$5 Albums for May

• Vampire Weekend: Modern Vampires of the City
• Brandi Carlile: Bear Creek
• Elbow: The Seldom Seen Kid
• Phantogram: Eyelid Movies
• Fiona Apple: The Idler Wheel...
• The Horrors: Skying
• David Crowder Band: Illuminate
• Band Of Horses: Mirage Rock

$5 Albums | May 2013

Here are the $5 albums I recommend for May. 

• PJ Harvey: Let England Shake | Amazing. My #2 album of 2011.
• Low: The Invisible Way | One of my favorite albums of 2013 so far
• Autre Ne Veut: Anxiety | One of my favorite albums of 2013 so far
• Purity Ring: Shrines | One of my fave albums of 2012
• Radiohead: OK Computer
• Best Coast: The Only Place
• Trampled By Turtles: Stars and Satellites
• Phoenix: United
• Bruce Springsteen: Born In The U.S.A.

$5 Albums | December 2012

Another month, another list of $5 albums from Amazon. Some really good ones. Here are my recommendations as well as a link to the rest.

• Sera Cahoone: Deer Creek Canyon
• Now, Now: Threads
• Grimes: Visions
• Broken Bells: Broken Bells
• Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
• Civil Twilight: Holy Weather
• Regina Spektor: Begin To Hope | A truly great album
• Bruce Springsteen: The Rising
• Mark Eitzel: Don't Be A Stranger
• M. Ward: A Wasteland Companion
• AC Newman: Shut Down The Streets
• The Pogues: If I Should Fall From Grace With God
• Linkin Park: Hybrid Theory
• The Strokes: Is This It
• Menomena: Moms
• Bob Dylan: Blood On The Tracks
• See all 100 $5 albums for December

Music Monday 8.27.12

STREAMING

• Animal Collective: Centepede Hz
• Cat Power: Sun
• Stars: The North
• Swans: The Seer (Pitchfork, Best New Album)
• Dan Deacon: America
• Deerhoof: Breakup Songs

CHEAP

• Luciano Pavarotti: 75th Birthday Limited Edition ($2.99 for 100 songs)
• $5 August Albums: including Ryan Adams, Whitesnake, Wilco, The Walkmen, Caribou, The Dead Weather, Pearl Jam, Green Day, & tons more
• Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here ($3.99)

BURNING UP MY iPOD

• Purity Ring: Shrines
• Passion Pit: Gossamer
• Baroness: Yellow & Green
• Wayfarer: The River (FREE)
• Tnght: Tnght

July 2012 $5 Albums

Some great $5 albums...

• Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
• The Black Keys: Brothers ($2.99 for now)
• The Dead Weather: Sea Of Cowards
• The Raconteurs: Broken Boy Soldiers
• Regina Spektor: Far
• Coldplay: Parachutes
• J.D. McPherson: Signs & Signifiers
• Damien Rice: O
• Passion Pit: Manners
• Japandroids: Post-Nothing
• Ladyhawke: Anxiety
• The Magnetic Fields: Love At The Bottom Of The Sea
• The Heavy: The House That Dirt Built
• Death Cab For Cutie: Plans
• Thelonious Monk: Genius Of Modern Music Vol 1
• John Coltrane: Blue Train
• The Beastie Boys: Solid Gold Hits
• Alice in Chains: Greatest Hits
• The Beach Boys: Greatest Hits Vol 1
• The Band: Greatest Hits
• Kenny Rogers: Number Ones | Don't be the coward of the county
• Prince: The Very Best of Prince | Party like it's 2012

$5 Albums | April 2012

• Delta Spirit: Delta Spirit
• Radiohead: OK Computer
• M83: Saturdays = Youth
• Justin Townes Earle: Harlem River Blues
• The Shins: Oh, Inverted World
• The War On Drugs: Slave Ambient
• The National: The National
• Best Coast: Crazy For You
• Perfume Genius: Put Your Back N 2 It
• Laura Marling: A Creature I Don't Know
• Laura Gibson: La Grande
• Bowerbirds: The Clearing
• Laura Veirs: Tumble Bee
• Amos Lee: Supply & Demand
  
• The Men: Open Your Heart | Pitchfork 8.5/10
• Spoon: Transference
• John Coltrane & Alice Coltrane: Cosmic Music
• Tony Bennett: Isn't It Romantic
• Boston: Boston | It's more than a feeling

Music Monday 3.5.12

STREAMING FREE

• Delta Spirit: Delta Spirit
• Julia Holter: Ekstasis (Pitchfork 8.6/10)
• Krzysztof Penderecki (Polish composer) & Johnny Greenwood (Radiohead)
• Andrew Bird: Break It Yourself
• Tanlines: Mixed Emotions
• The Magnetic Fields: Love at the Bottom of the Sea

$5 ALBUMS

• See All
• Recommend: Ra Ra Riot | Ryan Adams | Flogging Molly

$5 Albums for December 2011

Some great $5 albums at Amazon for December. At least a couple will end up on my best of 2011. Go check out some great music, especially my favorites below...

• Wye Oak: Civilian
• Youth Lagoon: The Year of Hibernation
• Radiohead: Kid A
• Jonsi: Go
• The Roots: How I Got Over
• Tune-Yards: W H O K I L L
• Iron & Wine: The Shepherd's Dog
• The Civil Wars: Barton Hollow
• Ha Ha Tonka: Death of a Decade
• John Hiatt: Dirty Jeans & Mudslide Hymns
• Crystal Castles: (II)
• Slave Ambient: The War On Drugs
• M. Ward: Post-War
• Neutral Milk Hotel: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
• Telekinesis: 12 Desperate Straight Lines
• Florence + The Machine: Lungs
• She & Him: Volume 2
• Modest Mouse: Good News For People Who Love Bad News
• Ray LaMontagne: Till the Sun Turns Black
• R.E.M.: Green
• Bruce Springsteen: Greatest Hits
• Check out all 100 $5 albums for December and tell me which albums I should check out that didn't make my list

$5 Albums for November 2011

Here are some great $5 albums for November.

• The Black Keys: Thickfreakness
• Givers: In Light
• Radiohead: The Bends
• Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited
• AA Bondy: Believers
• Smith Westerns: Dye It Blonde
• The Horrors: Skying
• Wild Flag: Wild Flag
• Coldplay: A Rush of Blood to the Head
• Wye Oak: The Knot
• Guster: Easy Wonderful
• Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes: Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes 
• Destroyer: Kaputt
• Everclear: Ten Years Gone The Best of Everclear '94-'04
• Lissie: Catching A Tiger
• The Gourds: Old Mad Joy
• John Coltrane: The Ultimate Blue Train
• Steve Earle: I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
• Gorillaz: Demon Days
• The Rosebuds: Loud Planes Fly Low
• She & Him: A Very She & Him Christmas
• Tron Legacy Soundtrack
• Aerosmith: Big Ones
• The Beastie Boys: Solid Gold Hits
• The Beach Boys: The Greatest Hits Vol 1
• Footloose Soundtrack (Original, not remake)
• Check out all 100 $5 albums for November

Music Monday | Cheap, New, Free | 10.24.2011

Go pick up the Bifrost Arts free sampler. Love their music!

STREAMING FREE

• Tom Waits: Bad As Me (or buy now for $5.99)
• Deer Tick: Divine Providence
• Russian Circles: Empros

DAYTROTTER FREE

• Vetiver
• Brett Dennen
• Givers

$5 ALBUMS

• PJ Harvey: Let England Shake
• Girls: Father, Son, & Holy Ghost
• Coldplay: Parachutes
• Ryan Adams: Heartbreaker
• The Swell Season: Strict Joy
• Many more

NOTEABLE RELEASE

A Very She & Him Christmas (out today, only $5)

$5 Albums for October

Another month, another 100 $5 albums from Amazon. My favorites & some greatest hits albums...

• PJ Harvey: Let England Shake - so good
• Girls: Father, Son, & Holy Ghost
• Coldplay: Parachutes
• Ryan Adams: Heartbreaker
• The Swell Season: Strict Joy
• Radiohead: OK Computer
• Tom Waits: Glitter & Doom Live
• Lucinda Williams: Blessed
• Elbow: Build a Rocket Boys!
• The Bird & The Bee: The Bird & The Bee
• James Vincent McMorrow: Early in the Morning
  
• Ryan Bingham: Mescalito
• M.Ward: Hold Time
• Neutral Milk Hotel: In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
• The Postal Service: Give Up
• The Walkmen: Lisbon
• She & Him: Volume One
• Gorillaz: Demon Days
• See all 100 $5 albums for October

GREATEST HITS

• The Beatie Boys
• Steve Miller Band
• Rush
• Sheryl Crow
• The Temptations
• Merle Haggard
• The Beach Boys
• Huey Lewis & The News
• Heart
• Styx

Wilco | "Born Alone"

Enjoy the video for Wilco's new song, "Born Alone." Their new album, The Whole Love, comes out September 27th. All their past albums are $5.

$5 Albums for September 2011

Good, cheap music for September. Here are my favorite $5 albums from Amazon. Let me know what you like on my list, or something I missed!

• Mumford & Sons: Sigh No More
• Ray LaMontagne: Trouble
• Tegan & Sara: The Con
• Once Soundtrack
• Wilco: Wilco (The Album)
• The Pains of Being Pure At Heart: Belong
• Regina Spektor: Begin to Hope
• Cut Copy: In Ghost Colours
• The Horrors: Primary Colours
• Surfer Blood: Astro Coast
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs: It's Blitz!
• The Decemberists: The King Is Dead
• Amos Lee: Mission Bell
• Feist: Let It Die
• Blind Pilot: 3 Rounds & A Sound
• Explosions in the Sky: Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
• Flogging Molly: Speed of Darkness 
• Local Natives: Gorilla Manor
• Liam Finn: Fomo
• Crystal Antlers: Two-Way Mirror
• Coldplay: Viva La Vita
• Tron Legacy
• TV On The Radio: Dear Science
• Josh Rouse: El Tourista
• Jay-Z: American Gangsta
• Guns & Roses: Use Your Illusion I
• John Mayer: Heavier Things
• All $5 albums for September

Music Monday 8.29.11

Check out some music this week. 

On My Radar

The War on Drugs: Slave Ambient | getting great reviews

Cheap & Noteworthy

• Beirut: Gulag Orkestar | $5.49 - debut album, so good
• Washed Out: Within & Without | $5 - like it a lot
• Mat Kearney: Young Love | $4.99
• Eleanor Friedberger: Last Summer | $5.99

$5 Albums for August - Ends Wednesday!

• Wye Oak: Civilian
• Brandi Carlile: Live at Benaroya Hall
• Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
• Deerhunter: Halcyon Digest
• Many more!

Streaming FREE

• Blind Pilot: We Are The Tide | listening today and really dig it
• Beirut: The Rip Tide (buy it tomorrow!) | fantastic

$5 Indie Albums

I don't know why some of these are $5 or how long the price will stay, but here are a bunch of great indie albums for $5 I just found. If you want more info on an album, or are looking for a sound similar to something you like, comment and I'll whittle down a few suggestions for you. There are so many good ones!

• Sufjan Stevens: The Age of Adz
• Beirut: Gulag Orkestar
• Okkervil River: I Am Very Far
• Arcade Fire: The Suburbs
• Fleet Foxes: Helplessness Blues
• Delta Spirit: Ode to Sunshine | History From Below
• Middle Brother: Middle Brother
• Deer Tick: The Black Dirt Sessions
• The Tallest Man On Earth: The Wild Hunt
• Dawes: North Hills
• Cut Copy: Zonoscope
• The Civil Wars: Barton Hollow
• Explosions in the Sky: Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
• Dirty Three: Cinder | Whatever You Love, You Are | She Has No Strings Apollo
• Nathaniel Rateliff: In Memory of Loss
• Broken Bells: Broken Bells
• Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes: Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes 
• Wye Oak: Civilian
• Sarah Jaffe: Suburban Nature
• Black Dub: Black Dub
• Antony & The Johnsons: I Am A Bird Now
• Sleigh Bells: Treats
• The Decemberists: Her Majesty The Decemberists | Castaways & Cutouts | Picaresque | The Tain
• She & Him: Volume 2
• Smith Westerns: Dye It Blonde
• Deerhunter: Halcyon Digest
• Panda Bear: Person Pitch | Tomboy
• The Head & The Heart: The Head & The Heart 
• Yuck: Yuck
• Pinback: Autumn of the Seraphs
• Band of Horses: Infinite Arms
• Calexico: Garden Ruin | Feast of Wire | Hot Rail | Carried To Dust
• Bad Books: Bad Books
• Givers: In Light
• Devotchka: 100 Lovers
• The Clientele: Bonfires On the Heath
• Teenage Fanclub: Shadows
• Modest Mouse: Good News for People Who Like Bad News
• Lost in the Trees: All Alone in an Empty House
• M. Ward: Hold Time
• Kurt Vile: Smoke Ring For My Halo
• Dirty Projectors: Rise Above
• Mountain Man: Made the Harbor
• The Extra Lens: Undercard
• Alexander: Alexander
• Horse Feathers: Thistled Spring | House With No Home
• Bright Eyes: Lifted
• Destroyer: Kaputt | Thief | City of Daughters | Streethawk: A Seduction
• The Hold Steady: Boys & Girls In America
• Denison Witmer: The Ones Who Wait
• Phosphorescent: Here's To Taking It Easy
• Tune-Yards: W H O K I L L
• Manchester Orchestra: Simple Math
• Best Coast: Crazy For You
• Elliott Smith: Elliott Smith | Either/Or | New Moon (24 songs) | From a Basement On A Hill | An Introduction to Elliott Smith | Roman Candle
• My Morning Jacket: It Still Moves |  Z
• Telekinesis: 12 Desperate Straight Lines
• The Mountain Goats: All Eternals Deck
• Tennis: Cape Dory
• Mirah: Advisory Committee
• Two Door Cinema Club: Tourist History
• Twin Shadow: Forget
• Yeasayer: Odd Blood
• Garden State Soundtrack
• Drive-By Truckers: Go-Go Boots | The Big To-Do
• Freelance Whales: Weathervanes
• Browse many more $5 albums

$5 Albums for April

Another month, another great list.

• Sigur Ros: Takk...
• Arcade Fire: The Suburbs
• Lucinda Williams: Little Honey
• Explosions in the Sky: All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
• Yuck: Yuck
• PJ Harvery: Let England Shake
• Old Crow Medicine Show: O.C.M.S.
• Destroyer: Kaputt
• Interpol: Interpol
• The Radio Dept.: Clinging to a Scheme
• Justin Townes Earle: Harlem River Blues
• John Coltrane: A Love Supreme
• The Mountain Goats: All Eternals Deck
• Thelonius Monk: Genius of Modern Music: Vol 1
• Jay-Z: The Black Album
• Telekinesis: 12 Desperate Straight Lines
• Gorillaz: Demon Days
• Radiohead: The Best Of
• Esperanza Spalding: Esperanza
• Augustana: Can't Love, Can't Hurt
• Apex Manor: The Year Of Magical Drinking
• Queen: A Night at the Opera
• British Sea Power: Valhalla Dancehali
• John Vanderslice: White Wilderness
• Phoenix: United
• Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese Dream
• The Very Very Best of Crowded House

Music Monday: Cheap | New | Free 3.28.11

It's Music Monday and you need some good new music at a good price. Here you go!

CHEAP (Note: I found some of April's $5 albums early. Pick'em up!)

• Bibio: Mind Bokeh ($3.99 today only!)
• Live: Throwing Copper ($3.99)
• PJ Harvery: Let England Shake ($5)
• John Coltrane: A Love Supreme ($5)
• Thelonius Monk: Genius of Modern Music: Vol 1 ($5)
• Yuck: Yuck ($5)
• Sigur Ros: Takk... ($5)
• Arcade Fire: The Suburbs ($5)
• Explosions in the Sky: All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone ($5)
• Justin Townes Earle: Harlem River Blues ($5)
• Old Crow Medicine Show: O.C.M.S. ($5)
• Titus Andronicus: The Monitor ($5)
• Destroyer: Kaputt ($5)
• Phantogram: Eyelid Movies ($5.99)
• Tons of super-cheap classical music ($1.99-$2.49 each)

$5 ALBUMS | MARCH (Hurry, ends Thursday!)

• My Fav March $5 Albums | pick from these & many more...
• The Civil Wars: Barton Hollow
  
• Vampire Weekend: Contra

NEW & STREAMING FREE

    Good New Music (out now)...

• Typhoon: A New Kind Of House EP | SO GOOD!
• The Joy Formidable: The Big Roar | Highly recommended
  
• The Poison Tree: The Poison Tree | I really love this album

    Coming Soon (all coming out tomorrow, March 29th)

• Seven Swans Reimagined | a reworking of Sufjan Stevens' album by Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Derek Webb, DM Stith, David Crowder and others
• Heidi Spencer and the Rare Birds: Under Streetlight Glow (stream) | A discovery today. Like it a lot so far.
• True Widow: As High As The Highest Heavens | (buy) Dark, heavy, fuzzy. Play it loud if you need to slowly strip the paint off your walls. ..::stonegaze::..
  
• The Mountain Goats: All Eternals Deck | releases tomorrow as $5 album

FREE MUSIC - DAYTROTTER

• Two Door Cinema Club

Music Monday: Cheap | New | Free 3.21.11

It's Music Monday and you need some good new music at a good price. Here you go!

CHEAP

• Tons of super-cheap classical music ($1.99-$2.49 each)
• Amos Lee: Amos Lee ($3.99, today only!) | Wife+wine+AmosLee
• Titus Andronicus: The Monitor ($5) | crank it!
• Destroyer: Kaputt ($5.99)
• Phantogram: Eyelid Movies ($5.99)
• The Social Network Soundtrack ($5.99) | Oscar winner

$5 ALBUMS | MARCH

• My Fav March $5 Albums | pick from these & many more...
• The Civil Wars: Barton Hollow
  
• Vampire Weekend: Contra
• The Rolling Stones: Let It Bleed 
• Guns N' Roses: Use Your Illusion II
• Conor Oberst: Conor Oberst 

NEW & STREAMING FREE

    Good New Music (out now)...

• Typhoon: A New Kind Of House EP | SO GOOD!
• The Joy Formidable: The Big Roar | Highly recommended
  
• The Poison Tree: The Poison Tree | I really love this album
  
• The Dodos: No Color | $5.99!
  

    Coming Soon (all coming out March 29th)

• True Widow: As High As The Highest Heavens | (buy) Dark, heavy, fuzzy. Love it so far. Play it loud if you need to slowly strip the paint off your walls. ..::stonegaze::..
  
• The Mountain Goats: All Eternals Deck | Always worth hearing.
• Peter Bjorn and John: Gimme Some | Like their fun debut. Haven't heard this one yet.

FREE MUSIC - DAYTROTTER

• Jaill

Music Monday: Cheap | New | Free 3.14.11

It's Music Monday and you need some good new music at a good price. Here you go!

CHEAP

• The National: High Violet ($3.99) | ends any minute!
• Matt Wertz: Weights & Wings ($3.99) | daily deal 
• Titus Andronicus: The Monitor ($5) | crank it!
• Rolling Stones: Exile on Main Street ($5.99) | awesome
• Teddy Thompson: Bella ($5.99) | Metacritic 79/100
• Destroyer: Kaputt ($5.99)
• The Social Network Soundtrack ($5.99) | Oscar winner

$5 ALBUMS | MARCH

• My Fav March $5 Albums | some of the best...
• Elliott Smith: XO
• The Roots: Things Fall Apart
• Inception Soundtrack
• Caribou: Swim
• The New Pornographers: Together
  

NEW & STREAMING FREE

    New releases for Tuesday...

• The Joy Formidable: The Big Roar (Streaming)
• The Poison Tree: The Poison Tree (Streaming)
• The Dodos: No Color (Streaming)

    Recently released...

• A Hawk & A Hacksaw: Cervantine | Missed this! Pitchfork 7.8/10
• Middle Brother: Middle Brother | Personal favorite
• Wye Oak: Civilian
• Kurt Vile: Smoke Ring for My Halo
• Devotchka: 100 Lovers | Great
• Lykki Li: Wounded Rhymes | Pitchfork 8.3/10

    Coming Soon...

• The Mountain Goats: All Eternal Deck | Coming March 29th

FREE MUSIC - DAYTROTTER

• Villagers
• The Deep Dark Woods

Music Monday: Cheap | New | Free 3.7.11

CHEAP

• Titus Andronicus: The Monitor ($5) - crank it!
• R.E.M.: Eponymous ($3.99) - some great songs here
• Rolling Stones: Exile on Main Street ($5.99) - awesome
• Teddy Thompson: Bella ($5.99) | Metacritic 79/100
• Mumford & Sons: Sigh No More ($5.99)
• Destroyer: Kaputt ($5.99)
• The Social Network Soundtrack ($5.99) | Oscar winner

$5 ALBUMS | MARCH

• My Fav March $5 Albums, some of the best...
• The Civil Wars: Barton Hollow
• LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver
• Vampire Weekend: Contra
• Dropkick Murphys: Going Out In Style
• Eisley: The Valley

NEW & STREAMING FREE

• Middle Brother: Middle Brother | Out now, HIGHLY recommended
• Devotchka: 100 Lovers | Way better than I expected
• Lykki Li: Wounded Rhymes | Pitchfork 8.3/10
• Wye Oak: Civilian (Streaming | Out March 8th)
• Kurt Vile: Smoke Ring for My Halo (Streaming | Out March 8th)
• The Dodos: No Color (Streaming | Out March 15th)

FREE MUSIC - DAYTROTTER

• The Low Anthem
• Frontier Ruckus
• The Deep Dark Woods