A consistent theme of this year's Big Ears festival seems to be that a lot of performers will have new albums out or on the way when they play here. As noted earlier today, The National have a new disc scheduled for release in May; Big Ears will kick off a tour in support of it. Joanna Newsom has a new album coming out next month, the Clogs will release The Creature in the Garden of Lady Walton in March, and Vampire Weekend has just released its second album, which topped the Billboard chart last week.
Hard rock performance artist/motivational speaker Andrew W.K. won't have a new album out--if he will, the news hasn't been announced yet--but his third album, Close Calls With Brick Walls (a favorite of MP art director Travis Gray), will finally get a domestic release on Feb. 23. Close Calls was issued in Japan and Korea in 2006 but never made it to US shelves. (He did release 55 Cadillac, an album of solo piano in September.)
Hard rock performance artist/motivational speaker Andrew W.K. won't have a new album out--if he will, the news hasn't been announced yet--but his third album, Close Calls With Brick Walls (a favorite of MP art director Travis Gray), will finally get a domestic release on Feb. 23. Close Calls was issued in Japan and Korea in 2006 but never made it to US shelves. (He did release 55 Cadillac, an album of solo piano in September.)
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