Andrew Vladeck

Interview on MSN Canada & Other News

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.

Posted on 10/06/09 at 05:56PM | Filed under: news

NEWS ~ Reviews from The Road

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 Brooklyn.  Look out for the release of several videos and etc this fall in conjunction with Fall US Tourdates.

Lastly, just a note to check out the new podcast feature - the RSS feed is on the right side of this page.  It’s up on itunes and you subsribe as you would with any podcasts.  Andrew will be updating it often (weekly?), with various curious things.

Posted on 08/19/09 at 12:39PM | Filed under: news | 1 Comments

Tornado Tracks

Cherry blossoms swept up in a dust devil - I walk through a pink tornado and voila: it’s springtime for Brooklyn.  A Mockingbird on an antennae above Fulton Street  confuses and delights with the Mr. Softee song.  Huh, nature’s got talent.   My neighbor’s dog Vu (for Velvet Underground) walks me down the street as cups of coffee walk art students up.

I just got hold of my new record: “The Wheel.“  Blessed springtime: newness, fresh air - progress in various forms, intoxicating and inescapable.  With thanks to my artist friends, musical and visual, and my mates at End Up Records. 

Dates are filling in for the Record Release tour, where I hope to see you.   My record is available 6/6.  The hometown release headlines the Mercury Lounge 7/7.  Read all about it at this website.

And summer shapes up with fun festival gigs - big ones, all over the country (countries?  Canada too)!  With my band of brothers: The Honey Brothers.   And i hope to cross path with my dear collective folk explosion, Balthrop, Alabama. 

I was so caught up I didn’t write you for ages with tales of wondrous musical moments: the Vaudville-esque night which i got to host, playing old-time banjo, where backstage had the privilege of helping a burlesque dancer into her monkey suit - this happened regularly along the Bowery 100 years ago.  Good people, The Wheel is coming full circle in all it’s wondrous ways.  Many of them GOOD.  Check it out.

Posted on 05/14/09 at 11:29PM | Filed under: blognews

Awesome New Holiday Album!

Andrew is both an artist on End Up Records and a member of labelmates amazing folk collective Balthrop, Alabama, in which he is known as ‘Cotton Tyler Guin.‘  

 “A Very Balthrop Christmas” is a collection of brand new holiday classics with your friends and neighbors from Balthrop, Alabama and End Up Records.  All proceeds go to benefit End Up Records, a not-for-profit music collective based in Brooklyn.  AVAILABLE TODAY!

The New Yorker talks about the Balthrop, Alabama Holiday show happening and features Andrew’s song, “the funny and practical “Chrisma-Hanu-Kwanza-Rama-Krishna.‘“

Posted on 12/13/08 at 06:14AM | Filed under: news