Big Ears Festival • Knoxville, TN (March 26-28, 2010) The Bryce Dessner curated Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN has announced its initial lineup and it's looking pretty impressive so far. The groundbreaking Big Ears Festival, slated for the weekend of March 26-28, 2010 in Knoxville, Tennessee, is excited to unveil the initial line up for this year’s event. Building on the visionary programming of last year’s inaugural festival, the 2010 Big Ears expands with a remarkable line up of [...]
Okay, so for some of you young 'uns who will forever think of Chris Broderick as Megadeth's guitarist, you should know that before Broderick there were some other dudes in the band, and before them there was this guy Marty Friedman, and before him there were, again, some other dudes. But this is a story about [...]
Last week, Andrew WK seemed to admit that the Andrew WK we have come to know over the last nine year is more a marketing persona than an actual person. “Andrew WK was created, and this is a bit of a confession, by a large group of people, almost a conference of people, and we talked about how we could come up with something that would move people, that was done in the spirit of commerce, that was done in the spirit of entertainment… I am the next person who is playing Andrew WK," the current [...]
Look at that face to the left. That bloody visage is the man who has been telling us for years to party hard and party til you puke. That man is Andrew W.K...or is it? Over the past few days, Andrew has been tweeting up a storm about a conspiracy as to how he's a real boy but he works with a lot of people to create Andrew W.K. but he's still a real artist. Frankly, us RiO!B staffers were a bit perplexed as to exactly what the fuck he was talking [...]
Truth be told, I don’t know what the eff is going on with Andrew W.K. of late: he “confessed” to having an “Avatar” (muahaha, Google trends ), posted mad amounts of non-denials , and now he’s ready to “do his best to answer everything” in NYC for only 5 bucks a head. What?! Andrew W.K., née Andrew Fetterly Wilkes-Krier, faces allegations that a whole ‘nother long-haired bro named Steev Mike was the man, née kid, behind performances, likenesses, and alleged hard parties that Wilkes-Krier claims to be responsible [...]
That Andrew WK was a confection, surely, isn't that surprising? In perhaps the first interesting appearance he's made , the current WK admits that his character was designed by committee and has been played by more than one actor: I’m not the guy you’ve seen from the I Get Wet album… I’m not that same person. I don’t just mean that in a philosophical or conceptual way. It’s not the same person at all.” You might wonder at a committee which would have created such a two dimensional and annoying character, and it's hard to [...]
"Andrew WK was created, and this is a bit of a confession, by a large group of people, almost a conference of people, and we talked about how we could come up with something that would move people, that was done in the spirit of commerce, that was done in the spirit of entertainment... I am the next person who is playing Andrew WK." — The current Andrew WK finally confirming years of rumors that Andrew WK is not an actual person but rather a corporate creation (via TDS ). Watch [...]
A countdown of the top records of the decade.
50. Love Is All - "Make Out, Fall Out, Make Up" ; Sweden had itself a big time decade, mostly thanks to the pop tunes coming out of the country, and Love Is All definitely falls into that category. Of course their tunes also featured a bit more of a rocking style than some of their local brethren, like this funky, catchy tune. 49. Andrew W.K. - "Party Hard" ; If you went to a party in the early half of the decade you were probably treated to [...]
in the spirit of the season, a holiday-inspired charity track that you should purchase if you enjoy it. this should really be called " fucked up featuring everyone ever - do they know its christmas", and by everyone ever, i mean tegan and sara, GZA, kyp malone (of tv on the radio), andrew w.k., ezra koenig (of vampire weekend), yo la tengo, bob mould, kevin drew and even david cross. and they are singing the famous band-aid track from so many moons ago, and all for good causes: justice for missing and murdered indigenous women, DTES power [...]
We continue our little end of the decade series called clichely & probably often incorrectly "Waxing The Aughts (Poetically)"... ...where members of our community think back to some of their favourite albums from this past decade and say as many (or few) words about it as they like. This time, walzac remembers I Get Wet by Andrew WK... Take it away walzac! [...]
Viva-Radio's Me+You has done it again, in more ways than one. They've brought back Andrew W.K. for a second Me+You session, and they've created something absolutely worth hearing: an Andrew W.K. Christmas Holiday Special. This is one session you definitely do not want to miss. States the Viva-Blog about Andrew W.K. stopping by for the holidays: Coming off like a cross between Newman and Nilsson (a little more the former), A.W.K. weaves conversation and composition pretty seamlessly and quite humorously. Tedward [...]
This man has the best outlook on life .. Posted in Music, Random, Television Tagged: Andrew W.K.
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News Despite the snowfall and the cold hard fact that it's wintertime, the folks at Warped Tour just gave us a good reason to be thinking about those dog days of summer again: on Friday, they unveiled the initial details for Vans Warped Tour 2010. And while the Warped Tour traditionally packs a punch, the 2010 edition already looks particularly loaded. More than 60 acts were included in the initial announcement, highlighted by Andrew W.K ., Sum 41, Dillinger Escape Plan , [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , Television Andrew W.K. isn't exactly Mr. Smooth. Still, the hard rocker cites convivial ' The Price Is Right ' emcee Bob Barker as inspiration for constructing his new role as host of the Cartoon Network' show, ' Destroy Build Destroy .' "I watched 'The Price is Right' as a kid and I was always fascinated by what he did," W.K. tells Spinner. "Though the show didn't change too much, he was always able to make it interesting for me." [...]
Andrew WK shows his softer side...and we like it.
Now that I've passed off my Best of 2009 list to Axl and Vince, I can now thankfully move on to thinking about what's to come in 2010. After many agonizing years of legal wrangling, Close Calls With Brick Walls, Andrew W.K.'s follow up to The Wolf, will at last see a proper stateside [...]
Now that I've passed off my Best of 2009 list to Axl and Vince, I can now thankfully move on to thinking about what's to come in 2010. After many agonizing years of legal wrangling, Close Calls With Brick Walls, Andrew W.K.'s follow up to The Wolf, will at last see a proper stateside [...]
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