“Arsonist’s Blues” & “River in the Dry” from the new album, In The Impossible Tension, have recently been featured on the Shifted Sound Podcast. Go and listen! An enhanced version of the podcast is available through iTunes.

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

…from a show in Brooklyn! Team Pittsburgh drove through a gigantic blizzard the entire way to New York, except for the last 40 minutes, which was dry and snowless. Leaving the mobile snow globe was like taking a highway exit to another planet. Isn’t weather odd?

Speaking of odd, at Spike Hill, a very nice club, we crammed ourselves onto a long and shallow stage which smelled alternately of baking cinnamon rolls and french fries. None of the boys, however, have confirmed the odors - they could be a result of the two violent electrical shocks Megan received before and during the performance from the house amplifier she wasn’t even using! All parties agree, however, that it was an average of 85 degrees onstage.

Well, what other factoids do we have for you? It wasn’t our best show, but it wasn’t our worst, and people filled the “pass-the-hat” receptacle (not even remotely hat shaped, but “pass-the-canister” sounds a bit sinister, like a militia hideout game in which you wear a gas mask and only a few survive) with $56, which paid for our passage across the Brooklyn Bridge! Plus a few other things, I’m sure.

Joe, Steve, and Megan spent the next evening rehearsing for our stripped down Saturday Light Brigade show on February 7. For some reason, the Children’s Museum didn’t want our music in all of its guitar pedal screaming glory! But we’re excited about the acoustic arrangements of our songs, including several from “In The Impossible Tension” that you may not have heard live.

Well, there’s plenty!

-We have been getting significant airplay on WYEP 91.3FM.

-We’ve got some great Pittsburgh shows coming up. (NOTE: The start of the WYEP summer music festival has been changed to 6:00pm)

-We released another track from the In The Impossible Tension EP almost a week ago.

-We are currently working on The July 1st Internet Release. Until July 1st, check out the other Internet Releases and tell us what you think! Most of them are available on a pay-what-you-want pricing plan.

We hope to see or hear from you soon!

We’ve got a new “Internet Single” available on the MUSIC page. It’s called “Arsonist’s Blues” and it’s the first track from a new EP called In The Impossible Tension that Steve has put together.

Some tracks from this EP will be available as our 15th-of-the-month download. “Arsonist’s Blues” is the first fruits of this Synth-Folk EP.

The track costs $1, but you can pay more if you feel so inclined. Mosey on over to the MUSIC page to purchase it! And listen to it on the player (above left)!

Let us know what you think!