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Archive for November, 2008

radio airplay

54 stations are playing songs off of This Is Old. YAH!

WEGL – Auburn, AL
KHNS – Haines AK
KVMR – Nevada City, CA
KUCR – Riverside, CA
KZSC – Santa Cruz, CA
KCSS – Turlock, CA
KSCU – Fort Collins, CO
WFCS – New Britain, CT – Charted at #29
WVUD – Newark, DE
WMNF – Tampa, FL
WRAS – Atlanta, GA
URH – Hilo, HI – Charted at #23
WMXM – Lake Forest, IL
WVFI – Notre Dame, IN
WRFL – Lexington, KY
KXUL – Monroe, LA
WBOR – Brunswick, ME
WMPG – Portland, ME
CJUM – Winnipeg, MAN
WMUC – College Park, MD
WMUA – Amherst, MA
WBMR – Cambridge, MA
WBRS – Waltham, MA
KUOM – Minneapolis, MN
KRLX – Northfield, MN
3WK – St Louis, MO
KDHX – St Louis, MO
KSLU – St Louis, MO – Charted at #26
KWUR – St Louis, MO
RLC – Piscataway, NJ
WICB – Ithaca, NY
WUSB – Stony Brook, NY – Charted at #27
WRPI – Troy, NY
WBGU – Bowling Green, OH
KRSC – Claremore, OK
KXZY – Stillwater, OK
CHUO – Ottawa, ONT
CILU – Thunder Bay, ONT
KEOL – La Grande, OR
WMUH – Allentown, PA
WARC – Meadville, PA
WIXQ – Millersville, PA
WPPJ – Pittsburgh, PA
WSYC – Shippensburg, PA
WVYC – York, PA
WDOM – Providence, RI
WUTK – Knoxville, TN – Charted at #30!
Radio UTD – Richardson, TX
KSYM – San Antonio, TX
WRUV – Burlington, VT
WXJM – Harrisonburg, VA
KUGS – Bellingham, WA
WSRI – Eau Claire, WI
WSUM – Madison, WI

The remixes are rolling in…

I just created a Remix page that features all of the remixes that have been coming in over the last few days. I’ll continue to update the page as more roll in.

Here are a few:
DoKashiteru – I Fell Out Of The Sky – This one is just amazing.
Chris Fudurich – Fell Out Of The Sky v02 – Incredible triptastic remix. (And just a remix wasn’t enough–Chris was also present for the final day of the Fell Out Of The Sky music video shoot!
Khidir – Fell Out Of The Sky (alalala remix) – Impressively happy remix.

Make sure to check out all of the remixes on the Remix page.

Music video shoot – final day

After four very full and busy days, the shooting for the “Fell Out Of The Sky” music video has come to an end. Today was the greatly anticipated party scene, which wouldn’t have been possible without all of our friends, who had to take a break from their busy lives to eat, drink and be merry. Editing for the video starts next week!

Not a whole lot of time for me to take many photos today, so I only have a few to post for now. I’ll try to dig around for some more soon.

Music video shoot – day 3

Holy crap today was a lengthy and intense day of filming! Tomorrow is the last day, the big fancy party scene. Here are a few photos from today:

First Coast News – review

Some snippets from Paul POP’s review (First Coast News). Link to review

“DIY hand made folktronica that sounds as if Elbow got in a car crash with Folk Implosion and the Postal Service.”

“The unobtrusive nature of all this permeates the haunting nature of this album and it makes it seem as if the the whole thing were created by loop loving ghosts.”

This is Old is a fascinating listen and an interesting peek into State Shirt’s soul.”

“Melancholy and being stuck in a never ending routine has never sounded so good.”

The Airwaves Are Old

A bunch of stations are playing some songs off This Is Old:

KVMR – Nevada City, CA
KUCR – Riverside, CA
KSCU – Fort Collins, CO
WFCS – New Britain, CT – charted at #29
WNHU – West Haven, CT
WVUD – Newark, DE
WRAS – Atlanta, GA
URH – Hilo, HI
WVFi – Notre Dame, IN
KXUL – Monroe, LA
WMPG – Portland, ME
CJUM – Winnipeg, MAN
WMUC – College Park, MD
WBRS – Waltham, MA
KRLX – Northfield, MN
3WK – St Louis, MO
KDHX – St Louis, MO
KSLU-1 – St Louis, MO
WUSB – Stony Brook, NY – charted at #27
WRPI – Troy, NY
WBGU – Bowling Green, OH – charted at #10!
KRSC – Claremore, OK
KXZY – Stillwater, OK
CILU – Thunder Bay, ONT
WMUH – Allentown, PA
WARC – Meadville, PA
WIXQ – Millersville, PA
WPPJ – Pittsburgh, PA
WSYC – Shippensburg, PA
WVYC – York, PA
WDOM – Providence, RI
WUTK – Knoxville, TN
KSYM – San Antonio, TX
WRSI – Eau Claire, WI
WSUM – Madison, WI

Radio / Podcast love

Yay, looks like some college radio stations are picking up This Is Old. These supercool stations have added it to their catalog:

WFCS – New Britain, CT
WNHU – West Haven, CT
WRAS – Atlanta, GA
URH – Hilo, HI
3WK – St. Louis, MO
WGBU – Bowling Green, OH
KXZY – Stillwater, OK
CILU – Thunder Bay, ONT
WPPJ – Pittsburgh, PA
WUTK – Knoxville, TN
KSYM – San Antonio, TX
WSRI, Eau Claire, WI

And a couple podcasts have played some new songs:

The Get Up Rotation
The Multiple Sclerosis Blog Podcast

Remix contest!

Line 6 POD Studio UX2 Ok. I’m giving away a brand spankin new Line 6 POD Studio UX2 recording interface ($200 value!) for the best remix that comes in. All you need to do is:

1. Create a super badass remix of one of my songs (or several remixes, there is no limit). Source files are here.

2. Submit the remix by emailing me with an MP3 attachment, or by uploading them to ccmixter.org and notifying me by email. Me and my team of remix experts will pick the most awesomest remix of the month. And give you the prize.

Hop to it!

PS. Any State Shirt remix posted on ccMixter (or sent to me) from November 11 to December 17 will be eligible. And yes, there will be another contest starting December 18!

Music video shoot – day 2

So the second day of shooting has come to an end. We got some amazing shots and the actors were all outstanding. One more weekend of filming coming up, and then we’re off to editing! Here are some photos of the day:

Music video shoot – day 1

Today was the first day of filming for the “Fell Out Of The Sky” music video! The unbearable smoke and ash from the Sylmar fire forced us to change ALL of our locations today, but we were fortunate to find some great alternate locations. All of the actors and crew were great! More shooting tomorrow, and next weekend as well. Here are some photos:

The great CD and t-shirt mailout of 2008

You too could be part of the State Shirt CD/t-shirt mailout extravaganza and all-star revue. Clicky click to procure your place in post office history.

mailing out cds and t-shirts

This Is Old updates

OMG!!111 This Is Old is making it around thar interwebs.

  • Eric R Danton of the Hartford Courant likes it
  • ccMixter is running a call for remixes and samples. First remix is in!
  • On iTunes now!
  • Pensatos says some nice things
  • I guess I’m a rock sellout
  • Metawelle.net mentioned the ccMixter remix thing. I need to brush up on my German (ok, I don’t know any German). Let’s just hope it’s good!
  • WKNC in Raleigh, NC played it. WRVU in Nashville played it. KUCR in Riverside, CA played it. Thanks!

Remix me and I’ll remix you.

Download the audio source files from my new album and go crazy, have fun, make some remixes. Then post your remix and your own samples on ccMixter or send them to me and I’ll use your audio to create my next album!

Call for Remixes

Remix a song, post it on ccMixter, and let me know. I’ll feature all of the remixes on stateshirt.com and will be rewarding the best and most creative remixes with a few goodies and a spot on a (future) This Is Old remix album. Submit a remix before Nov 17 and be entered to win a Line 6 POD Studio UX2. Remix early and remix often!

Call for Samples

I’m creating a new album of music comprised entirely of Creative Commons licensed audio samples. It will be a process of merging, tweaking, remixing and piecing together all of your work. Could be drumbeats, guitar parts, a cappella vocals, noises, accordion, part of a song you never finished, screaming, spoken words, whatever you want to send. Submit audio samples for this project on ccMixter or send them my way. Thanks!

Audio Source files

Audio source files for the new album are now available. This includes every instrument, loop and vocal track. Have fun!

This Is Old released!

The new State Shirt album This is Old is finally released. I hope you like it. It’s available as a CD, MP3 files and FLAC files. And I’d be glad if you shared it with your friends (and enemies). And I’d be just as glad if you purchased a copy. Each CD comes with a neato State Shirt bumper sticker and instant MP3 downloads. Thanks to everyone for their support, I promise the next album won’t take four years.

Buy the CD or MP3s

It’s also available at Amazon, CDBaby, eMusic and will soon be on iTunes. The album is also up at last.fm and it looks like it will be on Jamendo any day now.

The new album is almost here!


Less than a week until This Is Old is released. Pre-order sales of the new album have been great, they’re really piling up. Thanks so much everyone!

  • Attention valued listeners: If you ordered a CD, it will be sent out soon, I’m just waiting for the bumper stickers to arrive so I can send those out too! In the meantime, anyone who has pre-ordered the CD can download MP3s of all the songs! Check the email I sent you when you ordered, the download link there is now activated.
  • If you haven’t already ordered and you’re not into the whole PayPal thing, on 11.11.08 the album will be available on Amazon and CDBaby. It’s been sent off to iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody and eMusic, and will show up whenever they get around to putting it up. (And, next week I will be offering MP3 and FLAC downloads right here on my site).
  • Had some CDs sent out to college radio and press, hope someone likes it enough to play it or write about it. Also sent off CDs to Pandora and Jango, maybe they’ll put this album up there?

Thanks everyone for the support.

West Hollywood Halloween Carnival in a Tinky Winky costume

This is what happens when you go to the West Hollywood Halloween Carnival in an incredible Tinky Winky teletubby costume. We were only there about an hour and Angela ended up posing with over 300 people.

(and this is only about 1/2 of the photos!)