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May 22, 2013There's a certain level of superstar ubiquity required to earn your own pinball machine. You need to have a long, impressive career, make a couple great albums, have your guitarist recognized on a first-name basis, and generally reach peak popularity in the mid-'80s. At the pinball joint I regular, ... More >>
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April 29, 2013Kim Gordon, ?uestlove, Andrew Bird and Andrew W.K. walk into a Masonic Temple ... these are the 10 best shows in NYC this week.
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April 24, 2013A night of musical collisions
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April 3, 2013In hard partying news, Andrew W.K. has been tapped by the last remaining Ramone to provide lead vocals in Marky Ramone's Blitzkrieg - a Ramones cover band - on their upcoming world tour.
Formerly led by Misfits' singer Michael Graves, Blitzkrieg has been carrying the torch of the Ramones' punk leg ... More >>
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March 6, 2013Andrew W.K.: Rocker, composer, fashion plate, motivational guru, and most importantly -- via his primo Twitter feed -- long-time purveyor of party tips. From practical advice to profundity, inspiration to hilarity, his near-daily tips offer something for everybody, not only how to get the party star ... More >>
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February 27, 2013Voice Choices
January 30, 2013Watch the Super Bowl with Andrew W.K.
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December 26, 2012Blogs
September 25, 2012By John Seaborn Gray
Used to be you'd have to hit bar after bar until you found just the right jukebox, which promptly became your own personal lair of alcohol consumption. Folks demanded more freedom of choice, however, so many bars have switched over to Internet jukeboxes, where you can download ... More >>
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April 25, 2012Blogs
April 25, 2012In this week's Village Voice, available near you at this very second: I look at the way Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" has infatuated listeners one at a time; Grayson Currin talks to the revitalized New York grind-metal act Unsane; and Jeanne Fury looks back on 10 years of getting Wet with Andre ... More >>
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April 3, 2012Andrew W.K.
Webster Hall
Monday, April 2
Better than: Moping.
Andrew W.K.'s 2001 album I Get Wet is one of those records that tends to polarize people; it combines monster riffs, giddy lyrics about partying and beautiful girls, and living-in-the-red maximalism in a way that either electrifies or ... More >>
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March 28, 2012Andrew W.K. gets Webster Hall wet
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March 14, 2012Dan Deacon returns to
the Ecstatic Music Festival
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February 16, 2011Out of the shadows, sort of. Pics by Puja.Win Win
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Tuesday, February 15
Better Than: The Odd Future show (SORRY ROB).
Win Win is a big name to live up to. The project consists of ex-Spank Rock producers and DJs XXXchange and Chris Devlin, along with their video-collage art ... More >>
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January 12, 2011Wouldn't we all.
The Internet would be a very dreary place without the exuberantly goofy antics of Andrew Wilkes-Krier. But today Andrew W.K. isn't confessing that he accidentally wet himself, or admitting that he's been the target of a restraining order, or talking about vomiting. Instead, his mos ... More >>
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January 5, 2011Clever pianist is on an Apple payday
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December 23, 2010Put on your gogo shorts and your yarmulke because promoters Tony Fornabaio and Brandon Voss are bringing in New Year's with a Black & White Ball at "the historic 19th century gothic revival Angel Orensanz Synagogue" at 172 Norfolk Street.
As they describe it, "The ball will feature:
*Music ... More >>
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May 12, 2010photo by Melissa Hom, kindly borrowed from New York MagMmmm . . . Peanuts and Cheetos cereal.
As SOTC's de facto head of internal affairs, it falls upon me to remind you that our newsroom-mates over at Fork in the Road have an eating-themed interview with recovering hesher Andrew W.K. Since the end ... More >>
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May 7, 2010It's Friday afternoon, and thus time for a fond glimpse back to the best posts of the past five days.
We ranked Our 10 Best Picnic Spots in NYC.
Painkiller's Giuseppe Gonzalez talked tiki, frozen drinks, and the hangover cure that comes in a syringe.
Tortilleria Nixtamal's Fernando Ruiz talked ab ... More >>
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May 5, 2010Mike LumAndrew W.K.Most people know Andrew W.K. from the hit singles off his first album, 2001's I Get Wet, which included "Party Hard," "She is Beautiful" and "I Like to Party." If you sense that he's a fun guy who likes to party, then you, sir or madam, are correct. He parlayed his passion ... More >>
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May 3, 2010This is your Monday night: Choose from Andrew W.K., Fester from the Addams Family, and Peter Gabriel, a confluence slightly more random than M.I.A. provoking ginger genocide last week. At Santos Party House, W.K. and friends (including Angel Deradoorian of Dirty Projectors) are uniting for th ... More >>
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April 27, 2010Dinner With the Band guest and Santos' co-owner Andrew W.K., Food Party creator Thu Tran‎, and Dinner With the Band chef Sam Mason
The second season of the Williamsburg-produced Dinner With the Band, a show that's title conveniently functions as elevator pitch, airs tonight at 10:30 pm on IFC. H ... More >>
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April 27, 2010Blogs
March 16, 2010via AndrewWK.comWhile everyone is hiking down to SXSW, you can relax at the Fillmore, where, for the first time in five years, the lovably menacing, defiantly unshowered Andrew W.K. and his full band will strut their stuff alongside neo-glam rockers the Dirty Pearls. Over at the Andrew-affili ... More >>
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February 23, 2010Oh, the places you'll go. Namely Buffalo Billiards (Das Racist! Andrew W.K.!), La Zona Rosa (Chamillionaire and Paul Wall!), Stubb's (Broken Social Scene!), Aces Lounge (Solange Knowles!), and so forth. Have fun, but don't forget about the Voice's own fete, featuring Surfer Blood, Superchunk, ... More >>
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February 16, 2010Truth or dare, without the dare
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February 2, 2010Dudes hug it out with Paul Rudd
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January 11, 2010
Morgan Spurlock's nerd-awaited Simpsons 20th anniversary special aired last night. Highlights: Dr. Ruth praising Marge and Homer's sex life, a visit to an actual Duff Brewery in Argentina (who currently have a pending copyright-infringement lawsuit from FOX), and the third-hardest working man in N ... More >>
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December 10, 2009
Twitter celebrity, martyr to the music writing game, and SOTC bedfellow Christopher R. Weingarten is interviewing the similarly outsized personality Andrew W.K. on the world's favorite micro-blogging medium today, LIVE OVER TWITTER. There is still time to send him questions. Such as, "Who could po ... More >>
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December 8, 2009The first and hopefully last time we'll spend a morning typing "Do They Know It's Christmas" into iTunes. Matador promises that the long awaited Band Aid cover, featuring what Fucked Up frontman Damian Abraham described to Pitchfork as "the best and the worst of the music industry," will hit ... More >>
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November 6, 2009Andrew WK on keys. Pink Eyes, where is your loyalty?
Fucked Up's New York shows always seem to coincide with historic American days: Inauguration Day 2008, the only time in recorded history when Ezra Koenig publicly covered the Descendents, and now the day after the Yankees won the World Series. An ... More >>
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November 3, 2009I'm afraid if I attempt to summarize what's happening at Santos' Party House tonight I'll screw it up somehow, so, let's just take them at their (very excitable) word: SHRED FOR YOUR LIFE GUITAR BATTLE: JUDGES DAVID CROSS AND JALEEL BUNTON (TVOTR), FEATURING BRAD TRAUX (JAH DIVISION), JOHN ST ... More >>
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September 11, 2009--Further details have been revealed about Fucked Up's November 5th live reprise of their entire Chemistry of Common Life at Brooklyn Masonic Temple. The band has revealed the special guests they'd teased earlier this week: Andrew W.K., the Vivian Girls, Titus Andronicus, and Katie Stelmanis ... More >>
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March 18, 2009DJs do battle in a bookstore?
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December 10, 2008Scandalous behavior for a good cause
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June 16, 2008Music
May 20, 2008On the messianic powers and intentionally uncomfortable urges of the onetime Party Guy
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October 30, 2007Scuzzy and catchy jammers, with a big assist from Andrew W.K.
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