton – Dodecahedron

The Bynars – Asking Your Mom For Money

Callers – Ringer

The Correspondents – Rio De Hackney

Dark Mean – Happy Banjo

FM Belfast – New Year

Ganglians – Jungle

Nat Baldwin – Weights

Polls – Mouth of a Fox

Sharon Van Etten and Glass Ghost – Like A Diamond

Sweet Sweet Moon – Smoke Up

SOUNDCLOUD

Chad Valley – Fast Challenges

Johan Agebjörn – Watch The World Go By (Young Galaxy remix)

John Shannon & Wings of Sound – Hurricane

Tomorrow is the Royal Wedding, and excitement has reached a fever pitch. This is like the Super Bowl of weddings. It leaves me staggering back and wondering – has there ever been a more overpublicized wedding in the history of the world? Are people going to look back on a day like tomorrow and actively recall where they were when Will and Kate got married? Will the truckloads of memorabilia created for the royal couple actually serve a point beyond nostalgia for something nobody will genuinely care about by next week? But you know what, there are some good things that have come out of this situation. For one, it helps to make marriage a little more important than it has been recently, hopefully inspiring people to actually tie the knot rather than outright quit believing that a union between two people is unnecessary in this day and age. There’s also the fairy tale aspect of it, the great Prince Charming falling for what many might call an “average woman on the street”, thereby suggesting to many that they could be so lucky and some prince might one day fall in love with them. And thirdly, the wedding is a nice distraction from all the other problems happening in the world right now. Between Libya and Japan and record-setting tornadoes killing a bunch of people, this glitz and glamor and happy occasion is just nice to focus on for once instead of the bad stuff. So yes, while all the nonstop coverage essentially sucks, it’s also doing some good. Best of luck to those crazy kids and their place in the monarchy. Pick Your Poison highlights today include tracks from Carl Barât, Emilie Simon, Oneida and Scarlet Season. Pantha Du Prince remixing Miracle Fortress is pretty great too, as is the Sam Roberts Band track you can find in the Soundcloud section.

Agnes Obel – Riverside (Lulu Rouge Remix)

Amtrac – Rewind

Carl Barât – This Is the Song

Emilie Simon – Ballad of the Big Machine

Get Help – It’s Only In Your Head

Giant Sand – Romance of Falling
Giant Sand – Pathfinder

Kate Maki – Lose My Mind

LMFAO – Party Rock Anthem (COmpress & Stress Remix)

Miracle Fortress – Raw Spectacle (Pantha Du Prince Remix)

Natural Child – Yer Birthday

New Moods – Playtime

Oneida – Horizon (Edit)

Peter Hughes – Themselves (The Minutemen cover)

Scarlet Season – Horse Fury

Vato Gonzales ft. Foreign Beggars – Badman Riddim (Jump) (Tru Fix & Thunderskank Remix)

SOUNDCLOUD

RIVAL SCHOOLS – 69 Gunz (Ad-Rock Remix)

Sam Roberts Band – The Last Crusade

Just want to give a quick shout out to Poly Styrene, the X-Ray Spex frontwoman and punk icon who died on Monday night. She was 53 years old and was taken by cancer. It’s always tragic when you lose an influential music figure, and Poly Styrene was one of them. May she rest in peace, and may her close friends and family remain strong in this time of grief. Pick Your Poison tries to be life-affirming as much as possible, and the songs today are pretty good for that purpose. Highlights include tracks from Bachelorette, Parts of Speech, Sebadoh and Small Sur. If you have watched the new show “The Voice” on NBC you’ve probably heard of Rebecca Loebe, and you can download one of her songs below. Also the new Neon Hitch track in the Soundcloud section is pretty solid too.

Bachelorette – Blanket

Big Pauper – Big Sick

Boarding Surface – You and Me

DATAROCK – California (Ralph Myerz Remix)

Fania – Mambo Mongo (Joaquin “Joe” Claussell Remix)

Glenn Jones – On the Massachusetts-Virginia Border

Jeff Beam – Venus Flying Trapeze

Mickey Newbury – An American Trilogy

Mothers of Gut – Wizard Tree

Parts of Speech – Tasted Comfort

Rebecca Loebe – Mystery Prize

Sebadoh – Rebound

Small Sur – The Woods

Snailhouse – Sentimental Gentleman

SOUNDCLOUD

Neon Hitch – Silly Girl

It’s a huge sports day for Chicago’s professional teams, as every one of them save for the Bears are playing. Bulls, Blackhawks, White Sox and Cubs – all in one night. For some, it’s the playoff game of a lifetime. For others, the season is just getting started. No matter how you look at it though, it’s pretty exciting. You may not care, nor may you be rooting for any Chicago teams, but I do wish them all the best of luck. Pick Your Poison is another solid edition today. Highlights include tracks from The Fiery Furnaces’ Eleanor Friedberger, The Glass Canoe, Jookabox, and White Fence.

Big Tree – This New Year

Delicate Cutters – Chisel and Pick

Dinosaur Bones – Birthright (CFCF Remix)

Eleanor Friedberger – My Mistakes

The Glass Canoe – What A Green Taste

I’m Not A Band – Black Horses

Ira Atari – Back to Zero (Fuzz Galaxy Buzz Remix)

Jookabox – Man-Tra

Mr. Valentine – Take It To The Bank

Point Juncture, WA – Violin Case

The Qualia – Guess I Lied

Smokey Robotic – SuperVicious

The Vessels – The Trap

White Fence – Get That Heart

SOUNDCLOUD

From – With You

Sun Glitters – Love Me (:papercutz Remix)

The Wave Pictures – Little Surprise

If you were celebrating Easter this past weekend, I hope you had a wonderful time and got plenty of food/candy. I’ve got my annual shopping bag full of jelly beans and Peeps to deal with, which probably means I’ll be on a sugar high for the next month and a half. Back to the grind today though for most people, and Pick Your Poison is no different. Big deal tracks today come from Butcher the Bar, Chicago’s own Digits (download their EP for free via the link below too!), Jessica 6 (with a special guest appearance from Antony of Antony and the Johnsons), Sea of Bees and Warren Haynes.

account4941172 – The Fifth

Botanical Bullets – We Bleed Fluorescent

Butcher the Bar – Bobby

The Caribbean – Outskirts (Aquarelle Remix)
The Caribbean – Mr. Let’s Find Out (Richard Ingram Remix)

Digits – Pale Green Morning
Download Digits’ “Lost Dream” EP for free

Gross Relations – Blame the Records
Gross Relations – Don’t Beat on Me

Helvetia – On the Lam
Helvetia – Arise, Pt. 1

Jessica 6 – Prisoner of Love (ft. Antony Hegarty)

Just Another Snake Cult – Engaged Withdrawal

Kenton Dunson – Momentum

Sea of Bees – Wizbot

Strange Talk – Climbing Walls

Warren Haynes – Man In Motion

The Weeknd – The Morning (Giraffage Remix)

SOUNDCLOUD

Great Caesar – Sweet Banana

Now, Now – Jesus Camp (Remix)

Toro Y Moi – Still Sound (Voodoo Bear Remix)

Good Friday to you all, and I mean that in the most secular way possible for all you non-Christians out there. It should be a great Friday, but beggars can’t be choosers, and beside that Chicago’s getting pelted with rain and cold right now. Still, beats tornadoes (sorry St. Louis). I hope your upcoming Easter weekend is delightful and filled with jellybeans and marshmallow Peeps. If not, you’re not celebrating right. Here’s some sugary sweet mp3s to rot your eardrums for the weekend, courtesy of Pick Your Poison. I’ll point you in the direction of tracks by Alexander Ebert (of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes), Diskjokke, German Error Message, Kenna, Marianne Faithful and Seapony.

Alexander Ebert – Million Years

Baby Baby – Breakin

Broken Bells – Meyrin Fields (Sub Swara Remix)

Diskjokke – Panutup

German Error Message – Reaching Out

Glorie – Lazy Day

Kenna – Chains (ft. Shimmy Hoffa)

Little Bastard and Zubagroove – If It Ain’t Broke (Birdee Remix)

Marianne Faithful – Why Did We Have to Part

Pony Pony Run Run – Hey You (Star Slinger Remix)

The Real Nasty – Whiskey For Breakfast

Saturdays Kids – I Am A Runner

Seapony – Blue Star

Usurper of Modern Medicine – Grill Washington Christ

SOUNDCLOUD

Benji Boko – Where My Heart Is (Ft. Maxi Jazz)

Brasstronaut – Hearts Trompet

Pitch Twit & Bonn Lewis – Splinter Bomb

Easter weekend is right around the corner, and I hope you’re celebrating with family. If you’re not the type to partake in Easter celebrations, even with the most secular of Easter bunnies, I still wish you a great weekend. Of course we’re not officially there just yet. Tomorrow is Friday, and that’s reason enough to let your hair down just a little bit. Pick Your Poison is here to help with another classy edition of mp3s for your downloading pleasure. Top picks today include tracks from Ages and Ages, Javelin, Kathryn Calder, KIDCITY, Liturgy, Other Lives and Painted Palms.

Acid House Kings – Would You Say Stop? (Invisible Twin Remix)

Ages and Ages – So So Freely

Baron Bane – Echoes

Candidate – I’d Come Running

Company – Waiting For Saints to Arrive
Company – Heaven Is Gone

Elias Krantz – Tody Motmot
Elias Krantz – Tody Motmot (Pistol Disco Remix)

Javelin – Cowpoke

Kathryn Calder – If You Only Knew

KIDCITY – Bloody Face

Liturgy – Generation

Monarchs – Business Casual

Other Lives – For 12

Painted Palms – All of Us

Sam Bay – Leaning Pine

The Stairs – This Town Let Me Down

SOUNDCLOUD

Natalia Kills – Mirrors [Robotaki Remix]

Vex Ruffin – Losing Control