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Early States

On Tour / Early States on MTV's "My Life As Liz" promo spot!

Genres: Rock / Alternative / Other

Location: Sacramento, CA

Stats: 1,203 fans / 124,558 plays / 0 plays today

Members: Zack & Shaun

Early States's Top Song: Smoke In My Eyes Buy Album

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Early States was formed in November of 2007 by two good friends: singer/guitarist Zack Gray and keyboardist/guitarist Shaun O'Brien. The band began to pick up momentum after taking first place at a battle of the bands competition in San Francisco, California and being invited to play the Maloof Money Cup in Orange County, California, widely known as the biggest skateboard competition ever hosted.

After releasing their debut EP "Powerlines" in Nov '08, the band was quickly named one of the top 21 unsigned bands of 2008 by Purevolume.com. Subsequently, Early States' purevolume profile logged in over 100,000 plays and gained them a whole new audience. In addition, their song "Smoke In My Eyes" was placed in the TNT show "Trust Me" (March 10th '09 episode). Following on that success, Early States submitted their music to MTV and was excited to find that MTV used three different ES songs in the show "True Life: I"m Rehabbing My Injury."

With the attention Smoke In My Eyes received, Early States decided to release the song as a remix. The song was remixed by AMPLIVE, better known for his remixes of Radiohead's In Rainbows, and Tokyo Police Club's Baskervilles, and Linkin Park.

As 2009 unfolded, ES continued getting good news: They were selected as the Finalist in the Rock Category of the John Lennon Songwriting contest, winning over $4,000 in prizes and being selected to play on the Vans Warped Tour summer of 2009. Early States is signed to Wind-Up Records, and plans to release their debut LP in 2010.

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paulo cruz said:
HEY guys! This KID needs your support! He's only 14 years old and he's trying his best to write some good songs. PLEASE LISTEN! www.purevolume.com/crambola Oct 18
zoe said:
Wow.. I'm impressed! Sep 07
Jenna said:
Still love u guys!!!! Aug 30
rouge(matchlessrecords) said:
well hello there!!!!! we are looking for bands with cds out but aren't on iTunes, and we are doing a distro deal where for forty bucks we'll put them up on all the big stores and send them a good percentage of the sales. Plus, all the top-selling bands get signed by Matchless Records. All the interested ones talk to chris@matchlessrecords.com This is your big break :) Aug 13
Joe Seaver!! said:
really nice. Aug 12
ForRealFresh said:
Nice tunes guys. :) Jun 20
Nicky said:
I really like your music. Jun 18
sincerely, shelby(: said:
wow... just wow. "cant live this way" is spectacular. Jun 05
Jenna said:
I LOVE YOU GUYS! Mar 21
lyfeisgood said:
*downloads* There's alot of emotion in this. Drops a bit halfway through, but you pick it back up. Definately think you guys would be awesome live. ;) Feb 25
Jonathan Waldron said:
Hey, why don't you guys come down to San Diego? You guys are great. Feb 16
zombiexleigha said:
-downloads smoke in my eyes. im loving you guys. Jan 30
IndiEvidual said:
i cant listen to ur music without the smoke in my eyes, i love it! so come to australia plz! Jan 28
Monkeybuttt said:
I really like your songs! you're a HIT! keep it coming!! Jan 09
Jenna said:
Hey guys.You guys are awesome, keep up the good work. Dec 31