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Welcome to the very first Pick Your Poison of 2011. For those just joining us, let me offer up a very quick primer on what this daily segment is all about. Each day I shuffle through the collection of emails that gather in my inbox, then throw all the mp3s your way and let you take what appeals to you. I’ll recommend some stuff, sure, but the choice as to what you download is up to you, and if you find something new to love, great. If you wind up with a bunch of crap, well, that one’s essentially on you as well. But it all comes from a place of love and discovery and I hope you’ll love it. New for 2011, I’ve now added a Soundcloud section to the daily posts, so you can stream (and in many cases also download) more music than ever before. Highlights for today include songs from Carol Bui, In Tall Buildings, Laura Peek, Puro Instinct, and Silver Swans doing a cover of The National’s “Anyone’s Ghost”. This might not be the most exciting collection of songs to kick off the new year, there’s still enough to enjoy and I anticipate things picking up as the week goes on.

Carol Bui – “Geisha” Means Open Minded

Chris Hickey – I Can’t Wait to See You

Snow Caps – Moonbroken Heart
Snow Caps – Beauty and the Beauty

Eric and Magill – All Those I Know

In Tall Buildings – Alarm Will Sound

Laura Peek – Stay Sharp

Nic Bommarito – T27

Ori – Milka’s Dream

Puro Instinct – Stilyagi

Silver Swans – Anyone’s Ghost (The National cover)

To Light A Fire – Damned

SOUNDCLOUD

The Prodigy – Omen (TEMABES Remix) [Free Download] by TEMABES

Merry Christmas Eve, my friends. Once again I’ve got yet another week-long dose of mp3s for you in the form of Pick Your Poison. As a quick reminder, in case you needed it, Pick Your Poison will return to daily postings starting January 3rd. Until then, I’m dropping off all the week’s mp3s each Friday for you. There’s a few Christmas tracks in this week’s set, naturally today and tomorrow are the best times to use them, so if you’re putting together a Christmas mix, be sure to check out these tracks from Coconut and the Duke, Goddamn Electric Bill, Hot Sugar, and The Superions expertly remixed by none other than YACHT. Other non-holiday recommendations are for Cowboy Junkies, the Tim Goldsworthy (Thee Loving Hand) remix of a new Cut Copy jam, Danielson, Death, Finn Riggins, Lia Ices and Monotonix. Ah, check them all out. Very few duds to be found this week. Have a great Christmas (or normal weekend if you don’t celebrate), and we’ll catch up again next week in preparation for New Years Eve.

Coastwest Unrest – Rebel Music

Coconut and the Duke – Trim My Tree

Cowboy Junkies – Wrong Piano

Cut Copy – Take Me Over (Thee Loving Hand Remix by Tim Goldsworthy)

Danielson – Grow Up

Death – Can You Give Me A Thrill

Finn Riggins – Wake (Keep This Town Alive)

Georgia Anne Muldrow – Zulu Bounce

Goddamn Electric Bill – Feliz Navidad

Hot Sugar – Don’t Cut Down My Tree

Johnny Hawaii – The Lonely Smurfer

Kopecky Family Band – God and Me

Lia Ices – Daphne

The Lights – New New

Midnight Spin – In the Air (Revival)

Monotonix – Before I Pass Away

Shores – Meanwhile

Sugar & Gold – Bodyaches

The Superions – Fruitcake (YACHT Remix)

Yip Deceiver – Sadie Hawkins Day

In hindsight, I shuold have continued with Pick Your Poison for the full week this week. Looks like there’s enough music to have sustained an “at least 10 songs per day” rate, but here I am giving it all to you in one fell swoop. Given that there are 50+ mp3s here, highlights are very easy to come by, so let me rattle a bunch off for you. The Asteroid #4, Fergus & Geronimo, Martina Topley-Bird, Maserati, The Mountain Goats, Porcelain Raft, Rachel Goodrich, Solar Temple Suicides, Toro y Moi, Wise Blood, and Yalls all make the cut. That’s just normal music we’re talking about. There’s a bunch of holiday-specific music in this collection as well. Of those songs, I can recommend the ones from Banjo or Freakout, Beach House, Candy Claws, Craig Wedren, I Like Trains, Robbers on High Street, and Tape Deck Mountain. So check all this stuff out, maybe bookmark this page and come back to it when you have the appropriate time to spend looking it over carefully. And depending on how things go next week, I might just have one more edition of Pick Your Poison to deliver before Christmas Eve.

AgesandAges – No Nostalgia

Arbouretum – Destroying to Save

The Asteroid #4 – Wild Opal Eyes

Banjo or Freakout – Frosty the Snowman

Beach House – I Do Not Care for the Winter Sun

Bird Names – It’s Skin

The Brute Chorus – Birdman

Candy Claws – Snow Bridge

Chamberlin – Dust

Colin L. Orchestra – Hold Tite

Craig Wedren – Lollie Holiday

David Lowery – The Palace Guards

Duchess Leo – Bloom

Fergus & Geronimo – Powerful Lovin’

Fukkk Offf – Worldwide (Fukkk Offf Remix)

Geoff Berner – Wealthy Poet

Harlan Pepper – Great Lakes

HolidayHoliday – Hanged

I Like Trains – Last Christmas

In These Woods – Always
In These Woods – Bear

The Invisible Hand – There’s Room In My Will
The Invisible Hand – Coy Trap

Jay Crocker – Super Disease

John LaMonica – A Ghost (Demo)

Keegan Dewitt – Christmas Eve

Kopecky Family Band – Our Remedy (Christmas Song)

Las Resistance – Understanding

Lonnie Walker – Compass Comforts

Lull Water – One More Time

Martina Topley-Bird – Sandpaper Kisses

Maserati – We Got the System to Fight the System

Matthew Carefully – Space Nurses

Midnight Magic – Beam Me Up (Jacques Renault Remix)

The Mountain Goats – Tyler Lambert’s Grave

Mount Mole – Little Eyes

Pallers – Arctic Hymn

Pigbag – Papa’s Got A Brand New Pigbag

Porcelain Raft – Tip of Your Tongue (Blackbird Blackbird Remix)
Porcelain Raft – Tip of Your Tongue (Keep Shelly in Athens Remix)

Rachel Goodrich – After Hours (Velvet Underground cover)

Religious to Damn – Drifter

Robbers on High Street – The Rocking Disco Santa Claus

Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion – Speed of Light

Savoir Adore – Loveliest Creature

Siriusmo – Mosaik

The Sky Drops – Explain It to Me

Solar Temple Suicides – Close Your Eyes

Southern Shores – Grande Comore
Southern Shores – Mauna Loa

Tape Deck Mountain – Christmas Time Is Here Again
Tape Deck Mountain – Blue Christmas

Toro y Moi – Still Sound

Way Yes – Dreadlock Holiday

We Wre the Willows – A Funeral Dressed As A Birthday

Wise Blood – Loud Mouths

Yalls – Germs

This time I’m sticking to my word – this will be the last “daily” version of Pick Your Poison for 2010. For the rest of December, editions of Pick Your Poison will be on a weekly basis each Friday. Then in January everything returns to normal and we go Monday thru Friday again. But today I’ve got some delightful stuff for you, as pretty much per usual. Asher Roth is not my favorite guy in the world, and I may even go so far as to say I actively dislike him. But he’s collaborated with Nottz for some tracks that are halfway decent, so download one of those below. The Babblers is a new group formed by Will Oldham, who you may also know as Bonnie “Prince” Billy – check out their first mp3. I can also recommend songs by Gospel Claws, Houses, Ringside, and a new one from Wye Oak. Enjoy your weekend, friends, and we’ll be back next Friday with what will probably be an extra large stack of mp3s for Pick Your Poison.

Asher Roth and Nottz – Break Bread

The Babblers – Come Down Here (Kevin Coyne cover)

Bird By Snow – Across the Water

Galleries – Rocket Science

Gospel Claws – Like A Friend (Pulp cover)

Houses – This Is War

Non Ultra Joy – Pushing the Brand

The Open Feel – Still Here

Poster Child – We Don’t Have to Talk

Ringside – Money

Stornoway – Fuel Up

The Waylons – We Are Afraid of the Wrong Things

Wye Oak – Civilian

Young Circles – Sharp Teeth

Two days of Pick Your Poison left in 2010, and I’m pretty sure I said that last week. Of course last week I was preparing to put Pick Your Poison on vacation for the rest of the year. That was before my inbox was hammered with fresh music and I couldn’t just keep that flood of mp3s from your ears. But truly, genuinely, after tomorrow, no more of these until January. Highlights today are songs from Anna Oxygen, The Heligoats, The Loveable Tulips, Lumerians and a live cut from One eskimO. The Jenny O. Christmas track is pretty excellent too.

Anna Oxygen – Fake Pajamas

El Ten Eleven – Falling

The Heligoats – A Word From Our Sponsor

Jenny O. – Prettiest Little Present

The Loveable Tulips – Fortune Favours the Brave

Lumerians – Black Tusk

Morning Code – Silver

Neon Hitch – Am I Dreaming (ROBOPOP Remix)

One eskimO – Amazing (Live)

Sam Humans – Hate is the New Love

The most upsetting thing about today is that it’s the 30th anniversary of John Lennon’s death. I know when it comes to the Beatles a lot of people like to take sides and stand by their favorite, be it McCartney, Lennon, Harrison, or…Ringo. My personal opinion is that the Fab Four weren’t so fab when they weren’t together, and that’s just a testament to how you can put four great talents in a room and come out with something extraordinary, much moreso than they could have ever produced on their own. Of course for all I know had Lennon survived we could have gotten 30 years worth of mindblowing music that put everyone else to shame. But also please let it go on the record that while I feel all the solo stuff from Beatles members paled in comparison to what they made while together, I’m not saying all of it completely sucked. All of the guys have put out something worthwhile in the post-Beatles era, even Ringo. Alright, that’s my piece for today. Let’s talk Pick Your Poison. No Lennon songs or covers today, as much as I’d like to do something in that regard, but there are highlights from Anika, The Cave Singers, Eulogies and Rooftop Vigilantes. There’s also a couple Christmas tunes from Boca Chica and Strawberry Whiplash if you’re looking for that sort of stuff.

Anika – I Go to Sleep

Boca Chica – Not On Christmas Eve

The Cave Singers – Swim Club

Ethan Lipton and His Orchestra – Gift Basket

Eulogies – You Hide

Fredrik – Dance of the Peacock Phantom

Ike Snopes – Proper View

Jet Project – Oya

Kate Sikora – Circle in a Rectangle

Metal Mountains – Structures in the Sun

Quiet Life – Jim’s Wedding Band

Rooftop Vigilantes – Fists of Gary

Strawberry Whiplash – Santa Needs A Holiday

T Model Ford – Comin’ Back Home

Zombie Disco Squad – Hobo

Today is a day that will live in infamy. Okay, well maybe the year isn’t right on that one. But it is the anniversary of Pearl Harbor today, and might I just say (because it isn’t said enough) thank you to everyone serving in the military currently, and all veterans past and present for your service. Whether you served in the military or not though, here’s another edition of Pick Your Poison for you to download what you like. Hot tracks today come from Junk Culture, Pandit, Parallels, Shedding, and Unicycle Loves You. Cassie Ramone of Vivian Girls and Kevin Morby of Woods are in a new band called The Babies, and you’ll definitely want to download their first official single below. Sad Brad Smith does an interesting cover of Slick Rick’s “Hey Young World” that’s worth your time. Also please download the new track from Chicago’s own Kid Sister. Her new album is out next month and if “Kiss Kiss Kiss” is any indication, it’s gonna be hot hot hot.

The Babies – Run Me Over

False Positive – Strike Up the Band

Gimmix – Red Red

Junk Culture – Summer Friends

Juri Gagarin – Take Over

Kid Sister – Kiss Kiss Kiss

The Liptonians – You Know I Did

Pandit – Artichoke

Parallels – The Raven

Sad Brad Smith – Hey Young World (Slick Rick cover)

Shake the Baron – Zodiac Name

Shedding – Perspective

Unicycle Loves You – There’s A Giant Walking In My Heart

Vanvon – Cafe Supreme

Last week I said that Pick Your Poison would be going on a “pseudo-vacation” with only one post per week for the rest of December. What with the holidays and a distinct lack of new music right around this time of year, the break makes sense. Yet my inbox was flooded today with songs, so against my better judgment, let’s say Pick Your Poison gets one more full week this month. Highlights today include songs from Air Waves, The Caribbean, DISCODEINE (featuring Jarvis Cocker), Freebass (Joy Division/New Order’s Peter Hook), Perfume Genius and Young Galaxy. And hey, for those that love Christmas songs, check out mp3s from BAnanas Symphony, The Boy Least Likely To and The Infant Kings.

Air Waves – Knockout

BAnanas Symphony – Holidaze

The Boy Least Likely To – Christmas Isn’t Christmas

Brian Huber – Snuggies

The Caribbean – Mr. Let’s Find Out

Civil Civic – Lights on a Leash

DISCODEINE – Synchronize (ft. Jarvis Cocker)

Eric and Magill – I Heart Trumpets

Freebass – Bury Me Standing

FuzZ – Mr. Rogers

HoneyChild – The Father

The Infant Kings – Joy to the World

Jane Lui – Illusionis Boy

Perfume Genius – Dreeem

Sky Larkin – Year Dot

Young Galaxy – Cover Your Tracks

Happy Friday. As I warned earlier this week, Pick Your Poison is going on a small vacation for the holidays, and instead of there being a daily dose of mp3s instead it will only be weekly through the end of 2010. You really don’t want all these Christmas-related songs, do you? Well, there are still a couple in today’s collection, and I can definitely say nice things about the Deer Tick one. Other recommendations I have for you are to check out the songs from Jonathan Boulet, Minus the Bear, Sleepy Rebels and Sore Eros. Have a good weekend, and try to stay warm/safe, especially if you’re dealing with snowstorms.

Deer Tick – Christmas All Summer Long

Jef Barbara – Larmes De Crocodile

Jonathan Boulet – You’re A Animal

Minus the Bear – Hold Me Down

Old Time Relijun – Mirror

Pegi Young – Body Breaks

Rah Digga ft. Curtis Mayfield – My Joy

Saddest Landscape – Declaring War on Nostalgia

Sleepy Rebels – California Christmas

Sore Eros – Giraffe’s Kiss  

True Womanhood – The Grey Man  (ZIP)

USAISAMONSTER – Grey Owl

Enjoy today’s larger than normal edition of Pick Your Poison. There’s plenty of great mp3s up for download as well. Highlights come from Buffalo Tom, Crushed Stars, Gospel Music, Hot Panda, Suns, and Tape Deck Mountain.

Buffalo Tom – Arise, Watch

Campfire OK – Strange Like We Are

Crushed Stars – Eyeliner
Crushed Stars – 99 Red Balloons (Nena cover)

The Dust Engineers – Swallowed Up (And Washed Down)

Gospel Music – Automobile (ft. Tracyanne Campbell)

Hot Panda – Masculinity

Katie Moore – Wake Up Like This

Max Brannsloker – Plexus

New Collisions – Seven Generations

Suns – Little Horn

Superhumanoids – Dangers Strangers (Eric Steuer Mix)

Tape Deck Mountain – P.I.

Thrifty Astronaut – Another California Song

Y La Bamba – November

Yellow Ostrich – Whale

It’s December 1st, and fair warning, there’s not many editions of Pick Your Poison left in 2010. Starting next week and for the rest of the month, Pick Your Poison will go from a daily to a weekly post. The issue is a year-end one only, partly because album releases and mp3s dry up in December and partly because I’d like there to be more focus on “Best of 2010” stuff and less on downloads. So please bear with me for the rest of the month, and Pick Your Poison resumes a normal daily posting again in January. Anyways, today’s highlights include songs from Colossal Yes, The Moviegoers, Natalia Kills, Peelander Z, Surf City, and That Ghost. There’s also a Christmas-themed track from The Elves of Heaven, should you want to get in the spirit, assuming you’re not starting the Festival of Lights today.

Arsenal – Lotuk (Inflagranti Remix)

Colossal Yes – Backbiter Blues

David Gergen – Love Blues

The Elves of Heaven – Hard Times on 34th Street

The Good Fear – Be Like Us

Gwyneth & Monko – Get in the Sun

Lady Lazarus – The Eye in the Eye of the Storm

Lubec – Your Magic Wand

The Moviegoers – Big High School

Natalia Kills – Mirrors (Frankmusik Remix)

Peelander Z – How Are USA

Surf City – Crazy Rulers of the World

That Ghost – To Like You

Tristeza – Raise Your Gaze

Last day of November, and it only figures that snow is on the way. Yes, the Chicago forecast has flurries set for the overnight and daytime hours tomorrow, though there won’t really be any measurable accumulation. I like the occasional snowfall, provided the roads don’t get too slippery or messy. Okay, so today’s Pick Your Poison highlights include remixes of songs by Crystal Castles (ft. Robert Smith) and Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. There’s also a brand new one from Dan Bejar’s solo moniker Destroyer, and a fellow Merge Records labelmate East River Pipe. For those in a holiday mood, check out the song from Ox as well.

Crystal Castles ft. Robert Smith – Not In Love (Glass Gifts Remix)

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. – Vocal Chords (Diego and the Dissidents Remix)

Deacon the Villain & Sheisty Khrist – Ascension

Destroyer – Chinatown

Dominique Young Unique – Blaster (Robot Koch Remix)

East River Pipe – Cold Ground

Fuji Kureta – Hommage

Johnny Polygon ft. Kid Cudi – Riot Song (The Soundmen Remix)

Keeno – Hurt

Les Jupes – Myth #3 (The Mountain)

Night Riders – One Day At A Time (Remix ft. Grey Granite)

Ox – Xmas in the Jailhouse

Sleeping in the Aviary – You Don’t Have to Drive

Tristen – Baby Drugs
Tristen – Eager for Your Love

Hope you had a delightful holiday weekend. If you’re not American, I hope you had a great “just normal” weekend. Too much turkey and pumpkin pie for me, but that happens every year. The good news is that after a couple days’ break, we’re back and so is Pick Your Poison. Plenty more great mp3s to help satisfy your hunger for new music. Things you’ll want to pay close attention to today include tracks from Englishman, Hot Sugar, Off!, The Twilight Singers, and Win Win featuring Lizzi Bougatsos of Gang Gang Dance. There’s a Tahiti 80 remix as well, a song from Big Search, which is a new project from Matt Popieluch from Foreign Born. And hey, a special holiday track from Best Coast and Wavves rounds this set out nicely. Download away, and enjoy.

Anika – Yang Yang (Yoko Ono cover)

Best Coast and Wavves – Got Something for You  (ZIP)

Big Search (Matt Popieluch from Foreign Born) – That’s All (Lights On)

Diego and the Dissidents – Nerve Storm

Englishman – Boy T-Rex

Hot Sugar – Fuckable

La Femme – Sur La Planche

Moviegoers – Avalanche

Off! – I Don’t Belong

Tahiti 80 – Darlin’ (John Talabot’s ObscuroBaile Remix)

The Twilight Singers – Blackbird and the Fox

We Were the States – Gold

Win Win – Releaserpm (ft. Lizzi Bougatsos of Gang Gang Dance)

Though he doesn’t know how to use a computer, I’d like to take this moment just to wish my grandfather a Happy 70th Birthday. I can only hope, with my “live fast, die young, leave a beautiful corpse” lifestyle that one day I’ll be celebrating that birthday. But hey, this pre-Thanksgiving edition of Pick Your Poison is not only extended (for her pleasure), but also features quite a great number of notable notables. First up, let me offer you a full mixtape from the band Depressed Buttons, which is a new electro group that features a few members of The Faint. They’ve put together a collection of “influences” that range from Gonzales to Bob Dylan to ZZT to Underworld. The link below is to a direct download, and it comes with a full track listing. You’ll also want to keep an ear out for songs from Daniel Martin Moore, Giant Sand, Paul Simon (yes, THAT Paul Simon), Retribution Gospel Choir, and Treasure MammaL. Have a GREAT Thanksgiving my fellow Americans, and normal posting will resume…probably Friday, but maybe Monday, depending on how much I eat.

Cajun Gems – Hat Trick (ZIP) 

Cours Lapin – Cache Cache
Cours Lapin – Un Deux Trois

Daniel Martin Moore – Dark Road

Depressed Buttons – Mixmeat Mixtape (ft. Gonzales, Bob Dylan, Underworld and more!)

Giant Sand – Ride the Rail

Hallelujah the Hills – Nightingale Lightning (Live)

Mr. Little Jeans – Rescue Song (RAC Remix)

Paul Simon – Getting Ready for Christmas

Peder – Daylight
Peder – Reverse Your Diamonds

Retribution Gospel Choir – Workin’ Hard

The Spyro – Nippon Sling

Tommy Santee Klaws – Light On

Treasure MammaL – Kokopelli

Yuzima – Science Project

Zac Crouse – Waiting on the Wind

Can you taste the impending turkey? If only we could celebrate Thanksgiving every day. Of course then we’d all be about 100 lbs heavier than we are now. As we continue to ramp up this holday week, another good set of tunes in Pick Your Poison. Personal choices today include songs from Aidan Knight, Black Whales, Eux Autres, and Oreo Jones + Jookabox. You’ll also definitely want to download the track from Sonny and the Sandwitches, which is a combination of the Sandwitches and Sonny of Sonny and the Sunsets.

Aidan Knight – Friendly Fires

Amanda Jo Williams – Late Bloomer

Black Whales – Rattle Your Bones

Bob Mandelbaum – Greene
Bob Mandelbaum – It’s Easy (It’s So Easy)

Bomarr – Exchanges Among Systems

Brass Bed – How to Live In A Bad Dream

Emily Reo – I’ll Never Live By the Coast

Eux Autres – Queen Turner

Jim Sullivan – Highways

The Knocks – Dancing With the DJ (Monsieur Adi Remix)

The Olympics Symphonium – Settle Down

Oreo Jones + Jookabox – Guiding Light

Sonny and the Sandwitches – Throw My Ashes From This Pier When I Die

Talk – Holy Mountain