Music

$5 Albums for April

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Another month, another great list.

Beirut: "O Leãozinho"

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There are few bands that my ears want more than Beirut. Truly, in my opinion, one of the best bands in the world. Here's a new song from them that will be on the Red Hot + Rio 2 album releasing in June. Check out their amazing albums: Gulag Orkestar | Lon Gisland EP | The Flying Club Cup | March of the Zapotec & RealPeople: Holland | they also had a song on Dark Was The Night (Red Hot Compilation)

Seed Your Cloud | Amazon MP3 Sale

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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...

Music Monday: Cheap | New | Free 3.28.11

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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!)

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

NEW & STREAMING FREE

    Good New Music (out now)...

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

FREE MUSIC - DAYTROTTER

Millennium Park FREE Concerts

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I attended with Sarah (14) the free Besnard Lakes concert at Millennium Park in Chicago last summer. It was a fun trip in on the train and we loved the concert. The free concert list is up for this summer and it's a great one. From the Trib...

...10 free concerts at 6:30 p.m. Mondays from May 23 through July 25. The lineup will include the following performers:

May 23: Bonnie “Prince” Billy featuring the Cairo Gang and special guest

May 30: Justin Townes Earle, Andre Williams and the Goldstars

June 6: Iron and Wine and special guest

June 13: Headliner to be announced and Campbell Brothers

June 20: Kings Go Forth, Ben L’Oncle Soul

June 27: Low and special guest

July 4:  Seefeel and special guest

July 11: Delicate Steve and Bombino

July 18:  Blonde Redhead and special guest

July 25:  Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Rachel Ries

New Bon Iver Coming In June

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Rolling Stone...

In the three years since Bon Iver released its critically beloved 2007 debut For Emma, Forever Ago, frontman Justin Vernon earned thousands of new fans – including Kanye West, who invited the sensitive singer-songwriter to appear on six songs of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.

But when Vernon sat down to work on Bon Iver’s follow-up album, he discovered a problem. “Somewhere along the line, I forgot how to write songs,” he tells Rolling Stone. “I couldn’t do it anymore with a guitar. It wasn’t happening.”

So Vernon – who wrote For Emma while holed up by himself in rural Wisconsin – changed gears, working with studio musicians, trying to build sounds rather than songs. “I brought in a lot of people to change my voice — not my singing voice, but my role as the author of this band, this project,” says Vernon, who hired well-known players like sax man Colin Stetson, who plays with Tom Waits and Arcade Fire, and pedal-steel guitarist Greg Leisz, who recorded with Bill Frissell and Linda Rondstadt. “I built the record myself, but I allowed those people to come in and change the scene.” The album, which is still untitled, is scheduled to come out sometime in June.

If you don't have Bon Iver's two albums, For Emma, Forever Ago (only $6.99) & Blood Bank EP, it's time to catch up and get ready for June. Also check out his stuff with Volcano Choir and Gayngs (though neither compare to the greatness of Bon Iver. Now, when does Beirut's new album come out?

Music Monday: Cheap | New | Free 3.21.11

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

CHEAP

$5 ALBUMS | MARCH

NEW & STREAMING FREE

    Good New Music (out now)...

    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

SXSW | Jack White & Seasick Steve

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Jack White's bus from Third Man Records rolled into SXSW for a surprise parking lot performance (hear NPR's All Songs folks explain what happened). Jack played a Buddy Holly song, a White Stripes song, and then introduced new Third Man Records recording artist, Seasick Steve who stomped and played a song with a guitar with three strings (it's the blues, baby!). Some technical glitches in the last song, but I think you'll like this. The first video is the parking lot concert. The second is Seasick Steve on Jools Holland. Also, check out the album by Seasick Steve: Man From Another Time.

Music Monday | Middle Brother: "Blue Eyes"

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I can't say enough about my love for Middle Brother. Very much enjoying their self-titled debut album. This supergroup is formed from the lead singer of one of my favorite bands Delta Spirit, as well as the lead singers of Deer Tick & Dawes. Here's "Blue Eyes" featuring (Matthew Vasquez of Delta Spirit) and an interview (colorful language). Also highly recommend Delta Spirit: History From Below and Ode to Sunshine.

Friday -- Partying, Partying. YEAH!

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Is there any better way to start "get-en down on Friday" than with a viral song with the worst lyrics ever? I think not. "Yesterday was Thursday. Today it is Friday. We we we so excited. We so excited. We gonna have a ball today. Tomorrow is Saturday. And Sunday comes afterwards. I don't want this weekend to end!" If you really hate my Music Monday recommendations, this should be a perfect remedy!

Typhoon | Music Monday Discovery

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I am spinning over a Music Monday Discovery today. If someone told me about this band I didn't listen, I apologize. Typhoon is a Portland band (Facebook, Twitter) that just released a new EP, A New Kind of House. I found it because it's streaming FREE at Spinner. It's one of my favorite kinds of music, with surprising instruments and striking harmonies. And these guys know how to build up to a moment, to develop a sense of anticipation in the hearer. Had to go buy it. They also have a 2010 album, Hunger and Thirst.

Here's a video for the first song off A New Kind of House, "The Honest Truth." Creative, engaging, & thoughtful. I encourage you to follow along with the lyrics. They are interesting.