Music Monday 8.19.13

• Neko Case: The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight | Been enjoying this one today
• Volcano Choir: Repave | Justin Vernon and other human beings making music. From NPR First Listen, "If Vernon never releases another record under the name Bon Iver — and he's publicly suggested that that might be the case — more albums like Repave would render the issue largely irrelevant. It's that good."

• The Avett Brothers: Carolina Jubilee | One of their earliest albums. If you found them through their last 2-3 albums, I strongly encourage you to dig into their earlier stuff which I like a lot.
• Neko Case | Blacklisted & Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
• Buke & Gase: General Dome
• Woodkid: The Golden Age
• Kurt Vile: Wakin'on a Pretty Daze | One of my favorite albums this year.

• Chris Thile: Bach Sonatas & Partitas Volume 1
• Derek Webb: I Was Wrong, I'm Sorry & I Love You

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Music Deals 10.5.12

Derek Webb albums are $5: Ctrl | Feedback | The Ringing Bell | Stockholm Syndrome | Mockingbird | I See Things Upside Down | The House Show | She Must & Shall Go Free

Amazon has 50 classical albums for $1.99 each. 

Google Play is trying to get your attention with 48 albums for $2.99 each. Some goodies like Radiohead & U2. Also, various genres represented. 

$5 Albums | October 2012

Nice list of $5 albums for October. My recommended albums are below. Check out the list of all 100.

• Derek Webb: Ctrl
• Lost in the Trees: A Church That Fits Our Needs
• Lower Dens: Nootropics
• Other Lives: Tamer Animals
• Andrew Bird: Break It Yourself
• Elliott Smith: Either/Or
• My Morning Jacket: Circuital 
• Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
• The Head & The Heart: The Head & The Heart
• Destroyer: Kaputt
• Yeasayer: Fragrant World
• Band of Skulls: Sweet Sour
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs: It's Blitz!
• Sarah Jaffe: The Body Wins
• Old Crow Medicine Show: Carry Me Back
• Dirty Projectors: Swing Lo Magellan
• First Aid Kit: The Lion's Roar
• Fitz & The Tantrums: Pickin' Up The Pieces
• Bruce Springsteen: Born In The U.S.A.
• Paper Route: The Place of Wild Things
• Audioslave: Audioslave
• Fiona Apple: Tidal
• Spoon: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga 
• Kenny Rogers: Number Ones | don't be the coward of the county

Music Monday 6.11.12

STREAMING FREE

• Empires: Garage Hymns (out tomorrow)
• Wintersleep: Hello Hum (out tomorrow)
• Glen Hansard: Rhythm & Repose
• Metric: Synthetica (out tomorrow)
• The Inner Banks: Wild
• Fiona Apple: The Idler Wheel 
• Hot Chip: In Our Heads
• The Tallest Man On Earth: There's No Leaving Now

CHEAP

• Regina Spektor: What We Saw From The Cheap Seats ($5)
• Several, as cheap as $2.99
• $5 June albums
• SOLA-MI (Derek Webb, Josh Moore, Latifah Phillips) - FREE

BURNING UP MY iPOD

• Fort Atlantic: Fort Atlantic
• Vespers: The Fourth Wall - we can't stop listening!

Stream New Page CXVI - TODAY ONLY

Stream the new album from Page CXVI, Re-Hymns (reimagined by Derek Webb), today only for free.

Music Monday 11.8.10

It's a glorious Music Monday at Reformissionary. Let me throw some gems at you.

• Hot Deals: The 99 Most Essential Christmas Masterpieces ($1.99) | Florence + The Machine: Lungs ($3.99) | Teenage Fanclub: Bandwagonesque ($3.99) | The 99 Darkest Pieces of Classical Music ($1.99) | Band of Horses: Everything All The Time ($3.99)
• $5 Albums: Reformissionary Recommendations for November | Don't Miss 5: Brandi Carlile: The Story | Ra Ra Riot: The Orchard | Fang Island: Fang Island | Dark Night of the Soul | Arcade Fire: Funeral
• Streaming: Pickins is slim this week, but don't miss the excellent Bruce Springsteen: The Promise (The Lost Sessions: Darkness on the Edge of Town)
• Also: You really need to check out Her Name Is Calla. Download The Quiet Lamb. I know I've been mentioning it like every week, but you need it every week. You are welcome. And go download for free Kernal Garner's new song, "Homicide." Love it.

I highly recommend Derek Webb's new album, Feedback. It "an instrumental electronic album based on the Lord's Prayer." I think you'll like it. It's creative & beautiful.

A discovery from the last couple of months has been Dark Dark Dark. I first heard of them via Daytrotter's free download from last month (also grab September 2009 & March 2009 sessions). Their newest album, Wild Go, is great. I'll soon be downloading all their stuff because of songs I've found from previous albums (Bright Bright Bright | The Snow Magic) like "Wild Goose Chase." Enjoy...