Show announcement: Stateside with Mic Harrison at Patrick Sullivan's, CD release party, Saturday, June 5th.

So, i accidentally caught Stateside on tour a couple weeks back and nearly crapped my pants at how awesome they were.

I was there for the headliner (The Love Scene, whose EP Blood is the New Black i really adore) and Stateside was the opening act.

Imagine my surprise to discover that the band was fronted by none other than Knoxville's own John Paul Keith, formerly of the V-Roys, the Filter Kings, the Dynamatics, the Have-Nots, and the Nevers). They blew the doors off the place--it was one of the best shows i've seen in an age, and spindly fragile mod-suited men screaming about pain and whispering about love and howling about life and crooning about sorrow just really do my heart good.

So, i had a long drunk ex-Knoxvillian reminiscence with JPK and bought their new album ("Phonograph"). I figured I'd post about this show here, since some of y'all might know him, or have known him, and the music he's making now is really amazing.