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Ethan Tufts | |
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| Birth name | Ethan Tufts |
| Also known as | State Shirt |
| Born | 9 June 1976 Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Synths, Drums |
| Years active | 2001 - present |
| Labels | 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]
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," Archived 2009-04-01 at the Wayback Machine 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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