Andrew Vladeck

Europe, y’all. How bout that? My record, THE WHEEL, was picked up in Europe where it’s been getting a lot of love, and now they’re bringing me over to play shows from Rome to Amsterdam. Hereby announcing my very first Tour de l’Europe. If you have friends in any of the below cities, please tell them!  If you could send them to my website, and post/share the Facebook listing, that’d be RAD! Kind friend, with THE WHEEL set to roll across Europe, this summer is the perfect time to get your own copy! (You can also find me on Pandora and Jango!) Top not-secret! I’ve been recording a new record with new songs and a new ensemble - I’m so excited about it I can hardly stand it. It feels like I’m bringing it all back home -… more »

Here’s a dispatch from family vacation.   Hope all y’alls’ summers are going great. Last year, on family vacation, my mom and I went for a hike through a beautiful cypress swamp in Virginia where she was bitten on her achilles heel by one of the most poisonous snakes in North America (the water moccasin).  Thanks to my vague recollection of first aid from my cub scout days, I almost made things much worse (note: don’t elevate leg, don’t apply tourniquet).   She spent the week in the hospital getting rounds of anti-venom, and a couple of months later was dancing the zumba.   This year, on family vacation, I was not hoping for a repeat.  My brother and I went kayaking in the ocean, with his little fishing rod.   Now look, for the most part, I’m a city boy.  In the ocean I’m like a… like a… fish out of water (for lack of a better term).   So I’m… more »

New season, New York City, New EP, New Tourdates, new pair of shoes. This has been the longest stretch I’ve mostly been in NYC in ages, though I haven’t seen much of it, nor much of you, as I’ve been ensconsed in studios and rehearsals.  But good things are coming!   I’ve been biking all over NYC with my guitar on my back, getting things done.  There’s one stretch of road near the BQE where I always hear a Mockingbird singing.  But the mockingbird is singing the car alarm medley that we city folk know all too well.  It’s amazing that to some birds, the car alarm is like a Top 40 hit that it can’t help but repeat.  The world just gets weirder, I suppose. First off, I’m playing New York City Wednesday, June 30, 10PM at the esteemed Rockwood Music Hall.  Send your NYC friends my way, it’s a huge hall.  I’ll be… more »

Andrew here.  Was a pleasure to play Rockwood Music Hall last week with all new songs and a totally new lineup!   Great way to start out the year and work up the new record. Philadelphia on May 7 with Julian Velard. Spread the word! Will announce European Dates soon - promise! More reviews throughout Europe for The Wheel.  Be sure to hear what they’re talking about!!! more »

Hey all!  I’ve been remiss in not writing sooner – but busy with good things.   Nothing like being in a van with WiFi for some catch-up time!  I’ve returned from magical trips through Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama – to a new apartment in Brooklyn.   It’s so much like my grandparents’ old apartment, which was just down the street.  My memories begin here.  I’m in the middle of developing a new record with various friends from my musical world and it’s been feeling as excellent as the warm weather. I was lucky to pass through New Orleans during Mardi Gras, and we spent a couple extra days winding up and down over as much gumbo and beignets as I’ve ever seen in my life.  A friend of mine opened a great venue called Sound Café – it was the first time I got to play there, and we biked to the gig.   From there we crossed into… more »

The Wheel album will be distributed in Europe starting March 5 via Sonic Rendezvous (Benelux),  Cargo Records (Germany/Austria/Switzerland), and Sugar and Spice (France)  So for all you out there, you can ask for The Wheel at your favorite record store, or go to their websites. Thanks to the good reviews coming in from Europe (thanks Here We Go).  This interview just published from the UK.  This just in from Germany. The shows in New Orleans, Biloxi and Bossier City were great - we even got to see Merle Haggard and Kris Kristofferson play in Bossier and the Hot 8 Brass Band in New Orleans.    SXSW is ON.  CT is on.  NYC is on.  More shows to be announced. Mostly, I’m focusing on writing new… more »

Just launched: Andrew Vladeck Radio on Pandora - check out the station! Shows booked for later in January, with a NYC residency coming later this winter, and other good things. I’m starting an “Influences Video Series“ to pay homage to my favorite folk songs of all time.  I’ll post them to my YouTube Channel (subscribe!) and on my Free Weekly Podcast (subscribe here or on iTunes)! More reviews in from Europe for  The Wheel - excited to the sojourn there later this year thanks to Here We Go Agency! Side projects galore!  In addition to the Andrew Vladeck Show, things are brewing with The Honey Brothers; Balthrop, Alabama; and The Rozz & Val Show. Honey Brothers finish record with Malcolm… more »

The below video is from last week’s Balthrop, Alabama Holiday Concert in NYC.   It was tons of fun.  Pretty much everyone on End Up Records and many friends all wrote a holiday song for the occasion.  The record is available at End Up Records.   more »

On a whim, Andrew and his dear friend Rozz Nash made a record for their friends with families.  Next thing they knew, various people got involved to create a series of videos.  Now the record The Rozz & Val Show (Hotness Monster) has arrived.  It has songs like “I Want A Cookie,“ (To the tune of “No Sleep til Brooklyn”). Check it out today! (on Facebook). Hey - and remember Andrew’s other two bands are playing the same night - this week!   The Honey Brothers and Balthrop, Alabama play the Brooklyn Bowl (tickets HERE).  more »

THANK YOU for helping to make this a good’n'crazy year.  There is a ton of news… I’ll break it down simply first, then in detail!  IN BRIEF1) Free Holiday Gift-A-Week!2) “The Wheel” rolls across Europe3) “7/8/9” EP selected Top 10 of 20094) Cover of “Toxic” selected Best of 20095) Sweet new videos on my YouTube channel6) Pandora to add my music to their Music Genome Project7) The Honey Brothers recording magic with Malcolm Burn8) Rad childrens music record and videos = THE ROZZ & VAL SHOW9) 2009 Recap - touring, recordings, and videos, oh my!10) 2010 Preview - bring it on! IN DETAIL 1) HOLIDAY GIFT every week this December.   Starting with a free download of my cover of “Toxic”  - it was declared Best Covers of 2009 by tastemaker Snob’s Music.  I fell for this Britney Spears song after hearing The Chapin Sisters’s deadly… more »

MSN Canada posted this lovely interview - with French subtitles.     Andrew is featured in the current issue of Pulse Magazine:  “strolling at his own speed across the country from one gig to the next.  With rust-colored hair and a thoughtful, deliberate choice of words, he beckons you closer.  He wants to tell you a story and he’s going to let his amped-up banjo do most of the talking…“ More. The US Tour Finale - Philly on 11/11 with The White Buffalo. more »

The Honey Brothers got off to a great start in Seattle - playing a show under the space needle!  The sun broke though the clouds for our set, prompting our band to go “Sleaveless in Seattle”. We woke up to a lovely review in Seattle Times left in front of our hotel room doors which we passed around the van. Portland, Eugene, Sacramento, and then a highlight - playing the Power to the Peaceful Festival in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park!  A beautiful concert, a lot a great progressive messages, good politics, and aromatherapy.  It was hard to not get a contact high from standing in front of that audience.  The fog rolled in, indeed! more »

Andrew’s touring in support of The Wheel is going great (Boston Herald, Boston Phoenix, AM-NY, Grimygoods).  And In Europe they’re calling Andrew a “poëtische woordengoochelaar” (Rootstime)! Andrew’s band The Honey Brothers has been garnering lovely reviews for their festival shows - Wanderlust Festival (New Music Exchange), All Points West (MTV),  Osheaga (Montreal Gazette), with a preview for Bumbershoot and West Coast Tour (NO DEPRESSION).  Andrew was able to catch up with his band of neighbors Balthrop, Alabama out in California on their epic cross country tour (Portland Mercury, Albuquerque Alibi) in support of similarly epic “Subway Songs / Cowboy Songs.“ In between all this Andrew recorded a quick live record/video of my current show with the uber-talented Dawn Landes at Saltlands in… more »

Where am I?  This summer has me playing all over the USA like some warped Where’s Waldo wandering minstrel.  Absurdly busy.  Suffice it to say, thanks to you and various forms of wildlife (more on that in a minute) it has thus far been a memorable and frequently great summer.  What’s more, it’s awesome to see all my various projects totally rocking and getting great notice for our efforts. First off, as you know, I just came out with a hot new record, produced by Kyle Fischer.  This review from The Netherlands came in last week, not everyday I’m called a “poëtische woordengoochelaar” (Rootstime).  My Summer Record Release Tour for The Wheel took me up the East Coast, my first shows in DC and Philly and headlining the Mercury Lounge here in NYC.  I caught many of you good people (thank you very much!) ~ and then west… more »

We swore it was snowing in Burlington, as white, fat, fuzzy things (seedlings?  not old hippies) filled the air around my car.   It was beautiful and surreal, like that scene from The Right Stuff, where mysterious golden droplets surround John Glenn’s spacecraft.   Ah, Vermont, where a Sunday drive up Route 7 finds locals engaged in a “Piscachio Hunt” on the front lawn of Church, the “Ho Hum Motel” in the shadow of Mt. Philo, the rural birthplace of the fabled founder of AA, the biggest moth I’ve ever seen, that had gigantic owl eye patterns on it’s wings.   The Radio Bean in Burlington was lit up like a fishtank in the afternoon sun, dazzlingly bright and hot, and not finding a rock I could crawl under I sweated it out with people out front before the show, which included a young woman carving a stick with a gigantic hunting knife.   It… more »