Punch Brothers Cover Radiohead

This is awesome. Just love it. Punch Brothers cover "Airbag" from Radiohead. Love the song and this performance of it.

$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

Seed Your Cloud | Amazon MP3 Sale

To encourage you to pick up your 5GB of free cloud space and up to 20GB for a year (20GB if you buy an mp3 album), Amazon has dropped way low the prices on some great music in their Seed Your Cloud promotion. Here are the ones worth picking up...

• Middle Brother: Middle Brother ($1.99)
• Radiohead: Kid A ($2.99)
• Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool ($2.99)
• Coldplay: A Rush of Blood to the Head ($2.99)
• Cold War Kids: Robbers & Cowards ($3.99)
• Alison Krauss & Union Station: Lonely Runs Both Ways ($3.99)
• Elton John: Rocket Man - Number Ones ($3.99)
• The Beastie Boys: Solid Gold Hits ($2.99)
• Whitesnake: The Definitive Collection ($3.99) 
• Norah Jones: ...Featuring ($2.99)

Music Monday: Cheap | New | Soon 2.21.11

CHEAP

• Iron & Wine: Our Endless Numbered Days ($3.99)
• Blonde Redhead: Penny Sparkle ($3.99)
• Caribou: Swim Remixes ($3.99)
• Mumford & Sons: Sigh No More ($5.99)
• Green Day: Dookie ($3.99)
• Destroyer: Kaputt ($5.99)

$5 ALBUMS

• All my favorite $5 albums for February
• Arcade Fire: The Suburbs
• Once Soundtrack
  
• John Legend & The Roots: Wake Up!
• Ray LaMontagne & The Pariah Dogs: God Willin' & The Creek Don't Rise

NEW

• PJ Harvey: Let England Shake (WOW, this is good, streaming FREE)
• Bright Eyes: The People's Key (better than I expected)
• Drive-By Truckers: Go-Go Boots
• Radiohead: The King of Limbs (streaming also)

COMING SOON | STREAMING FREE

• The Low Anthem: Smart Flesh (MUST LISTEN, buy 2/22)
• DeVotchKa: 100 Lovers (buy 3/1)
• Papercuts: Fading Parade (buy 3/1)
• Eisley: The Valley (buy 3/1, listen to "Ambulance")
• Lucinda Williams: Blessed (buy 3/1)
• Check out all NPR streaming albums

Radiohead: Lotus Flower

Thom Yorke, uh, dances and sings "Lotus Flower." Dude, The King of Limbs is a great Radiohead album. Buy it | Stream it FREE.

Music Monday: New Radiohead Album

It is Valentine's Day and Radiohead loves you.

The King of Limbs is what Radiohead is calling their new album. Pre-order it and download it this Saturday.

Digital download: $9 for MP3 or $14 for WAV uncompressed. Another option is the $48/$53 world's first (perhaps) "Newspaper Album"...

Radiohead's new record, The King Of Limbs, is presented here as the world's first* Newspaper Album, comprising:

• Two clear 10" vinyl records in a purpose-built record sleeve.
• A compact disc.
• Many large sheets of artwork, 625 tiny pieces of artwork and a full-colour piece of oxo-degradeable plastic to hold it all together.
• The Newspaper Album comes with a digital download that is compatible with all good digital media players.
• The Newspaper Album will be shipped on Monday 9th May 2011 you can, however, enjoy the download on Saturday 19th February 2011.
• Shipping is included in the prices shown.
• One lucky owner of the digital version of The King Of Limbs, purchased from this website, will receive a signed 2 track 12" vinyl.

Music Monday 12.13.10

• HOT DEALS: 50 Greatest Pieces of Classical Music ($4.99) 
• $5 Albums for December: Check out my whole list of favs | Don't Miss 5: Mumford & Sons | Radiohead: Kid A | Good Old War | Smashing Pumpkins Greatest Hits | Mogwai: Special Moves
• Daytrotter: Ryan Bingham & The Dead Horses | Dawn Landes
• Albums of the Year Lists: Metacritic is now collecting significant "best of 2010" albums lists | Stereogum | The Quietus | Hear Ya top 5 EPs | Christ & Pop Culture 10 best | All Songs Considered: Bob Boilen : Robin Hilton | 5 best genre-defying albums | My Best Albums of 2010: Coming soon. My previous Best Albums lists from 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009
• New Music: Download FREE To Bury A Ghost: The Hurt Kingdom EP --> WHOA! | Red Mountain Music is a personal and family favorite, and All Things New sound great. | Listen to/Download new track by Other Lives, "For 12." Wonderful & haunting. (via)

If you haven't seen the Atomic Tom video where they play an entire song on the subway, you need to see it. Great fun!

Have you ever heard of Jim Sullivan? Me neither...

Sullivan released his debut album, U.F.O., in 1969 and played to devoted crowds at a regular gig in Malibu, Calif., in the early '70s. Despite hanging out with movie stars, fame eluded him. In 1975, he left Los Angeles, and his wife and son, to head to Nashville; he thought he could catch a break there. But Sullivan never made it to Tennessee — somewhere in the New Mexico desert, he disappeared, never to be seen again. Now,U.F.O. has been reissued...

Some dude saw the unknown album on eBay, picked it up and it's out there again. You can now get U.F.O. on Amazon. I've probably heard it four times now and really enjoy it.

The mysterious nature of his disappearance is amplified by Jim Sullivan's cryptic lyrics — on U.F.O., he talks about long highways, leaving his family behind and being abducted by aliens in the desert.

Fascinating. I enjoy the album without the story, but it adds to the mystery. Go check out the samples. I think you'll dig it. Listen to the All Things Considered segment. Here's more on the story...

Here's "Jerome"...