Andrew Vladeck

Moving Right Along

I know I’ve been a little quiet since the flurry of January shows that took me to 6 different states, through 12 different snowdrifts.  

Since I’ve been home I’ve been busy working in my little workshop.  Last week we mastered the new EP, Passing Knowledge, with Joe Lambert in Brooklyn.  Done!  For those of you on my mailing list, you’ll receive a free song shortly.  For those who aren’t, subscribe using the form to the right, and get an advance copy of the title track!

This week, over at the End Up Records headquarters, we finished designing the amazingly cool artwork (a 20-page pocket poetry booklet with an introduction by the award-winning writer Will Heinrich).  It’s been a wonderful winter to whittle away at things and get ready for the Record Release (soon!) and the spring shows (East Coast!  Europe!).

Posted on 02/16/11 at 12:26AM | Filed under: blog news

The Fall Crush

Thanks to everyone for making my NYC Homecoming Show and the CMJ Show a lot of fun.  I’ve been going non-stop since the European Tour, but now I’ll be under the radar for a while as I finish my new EP.  I’ll post photos and mp3s and videos as they come in so be sure to sign up for my newsletter!  This is the best record I’ve ever made and I can’t wait for you all to hear it.  I’m very grateful to Lauren Balthrop, Colette Alexander, Misha Volf, Jason Lawrence, and Giovanni Palacios for playing on it, to Misha Volf for producing, Dave Schiffman for mixing, and Adrian Grenier for use of his studio. 

In the meantime, be sure to catch me under my many aliases - as Dory Honey of The Honey Brothers (at all our shows this season, including Music Hall of Williamsburg), as Cotton Tyler Guin of Balthrop, Alabama (at Lincoln Center), and as Val of The Rozz & Val Show (at World Cafe Live).  Fun!

Posted on 11/03/10 at 04:18PM | Filed under: blog news

2009: The Year in Review

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 BRIEF
1) Free Holiday Gift-A-Week!
2) “The Wheel” rolls across Europe
3) “7/8/9” EP selected Top 10 of 2009
4) Cover of “Toxic” selected Best of 2009
5) Sweet new videos on my YouTube channel
6) Pandora to add my music to their Music Genome Project
7) The Honey Brothers recording magic with Malcolm Burn
8) Rad childrens music record and videos = THE ROZZ & VAL SHOW
9) 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 awesome version (Visit them HERE).  For the weekly gift, visit my Free Weekly Podcast page and right click on the song of the week. Next week’s is “Chrisma-Hanna-Kwanza-Rama-Krishna” - from End Up Records‘s Holiday Compilation - HERE.

REVIEWS FROM ACROSS THE SEA.  I’m so grateful for the reviews my LP, THE WHEEL has been garnering the past several months from across the states, but also now dreamy, faraway places as The Wheel hits Europe: The UK Italy, Germany, Holland, Turkey!   I have the pleasure of working with Here We Go Agency prepping for European Tour this fall.   Read the reviews HERE.   *Gift Idea: buy the album!

TOP TEN & BEST OF 2009  “7/8/9” EP made the Top 10 of 2009 and my Cover of “Toxic” selected Best Covers of 2009 by Snob’s Music.  A pleasant surprise for the live EP I recorded one night this summer in a Brooklyn’s Saltlands studio.  Thanks to Dawn Landes!

NEW VIDEOS on my YouTube Channel.  Filmmaker Jason Banker, shot my big band for my tour’s homecoming show in NYC.   We’ve posted videos so those who couldn’t make a show can enjoy from around-the-world.   The currently featured video is the unreleased song “She Did”.

PANDORA will be adding my music to their Music Genome Project!  Their musicologists should be posting it in the coming months.

THE HONEY BROTHERS RECORD WITH MALCOLM BURN.  I’ve been working hard and playing hard with my brothers in Kingston, NY with the producer Malcolm Burn - it’s been fantastic - I feel SO lucky to get the opportunity to work with him - and them.   Look for some East Coast Dates this winter, with a dash of The Gulf Coast (New Orleans!) and Tinsel Town.  Also visit the new Honey Brothers youtube channel - videos posted from the Last Winter’s Inauguration tour!

THE ROZZ AND VAL SHOW.  Say what?  I made a children’s record and videos?  Say yes to THE ROZZ & VAL SHOW!   I’d been heaps of fun making this record and videos with Rozz Nash.  It comes out Dec 8 on Hotness Monster Records.  Check it out HERE.  (Hello: Gift Idea!!!)

2009 RECAP.  It was the year that was… a blurrrr!
- Concerts in Australia, Europe, Two East Coast Tours and and West Coast Tour and Festivals in the US and Canada.
  Solo, with band, and with my various other bands, where all together we recorded -
- EIGHT ALBUMS!  GASP!  Andrew Vladeck‘s “The Wheel LP” and “7/8/9 EP”; The Honey Brothers “Demonstration EP”;  Balthrop, Alabama‘s “Country Songs / Subway Songs” EPs;
   and”The Rozz and Val Show“ Debut.   Not including the NEW Honey Brothers record we’re wrapping in December!  Whoa, and also i played all over Seb Leon‘s great new record!
- TWELVE VIDEOS - filmed by Jason Banker, now on my Youtube Channel!  Many videos feature the 10-piece band I put together in NYC.
- Sweet new website - by Arthur Shim and new myspace pages.
  Just reading this puts me in need of a transfusion - and I wondered why i was completely crushed…

2010 PREVIEW.  Friends - look out for various surprises, new songs and shows in starting in early Spring.  I’ll be kicking in a free weekly song podcast for those of you far and wide - sign up at my website or on iTunes.   Will also be posting informal song videos more regularly - subscribe to my youtube channel!   And of course, there will be blood - I mean concerts!   A US summer tour.  A European fall tour.  EUROPE!  A stint in Nashville.  Assorted festivals.  Tours with The Honey Brothers, with Balthrop, Alabama, and with the brand new “The Rozz & Val Show”.   And who knows what else!   Green clovers, Yellow diamonds.

Happy Holidays Y’all!

Andrew

Posted on 12/06/09 at 10:00PM | Filed under: blog news | 1 Comments