the pirate house, the lake of the ozarks, lawrence, kansas, kelly corcoran, stephanie wakefield, ailecia rusin, john counts, the lovegarden, photocopies, kansas city, pineapple malibu, home depot, michael and jay wells, guy debord, bahama mama, cheeseburgers, gas prices, brake lights, laszlo toth, henry daggs, bobby in denton, rude emails, hearsay, being able to read, flannery, muppet punx, mono, crap corps, jenny noyce, tyler galloway, the wizards from kansas, drakkar sauna, lowell fletcher, the weather, the weather underground, ssion, mario chalmers, volcano, replay, mark hurst, kjhk.
Sounds Like
"Part no wave tsunami, part 'more cowbell' party band..." - the Boston Phonenix.
Record Label
BBS, Sonic Unyon, Lovegarden Sounds, Second Nature
You can get our records from these honest merchants. We know them and back them! Click the record for a link.
These releases (L to R):
1. Catapult Calypso CD. Sonic Unyon 2006.
2. Catapult Calypso LP. Second Nature 2008.
3. Love Garden 7" number 1. Love Garden 2008.
4. Love Garden 7" number 2. Love Garden 2008.
Love Garden, Second Nature, and Blue Collar Distro are all Lawrence, KS or Kansas City, MO based.
Since myspace doesn't allow downloads anymore - check out our purevolume: http://www.purevolume.com/adastraperaspera You can download all of Cubic Zirconia there and a couple of early tracks.
WEB HISTORY!
Ad Astra Per Aspera formed in the fall of 2001. It was a great year to form a band. At first, we had one of those free angelfire websites, that was great until the ads got out of control. In 2004 we picked up a dot com and began promoting ourselves more professionally. Eventually, we decided our dot com needed some flash and we had it redesigned about a year ago. But after a year, we've decided we want things to move around or spin or something. Know what i mean? Somewhere in there we set up a myspace.
If we can figure out a way to make things more spin-ny on here, we'll do it.
John Counts takes killer photos. He shot the roman candles photo and the photos in the flint hills. He does fantastic work! Check it out here.
LIVE VIDEOS (Right-Click to Open in New Window):
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you guys are the midwest's secret fucking weapon i tell you right now. have'nt been to the page in a while. good god come play springfield. the scene is stagnant as fuck. we'll set up a show brothers and sisters.
I envy your ability to make happy songs. I can't do it. I try and it just comes out bitter sweet. I don't get it. I'm a happy person, I should be able to write a happy song.
John Counts takes killer photos. He shot the roman candles photo and the photos in the flint hills. He does fantastic work! 
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