About Me
We have seen a resurgence of lyric-driven music, and with it the shaking up of
an underground populace, an army of former pop-addicts gone emo, all seeking
intellectual betterment, literary breadth, and the ever-elusive label of
"well-read", "intelligent" or otherwise understanding and in touch with the
plight of the ordinary man, such is the unavoidable backlash of prosperity, the
ideological realignment of a nation discontent with convention, with no
sustenance for their hunger besides the parades of synthetic emo and Salinger-esque,
MTV distributed, 15-dollar-a-copy paperbacks that make less than a stab at
original thought.
This new face of music and thought is owed to the artists of our youth who now
stand on the cusp of fame, not to the corporate showcase. It is Ad Astra's idea
that this practice of growth should continue, we feel that great ideas are not
conceived in the glass towers over central park, rather in the streets
themselves. Ad Astra, the literary off-shoot of Orange County's We The People
Records, was formed for this reason, to provide an arena for the aspirations of
America's most progressive writers of lyrics, poetry and prose.
We are a couple kids doing what it takes, we are self-published, self-managed
and self-distributed.
We are not the big guy, we are not hype, we are not fame.
So hurrah for that, we can have our own parades.
