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State Champs is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!, Knuckle Puck, Just Friends, Four Year Strong and The Starting Line. Those roots explain a lot about how State Champs arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Knuckle Puck, Four Year Strong, Hit the Lights, Yours Truly and Every Avenue, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Set It Off, Heart Attack Man, PVRIS and The Home Team, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 25 connections around State Champs, reaching back through Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! and forward to Set It Off. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
State Champs is an American pop-punk band from Albany, New York, formed in 2010. They are currently signed to Pure Noise Records and have released three EPs and five full-length albums. Their 2013 debut album The Finer Things debuted at number 2 on the Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart. They released an acoustic EP titled The Acoustic Things in October 2014 and their second studio album Around the World and Back one year later, in October 2015. In May 2017, they released a deluxe version of the album. Their third album, Living Proof, was released in 2018. In May 2022, the band released their fourth studio album, Kings of the New Age. In November 2024, their self-titled fifth album was released.
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State Champs connections
State Champs grew out of Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!, Knuckle Puck, Just Friends and Four Year Strong, shares an orbit with Knuckle Puck, Four Year Strong, Hit the Lights and Yours Truly, went on to shape Set It Off, Heart Attack Man, PVRIS and The Home Team. 25 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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