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Sherborn, Massachusetts, United States (2002 – present)

For generations of great American songwriters, the music and the message have been inextricably linked. Word and deed are one in the same, and the only thing more moving than the rousing call to action is the evocative melody that transports the words like a shell casing. These are fire-breathing poets of justice who sing about ordinary people in extraordinary ways, and can turn the world inside out with three chords and the truth. These are the tenets by which STATE RADIO’s Chad Stokes Urmston, Chuck Fay, and Mike “Mad Dog” Najarian are driven, and they once again flex that strength and sense of purpose on their third album, LET IT GO. But this is no soapbox symposium.

“It’s the only way I know how to do it,” says singer/guitarist Stokes about the band’s impassioned social consciousness. “It’s the only way State Radio has done it. This has always been an organic, grassroots thing. It’s about trying to be true to what we do.”

Like Rage Against The Machine and System Of A Down before them, State Radio roll up their sleeves as they practice what they preach, whether it’s riding bikes to gigs to support Bikes Not Bombs, hosting food drives in conjunction with Rock For A Remedy, or playing shows to raise money for the Learning Center for the Deaf. How’s Your News?, a film project created by Stokes while working at a camp for adults with disabilities, where the campers are the reporters, was just a way for Stokes and company to flip the standard interview format on its head with a different viewpoint before it was picked up by Trey Parker and Matt Stone for a run on HBO and MTV.

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tj311 wrote:
9 days ago

love

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tiggerj wrote:
15 days ago

damn fine stuff

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Grassro0ts311 wrote:
26 days ago

The Brattle is sick

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slugger6720 wrote:
26 days ago

can someone send me the brattle theatre performance? I have the hard copy of Let it Go so I didnt get the iTunes performance. thanks

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weirdfishjacek wrote:
December 2009

Aww, don't say never! Maybe someday they'll do a South American tour, if they keep getting bigger at the rate they are already...

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Tarpinian wrote:
December 2009

Wonderful band! sad to know that i'll never see State Radio here in Brazil...

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foxyboy7 wrote:
December 2009

!!! ya ya^))

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renns944 wrote:
November 2009

saw them with 311.. totally upstaged 311. very good live show.

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polyesterrbride wrote:
November 2009

NYC fans - who's going to the show at the Hammerstein on 11/27? They're opening for 311!

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FunkyMonks89 wrote:
November 2009

burlington was greatttt!

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livethephoenix wrote:
October 2009

I love all of Let It Go.

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exnerd wrote:
October 2009

some fantastic songs on the new album. hoping they come back to australia soon

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blazedbuddha wrote:
October 2009

Let it Go has to be my new favorite SR album..great job guys

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jonkra23 wrote:
October 2009

us against the crown - great album

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thism0dernlove wrote:
October 2009

cannot WAIT to see them with 311.

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crb0621 wrote:
October 2009

sr is the bomb diggity

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exnerd wrote:
October 2009

i wish jb would hurry up and get let it go in stock!

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jakk6 wrote:
September 2009

Still and Silent is absolutely wonderful. Thank you, State Radio.

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denis_std wrote:
September 2009

Let It Go - Yeaha!

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LastOneShot wrote:
September 2009

still & silent is the greatest recorded song by state radio ever.

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