My friend Ross sent this to me, he saw it over at the MatrixSynth site. YouTube video is via musica95.

A band with a robot guitarist? Pretty cool. A band with a robot drummer? Neato. How about a band with a robot vocalist? That’s pretty amazing. This artist (Maywa Denki) has found a way to create an actual singing robot, consisting of a mechanical bellows and a computer-controlled vocal chord made of rubber. That’s just silly cool. Check out the video.

And check out the lyrics, they’re silly cool as well:

“It always looks like an empty panda”.
“Louise Brown: What are you looking at to dance?”
“Surprise hiccups, la cha cha cha”

Look out for a new State Shirt album coming in early 2008.  I have about 15 tracks in the works, most of which were recorded here in my Los Angeles bedroom studio… although I did do a few overdubs with friends out in Massachusetts. I hope to have a few more guest stars as well, some of them will be announced here. Lastly, if I can make it happen I will have an amazing producer make it all sound shiny. And hopefully if I can get my shit together, there just might be a limited-edition EP coming in late ’07 as well. Stay tuned!

After months (years) of being beat down by a full time job, hating this city, and coming home and wanting to do nothing but drink, I have finally dug myself out from beneath the shit to get back in the studio. I’ve picked up some older tracks that I worked on with a few friends in Massachusetts, and some new tracks that have been inspired by my desire to not have all the life drained from my body by working all of the time. Finally the days are getting a bit less monotonous. And music is coming out. I’ve got about 15 in-progress tracks for the new album. I will probably end up whittling it down to 10 or so, and putting a bunch of free tracks up on somesongs.com, last.fm and other sites. Stay tuned, I am damn excited about finally getting another album out.

I’ve been toying with the idea of putting together some sort of small US tour in early 2008, and wanted to start looking into doing shows outside of lovely (shitty) los angeles. If you want me to play your town, demand State Shirt on Eventful.com. Click on the Demand It button below. I just signed up so there are only a couple demands, so click away and demand State Shirt!

Kobol’s remix of State Shirt’s “Straw Man” will lead off their upcoming album Extempore. Check out the remix on their Myspace page. Extempore comes out November 6, 2007. Kobol mixes low tempo beats, freestyle jams, jazzy vibes, audio manipulation and gritty beats into an amazing musical landscape. Like their website says “A jazz album for tweekheads and an electronic album for jazzheads.” Check out their new album and the State Shirt remix!

Their last album Broken Ebony was listed on XLR8R.com’s Top 10 album picks in 2006.