Howlin Wuelf Media :: Andy Shernoff

Seminal NYC proto-punk Andy Shernoff will be inaugurating a regular Wednesday night residency at Manhattan’s Lakeside Lounge starting Wednesday October 5 and continuing weekly through December. He’ll be performing at 7PM sharp with a regular backing band, featuring a rotating cast of special guests. Shernoff will be releasing a new 7” vinyl single “Are You Ready To Rapture” c/w “Tremble” (the latter featuring Andy’s dear friend, the late Joey Ramone. “Are You Ready To Rapture” will be accompanied by an animated video created by world famous cartoonist Brian Musikoff.

Queens-born Shernoff is a musician, songwriter, record producer and oenophile. He is a founding member of The Dictators, one of the seminal New York proto-punk bands, for which he composed the lion’s share of the material, played bass guitar, keyboards, sang back-up and occasional lead vocals. He has been involved with a variety of other musical projects over the years, most notably the heavily Dictators-populated Manitoba's Wild Kingdom and Joey Ramone's sole solo studio album, Don't Worry About Me.

In the fall of 2009, he embarked upon a series of solo shows playing songs he wrote or co-wrote and telling the stories behind them. In the spring of 2010, those shows would become "When Giants Walked the Earth - A Musical Memoir by Andy Shernoff," with several tour dates scheduled in the Eastern U.S. and Canada. Shernoff sang "California Sun" in the official Major League Baseball promotional video for the 2010 All-Star Game. Other projects include garage-rock band The Masterplan, featuring members of The Fleshtones and the Waxing Poetics.

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His songs have been recorded by The Ramones, Mary Weiss (of the Shangri-Las), Dion DiMucci, Carolyne Mas, Turbonegro, The Hellacopters, Drivin 'N' Cryin, The Del-Lords, Toilet Böys, Young Fresh Fellows, The A-Bones, The Nomads, The Untamed Youth, The Fastbacks, The Vikings, The Streetwalkin Cheetahs, Texas Terri, Tom Clark, The Screaming Tribesman, The Meatmen, Electric Frankenstein, The Prissteens, The Alter Boys, Metal Mike Saunders (Angry Samoans), Furious George, Corpus Christi, Jeff Dahl to name but a few.

As producer he has worked with The Dictators, The Master Plan, Manitoba's Wild Kingdom, The Barracudas, The Untamed Youth, D Generation, Adrenalin OD, The Smithereens, Prisonshake, Guided by Voices, Sibling Rivalry with Joey Ramone & Mickey Leigh, The Zantees with Billy Miller and Miriam Linna, Sic F*cks with Tish and Snooky, The Kowalskis, The Figgs, and The Golden Horde, among others.

Shernoff grew up in New York City, in the Queens neighborhood of Jackson Heights. He attended elementary school with Johnny Thunders and Flushing High School with the Fleshtones. After high school, he attended the SUNY New Paltz Music Department. There he started the music magazine The Teenage Wasteland Gazette, known for its sarcastic, wise-guy attitude. The publication's contributors included famed rock critic Lester Bangs, who invited Andy to write for Creem magazine. Shernoff's early profession of choice was rock journalist.

As both a journalist and a musician, Andy Shernoff is often credited as "Adny Shernoff," a deliberate typo transposing the second and third letters of his name. Shernoff has never explained the reasoning behind this stylistic quirk.

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