ASTRONAUTALIS and ME & MY ARROW
*ASTRONAUTALIS TO PERFORM WITH ME AND MY ARROW AS OPENING AND BACKING BAND AT THE 7TH STREET ENTRY ON JANUARY 17!*
Internationally acclaimed indie-hip-hop artist *Astronautalis* (Andy Bothwell) is coming to Minneapolis, fresh off of a SOLD OUT European Tour with Tegan and Sara, to record a new record with P.O.S. (before heading out on tour with P.O.S. and Dessa this spring) and team up with local 7-piece *Me and My Arrow* for a mini mid-west tour that will be stopping at *The 7th Street Entry on Sunday, January 17*.
The energetic live performance that you're used to from Astronautalis will be taken to the next level by Me and My Arrow replacing his backing tracks with orchestrated indie-anthems performed live by the band. Me and My Arrow will also be performing a set of their own before Astronautalis takes the stage with them to close out the night. The show is 18+ and doors open at 8pm.
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Advance Tickets for the show are available online at http://www.first-avenue.com/calendar/The+Entry/2010-0. Just click on the "tickets" link for the date of the show.
They will also be appearing on January 15 at The Beat Kitchen in Chicago, IL.
/Press (Astronautalis):/
“Just as the Rhymesayers and Anticon collectives persuaded adventurous rock fans to explore hip-hop, Astronautalis may just turn a few rap fans on to the sounds of American Gothic."
*-NPR.org*
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*-Seattle Sound Magazine*
"we absolutely love it!"
94%
*-AbsolutePunk.com*
“I wish all records were this exciting."
*-The Portland Mercury*
"Going from battle rapping to the Battle of Trenton isn't the most obvious hip-hop career path, but the results on Pomegranate are amazing!"
*-The Dallas Observer*
"this album is a complete masterpiece"
*-HighBeamReview.com*
"Astro's killin' it here!"
*-The Seattle Stranger*
"his languorous baritone and adventurous songwriting make Astronautalis a refreshing and unexpected treat."
*-Death + Taxes*
“Taking us from the life of a desperate conman, to a pre-Ian Fleming tale of an espionage during the Opium Wars, then to the heresy trial of William Robertson Smith, to Washington on the Delaware…if Thomas Pynchon picked up mic at Scribble Jam, he might sound like Astro in Pomegranate”
*-TrebleZine.com*
“At first, particularly coming from The Mighty Ocean, the departure can be jarring, but just give Astronautalis a few moments to flash his conman’s pearly whites (or gold grill as may be the case). He’ll have your ears in bed with him before you have time to think."
*-ConsequenceOfSound.net*
"this album is great."
*-PartyEnds.com*
"mind-blowing"
*-Reax Magazine*
ASTRONAUTALIS
Once you find out that Astronautalis was born to a Texas train man with a nose crooked from bar fights and a pretty Kentucky girl who ran away from home at 17 to become a photographer, it becomes clear that he didn’t stumble into the life of a drifter, he was born into it. With a poet uncle who lived off horse betting and hitchhiking, grandfathers who were spies, sailors, and test pilots, and over 500,000 miles of touring under his own belt, you have to wonder where the tales in Astronautalis’ music end and the life of Andy Bothwell begins. Currently settled (for now) in Minneapolis, by way of Seattle, by way of Dallas by way of Jacksonville Beach, FL; Bothwell has spent almost every waking moment of the last 7 years, on the road, playing shows, earning scars, collecting/giving tattoos, grinding out a cult like fan base, and living up to his proud, storied, and whiskey soaked blood line.
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Having started in music over 15 years ago as a battle rapper, Astronautalis’ roots are planted firmly in hip-hop. However, the sounds and styles on his albums are an animal not so easily caged, and his latest release, This Is Our Science is no exception to that tradition of wild genre bending. Like previous records Bothwell uses that limitless approach to aid in his vivid storytelling, but where This is Our Science takes a turn from tradition, is in the subject matter itself. While previous records read like historical fiction, documenting the lives of the bygone, the footnotes, and the forgotten, This is Our Science is pure autobiography. While there are flash references to scientists from the Age of Enlightenment and old dead French mountaineers, these ghosts serve merely as parallels, rest stops in the story of the last 7 years of Bothwell’s romance with the road. Neither a rap record, nor a rock record, it is a work that finally captures the vein popping intensity and high melodrama of his famous live shows. All the while, maintaining the steadfast literary tradition and masterful storytelling of his previous studio albums.
ME AND MY ARROW
"There's been a lot of talk about the size of local band Me & My Arrow, but it's warranted, since there are only a small handful of Minneapolis stages that can accommodate them comfortably. They've recently trimmed down from nine members to a relatively lean seven, but in order to pull off the anthemic, heavily layered sound that's become the band's stock-in-trade, the largeness is a necessity rather than overkill.
