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The end of this week holds more delights for you via Pick Your Poison. Former Hold Steady member/current Against Me! member Franz Nicolay is still making solo material, and you can download one of his songs below. Singer/songwriter Owen has a new track available as well, and if very early hype is what you want, The Vaccines are prepared to cure that ailment.

Alarma Man – Cabin in the Woods (Single Edit)

Dark Dark Dark – In Your Dreams

Franz Nicolay – This Is Not A Pipe

The Goodnight Loving – Doesn’t Shake Me

Katie Costello – Cityscapes

Kavinsky – Nightcall (Robotaki Remix)
Kavinsky – Nightcall (Breakbot Remix)

Kingsley Flood – Cul-de-Sac

Magnetic Island – Sung Not Said

Owen – Abandoned Bridges

Roy Paymon – Imonetta

TV Buddhas – Fungirls

The Vaccines – If You Wanna (Demo)

Young the Giant – My Body

We’re in the home stretch. The weekend is only a day away, so close you can taste it. To help get you in the mood, here’s a delightful set of songs in today’s Pick Your Poison. My recommendations today include the cool band DD/MM/YYYY, a remix of a song by The Drums, something new from Pete Yorn along with some psychedelia courtesy of Wild Nothing. Lots to like, I hope you’ll check these songs out.

Bars of Gold – The Hustle

Brothers Young – Good Deeds

DD/MM/YYYY – Van Tan

The Drums – Down By the Water (The Soundmen Remix)

Mach Fox – Nu Dead Pretty

Pete Yorn – Velcro Shoes

Sahara Smith – The Real Thing

The Shimmies – The Thing That Seems the Hardest Is Actually the Easiest
The Shimmies – And the Radio Played On (Delta Mirror cover)

Tiger! Shit! Tiger! Tiger! – Whispers

Violent Kin – Velvet Hideout

Wild Nothing – Golden Haze

To help you get through the mid-week blues, Pick Your Poison today is not only larger than normal, but also has a number of more high profile indie artists than usual. You’re going to want to check out the All Tiny Creatures song, which features Justin Vernon of Bon Iver. There’s also new tracks from Deer Tick, El Guincho and Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadler. That’s not even mentioning Scarlett Johansson covering Steel Train and a cover of Old MacDonald from the insane Peelander Z. Ah hell, it’s all good. Download away.

All Tiny Creatures – An Iris (ft. Justin Vernon)

Bad Books – You Wouldn’t Have to Ask

Buke and Gass – Your Face Left Before You  

Deer Tick – Piece By Piece, Frame By Frame

El Guincho – FM Tan Sexy

Frederik Olufsen – Rocks
Check out the “Rocks” EP from Beatport

In Grenada – Distance and Temptation

Laetitia Sadler – One Million Year Trip

Meridene – Parade of Fools

Peelander Z – E-I-E-I-O

Scarlett Johansson – Bullet (Steel Train cover)

Starfucker – Julius

Wildbirds & Peacedrums – Fight For Me

I’m not the biggest fan of Does It Offend You, Yeah? but a whole lot of people are, so you might be pleased to learn about this (what might be considered) old song now made available for free download. You can also go to their website and download the song’s “stems” for remixing purposes, which is nice. Other good stuff today includes something new from The Ex-Girlfriends Club along with a live version of a song off Lissie’s debut album. One eskimO fans will want to grab the NEW version of the song “Amazing” below. Then there’s the Ra Ra Riot mp3 off their brand new one (which I’ll review later this week) and a fresh track from Tamaryn that’s more than worth your time.

Abner Trio – Let Go of the Dream

Ben+Vesper – Hot Thunder

Claire Maguire – The Strangest Thing (Bloodshy & Avant Version)

Does It Offend You, Yeah? – We Are the Dead

The Ex-Girlfriends Club – Hurt Me

Lissie – In Sleep (Live)

One eskimO – Amazing (New Mix)

The Phantom Band – A Glamour (Excerpt)  

Ra Ra Riot – Boy

Tamaryn – Love Fade

Victoire – A Song for Mick Kelly

It’s the last full week in August, and I hope the weather is holding steady in your area of the world. Looks like Chicago has a week of sun and temperatures in the 70s and 80s, and that’s not bad in the least. Also not bad in the least? Today’s Pick Your Poison. Among the great stuff up for free download, there’s a new song from A Sunny Day in Glasgow you should pick up for sure. Three Mile Pilot and Violens also get a big thumbs up. The other stuff is pretty excellent as well.

A Sunny Day in Glasgow – Drink Drank Drunk

The Foxymorons – Say It Aloud

Jen Wood – Zeppelin

Noah’s Ark Was A Spaceship – Warm Eyes

Nottz – The 1ne (ft. Alchemist)

Quinn Marston – Can You Hear Me See Me Now

Slow Dancing Society – And to the Dust We Shall Return

Slow Trucks – Gota Move Away

Stirling Says – A to D

Symfoniorkester – Vilseslutet Remake

Three Mile Pilot – What’s in the Air

Violens – Acid Reign

There are a couple of great surprises in this weekend-starting edition of Pick Your Poison. It wasn’t really intended that way, but I’m not going to look a gift horse in the mouth and you shouldn’t either. The thing many of you will want to pay attention to is the new Weezer song available for download. Now that they’re back on an indie label that understands the value of allowing fans to have a song or two preview, we get this one from their upcoming record “Hurley”. Additionally I’ll recommend the Velvet Underground cover from Dashing Suns, a new song from Margot & the Nuclear So and Sos, as well as the tracks by Seeland and Small Black. All great and perfect for weekend-long enjoyment.

Dashing Suns – Billy Two (The Clean cover)
Dashing Suns – Who Loves the Sun (Velvet Underground cover)

Dead Confederate – Run From the Gun

Ira Atari & Rampue – Dance in the Rain

Junior85 – Raymondscott

Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s – New York City Hotel Blues

Night Horse – Rollin’ On

Paul and the Patients – The Way That You Are

Seeland – Local Park

Small Black – Photojournalist

Special Benny – Air Filter

Vonnegutt – Bright Eyes

Weezer – Memories

Pretty good set of songs on today’s Pick Your Poison. Most importantly to start, the Fever Ray download below, which is a Peter Gabriel cover, is only available for a few hours. Sorry, but that’s all they’ll allow. So if you go to download it and it doesn’t work, that means it’s been pulled offline. Aside from that though, which comes highly recommended, you’re also going to want to focus on the mp3s from Glasser and The Moaners.

The Black Ryder – Let It Go

Egotronic – Mehr Bass

Fever Ray – Mercy Street (Peter Gabriel cover)

Freestyle Fellowship – On This Earth

Glasser – Home

Infantree – Euphemism

Jaques La Bouchere – 2nd Long Street 

Mojo Fury – Deep Fish Tank

The Moaners – Humid Air

Rah Digga – Do Your Numbers

Salli Lunn – The First Cause

teamABC – Tangled (Your Bones)
teamABC – Service Station Feeling of Doom!

Hope you’re surviving the week okay so far. I’m in the midst of some exciting changes at my job, which will keep me much busier for the foreseeable future. It’s all good though, hopefully the site won’t suffer at all as a result. Today’s Pick Your Poison is another good one. Be sure to check out the new song from The Black, as it’s particularly excellent. I can also recommend tracks from She Sir, Shit Robot, and XBXRX.

Andy the Doorbum – Wallet

B.A. Johnston – Taste the Shame

The Black – Love Don’t Need A Reason

Dad Rocks! – These Days (Nico cover)
Dad Rocks! – Nothing Keeps Up

Don Diablo vs. Excision and Datsik – Blow the Calypso

Lachi – Emo Children

Le VICE – Shy Guy
Le VICE – Hard to Be Ill

Regrets Brunettes – Facts & Figures

She Sir – Lemongrass

Shit Robot – I Found Love (Radio Edit)

XBXRX – I Can See

Your Youth – Diamond

If you love the first half of the alphabet, the small surprise in today’s Pick Your Poison is that pretty much every single artist begins with a letter from that first half. Mere coincidence really, but it just so happens there’s also a number of great songs in this collection as well. If you like hip hop, Gary, Indiana native Freddie Gibbs has a new version of an old mixtape for your downloading pleasure. Also there’s a new one from Marnie Stern, who is just plain awesome. The remix of the Apache Beat song also comes pretty highly recommended.

A Classic Education – Gone to Sea

Amy Bezunartea – Doubles

Anoraak – Above Your Head (ZIP)

Apache Beat – Another Day (Blood Diamonds Remix)  

Breathe Owl Breathe – Swimming

Bubble Scum – Body 2 Body

Christopher Paul Stelling – Flawless Executioner

Dominant Legs – About My Girls

Efren – Check It Down

Freddie Gibbs – St8 Killa No Filla (No DJ version) mixtape

Lovers – Figure 8

Marnie Stern – For Ash

Blah, here’s yet another Monday that signals another start to the work week. Try to avoid getting stuck with “Garfield syndrome” and hating this day each week. Some good songs on this edition of Pick Your Poison. A new one from The Concretes should cure anybody’s early week blues. Francis and the Lights also have a track worth checking out. And hey, there’s a fresh No Age track for you to fully enjoy as well.

Betsy Franck and the BareKnuckle Band – Lowdown

The Concretes – Good Evening

Francis and the Lights – Knees to the Floor  

Heister – Fairfield

Jenny Wilson – Hardships (Gospel Version)

Juston Stens and the Get Real Gang – Lonely Lonely Night

The Lights – Puerto Escondido

No Age – Glitter

Panico – Reverberation Mambo (Joakim Mix)

Polyamorous Affair – Bright One

Seekae – Blood Bank

Happy Friday the 13th. I hope no black cats crossed your path or anything of that sort. As is typical with a Friday edition of Pick Your Poison, things are a little lighter than usual on the mp3s, but there’s some solid quality today. With the announcement of a new Elliott Smith compilation coming out, there’s an old school mp3 from him available for download. The new Matthew Dear album is getting great reviews so far, and you can hear something from it below. Also of note are good things from S. Carey and Warpaint (in their 2nd mp3 this week!). Check it all out, and enjoy your weekend.

Elliott Smith – Between the Bars

Lia Ices – Grown Unknown

Marmoset – Doo Wop
Marmoset – She’s Wearing Rings

Matthew Dear – Little People

Rooftop Vigilantes – Seth No Jump

S. Carey – In the Stream

Tears Run Rings – Reunion

Turzi – Baltimore (Civil Civic Remix)

Warpaint – Billie Holiday

Yvette Rovira – I Remember Love (DJ Spinna Galactic Soul Remix)

The midwest is in the midst of a severe heat wave right now, with daily temperatures above 90 degrees but feeling like 100+. If you’re dealing with such extreme weather, I hope you’ve got air conditioning or someplace cool to spend some time. And hey, if you’re near a computer while staying chilled out, Pick Your Poison will help keep things on an even keel. There’s a Beach House remix for your enjoyment. Hot Lava covering Tullycraft is good too. I also caught Warpaint in an aftershow at Lollapalooza and can vouch for their music, and one of their songs is available for download below.

Arthur Nasson – Summer Drops

Beach House – Lover of Mine (Roman Ruins Remix)

Cloud Nothings – Hey Cool Kid

The Hood Internet with Kid Static – Chi City

Hot Lava – Pink Lemonade (Tullycraft cover)

Jaqlavak – Crystal Methodist (Beat the System Remix)  

Johnny Bertram & The Golden Bicycles – Private Land

Moden Superstitions – Visions of You

New Collisions – Over

Roman Ruins – The Comedown  

Terrapin Pond – Medicines and Motions

Warpaint – Elephants

Fun stuff in this mid-week edition of Pick Your Poison. There’s a new mp3 from the Wavves record “King of the Beach”, which I’ll be officially reviewing before the end of the week. There’s also yet another new song from How to Dress Well, which if you’re not paying attention to this guy yet, you should be. Oh, and let’s not forget this track from psych-rockers Dungen. Lana Mir’s cover of The Stone Roses is also worth a listen, among others.

Cashes Rivers – As I Drift

Chord – EbMaj9 (Descent)

Dungen – Marken Lag Stilla

Ganglians – My House

How to Dress Well – Ecstasy With Jojo

Lana Mir – I Wanna Be Adored (Stone Roses cover)

Liam Singer – Winter Weeds

Martha and the Muffins – Mess

Sonen – Head Down
Download Sonen’s “Devious Device” EP for free (email required)

Wavves – King of the Beach

Pretty nice little selection of tracks on tap for today’s edition of Pick Your Poison. You’ll definitely want to download at least one of the Elsinore tracks below, as they’re not only a great Illinois band, but are just great in general. I can also recommend the Posies song, which features a guest turn from Lisa Lobsinger of Broken Social Scene. And finally, there’s something new from Teengirl Fantasy you should hear before the hype gets too far out of control.

Baby Eagle – Day of Our Departing

Elephant & Castle – The Look 

Elsinore – Lines
Elsinore – Lines (DJ Bozak Bass Remix)

Fielded – Another Time

Landing on the Moon – California

Lazerbeak – Salt and Sea

Mark Berube – Tailored to Fit

The New Heaven and The New Earth – Simon
The New Heaven and The New Earth – St. Valentine

The Posies – Licenses to Hide (ft. Lisa Lobsinger)

Sebastien Tellier – Look

Teengirl Fantasy – Cheaters

Yannick Aellen – The Devil (Is A Woman I Never Slept With)

I’m still working on a final Lollapalooza-related post, along with attempting to recover from the weekend, but Pick Your Poison continues without regard for any of that. As we skipped Friday, there’s a couple extra mp3s for you to choose from as a result. A new song from Ducktails is worth checking out. If you like the HBO show Treme, there’s a song from one of the show’s great music stars, Kermit Ruffins. You can also download a new track off the great new Menomena album, “Mines”. And for electro fans, Royksopp has something new for you. Oh! I also can’t forget to mention the mp3 from Extra Lens, the new project from John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats.

Baron Bane – Sordid Eyes

Brass Bed – Begs Me Not to Beg

Ducktails – Hamilton Road

Dustin Wong – Talking Walking Cloud

Extra Lens (John Darnielle and Franklin Bruno) – Only Existing Footage

Gasoline Silver – Indianapolis

House of Bread – Flying Nomads

How to Dress Well – You Won’t Need Me Where I’m Goin’

Kermit Ruffins – I Got A Treme Woman

Menomena – TAOS

Patrick Lee – Quittin’ Time

Royksopp – This Space