Education
Lars was born in Berkeley and grew up in the Oakland hills. He attended the Head-Royce School before his family moved to the Monterey Peninsula in 1993.
He then attended Santa Catalina School and Stevenson School and was the co-founder of the Monterey Bay Area punk rock band Amphoteric. He would later leave and the group and switch directions, gaining a progressive metal following (especially amongst Internet listeners). Although the line-up has changed entirely, the group still resides in central California and continues to release albums independently. While at Stevenson he had a morning radio show through the school's radio station, KSPB. The show was called "Morning Madness", which featured Andrew and his co-host, Chris Gates.
Lars moved on as an English studies-major student of Stanford University in California who went on international study at Corpus Christi College, Oxford University in England. During his time at Stanford, MC Lars and fellow band member and Stanford student, Mike Love, co-created and appeared in Good Morning Tresidder Union which appeared on Stanford Cardinal Broadcasting Network (SCBN). While at Stanford, Lars drew a comic strip called 27th Street for the Stanford Daily This was partly due to motivation from a Scottish friend of his youngdarrin. Following his graduation in 2005, it became a webcomic. He had a radio show on Stanford's radio station KZSU, playing nerdcore hip hop and old school rap, prior to being discovered by Truck Records.
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