Andrew W.K.

Not just a party animal but a party guerrilla, Andrew W.K. burst onto the scene in the early 2000s with a hybrid of rock, metal, and pop that celebrated and amplified the most brazen and bombastic attributes of all three styles. With its controversial cover photo of a bloody-nosed W.K. staring down the camera, his 2002 debut, I Get Wet, established the super-sized pop-metal sound and party-positive ethos that soon became his hallmark and which he displayed on-stage night after night in a frenzy of unrelenting, sweat-soaked energy. Over the coming years, W.K. evolved himself in...