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It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another weekly dip into the pool of music news, interviews and videos that I like to call This Week In Music! Yes, in addition to the normal Pick Your Poison mp3s and Soundcloud streams, I like to toss out links to a bunch of other music-related content that I’ve found interesting or worthwhile over the course of the week. I encourage you to check some, if not all of these things out, particularly if you’re looking to waste some time. There’s plenty to see, read and hear:

Check out the trailer for Memphis, a film starring Willis Earl Beal

Watch Cloud Nothings frontman Dylan Baldi perform a new song on an acoustic guitar

YouTube Audio Stream: Death Grips – Birds

Check out Nirvana’s original contract with Sub Pop Records

Download the instrumental mixes of tracks from Italians Do It Better’s compilation mix After Dark 2

YouTube Audio Stream: Glasser – Shape

Stream the new Neko Case album (out Sept. 3rd)

YouTube Audio Stream: Nine Inch Nails – Everything

YouTube Audio Stream: Matt Berninger (of The National) – I’ll See You in My Dreams

Music Video: Spiritualized – I Am What I Am

Once you’re done with all that, there’s a whole bunch of free downloads and equally important audio streams to investigate as part of today’s Pick Your Poison. You’re not going to want to miss delightful tracks from Cameron McGill, Druid Cloak, Gladiola, Jacuzzi Boys, Le1f, Tokyo Hands and Wires in the Walls. In the Soundcloud section after the jump, stream new songs from Chelsea Wolfe, Holy Ghost!, Jonathan Rado (of Foxygen), RAC (ft. Kele of Bloc Party and MNDR), School of Night (Darby Cicci of The Antlers), and Young Galaxy.

Cameron McGill – American Health Insurance

Druid Cloak – Sterling Thrones

Everest Cale – Fossils

Gladiola – Breaking Into the Pool

Ioneye – Morning Sun

Jacuzzi Boys – Be My Prism

Le1f – Damn Son

Matthew Sawyer – Don’t Tell the Others What We’re Singing

Midnight Pool Party – I Want, I Need

Mind Over Mirrors – Storing the Winter

Motive – Burn Down Brooklyn

Parentz – F-PBHZ

Tokyo Hands – Valleys

Wires in the Walls – In the Rain

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Let me take a quick moment here and break away from talking about music to talk a little bit about another great passion of mine, which is film. I realize this isn’t a film site, and while I’ve considered adding film commentary and reviews to what I’m already doing with music, it’s not something I’ve pulled the trigger on…yet. So pardon me if I want to talk movies for a quick minute with an eye on hopefully expanding your pop cultural horizons. If you don’t like it, skip straight to the mp3s. Still, I’ll make this brief. Late August isn’t exactly the best time for movies. Or at least traditionally it hasn’t been. It’s sort of the buffer zone between the big summer blockbusters and the awards bait prestige pictures that really start to emerge in October. But if you pay enough attention to independent films and are equally adept with technology these days, late August is actually a great time to be alive. While I’m a hardcore movie theater attendee (I’ve seen just about every widely released movie from 2013 so far in the theater), I’m not opposed to watching something on my flat screen and surround sound setup at home. I prefer the distractionless, reclining chair, massive screen and pitch black ambiance of a theater, but for some that’s just not a realistic option. Maybe you live in the middle of nowhere and the one movie theater near you is really run down. Maybe you’ve got a megaplex nearby, but ticket prices are so high you don’t have the cash to go as often as you’d like. Independent cinema has got you (somewhat) covered these days, thanks to the advent of Video on Demand (VOD). I’m not going to argue in favor of it, because I firmly believe in the power of the theatrical experience with an audience, but I have found it useful recently to help me see some films that might otherwise have never been able to see. Movies like Drinking Buddies, starring Olivia Wilde, Anna Kendrick, Jake Johnson and Ron Livingston. It’s a great film directed by Joe Swanberg and it features not only some great Chicago locations (Revolution Brewery and The Empty Bottle among them), but has a strong soundtrack with songs from artists like Foxygen, Night Beds and Here We Go Magic. Worth your time? Absolutely. Available on VOD through iTunes, Amazon and some other online media purveyors. If you don’t live in New York or Chicago, there’s a chance the film won’t ever make it to your local art house theater (if you even have one). The same goes for a movie like Lovelace, which has everyone from Amanda Seyfried to James Franco to Sharon Stone and Peter Sarsgaard in its cast. It might seem from the trailer that it’s a basic biopic on Deep Throat star Linda Lovelace, but I assure you it goes way beyond that. Good luck finding it in more than a handful of theaters around the country at the moment, but VOD will let you screen it at about half the cost of a traditional movie theater ticket. I guess my lengthy point is this: There are a lot of good movies out right now, and if you’ve got a movie theater nearby showing them I hope you’ll go. But if that’s not the case or you simply don’t want to wait for a theatrical release, please be aware that VOD is an option you have. If it’s going to expose you to more interesting and challenging films than the ones currently being peddled in mass marketplaces, then maybe a night in is just what the doctor ordered. Speaking of doctors, let me prescribe you 10cc’s of Pick Your Poison. Be sure to ingest tracks from Botany, Buffalo Tales, John Davis, Julie Mar, Lemonade, Shark? and The Tranq. In the Soundcloud section after the jump, stream songs from A$AP Ferg, Eagulls, Ejecta (Joel Ford of Ford & Lopatin’s new project with Fight Bite/Neon Indian’s Leanne Macomber), M.I.A. and Polica.

Bad Cop – Light On (SOSA Remix)

Botany – Anchor

Buffalo Tales – Puppet Strings

Death Rattle – Fortress

John Davis – Masoch

Josh Damigo – How Am I Not Supposed to Fall

Julie Mar – What It’s Like

Lemonade – Skyballer

Sam Vicari – Normalcy

Shark? – This Is Living

Silent Rider & Camille Corazón – Black Crown

SISU – Harpoons

Sundays – Hope It’s Enough

The Tranq – Dissident

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I’m officially calling it right now: the summer drought of new music is over! Yes, just in time for everyone to head back to school, an influx of great records hits the marketplace. Don’t believe me? Here’s a list of artists releasing new material this week: A$AP Ferg, Andrew Belle, Andrew Cedermark, Bent Shapes, Braids, Buffalo Killers, Butter the Children, Crocodiles, Destruction Unit, DIANA, Diarrhea Planet, Earl Sweatshirt, The Goldberg Sisters, Gross Relations, The Horse’s Ha, Julia Holter, Julianna Barwick, Kim Lenz, The Kissaway Trail, Laura Veirs, Little Comets, Native, No Age, Paper Lions, Porcelain Raft, Pure Bathing Culture, Sarah Neufeld, Shigeto, Ski Lodge, Still Life Still, Superchunk, Surf City, Terraplane Sun, Travis, Tree, Ty Segall, Typhoon, White Lies, Willy Mason and Zola Jesus. Wow. That’s a lot of records, and there’s at least a few good ones in the bunch. I hope you’ll look into some of these, or are reminded that one of your favorite artists is putting something new out. Beyond those things, there’s still a daily edition of Pick Your Poison to consider as well, where you’re also able to discover new music. In today’s batch, don’t miss tracks from Banana Beach, Captain Murphy (aka Flying Lotus), Grisly Hand, Louis London, Placeholder and Schooner. In the Soundcloud section after the jump, stream songs from Body Parts, The Darcys, The Lumineers (covering Talking Heads), Parquet Courts, The Weeknd (ft. Drake) and YAWN.

Antonio Paul – Coloured Screens

Banana Beach – Pelican Bay

Captain Murphy (ft. Viktor Vaughn, Earl Sweatshirt & Thundercat) – Between Villains

Ciara – Body Party (Jacques Greene Remix)

The Courtesans – Dirty Killer (Bad Atom Remix)

Grisly Hand – Country Singles

The Harmed Brothers – When You See Me

Henke Wermelin & Nattskiftet – Eat Your Money

Louis London – Hardly Hear You

Nathan Angelo – Get Back

Placeholder – Above

Richard Beynon – Lazerboy

Schooner – It Won’t Matter

Treasure Fingers and The Knocks – My Body

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Back in February, I tweeted about Prince’s new single, which is titled “Breakfast Can Wait”. Jokingly, I said, “So does that mean he’s not going to make me pancakes after our basketball game?” It was a reference to a 2004 sketch on “Chappelle’s Show” where Charlie Murphy (Eddie’s brother) tells the story about the time he met Prince. They wound up playing basketball at his house, and after Prince won, he made everybody pancakes. It’s a classic sketch, and Dave Chappelle does an incredible job pretending to be Prince. Well to my surprise and I’m sure the surprise of many, Prince unveiled the cover art for “Breakfast Can Wait” over the weekend. What is it? Why it’s Dave Chappelle dressed as Prince with a tray of pancakes. Prince not only revealed it via his newly active Twitter account, but it came with the following line, direct from the “Chappelle’s Show” sketch: “Game: Blouses”. Don’t ever let anybody tell you that Prince has no sense of humor. This is proof positive. Now if only somebody could get actual footage of Prince dominating in a basketball game. Let’s transition from that into today’s Pick Your Poison. Allow me to advise checking out tracks today from 2PPM, Alligator Indian, Lisa Papineau, Matthew Collings, Peelander-Z, The Slytest and Sweet Alps. In the Soundcloud section after the jump, stream songs from The Fratellis, Kitten, Wymond Miles and YACHT.

2PPM – I

Alligator Indian – PUF//FIN

Bent Denim – Living Room

Hadley Kennary – Otis

Hannah Georgas – Somebody

Lisa Papineau – Out For A Swim

Marquee Mayfield – Breakdown

Matthew Collings – They Meet On the Subway

Mini Dresses – Watching You

Pagiins – Open Up Your Mind

Peelander-Z – Ride on the Shooting Star

The Pluto Moons – No Evidence

The Slytest – Rock’N’Roll Heaven

Suntrapp – All the Seas

Sweet Alps – Ghost Metropolis

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It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another weekly dip into the pool of music news, interviews and videos that I like to call This Week In Music! Yes, in addition to the normal Pick Your Poison mp3s and Soundcloud streams, I like to toss out links to a bunch of other music-related content that I’ve found interesting or worthwhile over the course of the week. I encourage you to check some, if not all of these things out, particularly if you’re looking to waste some time. There’s plenty to see, read and hear:

Stream Earl Sweatshirt’s debut album Doris

Music Video: These New Puritans – Organ Eternal

Watch Run the Jewels (Killer Mike + El-P) respond to Kendrick Lamar’s rapper-insulting verse on the Big Sean track “Control”

YouTube Audio Stream: Volcano Choir – Comrade

Music Video: Kim Deal – Are You Mine?

Watch Fiona Apple and Blake Mills perform “I Know” in a living room home video

Music Video: Youth Lagoon – Raspberry Cane

Music Video: Haim – The Wire

YouTube Audio Stream: Yuck – Middle Sea

YouTube Audio Stream: Cults – I Can Hardly Make You Mine

Once you’re done with all of that music excitement, there’s a whole set of other downloads and audio streams you can check out as part of today’s edition of Pick Your Poison. Don’t miss cuts from Big Tree, Camp Counselors, Glasvegas, To Kill a King, Kim Lenz and We Are the Wilderness. In the Soundcloud section after the jump, stream new songs from Cold War Kids, Fort Romeau, Ha Ha Tonka, kwes, of Montreal and Zola Jesus.

Banks – Warm Water (Chuck Wild Bootleg Remix)

Big Tree – Wonder

Brundlefly and the Swede – Cabin Music

Camp Counselors – Charyou

Emiliana Torrini – Speed of Dark (Andrew Weatherall Remix)

Glasvegas – Later… When the TV Turns to Static

The Holy Alimonies – All in the Drugs

To Kill a King – Bones

Kim Lenz – Pay Dearly

Lek Fonq – Facebook Lover

Quixotism – Bloodletting

Scary Cherry and the Bang Bangs – Don’t Wanna

Top Less Gay Love Tekno Party – Danger Love

We Are the Wilderness – Leading From Emptiness

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If you’ve never seen Ty Segall perform live before, you’re missing out. The guy’s a dynamic presence on stage, brimming with energy and unafraid to let out a powerful scream that cuts through fuzz-laden guitars should the mood strike him. The two times I’ve seen him perform my attention has never wavered, nor could I stop grinning with giddy excitement over the messy perfection that he embodies. Coming up in a little over a week, Segall will be bouncing all around the country for a few weeks’ worth of live dates in support of his new album Sleeper. That record comes out this upcoming Tuesday, August 20th, and actually marks a shift in direction away from the fused blend of punk and garage rock of his last few efforts and more towards the realm of acoustic psychedelia. Having heard the album a few times, it was challenging to my ears at first, but I’m certainly warming up to it as proof that he can excel at whatever genre of music he tries. You can hear the full thing for yourself right here (for a limited time). If you like what you hear, I’d encourage you to try and see Segall if he’s headed your way on tour. He’ll be in Chicago on August 31st for a show at Logan Square Auditorium that will place a sharp focus on that new album. I’m interested to see how he’ll piece it all together in a live setting. Tickets for that all-ages Logan Square show are $18 and can be purchased in advance here. I hope you won’t miss this great opportunity! You’ll probably also not want to miss some of the great tracks in today’s Pick Your Poison. There’s plenty of delights from Atropolis, Beat the Heart, Chris Zurich, Empty Chairs, Gross Relations, Lizzie Davis and Potty Mouth. In the Soundcloud section after the jump, stream cuts from Celestial Shore, Goldfrapp, Kelley Stoltz, Pelican and Terry Malts.

Aotearoa – Thunderbird

Atropolis – Adjust

BeatauCue – Aeropolis (Birdee Remix)

Beat the Heart – Nurse Me (With Your Soul)

Behaviors – Can’t Be Found

Chris Zurich – Annie

Clubfeet – Remind Me (Röyksopp Cover)

Empty Chairs – Eyelashes

The Eversons – Creepy

Gross Relations – Discovery Zone

Lizzie Davis – Geography

Potty Mouth – Black and Studs

Reuben Hollebon – Faces

Unlike Pluto – Colour Me Equal

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As summer slowly transitions into fall, the list of new album releases grows longer by the week, and I promise you that next week in particular is going to be a big one. This week though, is still a little lacking in the high profile release department. We’re not quite in the perils of the summer drought that came through in July though, and I’ll prove it to you. Here’s a list of artists putting out new albums today: Dinosaur Bones, Football etc., Jagwar Ma, The Moondoggies, Parachute, Psychic Teens, Royal Teeth, Sam Phillips, Valerie June, Washed Out and The Wild Feathers. Okay, so that’s not a big list by any stretch of the imagination. Maybe I overplayed my hand leading into it. Still, listen to Washed Out’s new one Paracosm and everything will be all right. Or you could listen to any number of songs as part of today’s edition of Pick Your Poison. I’d like to specifically advise you to check out tracks from The Black Watch, Cameron McGill, Marnie Stern, Seaweed Meadows, The Ten Thousand and The Young Sinclairs. In the Soundcloud section after the jump, stream new songs from American Authors (covering Lorde), Blouse, Heavenly Beat, Higgins Waterproof Black Magic Band (a new project from TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe), Juana Molina and Tink (ft. How to Dress Well).

Aiden Grimshaw – The Way We Are

The Black Watch – Meg

Brandt Brauer Frick – Two in a Bush

Cameron McGill – Sucker Love

Carrie Ashley Hill – Me at All

Charlie Greene – Lost & Found

Dead Professional – Downtown at Sundown

Future Feats – Cities in Wonder

Marnie Stern – This Was It

Misun – Hills and Trails

Seaweed Meadows – Andra Långgatan

The Ten Thousand – Fight Inertia

The Tryptics – Alchemical

Wolf Catcher – Broken

The Young Sinclairs – You Know Where to Find Me

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Let’s talk about Arcade Fire for just a minute. They’ve got a brand new, James Murphy produced album set for release on October 29th, which according to Murphy will be “fucking epic”. That’s basically a ringing endorsement if I’ve ever heard one. Beyond that, there are now rumors that the album will be titled Reflektor, in particular because some street art that popped up in several major cities around the world over the first weekend in August (and at Lollapalooza apparently, though I failed to spot anything). There’s now an Instagram account and a website surrounding this same theme and concept. Of course Arcade Fire’s camp isn’t confirming anything, or even an association with anything Reflektor-related thus far. Then came yesterday, in which the aforementioned Instagram account posted three new photos (1, 2, and 3) suggesting something would go down on 9/9 at 9pm. And so it would seem that we’ve got a little less than a month before something “big” is going to happen with this. My guess? It’s going to be the release of a new song, in advance of the album. Maybe by then we’ll also have confirmation of the album title and a track listing. For the time being though, this is one mystery that appears to be worth following along with. Also worth following? Your daily dose of Pick Your Poison. Allow me to present you with some delightful tracks today from Admonic, Les Jupes, Lost Midas, Poor Remy, The Slims, Steel Cranes and Windbreaker. In the Soundcloud section after the jump, stream new songs from Bad Things, Cage the Elephant, K.Flay, Russian Circles and Steel Phantoms.

Admonic – Double Decade

Chronic City – The Man Who (ft. Florian Horwath)

Ellie Goulding – Burn (Lovelife Remix)

Kyle Andrews – Crystal Ball (Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. Remix)

Les Jupes – Hold Me Down

Lost Midas – Love Undone (ft. Taylor O’Donnell)

Lyon Apprentice – Beautiful Thought

Mitzi – Falling

Poor Remy – Wrecking Ball

Saint Motel – My Type (Keith Sweaty Remix)

The Slims – Only a Part, Not the Whole

Steel Cranes – Moving On

Stella Le Page – Heat Wave

Windbreaker – I Can’t Believe That You’re Gone

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Oh hey! I’m pleased to present one of the rarer occurences as of late, a Friday edition of Pick Your Poison. As I tend to mention when there is a Friday edition, the main reason I stopped doing them was largely a lack of content. If I don’t have enough songs to share with you, then there’s not much point to this, right? So this week there are enough songs, and voila, things are going on a Friday. I hope you’ve got some grand weekend plans ahead of you. I’m happy there’s not a music festival in Chicago this weekend that I’ll be attending, and generally just having not much to do will be nice for once. I might even get an album review or two written, since I haven’t done that in a few weeks. I guess what I’m saying is, I’m very much looking forward to this weekend, and hope you are too. Oh! Next week I’ll be giving away a pair of three day passes to Riot Fest Chicago! The three day passes are sold out, so I’ll have one of the few ways you can still win them. Good stuff, right? Okay, let’s get to today’s tracks. Gold stars go to songs from Bailterspace, Leftover Cuties, MTNS, Sons of the East, Tall Heights, Teen Daze and Yamantaka // Sonic Titan. In the Soundcloud section after the jump, stream new songs from Black Hearted Brother, Gap Dream, Jon Hopkins (ft. Purity Ring), Kishi Bashi and ON AN ON (covering Bjork). Have a great weekend!

Atlanter – Aye

Bailterspace – Films of You

Eddie B – Anywhere It Takes Me

Leftover Cuties – Once Again

MTNS – Lost Track of Time

Seasick Mama – Quit Your Job

Selebrities – Temporary Touch (Keep Shelly in Athens Remix)

Sons of the East – Come Away

Sonya Titus – Love Transfusion (Acoustic Remix)

Superhumanoids – Bad Eather (Tropics Remix)

Tall Heights – Eastern Standard Time

Teen Daze – Ice on the Windowsill

Unkle Bob – Home

Yamantaka // Sonic Titan – One

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It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another weekly dip into the pool of music news, interviews and videos that I like to call This Week In Music! Yes, in addition to the normal Pick Your Poison mp3s and Soundcloud streams, I like to toss out links to a bunch of other music-related content that I’ve found interesting or worthwhile over the course of the week. I encourage you to check some, if not all of these things out, particularly if you’re looking to waste some time. There’s plenty to see, read and hear:

Watch the lyric video for the new Neko Case track “Night Still Comes”

Watch the trailer for the upcoming film about legendary New York rock club CBGB

Check out details on the “Station to Station” tour, a train tour to 9 U.S. cities featuring art and music

Music Video: Schoolboy Q – Collard Greens (ft. Kendrick Lamar)

Watch Sean Hannity spend a segment attacking Ryan Adams

Music Video: Phosphorescent – Ride On/Right On

Music Video: Basement Jaxx – What A Difference Your Love Makes

Watch Cookie Monster cover Icona Pop’s “I Love It” with new lyrics

Music Video: Rhye – 3 Days

Watch the trailer for Her, the upcoming Spike Jonze film featuring new music from Arcade Fire

Once you’ve made your way past those distractions, there’s a whole bunch of new music for you to check out too. Don’t miss tracks from Anna Meredith, Diane Coffee, The Fire Tapes, Japan Soul, and Raccoon Fighter. In the Soundcloud section after the jump, stream new songs from Julia Holter, The Julie Ruin, Natural Animal, Sylvan Esso and Zero 7’s remix of Ultraista.

Anna Meredith – Bubble Gun

Bars of Gold – Coffee With Pele

The Choir – Sovereign States

Diane Coffee – Hymn

Ebony Bones – Bread & Circus (SalP’s Liquid Liquid Remix)

Elise Davis – Make the Kill

The Fire Tapes – Scarlet Cliffs

House of Blondes – Adam

Japan Soul – Hey Yah Hey

Jon Hardy & The Public – In the Morning

Lungz – All Right

Majical Cloudz – What That Was (Digits Remix)

Raccoon Fighter – Santa Tereza

The Sunshine Underground – It Is Only You (King Dinosaur Remix)

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What’s the big topic in the world of music today? I’m going to go with the Daft Punk “incident” that occurred on The Colbert Report last night. By “incident,” I mean they didn’t show up. Not unlike Death Grips at Lollapalooza (and now subsequent shows), Daft Punk decided to opt out at the last minute of their scheduled appearance at StePhest Colbchella, the now yearly concert that Colbert puts on as part of his show. The reason why? Well, it’s probably best if you just watch it yourself because it’s hilarious. But in a nutshell, Daft Punk apparently signed a contract with MTV to appear at this year’s Video Music Awards, which was to be billed as their only U.S. TV appearance in 2013. For awhile they apparently thought they could get away with going on Colbert, but apparently lawyers and their label stepped in to advise the duo to not travel to New York for the talk show appearance. That, and MTV reportedly threw a hissy fit once they found out about it as well. Since both Comedy Central and MTV are owned by Viacom, it basically came down to some friendly fighting between the two stations. Some might argue the whole incident was planned well in advance, and Billboard says that fill-in guest Robin Thicke’s performance was pre-taped last week, as if to hint that maybe Colbert and the network knew about the problem much farther in advance than they claimed last night. As in, maybe the two networks are actually working together, and this whole thing was an elaborate ruse to promote Daft Punk’s “secret” appearance at the VMAs. I’m pretty well convinced that it’s 90% real and 10% staged. Either way, it resulted in a damn hilarious show for Colbert. Watch the whole thing at the link above if you’ve got the time. If you’re just interested in today’s Pick Your Poison, of course I can help you out there as well. Don’t miss tracks from Clara Moto, Have Gun Will Travel, John Nagle, Lightning Bolt, Prom Date, Richard Youngs and Wolf Eyes. In the Soundcloud section, stream songs from HSY, Keep Shelly in Athens, Rubblebucket and Tree covering Radiohead.

Clara Moto – Disposable Darling

Club 8 – Stop Taking My Time (Bam Spacey’s Stolen Hearts Dub)

The Copper Gamins – Tell My Sister

Fishdoctor – Seasons

Have Gun, Will Travel – Standing at the End of the World

John Nagle – Never Gone

Lightning Bolt – Barbarian Boy

M185 – ShShSh

Marc Neibauer – Heart of Stone

Oyster Murders – Disaster Flower Bloom

Phaeleh – Storm (Applebottom Remix)

Prom Date – X My Heart

Richard Youngs – Summer Through My Mind

Vikesh Kapoor – I Dreamt Blues

Wolf Eyes – Lower Drolls

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We’ve reached another Tuesday, and honestly I’m starting to feel better after a Lollapalooza recovery day yesterday. Things are looking up! Things are also looking up if you’re a fan of new music. The release schedule has been a little relaxed over the course of July with the typical summer lull, however now that August is here there’s a lot more to talk about and anticipate. As a service to you, loyal reader, I like to list the artists releasing new material this week, for the purposes of keeping you informed about artists you love or are going to love in the course of the coming days, weeks, months and years. That said, the following artists are putting out albums: Acquaintances, Amanda Shires, Barbarossa, Bear Mountain, Blondes, The Civil Wars, Dawn of Midi, Dirtmusic, Eli Mardock, Explosions in the Sky and David Wingo, iwrestledabearonce, Jake Bellows, Lumerians, Medicine, Minks, Moderat, The Polyphonic Spree, Pond, Pop. 1280, Raffertie, Rocketnumbernine, Scott and Charlene’s Wedding, Ultraista and Walking Papers. There’s some reasonably good stuff in there, but if you can’t find anything you like, maybe Pick Your Poison will help. Don’t miss tracks today from Atlas : Empire, Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip, Drop Electric, Springtime, Work Drugs and Yassou Benedict. In the Soundcloud section after the jump, stream new songs from The Blow, The Chain Gang of 1974, CFCF, Denty May, Diarrhea Planet and Drake.

Atlas : Empire – Binary Lung

Avicii ft. Aloe Blacc – Wake Me Up (K-Town Shekki vs. Cave Kings Remix)

Colette – Best of Days

Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip – Stunner

Drake – All Me (Moduloktopus ReTwerk)

Drop Electric – Waking Up to the Fire

Fast Decay – Wake

Imaginary People – Fresh On

No Ceremony/// – FEELSOLOW (Kiki’s Balearic Mix)

Passenger – Let Her Go (Cris Cab cover)

Springtime – South Hill

Wintercoats – Everyone Seems to Be in on Something (Kyson Remix)

Work Drugs – Digital Girl

Yassou Benedict – Last Cicada

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Ugh. I am wiped out. The sort of wiped out that has you falling asleep at your keyboard in the middle of the day. The sort of wiped out where all you want to do is crawl into bed and sleep for 24 hours straight, foregoing meals or any other possible life responsibility. Music festivals are not exactly kind to the human body, and a majority of my peers tell me that they can’t do the 8-10 hours of standing, dancing and generally rocking out each day for three days that such a festival sometimes requires. I’ve had marathon runners say that they’re comfortable doing a 5 or 10K in a few hours, but wouldn’t dream of attending a music festival full-on for three days because of the toll it takes on your body. And that’s not even taking into account aftershows. Of course maybe I’m being overly dramatic here. I mean, if you look at things like Coachella and Bonnarroo and Lollapalooza and see 100,000 people or so all trying to survive a weekend (though that doesn’t account for arrival times or single day ticket holders), there are plenty who view music festivals as a challenge. That’s certainly how I used to view it. In a year or two I’ll have been hitting the music festivals hard for 10 years straight, and am arguably worse for the wear. I take Mondays after a music festival off from my full time job because I know at this point I’ll need that day to recover. And I’m clearly still not there yet. But I still love it just the same, though I’m not trying to push myself quite so hard anymore. Showing up at 2 p.m. instead of noon seems a-ok with me if I can get some more sleep and general rest. So please excuse me while I take some time to recover from this year’s Lollapalooza. It was a wild one, and I hope you were there to enjoy it with me, or at the very least watched some of it online. I’ll just leave you with this edition of Pick Your Poison. Choice tracks today come from Chad Kichula, Dustin Wong, Forest Fire, iNCH, Nobody Ever, Party Supplies and PJ Harvey. In the Soundcloud section after the jump, stream new tracks from Cut Copy, Frankie Rose, London Grammar and Mike Donovan.

Atlas Genius – If So (TheFatRat Remix)

Chad Kichula – The Whale’s Back

Dustin Wong – The Big She

Forest Fire – Waiting in the Night

Freeweights – Rust on My Heart

Grizmatik – My People

iNCH – The Chefalo Knot

Jupiter Lion – Black Mouth (Gonzo in Vegas Folk Remix)

Nobody, Ever – The Last Good Thing

Party Supplies – Beautiful Girl

Philos Moore – Not Too Level

PJ Harvey – Shaker Aamer

Singularity – Horizon Unplugged (ft. Nilu & Rucas)

Week of Wonders – Piggybacks

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Normally on Thursdays I have This Week in Music, a segment which has me pointing you in the direction of all sorts of fun and interesting music-related things on the Internet that popped up over the last 7 days. Well, given that we’re on the eve of yet another Chicago music festival, I’ve decided to forego that segment for this week to get myself prepared for the tidal wave that is Lollapalooza. I hope you’ll be going this year too, as it sold out almost immediately from music hungry fans. Speaking of which, if you’re not sure who to see this weekend at Lolla, make sure you check out my preview guide for an hour-by-hour dissection of the best bands performing on each of the three days of the festival. It’s gonna be a blast! If you’re not going or are maybe just going to watch the YouTube stream, perhaps a Thursday edition of Pick Your Poison can satisfy some cravings for some new and great music. Highlights today come from Angel Haze (covering Kanye West), Bad Sports, Hunters, La Luz, Pop. 1280 and Spook Houses. In the Soundcloud section after the jump, stream songs from Deap Vally (at Lolla this weekend), Factory Floor, Jensen Sportag, and Summer Cannibals.

Angel Haze – New Slaves (Kanye West cover)

Bad Sports – Let Me In

Basin City – Media Blackout

Carmody – Vulcani

Hunters – Seizure

La Luz – Big Big Blood

Modo Stare – We Dream of Mountains

Nadia Nair – Monika the Brave (FIXYN Remix)

orange gold red – Ink

Pop. 1280 – Human Probe

Rehan Dalal – If You Love Me

Siente – Wonderful

Spook Houses – Living the Dream

Tory Lanez – Icey Dicey

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Today’s notable tracks come from The Belle Game, Black City Lights, Born Gold, Future Loves Past, Mac DeMarco, Panoramic & True, and Zammuto. In the Soundcloud section after the jump, stream songs from Daedelus, Deer Tick, The Preatures and The Weekend.

The Belle Game – River

Black City Lights – Tried So Hard

Born Gold – Hunger

Chalk – In Your Suit

David Bronson – Times (Silk Lung Remix)

Disclosure – When A Fire Starts to Burn (The Basement Tapes Remix)

Figaro – Moving Slowly

Future Loves Past – Pretty Things

Hello Gravity – Golden

Mac DeMarco – Young Blood

Night Beats – Outta Mind

Panoramic & True – Bells

Psymbionic – Chemical Plant Zone

Zammuto – Need Some Sun

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