“It was never a phase” – one of the stand out lines from Simple Plan’s Pierre Bouvier at the Birmingham show on this throwback emo-filled tour, where both young and elder emos were treated to classics from Simple Plan and Mayday Parade, as well as some pop punk action from State Champs and AirYel. If…
We are just a few days away from the long awaited 20th anniversary edition of the Download Festival aka Download 2023! There are over 100 bands appearing across the four full days of the festival, plus the five bands in the boardie takeover on Wednesday kicking off the festival. Not to mention loads of the…
With just over 6 weeks until the annual pilgrimage to the Hallowed Donington turf, the Download Festival 2023 team have two big bits of news; more bands, and the stage splits for this year’s festival! New additions include pop punk favourites State Champs, recently reformed emo/post-hardcore favourites Casey and Canadian hardcore punks and longtime friends…
From Albany, New York, State Champs have been a well-known name in the pop punk music scene for many years after forming in 2010. The band have released three full-length albums – the most recent being in 2018, but have since released an array of singles and covers over the years. Now, they have released…
New York pop-punkers, State Champs, have dropped their latest track, 10AM, which shows the band’s ability to slow things down! Frontman, Derek DiScanio, explains, “10 AM might be the most experimental song we’ve written and recorded” having wanted the track to have a mellow, acoustic, feel-good vibe combined with lyrical frustration about questioning your worth…
New York, pop-rockers State Champs are celebrating their 10 year anniversary this year and to mark the occasion they’ll be releasing a 6-track EP on 14th August, as well as putting on a very special variety show. The new record, titled State Champs Unplugged will feature four totally new songs from the band, as well…
A quick catch up on our Spotify Playlist for this week! We’ve got fantastic new tracks from the likes of Dream State, Alter Bridge and Ice Nine Kills. There’s also new offerings from Airbourne, Creature, Twin Atlantic, Simple Plan and State Champs (featuring We The Kings) and Jinjer. Then we’ve also got recent releases from…
After the Download Festival 2020 announcement on Monday, it’s now the turn of Slam Dunk 2020 to unveil their first festival bands. Headlining a UK festival for the first time, and making Slam Dunk their exclusive UK festival appearance for 2020 are Don Broco. One of Rock Sins’ favourite bands, State Champs, also seem to…
Heads are sore, feet are weary but that matters not because there is one full day of Download 2019 left to go. The Donington masses collectively dust themselves down as they head towards Tool, Enter Shikari, Slayer’s last ever UK show and much more, so let’s get straight to it. I Prevail (7), through no…
Ahead of their second ever performance at Download Festival, Rock Sins caught up with frontman Derek DiScanio and lead guitarist Tyler Szalkowski from the American Pop Punk band, State Champs to talk anniversaries, adapting to the changing music industry and that one time Tyler chugged a bottle of Lucozade Sport at airport security! How are…
We said with their first announcement that the Download Festival team certainly weren’t messing around with their plans for 2019. Having dropped all three headliners and another dozen plus bands in the first announcement, they’ve followed it up with another mammoth helping of bands for next year. There’s only one place we can start, and…
After Halflives win last time out, it’s time for another six bands to do battle in Rock Sins video of the week. Kicking things off this time are none other than some familiar lads from St Albans…. Enter Shikari are a band known for having creative and varied music videos, but this time, they’ve not…
