State Champs
The Showbox
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Seattle
Thursday, March 21 at 7:30 pm PDT
Serves Food
Concert Venue
Thursday, March 21 at 7:30 pm PDT
Serves Food
Concert Venue
Details
Description
Guests 21 and over can join us in the Kerns Music Lounge (adjacent to our main lobby) 2 hours prior to scheduled door time for food, drinks and priority entry into the showroom.
Over the past decade, Albany, New York’s State Champs have become a major player in the world of pop-punk, helping define the shape of the genre for a new generation of fans. And on June 15 2018, Living
Proof
pushed pop-punk forward. Formed in 2010 by vocalist Derek DiScanio and guitarist Tyler Szalkowski, the pair began laying the foundation of State Champs in garages and basements throughout their hometown. The band’s lineup would shift a bit, but DiScanio and Szalkowski were always at the helm, crafting the band’s 2013 debut,
The Finer Things
, along with guitarist Tony "Rival" Diaz and drummer Evan Ambrosio. They’d add bassist Ryan Scott Graham the following year and, in 2015, they’d release
Around The World And Back
, a record that elevated State Champs to a frontrunner in the genre. The band’s third album,
Living Proof
, was released on June 15 on Pure Noise Records, and it’s
the most ambitious and cohesive work in the band’s catalog. “It was like, let’s take as many swings at it, try as many new things and experiment, until we get to the point where we could start searching through it all and then find the album,” says DiScanio of the writing process. On an album full of go-for-broke moments, State Champs pushed themselves to new heights without
ever forgetting where they came from. “There are songs on this album about everything,” he said, “There’s break-ups, and flings, love, loss, all of that. I’ve seen a little bit of everything through this writing process.”
Living Proof
is a record about coming out the other side those experiences, both triumphant and humbled. That growth as palpable, as State Champs made a record that’s like nothing they’ve done before, but is still an album that only they could ever make.