For better or worse, Andy Frasco has been married to the music industry since before he could
grow facial hair. At just sixteen, Frasco worked for labels like Drive-Thru Records and Capitol,
booking nationwide tours for his pop-punk heroes and wheeling and dealing on calls he’d take
on the sly during lunch. He’s been on road since he was 19 with his band Andy Frasco & the
U.N., played over 250 shows per year for more than decade, lived on bad bar food, and slept in
vans, and now, after more than a decade on the musical grind, he’s finally finding himself.
The culmination of those efforts is Wash, Rinse, Repeat, which drops April 8th via his own label,
Fun Machine Records. “This was my chance to learn my craft and fall in love with songwriting
again,” he says. “This is me. This is how I feel. I’m not trying to write songs for other people
anymore. I’m just trying to write songs that help me. And hopefully through that, help others,
too.”
Written across the country with members of Dashboard Confessional, 3oh!3, Doom Flamingo,
AWOLnation, and more, the record is a portrait of Frasco as a musician — and a man. Dealing
with everything from addiction (“Spill the Beans”) to breaking old romantic habits (“Grow Old”)
to fighting through the bad days to find the good (“Puff Break (Believe That)”), Wash, Rinse,
Repeat stands as Frasco’s most complete, mature effort yet. With Bonnaroo and touring on the
horizon, Frasco is ready for people to stop thinking of him as a party-boy frontman with a yen
for stage-diving and to listen to his words.