Tooth & Nail label official welcomed a new band into their family. The band's name is States. On June 19, States will release their album Rooms to Run.

Starting this week through July, States will be touring together with The Rocket Summer and The Scene Aesthetic. To view the tour dates go to https://www.facebook.com/statesmusic/app_123966167614127.

States is composed of Mindy White, Stephen Laurenson, Bryan Laurenson, Jonathan Bucklew, Dean Lorenz. 

Highly stylized aesthetics and lushly layered pop might be where to find the roots of States in terms of sound, but the essence of the band holds itself under the idea that creation comes from collaboration. Ideas need to be cultivated, grown, and harvested. "Here we are," front woman Mindy White declares, "and we can go wherever we want." With no confines and no chief-songwriters to be praised - or the pressures of hype and business - States debut album Room to Run is much more than an album full of '90s chart minded hooks; it's a debut of a band that works as a collective.

In fall of 2009, the emotionally driven outfit Copeland had announced that their time was at an end. With a farewell tour in the works, guitarists Bryan Laurenson and his brother Steve - who had become a touring member of the band - knew they had to begin weaving themselves into a new project, one that would be more focused on urgent grandiose melodies than soft-spoken ballads. "I was the pop kid in Copeland," Bryan confessed, which makes him and his brother's return to pop centric music all that more natural.

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