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This Week’s Free Download

As promised, we’re giving away a different song each week, and giving prizes to whomever shares them with the most people. This week’s tune is “You First.”

It’s all part of our “Lick Everybody” campaign. More details on it here. The short version is that we would like you to spread the little player below around:

It’s easy: just click the word “Share” above to post it on Facebook or MySpace, or to email it or Twitter it. This month’s prize: Wonderlick will write you into one of the songs we’re recording for album number three, which is tentatively titled Super, and revolves around superheroes. You can even choose if you want to be a good guy or a bad guy.

Interesting tidbit about this week’s song: the first couple lines are 100% true. The first day I met my wife Donna, I good-naturedly gave her the finger. Equally endearing, though not in the song, the first time she said she loved me, she didn’t say it to me, but to a bum who’d wandered into the 500 Club, where we were playing pool. He asked her if I was her boyfriend as I was lining up a shot. She said yes. He asked if she loved me. She said yes.

I missed my shot.

We had a drunken argument about it on the way home. “I can’t believe you told a bum you loved me before you told me,” I said. She pointed out that I’d said it to her the night before, then promptly passed out, which I didn’t recall, but which sounds like me at the time.

Lick Everybody

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Free Download: “Donner Lake”

We’re going to try an experiment this year we’re calling Lick Everybody. Here’s how it’s gonna work:

  • Wonderlick will give away one free song every week in 2010
  • Fans will help us spread these songs far and wide, emailing them to friends, posting them on Facebook pages and personal blogs, tweeting and so on
  • There will be different prizes each month for whomever shares that month’s free songs with the most people
  • To get things started right, January’s prize will be a pretty big one: whoever does the most sharing from now through 1/31 will get immortalized in a Wonderlick song. And we don’t mean some cheesy acoustic toss-off that finds a couple quick rhymes for your name. No, you will appear as a character in the narrative of a song the band is writing and recording for our next record. We can’t promise the song will wind up on the final record, but that’s the plan.

Each week’s giveaway will be available as a free download for seven days. Sometimes they’ll be brand new tunes, other times they’ll be culled from the catalog. If you’re a fan, you may have most of these already, but that’s kind of the point of Lick Everybody: we need more people like you. And we figure you’re better positioned than any label to help us find them.

The first song of the first week of the campaign is the first song off our first record (which was also one of the first things we ever recorded as Wonderlick): Donner Lake. Since it’s about loving someone so much you’d gladly let them eat you, it feels like an appropriate way to begin to Lick Everybody.

Sharing is easy. Just click the word “Share” in the player above, and you can post it to your Facebook page, email it to friends, Twitter it, whatever. The widget will ask for your email address, and will track how many times (but not with whom) you share it. Whoever has the highest share count as of midnight on 2/1 wins.

Of course, you’re welcome to find other ways to share — if you do something with one of the weekly downloads that won’t be tracked via the widget, just send links/screenshots/explanations to admin@wonderlick.com, and we will figure out some non-arbitrary way to increase your count appropriately.

Go nuts.

The Third Album Begins

Wonderlick has begun its next LP, and, as is our custom, we will be posting free rough mixes of new tunes (and new mixes of existing ones) as they’re ready. Here are the first four songs we’ve finished. Well, finished isn’t the right word, but you know what we mean:

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Unlike the last two albums, we’re recording this one with an actual band. So, in addition to Jay and Tim, the first three songs above feature the following:

Johannes Luley recorded and mixed ’em, and also played some piano on “Little Sweet Things.” Jay and Tim did everything else. The band tracks were laid down at Studio SQ in San Francisco; additional fiddling (the metaphorical kind, not the amazing Jean Cook kind) happened at My Sonic Temple in L.A.

If you like what you hear and want to contribute to the recordings, donations are always gratefully accepted, though entirely optional. At this stage of the process, donations tend to get spent on better quality wine. “Easy” and “Cold Patch,” for instance, were fueled by two nice bottles of BV Dulcet.


Live Lick Download

Well, we couldn’t work out those live dates after all. But if the five-piece Wonderlick can’t come to your town, it can at least come to your computer. Four tunes the band recorded live are now available to download, for free.  Consider it an early Christmas present from Tim, or an early Chanukah present from Jay. Click the button below to get the work-in-progress “One of the Good Guys,” a cover of Guided by Voices’ “I Am a Scientist,” and two from Topless.

If you just want to hear the songs in their entirety, or share them with friends, here you go:

Summing It All Up

bad aimRight when I was feeling guilty for not updating the site for a while, and trying to think of something relevant to post, a fan named Jester Jay sends through a link to his blog, which contains this perfect encapsulation of Wonderlick’s aesthetic:

“I’m not sure how I ended up here, since it’s not what I was aiming for, but I wasn’t really aiming anyway.”


Music from Different Fur

Those tracks we recorded for Dennis the Menace’s radio show are now available via this little widget.

Take a listen to “One of the Good Guys,” “I Am a Scientist,” and live versions of 2 from Topless. We’re investigating ways to make them available for download, but for now, stream away.

Double Encore E.P.

Up till now, the Double Encore E.P. was just a bonus we stuck in the envelopes of supporters who were particularly generous during the pre-order campaign. But starting today we’re letting it stand on its own — you can hear the whole thing for free in its entirety right here, or on the Music page, and you can buy it, if you’re so inclined.

These 7 tracks were all recorded for Topless, but left off the final album for one reason or another. “Nobody Loves You Enough” is probably my personal favorite of the bunch, and provides a few more details about Jenny’s home life with her stoner boyfriend.

Updated Press Page

press-hatThe Press page has been updated with links to the last several weeks’ worth of features, interviews and Topless at the Arco Arena reviews (wheteher good or bad).

Also, a site called Coverville has a podcast featuring twelve different Clash covers. The first eleven are all songs from London Calling (by acts ranging from Social Distortion to the Honeydrippers), but they slipped in our take on “Janie Jones” as a bonus at the end.

Wonderlick on KUSF 8/2

slightly-rude That session/interview Wonderlick recorded a couple weeks ago will be broadcast on KUSF this coming Sunday, 8/2, at 4pm PST.

You can listen live here hear the archived show here.

Fans Dance

Figured folks might like to see some of the videos we’ve gotten of people dancing to “This Song is a Commercial.” Here’s Monica, with a self-described “interpretative dance entry”:

These kids were a little too young to enter the contest officially, but their dad still wanted to share. There’s some pretty cool stunt photography 50 seconds in. Also, for some reason, hats:

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