Amazon Free MP3

Right now on Amazon.com you can get a FREE MP3 of Anna Sun by Walk The Moon. I suggest you don't walk, but run to get it. I saw these guys in concert back in November when they played the House of Blues in Boston. They opened for Fitz & The Tantrums and stole the show. It wont be long before Walk The Moon steal the music scene. GET IT before it's too late!

Free iTunes single of the week

Type: Free Song
Band/Artist: Greg Bates
Song Title: Did it for the girl
Genre: Country
Rating: 2-Stars

This song is pretty much like every other country song you have heard before. It uses cliche' lyrics and there is nothing that original. With that being said, if you live country music, you will love this song. Not a download for me, but a must have for any country fan.

New Band Member

I should have wrote about this a little while ago but I kept forgetting to. The band has finally got itself a bassist/keyboardist. Many of you probably know him, Joe Lindsey. We have had a couple of practices with him and it went really well. He like our sound and songs and we like him and his ability, so he decided to join. This is great news because the band is complete now so we just have to work on writing some more songs and getting them down and then we are going to try to play a show, hopefully. In other news we are still in the market for a band name. No one really liked the name "The Alliance" so we decided to drop it, names we have been kicking around are "Hypothetical High 5" (or HH5) and Wild Josh and the Straight Flames (Joe's personal favorite). Let me know what you think or if you can think of something post a comment with your ideas.


Peace
Joshua M Hemond

The Results for Favorite Album

I first want to thank everyone who responded, not everyone got back to me but, I am grateful for those who did. I'm not sure the best way to do this, being it my first time but, I thought I would just point out some interesting facts about the results instead of just making a list of who voted for what.

Only one album was voted on twice, the rest were all single votes. The interesting thing about the Album that got voted on twice was that it was voted on by members of the same family. Both my sister and I voted for Weezer's Blue Album, I know it not a big secret that the Hemond family is big Weezer fans, but I thought it was cool that my blasting that Album from my room for months straight actually got my sister to like it :)

Out of all the votes only one person picked something from the R&B genre and that would be Rabecca with her pick for Brian McKnight's Back at One.

Another only one vote getter was the Genre of Rap, this really shocked me with such rap fans voting such and Joe, Jess, Matty P but, the vote was actually from Mark Page with his pick for Dr. Dre's Chronic.

We had some votes for classic music with Corie voting for Simon and Garfunkle's the best of Album and Matt Nolte voting for Pink Floyd's The Wall.

We had a few no big surprises with well Mine and my sisters pick of Weezer's the Blue Album, Ryan's pick of Radiohead's In Rainbows, Aaron Dallman's pick of Stevie Ray Vaughn's Couldn't Stand the Weather and Eric Stelmach's pick of Coheed and Cambria's In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth.

We had one, ONLY one vote for something instrumental with Jason Caron's vote for Kingdom Melodies, although I have been in his car before and have heard gangsta rap blaring, not song number 202 so I have a feeling his vote was a little off but, who am I to judge.

At this point I have almost gave you everyone's vote so I might as well just give you the rest.

We saw some peoples softer sides with Justin's Pick of Postal Service's Give Up.

We got a taste of the violin with Kevin Zeal's pick of Dave Matthews Band Crash.

We got the weird hair side with Jo Jo's pick of The Cure's Wish.

We found out Matty P loves bald guys named Billy with his pick Smashing Pumpkin's Siamese Dream (by the way I hate bald guys named Billy, my jerk boss fits the same description)

We learned that Jess Barbs wishes she was Gwyneth Paltrow with her pick of Coldplay's Rush of Blood to the Head.

We now know for sure that these three are EMO with Jackie's pick of Panic at the Disco's self titled Album, Kyle Peter's Pick of Rise Against Appeal to Reason and Zach Bishop's pick of Taking Back Sunday's Where you want to Be.

Only 2 more

Well we all knew it but no one wanted to say it, Jenn Page is a Punk with her pick of Blink 182's Dude Ranch.

and last but, not least, well actually least because I don't know this band, Jared Dallman's pick of Jurassic 5's Power in Numbers.

Well I want to thank everyone again for voting, around 9am Friday you will hear from me again with another "Question of the Week" I hope you all had as much fun as I did and I hope you all have yourselves a great weekend.

Peace
Joshua M Hemond

Band Practice

Well tonight "The Alliance" is having another band practice, YAY! We will probably work on the songs we have and work on some new stuff. I got a text from our Rhythm guitarist this week saying he wrote some music and we just meed to lay down some lyrics, so I'm really looking forward to it. As of right now we have 5 originals "End of time", "Sugar Shack, "I don't know", "Hot Dogs" and "Hoe fo sho". The bands personal favorites are "End of time", "Sugar Shack" and "Hoe fo sho". Hopefully tonight we will add a few more. We are hoping to fit in a trip to Daddies to pick up some more equipment, but we will see how that goes. Well I should be going.

Peace
Joshua M Hemond