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

The Poison Tree | Music Discovery

I liked the cover. It was that simple. It intrigued me. So I chose to listen to a live stream of The Poison Tree's new, self-titled album last week. Then I listened again. Loved it. It was released yesterday and I had to pick it up. I want to encourage you to pick it up too. Or listen to it streaming FREE. The clips don't do it justice. Let me know what you think.

Louis Armstrong: The Complete Jazz Collection

Louis Armstrong: The Complete Jazz Collection is $5.99 for 85 songs.

The Joy Formidable: The Big Roar

The new album from The Joy Formidable: The Big Roar (out March 15th) is streaming FREE at NPR. I'm very impressed with my first listen and hope others will check it out. Their debut, A Balloon Called Moaning, has a couple of the same songs (they changed labels) and is only $5.99. 

The Quietus review says of The Big Roar, "The centrepiece of the album is the shattering wonder of 'Whirring' which is, quite possibly, one of my favourite singles of the last five years." Here's the official video for "Whirring"...

$5 Albums for June

As always, Amazon offers some great $5 albums this month. The ones I recommend you check out are below. Check out all 100 $5 albums for June.

• The Beach Boys: Endless Summer - beach, girls, surfing, cars
• Arcade Fire: Neon Bible - #5 on my 2007 albums
• Once Soundtrack - #8 on my 2007 albums
• Free Energy: Stuck On Nothing - fun summer album, true energy
• Caribou: Swim - excellent new album
• Radiohead: Amnesiac - out-stand-ing
• Toy Story Soundtrack - no need to comment, right?
• Gayngs: Relayted - members of Bon Iver, Megafaun
• Good Old War: Only Way To Be Alone - indie folk americana
• Beach House: Devotion - dreamy
• Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese Dream - need I say more?
• Damien Jurado: Saint Bartlett - brand new from an artist I loved live
• Coldplay: A Rush of Blood To The Head - one of my fav albums ever
• Blitzen Trapper: Furr - #14 on my 2008 albums
• Fever Ray: Fever Ray - dark, creepy & mesmerizing 
• Silversun Pickups: Swoon - fuzzy goodness
• Spoon: Girls Can Tell - hey, it's Spoon
• Trashcan Sinatras: In The Music - new to me, like it so far