Music Monday 8.2.10

• Amazon has 1,000 $5 Albums for August | Here are My Favs 
• Newport Folk Festival: Great live music via NPR from Brandi Carlile (41 minutes in, Folsom Prison Blues) | Avett Brothers | Punch Brothers | Horse Feathers | Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes | Dawes | AA Bondy | The Low Anthem | MANY MORE
• To Review...

    Matt Stevens - acoustic/experimental/minimalist (MySpace)

    Matthew Smith - Pre-orders at http://matthewsmith.bandcamp.com. All pre-orders receive an immediate     full download of the record. The entire record is streaming for free there as well.

        Discount codes for Reformissionary readers (expires August 23rd)...

       steve = 25% off the Deluxe Edition CD + Download
steveLP = 10% off the Limited Edition Vinyl + Download

        Download versions of Matthew's two previous, excellent full-length albums (All I Owe & The Road         Sessions Collection) are on sale for $6.99, also at http://matthewsmith.bandcamp.com.

• Arcade Fire: The Suburbs is streaming. Download it Tuesday.
• 3rd album theory: If you geek out over music: Parts 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

Caribou's great album, Swim (only $5.99), includes "Sun." Here's the video. It's weird.