Ethan Tufts is an American songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist and YouTuber. He creates music under the pseudonym State Shirt. Tufts is known for creating automotive videos on the YouTube channel Hello Road.
State Shirt
Tufts' music is known for its diverse and often unpredictable style, integrating
live looping
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in both recordings and live performances. All of his songs are open source and licensed via
Creative Commons
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, providing raw materials for the hundreds of remix artists that have created new works based on his source tracks. Tufts currently resides in
Los Angeles, California.
He released his debut album ''Don't Die'' in 2004, and his second album ''This Is Old'' in 2008. The first single from ''This is Old'' i
"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, and his most recent album, ''Lost Hills'' was released in August 2015.
Discography
Albums
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Lost Hills
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Life is Easy
''Life Is Easy'' is a compilation album by Birmingham-based industrial metal group Fall of Because, compiling songs recorded in 1986 and 1987 before the band became Godflesh. Released on 24 August 1999 through Alleysweeper and distributed by Mart ...
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Let's Get Bloody
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This Is Old
This may refer to:
* ''This'', the singular proximal demonstrative pronoun
Places
* This, or ''Thinis'', an ancient city in Upper Egypt
* This, Ardennes, a commune in France
People with the surname
* Hervé This, French culinary chemist Arts, e ...
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Don't Die
''You Can't Stop Me'' is the fourth studio album by American deathcore band Suicide Silence. It was released in the UK on July 14, 2014 and in North America on July 15 by Nuclear Blast. It is the first album featuring vocalist Hernan "Eddie" Herm ...
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New Planet
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Interviews
*Andrew Shaw
"Speed Date: Talking Tacos, Heroes & Spending Unhealthy Amounts of Time in the Studio" ''Buzzine'', December 20, 2011
*Heather Rush
''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
References
External links
Official State Shirt WebsiteOfficial Hello Road Website
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1976 births
American multi-instrumentalists
Living people
People from Northampton, Massachusetts
Singer-songwriters from Massachusetts
21st-century American singer-songwriters
YouTubers from Massachusetts