Ethan Tufts Explained

Ethan Tufts
Background:solo_singer
Birth Name:Ethan Tufts
Alias:State Shirt
Birth Date:9 June 1976
Birth Place:Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S.
Instrument:Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Synths, Drums
Years Active:2001 - present
Label:Los Fucking Angeles
Website:www.stateshirt.com

Ethan Tufts is an American songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist and YouTuber. He creates music under the pseudonym State Shirt.[1] Tufts is known for creating automotive videos on the YouTube channel Hello Road.[2]

State Shirt

Tufts' music is known for its diverse and often unpredictable style, integrating live looping[3] in both recordings and live performances. All of his songs are open source and licensed via Creative Commons,[4] providing raw materials for the hundreds of remix artists that have created new works based on his source tracks.[5] Tufts currently resides in Los Angeles, California.

He released his debut album Don't Die in 2004,[6] and his second album This Is Old in 2008.[7] The first single from This is Old is "Fell Out of the Sky," a song inspired by the black box data recordings recovered from the crash of Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182, September 25, 1978. Let's Get Bloody was released in 2008,[8] and his most recent album, Lost Hills was released in August 2015.[9]

Discography

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Interviews

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External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: State Shirt Discography . Discogs.
  2. Web site: Watch This Rad Guy Road Trip His Obscure Rad Car To Radwood . April 1, 2018 . Jalopnik.
  3. Web site: State of the Stomp: Looping Tips and Techniques . October 28, 2013 . Premier Guitar.
  4. Web site: State Shirt embraces digital world – you can steal his tunes but you'll probably pay up . February 24, 2012 . Music Missionary.
  5. Web site: Remix State Shirt and He'll Remix You . ccMixter.
  6. Web site: Don't Die album review . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20050206172355/http://www.indieville.com/reviews/stateshirt.htm . February 6, 2005 . January 19, 2023 . Indieville.
  7. Web site: This is Old album review . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20090328154039/https://leonardslair.wordpress.com/2008/12/31/review-state-shirt-this-is-old/ . March 28, 2009 . January 19, 2023 . Leonard’s Lair. 31 December 2008 .
  8. Web site: Something For The Weekend: A Free Album of Indie-Pop Drive & Dreamlike Ambition . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120109195036/http://www.buzzinemusic.com/reviews/music-review-state-shirt-lets-get-bloody-12162011 . January 9, 2012 . January 19, 2023 . Buzzine.
  9. Web site: Lost Hills album . Discogs. 11 August 2015 .