Hello, friends of Good Night, States!

Join us this Saturday evening at Brillobox in Pittsburgh for a great show with our friends The Bloodsugars and Delicious Pastries.  Someone with a diabetic sense of humor put both of those bands on the same bill!

But seriously, we think both of these bands are supertalented and we are thrilled to be playing with them.

You can pick up our signed, numbered In The Impossible Tension EP for $10 at the show (remember, we’re only selling them in person, not online).  Here’s what a French blog had to say about the new EP: yes, it’s in French.  Perhaps you prefer something in English?

Music lovers, we will see you soon.

We are excited to announce the availability of FREE In The Impossible Tension Ringtones!

Locally Toned has released 6 new ringtones from In The Impossible Tension on their blog! We are excited to be able to offer these as a free gift to anyone who would like them.

So after you have downloaded In The Impossible Tension, get a ringtone for your favorite track!

Well music fans, the moment is almost here: In The Impossible Tension debuts this Friday evening!

Here are some ways you may experience In The Impossible Tension with us:

- DOWNLOAD FREE: You may download the album for FREE from our Music page starting at noon on Thursday, 10 September until noon on Friday, 11 September. Please send a quick email to your friends, encouraging them to download and inviting them to Friday night’s show.

- ATTEND: EP release show! Friday, 11 September, doors at 8 pm, Thunderbird Cafe. $7, 21+, with Meeting of Important People and Lowry.

- BUY: There will be only one hundred (100) physical copies of In The Impossible Tension available. The CD packaging is chock full of photos of instruments used in the recording process, notes about the making of the album, and lyrics to every song. Each album will be signed by Steve and Joe, and numbered. Any remaining physical copies will be available at goodnightstates.com/store.

- WATCH: The Tribune Review filmed a great live video of "Arsonist’s Blues" and wrote a wonderful article as well.

- READ: The making of In The Impossible Tension in the City Paper, several great posts at Hugh Shows

- LOOK: Photos of a recent In The Impossible Tension rehearsal session in Pittsburgh and an impromptu "Public Rehearsal" house show in New Jersey by photographers Hugh Twyman and Matt Johnson.

- PROMOTE and be THANKED: Special thanks to Lauren, Ashley and Heather who hung up show posters all over town! If you want to be involved with our next show in your area, and win a fabulous prize from the Good Night, States treasure chest, please join the Street Team here.

- CONSOLE / GORGE YOURSELF: Can’t make the EP release show?  Need more Good Night, States? Catch us on Saturday, 12 September, at the Carnegie Arts and Heritage Festival around 9 pm.  Free outdoor all-ages show!

Love and EPs, we are so very excited,

Good Night, States

Oh goodness, look at the press coverage!

Good Night, States’ iPhone/iPod touch story was picked up by Engadget.com, rumored to be one of the top English language blogs in the world. People who have never heard of Good Night, States are now calling us “famous”, while the app’s developers refer to us in the iTunes store as “world renowned musicians Good Night, States.” Other folks on Twitter are just calling us “insane geeks”, which is fine too.

In light of all the comments generated on the Engadget post, we want to encourage all you regular folk out there to watch the videos, read Steve’s latest blog post, and download the app. We created this play-along opportunity for you; yes, even you who have never touched a real synthesizer in your life. Noise.io provides an easy, fun way for people to participate with us - you don’t have to be a tech guru or even a musician to add to the performance at our next show, so don’t be shy. We’ll have our set list posted on The Box, where the input for your device attaches, at the front of the stage. Check it out in advance so you know exactly when your favorite play-along song is coming. Team up with a friend, because two people can play at once!

If an Apple app isn’t your style, wander over to the merch table to check out our new t-shirt design. Good Night, States will give a FREE t-shirt, autographed by world renowned us, to the person identifying the inspiration for the design, hand drawn by artist Nicolena Loshonkol. Hint: it fits our tech geek “scheme” to a tee. Email contest@goodnightstates.com with your guess!

Wow!

We’re very excited, humbled, and honored to have our iPhone/iPod Touch experiment featured on engadget.com and synthtopia.com!

Steve has weighed in on some of the feedback that the engadget/synthtopia coverage has garnered.

If this is your first time visiting the site, please visit the MUSIC page and check out some of our catalog (a lot of it is available at a pay-what-you-want pricing plan!).

Thanks for stopping by!

We are the City Paper’s pick for MP3 Monday! Check out Good Night, States on their great music blog, FFW.

Well hello there, friends of Good Night, States!

We had a wonderful “Tiny Tour” this past weekend; here are the highlights:

• Having our Bridgeport set interrupted several times by an excitable gentleman loudly yelling out questions about our gear: “What YEAR is that GUITAR?” and “EXCUSE ME, Is THAT a SIX STRING BASS?” and “I GOT ONE A THOSE!”
• Meeting the author of our PittsburghDish.com review in person, and hearing some crazy stories about Nirvana before they were huge.  Thanks for the drinks, Drew!
• Scoring not one but TWO parking spaces directly in front of the club’s load-in door in New York City’s China Town!
• Causing great amounts of smoke and burning electronics odor to waft forth from the PA speaker at the venue in Philly.  While the sound guy scratched his head and the audience wrinkled up their noses, Joe used the break to change a string, Trevor hit the bar, Dan hid behind his drum set and Megan made a really dreadful drawing of the burning speaker in her tiny notebook.  Steve, apparently, did not do anything memorable.  But then they found a new speaker and we continued our set and afterward we made lots of new friends and drank drinks and lived happily ever after.
• Team Pittsburgh (3/5 of GN,S), grieving the Philly Eagles’ loss via the van’s radio, arrived home just in time to watch the Steelers clench a Super Bowl slot.  What a weekend!

P.S. Happy Inauguration Day!

Hello All,

We are driving away in mere minutes to begin our November Tiny-Tour which has us in Brooklyn, Boston, & Philly! Visit the SHOWS page for all of the details!

While on this tour, we will be finishing up the Yet-To-Be-Named Thanksgiving (November) Internet Single and beginning to write the Christmas (December) Single. We’ll have pictures up soon of last weekend’s recording sessions. In the meantime, visit the PHOTOS page to check out the other Internet Single recording sessions.

Also, check out some of our blog press here and here.

See you soon!

Hey!

We’ve got some very cool things happening here.

• “The Odd and The Even” Internet Single - The newest installment of our Internet Single series is coming out this Friday, October 31st! Check out the MUSIC page for “The Odd and The Even” and all of the other internet singles.
• November Tour and Other Shows! - Several new shows have been posted on the SHOWS page.
• Schlog Love - Showclix.com’s blog, “The Schlog”, wrote a nice post to remind everyone about our new Internet Single and our upcoming Pittsburgh show. Thanks, Kamela!

See you soon!

A few updates to notify you about!

• We were featured on SPIN Magazine’s website today. Check out the review here.
• We now have T-Shirts available, in both Men’s and Women’s styles.
• We’ve updated our LINKS page. Go. Discover the internets.

We’ll be playing a lot of shows in the next few months, be sure to check out the SHOWS page for all of the details!