Shane (Benedict) and I went to see the Southern Culture on the Skids SCOTS show on Saturday night. SCOTS is one of the best live bands I’ve ever seen and I definitely make it goal to see them whenever they come through town. This time the “Gore Gore Girls” played the opening show. The Gore Gore Girls were mostly impressive in their amazingly tacky getup, which included matching guitars and amps, matching boots and incredibly short pleather/vinyl dresses. Besides, what’s not to like about a band that wrote a song about Astral, man?

Ya’ll should just check this out: AstralMan

Happy Holidays!

Yonton.

We are lucky to work with people who have an eye for art here at Astral and Jared is no exception. He methodically scans the World Wide Web is search of provocative and entertaining photography. He understands that finding the photo can be as rewarding as taking the picture in the first place….This is actually a tremendously important service to society because these are the kinds of people that make randomly searching the internet fun. To clarify the importance of Jared’s work please refer to the following example…

If one were to Google the word “Kung Pao” they would expect to get a highly entertaining image like this (thanks to people like Jared)

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Here at Astral we are always looking for new outlets to get our products on the water. This past week I was approached by The Dr. Scotty Orville from Athens, GA about participating in this years RE: Generation Festival, headlined by Sound Tribe Sector Nine. The annual festival is located at The Deerfiels, a lage outdoor venue about 30 minutes east of Asheville near Mill’s River.

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