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State Radio State Radio is a Boston-based rock trio comprising singer and primary songwriter Chad Stokes Urmston (also a member of Dispatch), bassist Chuck Fay, and, formerly, drummer Michael Najarian. The band's songs focus on social and political issues ...

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band,

, headlined by former Dispatch vocalist/guitarist,

Chad Urmston Chad (Chadwick) Stokes Urmston (born February 26, 1976) is an American musician and a human rights activist. He is the frontman for the Boston-area bands Dispatch and State Radio, and released solo music under the name Chadwick Stokes. Early ...

. It features a much heavier sound than Urmston's previous Dispatch material. The album was originally released as an eponymous debut, when the band was still known as Flag of the Shiners. On May 8, 2009, the band played Flag of the Shiners in its entirety at a show at

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. In 2013, the band also played the album in its entirety at the

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in Boston, Massachusetts to celebrate the album's 10 year anniversary.

Track listing

# Mountain – 5:10 # State Inspector – 3:28 # Gunship Politico – 6:45 # Uncertain - 4:43 # Ill Advised - 2:50 # The Legacy Of Margaret Brown - 3:17 State Radio albums 2002 debut EPs