ANDREW W.K. To Play Drums For TO LIVE AND SHAVE IN L.A.

ANDREW W.K. will be playing drums in the band TO LIVE AND SHAVE IN L.A. on their upcoming fall tour beginning in September. "It is an honor that I've been looking forward to for many years," Andrew said in a recent online posting. "I am SO excited, I can't even begin to tell you. The band, TO LIVE AND SHAVE IN L.A. is a band that has been around for years. I did NOT form this band (although I wish I had). An amazing man named Tom Smith is the inventor and creator of this band. When I first heard his music I was about 14 years old, maybe even younger. The music was SO intense that at first I could barely listen to it — to be honest, I was afraid of the way it sounded. It didn't only sound scary, but the way it made me feel was REALLY scary. Music is all about feeling, and this man's music is FULL OF FEELING. TOTAL PASSION. I got to meet Tom Smith about a year or so later, when I played drums in a different band that he formed called THE SUCKING CO-EDS — I think I was 15, or maybe just 16 years old. I've seen Tom here and there through out the last 10 years, and it's always a pleasure. He is one of the greatest singers in the entire world and he's one of my heroes. His new album 'The Wigmaker in Eighteenth Century Williamsburg' is one of the greatest and best albums I've ever heard in my entire life. There is no way to explain or describe the music, because again, it doesn't 'sound' a certain way, and it doesn't make me 'think' about something... it 'FEELS' amazing and completely fantastic. There's nothing to compare it to, because it exists apart from anything else I've ever experienced. I am blown away and beside myself with excitement that I will be playing drums with Tom Smith and the rest of TO LIVE AND SHAVE IN L.A. on the upcoming September tour. More details will come."

As previously reported, ANDREW W.K.'s new MTV2 show, "Your Friend, Andrew W.K.", will premiere Saturday, May 22 at 9:00 p.m.