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

Albums

• Lost Hills (Aug, 2015)
• Life is Easy (Jan, 2015)
• Let's Get Bloody (Dec, 2011)
• This Is Old (Nov, 2008)
• Don't Die (Jun, 2004)
• New Planet (Jun, 2002)

Interviews

• Andrew Shaw, "Speed Date: Talking Tacos, Heroes & Spending Unhealthy Amounts of Time in the Studio", Buzzine, December 20, 2011
• Heather Rush, "An Interview with State Shirt - Ethan Tufts", HiddenTrack (Blog), masslive.com, February 16, 2009
• "The Guitar Hero Series: State Shirt", Interview, JemSite, jemsite.com

Reviews

• Jay Gary, "State Shirt goes beyond stereotype", Central Michigan Life, January 24, 2012
• "State Shirt - Don't Die 'Whisperin' And Hollerin', Review
• "State Shirt - Don't Die", Review, Plug-In Music.com

External links

• Official State Shirt Website
• Official Hello Road Website

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 .