Ethan Tufts

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Ethan Tufts
Birth nameEthan Tufts
Also known asState Shirt
Born (1976-06-09) 9 June 1976 (age 47)
Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S.
Instrument(s)Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Synths, Drums
Years active2001 - present
LabelsLos 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]

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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]

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