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About Me

Formed in January 2003 Astro’n’out is now one of the up–to-date indie-rock bands in Latvia well known as socially active musicians, not only for participating in many social events, but also for their music written for several documentaries and feature films, touching such topics as human trafficking, handicapped people and national patriotism. The band first appears with the radio single “Part of Riga” (Dala Rigas) – positive and catchy song about one of the most criminal parts of Riga city where the young songwriter and soloist of the band Mara comes from. The song becomes well recognized and popular due to its non-standard subject and untypical vocal. It reaches 2nd position in Latvian airplay chart and becomes No.1 in two major radio stations. Afterwards the band is forecasted to be the one hit wonders, but in a while manages to prove themselves with several more successful radio singles and in the year 2006 their debut album “Kuš Kuš” receives the award of “Best Rock Album” in annual Latvian Music Awards. 2006 comes with entry in MTV Baltic Top with a song “Ne gravitatei” (No to gravity) and Astro’n’out becomes regularly shown on MTV Baltic as well as all other TV stations in Latvia. Astro’n’out also gets nominated for “MTV Europe Awards” in catergory of “New Sounds of Europe” 2007. At the very moment the band is having regular performances at clubs and festivals and working in the studio with their second album planned to be released on autumn 2008.
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Member Since: 11/02/2006
Band Website: www.astronout.lv
Band Members: Mara Upmane (vocal, acoustic guitar)

Juris Kalnishs (guitar)

Martins Elerts (guitar)

Martins Milevskis (drums)

Record Label: Avantis
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

feel free...

..to download our songs.
Posted by on Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:31:00 GMT

new songs

Dear friends, we've finally uploaded few songs from our latest album Astro' acoustic (released in december '08). Plastic, Good morning winter and Crossed. Plus one of our own favorites in latvian - Na...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:17:00 GMT

first interview in german ;)

if any of you has a better german that english - here's a small interview you might find interesting to read http://www.lettische-presseschau.de/joomla/index.php?option= com_content&task=view&i...
Posted by on Thu, 08 May 2008 07:08:00 GMT

CHINA TOUR DATES COMING SOON...

China tour dates coming soon!
Posted by on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:32:00 GMT

MTV new sounds of Europe

 ! Happy and proud to tell you our name is now also in lines of MTV awards nominees.Will be thankful for your support with voting!http://www.ema.mtvbaltic.com/voteNow/new-sounds-of-eu rope/astro'n...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 04:01:00 GMT