Your Link to Free Music: Moondoggies - What Took So Long

Artist: The Moondoggies 

Hails From: Seattle

Song: 'What Took So Long'

In His Words: "'What Took So Long' was written right before our first record was released, so it's the oldest song on the new album. The song is a combination of a chorus [keyboardist/vocalist] Caleb [Quick] wrote and parts that I wrote. In typical fashion we pieced it together from different song ideas, which is one way we like to work when we like a lot of song parts but have no structure. It's one of my favorite songs to play live because of the ups and downs. -- Vocalist/guitarist Kevin Murphy

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Your Link to Free NW Music: The Builders and the Butchers - Rotten to the Core

From Spinner.com...

 Artist: The Builders and the Butchers 

Hail From: Portland, Ore.

Song: 'Rotten to the Core'

Album: 'Dead Reckoning' [iTunes] [Amazon] 

In Their Words: "This song is about human nature, pure and simple. It's hard to be walking around with your eyes fully open these days. A lot of the images in this song have to do with mankind cultivating the earth, and the idea that you get out of something what you put into it." -- Singer Ryan Sollee

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Your Link to Free NW Music: Motopony - King of Diamonds

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Artist: Motopony 
Hail From: Seattle

Song: 'King of Diamonds'

In Their Words: "I wrote 'King of Diamonds' during a short time living with a working girl in the suburbs outside of Tacoma Wash. While I had every thing I could want or ask for and nothing but time to spend on my projects, I knew that I was in trouble of falling into the traps of comfort I had seen swallow the artistic nature of my parents. The song was a challenge to myself to think through what I was trading in order to call the world around me 'mine.' " 

-- Singer/guitarist Daniel Blue

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Your Link to Free Music: Menomena - Taos

Hello and welcome to edition two of our new series!

Technically, this link will get you a full album for free if you are registered with Amazon.com, which I hope that you are...  Or you can do song by song. As you wish...

But, the highlight on this South by Southwest sampler with the rather unfortunate title of "Don't Mess With Texas" (vomit) for me is a band from Portland, Oregon (un-vomit) called Menomena and their rockin' track "Taos."

I saw these guys live back in 2008 as a part of MusicFest Northwest accidentally at what was to be their last show before they broke up and I've been an appreciator ever since. Incidentally, they just got back together so the timing of this couldn't be more perfect.

Here's a little bio of the band I stole from someone else:


Portland, OR-based experimental rock group Menomena is a trio that consists of multi-instrumentalists Justin Harris, Brent Knopf, and Danny Seim. They assembled much of their debut album, I Am the Fun Blame Monster!, by using a computer program dubbed Deeler and developed by Knopf. 


Enjoy!

Your Link to Free Music: Bush - All My Life

So, as part of my fresh start in blogging, I am going to include more of a Features-y feel (to use newspaper lingo). My hope is to have consistent offerings. I have a few ideas to help myself make this happen and this here is one of those... 

Every day-ish, I will post a link to a song that is free on the Web and that I think is good.  In return, you can listen to them and post feedback or thoughts, etc.

To kick off this new feature I am pleased to unveil a brand new song by a band that I was in love with as a boy. (Side note: I wanted Gavin Rossdale's hair so bad when I was 12...)  

Bush, back before their name was tainted by a cowboy president, was a hip and hot, edgy rock band coming on strong in the 90s. Since then, they had a major fall from grace and a couple failed side projects.  

Well, if their new track "All My Life" is any indication, they've found some of that old edge they once oozed and, although it's toned down, it still works.

http://www.ea.com/news/bush-song-exclusively-on-ea

I hope you like it! I can't get enough of that guitar riff...

Bush has a new album coming out soon called "The Sea of Memories." 

Come again?

Well, the move from Spain back to the U.S. happened along with ten million other things that left Becca and I spinning - dizzy from the busy we'd so easily forgotten over in Europe.

So. Much. Happening.

I blogged about none of it. Nothing. And with no remorse, either. 

But the other day something funny happened.  I wanted to blog. It was as unfamiliar as a feeling could ever get, but there it was.  

I didn't have a blog I felt comfortable posting on though.  'A Place in the Sun' had run it's course and now we're long onto another chapter...  

One of us has adjusted swimmingly... This is Ernie's first day ever at a beach!

So, in the spirit of wanting a place to put my musings, I've redone the blog.  I hope it looks nice just as much as I hope I fill it with things useful or interesting enough to have some old readers come back again and possibly gain some new readers as well. 

Don't call it a comeback...

There might even be a Becca sighting on the blog I hear (despite her no-show on 'A Place in the Sun.')  

After all, the Great Northwest is famous for sightings of things that will, more likely than not, never materialize into something tangible...

Only kidding!