By Gary Stuckey"Bout as edgy as an ice cream cone." says Andrew Hagar about his new single. It's called "Cold Knife Karma" and it has really taken off on Spotify with over 10,000 streams in just a week after it's Friday the 13th release. The song even sounds like it could be included in the soundtrack of a horror movie.
Hagar, the son of former Van Halen lead singer Sammy Hagar, has a sound of his own and is making his own way on the music scene as a singer and songwriter.
I spoke with Hagar during a recent interview with my podcast Real Music. We talked about
his career, laughed many, many times and we discussed his new single.
"You can't run from a cold hard fact....Cold knife karma is at your back!"
"Like a lot of things artistic....that started off kinda with a bunch of negative things that happened
to me and I figured out how to turn that negative into a positive. I wrote that back to back with my
last single Judgement Day earlier this year. We finished the demos of those songs kind of concurrently
around February or so, and you know, we were getting ready to do like this little UK/ Western European
tour, with like a release show in London and all this stuff. We were booking everything right before
lockdown started, and then I was shopping around South by Southwest and all of these other festivals,
getting everything together for the releases...and then boom! Lockdown hit and everything changed...
much like it did for everybody else! (laughs)
I spent a little while trying to figure out the best way to maximize these releases because, you know,
traditionally you wanna go tour the song and do press. I've been trying for years to get back on
the festival circuit like I was in 2016 and 2017.It seemed like this year was going to be the year for me, so, after we all got the carpet pulled out from underneath us, it took me a while how to figure out how
to best work these releases. I was working with a digital distribution sinc guy for a while and he got
Covid and kinda went of the rails for a bit, so all my releases were kinda like delayed...
"The song has got some overtones I'm sure people are reading into it what they want...about
what's going on in the world right now, but I'm sure pretty much everybody has somebody in
mind when they're listening to that song!(laughs)
"Everything comes back around....A big part of my personal growth over the last few years...
It's like letting go, not holding on to things and letting the world or universe, whatever you
want to say, kinda take care of things for you. You know, that's like part of the genesis of the song. Some stuff that's cropping up in my life and I was like, Man, I didn't want to hold on to the anger
or anything...and I was like, Karma's gonna take care of this s--- for real."
Hagar has different styles of music that he likes to cover when writing and recording music.
"I've been exploring a lot of different things for the past few years, production wise. In my heart I'm
like a singer-songwriter."
"I love music. Even though I haven't been playing music for that long, I've been a student of the
game for a long time, ever since I was born."
Andrew has more music on the way....so stay tuned.
Stream his song "Cold Knife Karma" right here:
Hear the whole interview at www.anchor.fm/gary-stuckey
