$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

Patrick Kane | Sick Shootout Goal

One of the best shootout goals I've seen. And at the end, one of the easiest. When you are as fast, creative, and as dangerous as Patrick Kane, this is how you can end a game. Awesome.

Some Lists | Best Albums of 2011

Some year-end lists of the best albums of 2011 are coming out. Some are right up my alley and some challenge, uh, my alley. Best of lists aren't only good to compare your own favorites, but to discover albums you may not have found otherwise. I'm already listening to a couple of albums I would have ignored if not for showing up on a respected list. Check some of these out (several compiled by the excellent Stereogum).

• Paste | Top 50
• Uncut | Top 50
• Mojo | Top 50
• Q | Top 50
• Stereogum | Top 50
• Filter | Top 10
• Chicago Tribune | Greg Kot Top 20
• Metacritic | 2011 Music Critic Top 10 Lists - a collection of all top lists, and using those rankings to give weight to overall best of 2011 list