Andrew W.K.

Listen Up: Here Are the New Rules for Internet Jukeboxes

By 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 >>

14 Essential Items to Bring to Every Fan Convention

It's that time of year where it seems like there's at least one big fan convention going on every weekend somewhere in the country. Whether you're planning on heading to New Jersey for The Steampunk World's Fair later this month or counting down for San Diego Comic-Con in July, there are a few esse ... More >>

Andrew W.K. - Avalon Theater - 3/8/12

See also: Our slideshow of Andrew W.K. with Math The Band Andrew W.K. with Math The Band Avalon Theater 3/8/12 Better than:...The sold-out 10-year anniversary show of Har Mar Superstar's Can You Feel Me?, which undoubtedly plays in Har Mar Superstar's mind every single day. Andrew W.K. isn't the ... More >>

Steel Panther: Hair Metal Cover Band Goes Legit

See also: Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: The Complete List Story by Clay Marshall Steel Panther guitarist Russ Parrish sports leopard-print Spandex and a tiger-striped ax when the group plays in concert. If all goes well, he'll climb atop the drum riser and stomp on the kick-drum pedal, ac ... More >>

Top 10 Cult Stars of 2011

Shannon CottrellWhere's Andrew W.K. on this list?​I had the chance to interview quite a few people this year. Some were famous. Others weren't. However, most of this year's interviewees had a few things in common. They all created something, be it an event or a piece of art, that is memorable. ... More >>

Lil B's Manager Sebastian Demian Is Calmer Than You Are

Nanette Gonzales Sebastian Demian with Lee "Scratch" Perry painting​Sebastian Demian is the director of Dem Passwords, an oddly-named art gallery-cum-music venue that is difficult to find. It's located beneath a West Hollywood hydroponics store, but it's not accessible from the street, so you ... More >>

4 Steps to Enlightenment Brought to You by Andrew W.K.

Andrew W.K. believes in you​The crowd that filed into the Silent Movie Theater on Saturday night included a kid handing out free weed cookies, a woman with a T-Rex skeleton tattoo wrapped around one calf, and a middle-aged man complaining to a friend about the Hall and Oates show his wife was ... More >>

Food Party Hostess Thu Tran at Everything Is Festival Tomorrow

Food Party​Tomorrow kicks off five days of found footage feting known as the Everything is Festival at Cinefamily. It's a celebration of diggers, curators, and collectors as much as the weird, funny, campy, boogerfaced footage they unearth. Along with Joe Dante's four-hour legend The Movie Org ... More >>

Music Picks: Willie Nelson's Country Throwdown, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs, Peter Murphy

Also, Erykah Badu, Andre Williams, Animals & Men and others

A Bunch of Shit and Some Other Crap

"We're Using Weapons Purely for Fun": On the Set of Destroy Build Destroy with Rocker/Game Show Host Andrew W.K.

Shannon Cottrell​Throughout April and the earliest part of May, New York-based musician Andrew W.K. was stationed in Los Angeles. During this time, he played a few shows, including his own birthday extravaganza at Check Yo Ponytail, and went to work on a new album, which he says he anticipates ... More >>

Four Reasons the World Needs Andrew W.K. to Teach Us to Party

Timothy Norris​See more photos in Timothy Norris' gallery, "Andrew WK, Wavves @ Echoplex." Read more in Drew Denny's interview "Andrew WK: 'I Don't Think It's Ethical to Think of Non-Humans as Equal to Humans.'" It would be impossible to review Andrew W.K.'s show at Check Yo Ponytail 2 (held ... More >>

Andrew WK: "I Don't Think It's Ethical to Think of Non-Humans as Equal to Humans"

​The infamous, bloody-nosed Andrew WK will be performing at the Check Yo Ponytail 2 party tonight at the Echoplex. We talked (and talked, and talked) with the self-help guru, motivational speaker, and metal-punk-dance-rocker recently. Here's our helpful, bite-size guide inside the mind behind ... More >>

Music Picks: Elvis Costello & the Imposters, Prince, Ricky Martin, Carrie Rodriguez, The Low Anthem, Mogwai

Also, Gutbucket Chamber Orchestra, Pegi Young, Mike Stinson and others

Mad Crushin' For Diplo At Departure

Lina Lecaro Diplo tears it up at Vanguard.​ Remember when everyone was comparing DJs to rockstars? Sometimes the comparison was warranted, but most of the time it was not. Paul Oakenfold is no Mick Jagger and Tiesto is no Bono, right? Rockstar eminence is about swagger and attitude, and even t ... More >>

Andrew WK at Dem Passwords: Live Review

Steven DrypolcherAndrew WK ​WHAT: Andrew WK WHERE: Dem Passwords WHEN: April 7, 2011 Andrew WK performed a set of piano rags and crunk karaoke that would have won him quite a few new fans had he been playing a fraternity party or a fraternity fundraiser or maybe a fraternity reunion. Unfortun ... More >>

Top 10 Strangest Rock Star Action Figures (In Honor of the "Hard Rock Barbie" Lawsuit)

Tiny Rockers! 10 Best Rock Star Action Figures (Not Including HorrorPops' Lawsuit Lovin Bassist)

Suck it, GWAR!: 6 (.66) Reasons Why Rosemary's Billygoat Still Rule (In Pictures)

Lina Lecaro ​This past weekend's Frightmare Before Xmas show at the Dragonfly thrown by Batcave Hollywood was quite a morbid yet merry mash-up, but the horrific highlight of this holiday massacre was LA's own Rosemary's Billygoat. If you've ever caught the local schlock-rock lunatics on stage ... More >>

Andrew W.K. Sings a Holiday Classic (Like a Madman)

Andrew W.K. Sings a Holiday Classic (Like a Madman)

Top 10 Memorable Cosplays of Anime Expo

Check out more photos in "Anime Expo 2010: Thursday, Day One," "Anime Expo 2010: Friday, Day Two," and "Anime Expo 2010: Saturday, Day Three." For Fourth of July weekend, tens of thousands of anime fans headed downtown to the Los Angeles Convention Center for Anime Expo. Many of them were in cospla ... More >>

Andrew W.K. Cosplay Spotted at Anime Expo

Check out photos from Anime Expo in Shannon Cottrell's slideshows "Anime Expo 2010: Thursday, Day One" and "Anime Expo 2010: Friday, Day Two." One of favorite cosplays from Anime Expo (so far) isn't an anime character. It's Andrew W.K., musician and host of Destroy Build Destroy. Shannon CottrellAn ... More >>

This Weekend: Sharon Jones & Dap Kings, Dead Man's Bones, Warped Tour, Black Francis, Danzig

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings​Can it get any more real that Sharon Jones? Well, it can't get any more heartwarming. The leading lady of the Dap-Kings is, after all, a rising star at 54, having shucked the uniforms of her previous careers (corrections officer at Rikers Island, and armor truck g ... More >>

Aqua Teen Hunger Force's Dave Willis and Dana Snyder Hit the Road

For almost a decade, night owls have been tuning into Adult Swim, sometimes on a nightly basis, for the eleven-minute rush of absurdist humor that is Aqua Teen Hunger Force. After a feature film, video games and, more recently, a Christmas album, co-creator/writer Dave Willis (also the voice of Carl ... More >>

Flashback 2008: New Health Video by Eric Wareheim and Crystal Castles to release vinyl-only single

Flashback 2008: New Health Video by Eric Wareheim and Crystal Castles to release vinyl-only single

Drummer Vinnie Paul to Release Cookbook

For more quotes from Vinnie Paul, as well as Dave Mustaine, Lemmy Kilmister, Andrew W.K. and Zakk Wylde, read our coverage of Revolver's Golden Gods Nominations. Vinnie Paul (Pantera, Hellyeah) is world renowned for his drumming skills, but did you know that he can cook too? At Wednesday's Golden G ... More >>

Will Andrew W.K. Take His Gundam Covers to Anime Cons?

For more quotes from Andrew W.K., as well as Dave Mustaine, Lemmy Kilmister, Vinnie Paul and Zakk Wylde, read our coverage of Revolver's Golden Gods Nominations. After we interviewed Andrew W.K. last fall about his album of cover songs from the Gundam franchise, we have been curious as to whether o ... More >>

Revolver Golden Gods Nominations Announced at Rainbow Bar & Grill

It's one thing to hang out at the legendary Sunset Strip haunt Rainbow Bar & Grill and try to soak up as much metal as humanly possible. But when you're there in the afternoon for the announcement of Revolver's Golden God nominees and you realize that the guy who walked past you is Rob Halford, the ... More >>

When Fandoms Collide: Nine Great Pop Culture Mash-Ups

Just because we seem to be constantly listening to music and hitting up concerts here at West Coast Sound doesn't mean that we aren't also reading comic books or taking nights off to re-watch Star Wars Episodes IV-VI. So, when our interests collide, be it in song or on the small screen, we get a lit ... More >>

Rock Picks: Willie Nelson, Maude Maggart, Two Tears

Also, Cold Cave, Ceci Bastida, Califone, and others

Andrew W.K. Parties Hard at Largo

Liz OhanesianPumped after Andrew WK's Largo Show​ It's not often that a musician regularly ends his shows by thanking the crowd for performing for him. In fact, Andrew W.K. is the only person that this reporter has seen do that. But, then again, there aren't many artists who have fans as anim ... More >>

Andrew W.K. Takes on Giant Robots with Gundam Rock

​ One of the most intriguing artists to emerge from this decade, Andrew W.K. has based his career on defying expectations, both his own and those from his audience. His breakthrough album I Get Wet established him as a purveyor of feel-good party anthems. Since then, though, he's worked with a ... More >>

Rock Picks: Amadou & Mariam, Manimal Festival, Marianne Faithfull, Gil Scott-Heron

Also, Kylie Minogue, the Joe Perry Project, Teenage Jesus & the Jerks and others

New Har Mar Superstar Track, Originally Intended for Britney Spears, Released: "Tallboy" (MP3)

​So if this isn't a gay club hit this fall, we don't know what from what. The new Har Mar Superstar track has arrived after a musical Har Mar Hiatus of ... has it been five years? It's from his forthcoming album, Dark Touches. In that time, a lot of blue-eyed soul singers have come and gone, b ... More >>

In Her Madgesty's Court

Also, Paper's trail and Punk Rock Karaoke

Beards, Blazers, Bluntless: Lee Perry Defeats The El Rey's Draconian Droogs

Franki Chan

Hipsters heart him

Baby Dee: Life Is Bitter and Death Is Sweet

"Find a sweetie and make mad love. Smoke lots of cigarettes and stop wearing underpants."

2007: Outta Sight

Falling, spinning, shining stars and the year's most stellar parties

Bookworm in a Tequila Bottle: 2007's Most Intriguing Music Books

Oh, those bed-wetting, penis-injecting, 43-person gangbang days of yore

Shoot to Thrill

The ever-evolving photo booth

E.L.O. Is for Lovers!

Cocks of the Rock

The ear-to-ear assault of the Chelsea Smiles

Chaos at the Greasy Spoon

South by Southwest: Music, money and madness

They Don’t Make 'Em Like That Anymore

Oh, Grow Up!

How to throw a party like a real adult

Let's Have a Party

Crush and Cuddle

The sheer heart failure of Ozzfest 2002

Partying Harder Than Thou

Face Value

Rock savior Andrew W.K. is coming to our town to help us party down