The band, not the personality test.
In honor of Flag Day (really, today is Flag Day), we’ve got a brand new song called The American Way.
We started this one in SF with Chris Brague on drums, and finished it in LA over Memorial Day weekend with some vocal help from Gretchen Giselle, plus Leo, Lucy and Corrina.
If you would like a [...]
Posted in Music on May 21st, 2010
One rule about album-making I’ve learned over the years is that the song you most want on a record is often the one you should probably cut.
So when we were trying to figure out which of the two dozen songs we’d recorded for Topless at the Arco Arena should go on the record and which [...]
Posted in Music on May 3rd, 2010
Work on Super, the next Wonderlick album, continues. We had our old friend Michael James try his hand mixing “One of the Good Guys,” since it’s got a trillion different parts and we’re not sure which ones should be loudest (or which ones should be completely muted).
Here’s his take. It’s a bit tougher than the [...]
Posted in Music on Apr 5th, 2010
Download All Boys Want Free
Time for another free download. This one’s “All Boys Want.”
The title’s self-explanatory, except that it’s not, really. It’s not the only thing boys want, even though all boys do want it. But we are deeper than that.
Sometimes, anyway.
Or so the song insists.
Posted in Music on Mar 23rd, 2010
Download Devil Horns Free
Since I spent last week in Austin for the mega-fest that is SXSW, it seemed appropriate to make “Devil Horns” this week’s free download, as it’s all about the transcendent, demonic power of live rock and roll.
This was one of the first songs written for Topless at the Arco Arena, while Jay [...]
Posted in Music on Mar 15th, 2010
This week’s free download is the first song Wonderlick ever recorded (and also, we think, the first mp3 we ever gave away, way back in 2001, on the late, lamented sayhername.com). It’s called “I Disappear.”
Download “I Disappear” Free
It’s a pretty song, but a sad one, and remains one of my favorite Lick tunes. Though the [...]
Posted in Music on Mar 8th, 2010
The free download craziness continues. We said one a week, which means we’ll have to write and record and release some new ones before the year is up. But this week we’re giving away a song from our debut: “I Wanna Love You.”
Free Download!
While the song was written as a confession (the singer wants to [...]
Posted in Music on Mar 1st, 2010
We let Alex Poehlman, the winner of our Lick Everybody contest, select this week’s free download (which we’ll be giving away on Mondays for the rest of the year). He chose “Fear of Chicago,” a tune from the last album that’s about how we almost ran over George Wendt, the dude who played Norm on [...]
Our Lick Everybody campaign is now in its eighth week. And to encourage folks to share these free downloads with as many people as they’d like, the download now gets delivered to you after you share the song on Facebook.
This week’s tune is “Never Let You Go,” from Wonderlick’s self-titled debut. Dig Tim’s high vocal, [...]
This week’s free download is “Everybody Loves Jenny (Except Jenny)” from our second LP, Topless at the Arco Arena.
It’s about the heroine of Topless, an office worker who yanks off her shirt at an AC/DC concert. It also represents Wonderlick in its “Let’s write a super catchy three minute pop song” mode. When we get [...]
