An A3 promotional poster for the already sold out I’m A Vagabond single has been released at Big Scary Monsters.
Click here to buy the A3 poster from BSM!
If your bedroom walls lacking a picture of a bloody man, we’ve got just the thing for it.
There’s been a lot of party vibes in the atmosphere this weekend. Perhaps it’s because today is my birthday. I didn’t want to make plans for the weekend, but plans have come and gone and somehow appeared again for later today. So now I sit here with a full plate of partying in front of me and I’ve got no choice but to chow down, partying hard all day before coming back for seconds. Could there be a better way to kick off a day of partying than sharing some rare Andrew W.K. tracks? I think not! So without further ado, please help yourselves to my party cake and click the links below!
First, I’d like to share the new Kiba single, imported directly from Japan. This release has three tracks by Marty Friedman, two of which feature Andrew W.K.! The first track is the single, sung in Japanese by Andrew. The second track, Battle Scars, does not feature Andrew W.K. (according to the id3 tags), but I wouldn’t be surprised if he played the keyboards on it. Either way, Battle Scars is a heavy instrumental sure to get some fists pumping and parties partying. The final track on the single is an instrumental version of Kiba, also featuring Andrew W.K. With no vocals here, Im left to assume AWK plays keys on the song, but it could be all Marty. But either way, this song has strong party vibes and a beat that AWK enthusiasts are sure to enjoy. Check out the stereo panning on holy smokes, nearly everything! Ok, not everything, but there’s a party going from left to right all over this single!
For a second helping, you can grab Welcome & Congratulations, Andrews contribution to The Journal of Popular Noise (Issue 13). The Journal is a very interesting magazine, if one could even call it that. Inspired by both the traditions of pop music and magazines, the Journal challenges artists to conform to a strict structure while creating their own contributions to the zine. Each issue contains three 7 records beautifully held in what the Journal accurately describes as a finely crafted artifact. With respect for finely crafted artifacts, uploading this was a difficult decision, but one that Im ultimately happy making. Without a functioning scanner, I sadly won’t be able to provide the graphs, charts, or pages of the magazine (but this does quell the guilt of making such an amazing artifact available). However, if you are interested in games, finely crafted artifacts, and Andrew W.K., this might be a record set you’re interested in picking up yourself. More information is available directly from the Journal of Popular Noise. If you want to read what the magazine printed about Andrew W.K., that information is available here. My rip of Welcome & Congratulations contains the entire 7 record unlike the MySpace excerpt that has been floating around, so get to downloading and enjoy your award! Goodbye!
This song originally premiered on April 6, 2006 on a radio program called Jonesy’s Jukebox. The shows is based in L.A. and is hosted by Steve Jones, the guitar player for the Sex Pistols. The interview lasted 50 minutes and the song played 19 minutes into it. Andrew mentioned it was going to be on Close Calls, but it obviously was not put on the album. Also he said that this version was not finished and there would be more versions to follow. This show is archived on our interview page. The artwork above was created by ME and this track was chosen to be placed on the bootleg demo of Close Calls With Brick Walls. Here is that track: Vagabond (Radio)
Universal Music Publishing Group put out a promo for Close Calls With Brick Walls. Thanks to Readytodie over at awkmedia.net (another great AWK resource) we have this track. It’s actually the same as the one above (maybe slight differences??) but the sound quality is a bit better. Here is that track: 2006-07-05-#2 UMPG Presents Andrew W.K. [Promo]
Interestingly enough a NEW version of Vagabond also premiered on radio show called East Village Radio. It was ripped by the admin member here, Lex Leningrad Thanks Lex! This radio show lasted one hour and twenty minutes, and the songs starts about 15 minutes into it. This NEW version is most likely the same one that will appear on Mother of Mankind March 9th. Here is that track Vagabond
Vagabond will be released as a single on a 7″ squared vinyl February 13, 2010. Well see if its the same or an alternate version February 13th!
I was sad to hear this morning from an AWK insider that the release date for Andrew W.K.’s rarities CD has been pushed back to March 8th in UK/Europe and March 9th in the US. The original dates were for February 22nd in Europe and the 23rd in the U.S. Andrew confirmed this later today in a tweet. However, none of the sites that are currently selling his album have been updated yet, hopefully they don’t get the message.
In the meantime you can listen to previews of the tracks at the Amazon store.
Andrew just finished an interview on New York’s East Village Radio, here is a complete rip of the show! He discusses the upcoming releases, does some improv singing, shows some music he has been into recently, and general randomness.
-Lex Leningrad
A new admin member named GVOLTT has really come through for us this time. We now have for your viewing pleasure, the full season of Your Friend, Andrew W.K.. Which is something I’ve been trying to track down for about 1 1/2 years. They are .wmv files and the quality isn’t the best but its still an awesome find, so thank you GVOLTT !!!
Quick note: He made perfect use of our new Archive Uploader Tool where anyone can upload content easily!
Also I’ve managed to grab every episode of Destroy Build Destroy that’s aired so far. Supposedly there are six episodes of the second season but only four have aired. It looks like there is some sort of hiatus since early December on the last two episodes? These are .FLV files so you might need a .FLV player. But they are still pretty good quality.
We also have up Crashing With Andrew W.K.. A hilarious show about Andrew spending the week at an all girls college! Sadly its an one-episode-special that aired on MTV. Anyway we got em all up and running for you. ENJOY!
Crashing With Andrew W.K., Your Friend Andrew W.K., & Destroy Build Destroy can be found in the video archive section of this website.
This post is exactly what the title implies! Hit the full screen button below to see what in the heck I’m doing, and go to the Uploader page to accomplish the following.
Andrew W.K. isn’t all we do around here check out some AWESOME artwork and the novel “Grease Trap” by Andrew W.K. fan, Nick Sheehan. Get all the info your heart desires at the Grease Trap website. And now for your viewing pleasure, enjoy the first installment.
Like what you saw? Subscribe!!! to the YouTube channel. I did!
So you want 5 pages of stuff to download related to AWK? Thanks to kaiser soze you can! Tons of audio/video.
Drumdude has alerted us to a cover by Good Clean Fun entitled Don’t Stop Living On The Edge there is a guy that talks over it the whole time which is super annoying but its still a cool thing have. Also he’s ripped a track called Welcome & Congratulations. I can’t remember what its from! YIKES! I think it was ripped from Myspace though.
Luke has created some piano versions of Party Hard and Ready To Die which can also be found in the Fan Tracks section of this site. more fans should follow in this guys footsteps!
On Friday, I ordered four releases by Andrew W.K. simultaneously, breaking my former record of Most Andrew W.K. Titles Ordered Simultaneously which stood strong at three. And though I did just want to gloat about my new personal best, I realized I could do so while reminding everyone about these (mostly) upcoming Andrew W.K. releases!
The Journal of Popular Noise (released)
Issues 13-15 (ft. AWK). AWK appeared on this spoken word zine last spring/summer, but it went under the radar. I’ll have my vinyl rips up for you when it arrives, but if you want to order, it was $18 with shipping to N. America.
Kiba (Releases Jan. 27)
I’d be content to pay ~$24 for a super rare Andrew W.K. sticker, so receiving the Kiba single and bonus DVD content from Andrew & Marty will be a blast!
I’m A Vagabond (releases Feb. 14)
There are too many reasons to buy this one! Not only is it limited to 500 copies, but it will be on a square 7! When I first saw the art for this single, I laughed, but when a friend mentioned that AWK was wearing colored contacts, I got real scared. I looked again, and it appears my friend was right. Why is Andrew wearing colored contacts? Why are these songs published on BSM records and not Steev Mike since two tracks will be on Mother of Mankind? This release looks to be a vital clue in the mystery of crediting Steev Mike on AWK releases.
Close Calls With Brick Walls/Mother of Mankind (Releases Feb. 23)
Available around the world from various retailers, but Amazon is now selling pre-orders for $16.99. I was lucky and snagged my pre-order for $14.99. I almost didn’t order this release because I’ve already purchased CCWBW twice (Japanese CD w/ DVD & American vinyl), but I wouldn’t have been able to break my AWK buying record without CCWBW/MoM. [Wait, maybe I should count my record at five instead of four due to the double release!?]
January is almost over and Kiba is almost here! Soon after, I’m a Vagabond will be released, and before we know it, well be able to have Close Calls With Brick Walls & Mother of Mankind blasting through our stereos. Prepare to party, pre-order what you want before it’s too late! And until then, party hard anyway!
Don’t ever stop the noise,
AmigoWK
