Another EP review & other news

My good friend and fellow blogger Tyler Conta was kind enough to review my EP. Check it out below!

Also, quick update: I'm just about done with school for the year and will have more time to focus on music. WOOT! Working on some new youtube vids, got some gigs lined up, and even some audio/video recording coming your way.

The Wisdom of Tyler Conta: Album of the Moment: 4/28/11: "This post is coming atcha...TO THE MAX! For today we have a short music review of Andrew Rohlk's A Little Less Rough EP, with a link at th..."

EP Review

So my buddy Spencer Dukoff wrote a candid review of my EP A Little Less Rough (FREE listen & download here) on his blog. A lot of his thoughts are spot on with what I was trying to convey with these songs. It's nice to have another perspective from someone with a natch for writing (especially when it comes to music reviews.)

Check out his blog for music related goodness. He's a supremely cool dude. I wish I had half as much neato stuff going on as him. Ok I'm gushing now, I'm out.

-Andrew

EP Release!!

Today my EP A Little Less Rough is available for FREE DOWNLOAD at http://andrewrohlk.bandcamp.com/

Big thanks to Becca Rohlk (who's 17 today! Happy Birthday sis!) for helping to create the cover art. It may look like some simple finger painting, but it's actually an elaborate process involving shaving cream. She's tried explaining it to me, but I still don't quite get how she pulled it off. It looks fantastic though!

Thanks also to Matthew Huckfeldt for all his support throughout the recording process. He did much more than pushing all the buttons in ProTools as we worked in his bedroom studio.

Thank you to Amy Pontiff, Elizabeth Kiefer, Olivia Small, Dale Price, and Katina Stevenson for letting me goad them into singing the La Da Da's on "What This Will Be"

Thanks also go to Jess Lonett for dealing with all my crazies throughout recording.

And thank you to the folks at Madistrophic and anyone else who has helped in some way that I might have missed. I might be a solo artist for the time being, but that doesn't mean I'm alone and without help.

Where's the music at??

So if you're wondering where my actual music is, I have 3 words for you: HANG IN THERE!

My "A Little Less Rough" EP is still being mastered. I like to think of mastering as the musical equivalent of lamination; it makes things glossier and hold up a bit better. I'm insanely eager to hear the finished product.

Anyway, the whole shabang will be released late March / early April. It's hard to get specifics before mastering is done, so hang in there!

Please and thank you,

-Andrew Rohlk

PS: There will be a pre-release single streaming online soon to help tide you over. Until then, check out my Myspace page or my YouTube page. 

If that still doesn't tide you over, look at this picture of a cat.

Update on the Music I Make

So I've been working on an acoustic EP titled "A Little Less Rough" for my solo project, and now all that remains are some loose ends that need tying up. The whole thing is going to be released late March/ early April. I'm normally not a good sharer, but boy oh boy am I excited to share this thing with you. So excited that I might even let slip a track or two before the official release..... Stay tuned.

Please and thank you.

-Andrew Rohlk