Austin, Texas Singer/Songwriter Matt McCloskey is offering a download of his album “These Times Won’t Last” FREE of charge to you. Just GO HERE and click the download button and enter your email. You will be emailed a link to where to the download page.

From his website…

This is my first solo record. I’m head over heels about it. Everything was recorded in Austin, TX at my house. Download it, burn it, put it on in your car or on your home stereo and turn it up loud.

You can preview the songs right on the landing page of the link above. I have to say that the first thing I thought of as the title track started playing was how much I miss living in Austin, Texas.

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I learned of this at Mashable.com’s Free Music Monday..check that out too!

Back in the late 80′s there was a flick called Trick or Treat that featured a cast of cameos by rockers of the time and a kick ass soundtrack by Fastway. Don’t get me wrong, the movie was cheezy as hell, although it didn’t seem like it at the time. My buddy Rich bought him and I the soundtrack on one trip to Musicland and I have to say, the whole thing rocked! I’m sure there were not many people looking to find out who was behind the voice of Sammi Cure…but I did.

I was listening to Hair Nation on Sirius Satellite Radio tonight and heard this song, bringing memories up again. this is the second time I have heard it on there so it’s not a fluke…someone else thought it was cool somewhere along the lines.

Check out the video and watch Skippy from Family Ties get bounced around.

Swinging by VH1′s website I stumbled over to VH1 Classic’s part of the domain to find full episode videos from their flash to the past, That Metal Show. Since I don’t have the station anymore I can see myself visiting often to catch up on the past episodes as well as those coming.

In the episode I watched tonight they talk a little bit about the Grunge bands that would have still been cool without the Grunge movement (I for the record have always thought that Soundgarden made a good hard rock band), have a sit down with Steve Vai (talks a bit about his time with David Lee Roth, Zappa, and Whitesnake), do a Q&A with the guys from Chickenfoot (like asking Satch if his son will someday play bass for the band), and more.

Here is part of the episode. to catch the other two parts GO HERE.