New Damnwells Record…for free

Alex Dezen, lead singer of the band The Damnwells is also currently teaching rhetoric at the University of Iowa, talk about a guy who follows his passions. On Tuesday, February 10th, he will be giving away his new album for free at www.pastemagazine.com/thedamnwells.

Check out his blog posting about the free release…I couldn’t be more excited about the new album, it’s been almost 3 years since Air Stereo came out.

As of February 10, 2009, Paste Music will be offering the new Damnwells record, One Last Century, for free download from their website.  Go to www.pastemagazine.com/thedamnwells and download the record for free.

A few words regarding this free record.

I suppose the hardest thing to explain to people is why I’m giving this record away. “You’re just going to give it away?” seems antithetical to the human brain.  “Is this just a bunch of b-sides or something?  Some ‘give away’ material you don’t mind releasing into the ether?”  No.  Quite the contrary.  I have never worked so hard or put so much of myself into a collection of recorded songs.  It is for just this reason that I want to give it away.  To me it makes perfect sense.  I just want people to hear this music, and I don’t want them to have to enter into some kind of contractual agreement with a third party to do so.  Download the record, copy it and give it to your friends, lovers, and enemies.  Whatever.  It’s so hard these days just to get the actual music into people’s houses and cars, let alone their ears.  Besides, I know everyone’s broke, maybe I can supply the soundtrack.  So, I just want to give this music away because I want people to hear it.  I should have done this years ago.  I’m starting over.

Enjoy,

Alex Dezen

The new stuff is sounding great so far  www.myspace.com/thedamnwells