Astronautalis (Los Angeles, CA)

Astronautalis

with Sarah Jaffe Transit 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 seventeen 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 zero 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 7yrs 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.Having started in music over 15yrs ago as a battle rapper...