station to station: 50 Songs For 50 States

An on going tour across the United States giving a song for each state we go through:

(Click On Link To Read Write Up)

Alabama

Alaska

Arizona

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Delaware

Florida

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey

Upcoming Concerts In Eastern Midwest

Indianapolis:
2-18-12 Heartless Bastards @ Radio Radio
2-19-12 Charles Bradley @ Bluebird Nightclub (Bloomington)
2-23-12 Dropkick Murphys @ Egyptian Room
2-24-12 The Crystal Method @ The Vogue
2-27-12 Tennis @ Radio Radio
3-7-12 Rich Robinson @ Radio Radio
3-8-12 Maps & Atlases @ The Bishop (Bloomington)
3-9-12 The Head And The Heart @ The Vogue
3-14-12 Dr. Dog @ Deluxe
3-16-12 The Black Keys w/Arctic Monkeys @ Bankers Life Fieldhouse
3-22-12 The Joy Formidable @ Bluebird Nightclub (Bloomington)
3-24-12 Delta Spirit @ Radio Radio
3-27-12 We Were Promised Jetpacks @ Bluebird Nightclub (Bloomington)
3-29-12 Bear In Heaven @ The Bishop (Bloomington)
4-1-12 Sharon Van Etten w/The War On Drugs @ Rhino's All Ages Music Club (Bloomington)
4-2-12 Youth Lagoon w/Porcelain Raft @ Radio Radio
4-4-12 Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds @ Egyptian Room
4-5-12 Neon Indian @ The Bishop (Bloomington)
4-16-12 Portugal.The Man @ The Vogue
4-21-12 Cults @ Rhino's All Ages Music Club (Bloomington)

Pittsburgh:
2-14-12 Trey Anastasio @ Heinz Hall For The Performing Arts
2-19-12 Heartless Bastards @ Club Cafe
2-24-12 Charles Bradley @ Rex Theater
3-1-12 Dr. Dog @ Mr. Small's Theatre
3-9-12 Reverend Horton Heat @ The Altar Bar
3-20-12 Grimes @ Brillobox
3-25-12 Fanfarlo @ Mr. Small's Theatre
3-28-12 Bear In Heaven @ Andy Warhol Museum
3-28-12 Cursive w/Cymbals Eat Guitars @ Mr. Small's Theatre
4-3-12 Cloud Nothings @ Brillobox

Columbus:
2-9-12 Craig Finn @ The Basement
2-6-12 Heartless Bastards @ The Basement
2-14-12 Sharon Van Etten w/Shearwater @ Wexner Center For the Arts
2-16-12 Heartless Bastards @ The Basement
2-22-12 Charles Bradley @ Skully's Music Diner
2-25-12 Jane's Addiction @ Lifestyles Communities Pavilion
2-25-12 Young The Giant @ Newport Music Hall
3-4-12 The Black Keys w/Arctic Monkeys @ Schottenstein Center
3-6-12 The Lemonheads @ The Basement
3-10-12 The Head And The Heart @ Newport Music Hall
3-16-12 Reverend Horton Heat @ Newport Music Hall
3-20-12 Andrew Bird @ Southern Theatre
3-27-12 Fanfarlo @ Skully's Music Diner
3-29-12 Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds @ Lifestyles Communities Pavilion
3-30-12 Bear In Heaven @ The Basement
3-31-12 Margot & The Nuclear So and So's @ Lifestyles Communities Pavilion
4-7-12 Cloud Nothings @ Outland Live
4-7-12 Shabazz Palaces @ Horn Gallery (Gambier)
4-12-12 Blue October @ Newport Music Hall
4-25-12 Portugal.The Man @ Newport Music Hall
4-29-12 We Were Promised Jetpacks @ Outland Live
4-30-12 Real Estate @ Newport Music Hall
5-8-12 St. Vincent @ Newport Music Hall
5-11-12 Justin Townes Earle @ The Bluestone

Chicago:
2-14-12 Cate Le Bon @ Schubas Tavern
2-14-12 Heartless Bastards @ Lincoln Hall
2-16-12 Sharon Van Etten w/Shearwater @ Lincoln Hall
2-17-12 Sharon Van Etten w/Shearwater @ Lincoln Hall
2-17-12 The Jayhawks @ Vic Theatre
2-18-12 Charles Bradley @ Metro/Smart Bar
2-18-12 Dr. Dog @ Vic Theatre
2-18-12 Flogging Molly @ Aragon Ballroom
2-21-12 Zola Jesus @ Lincoln Hall
2-23-12 Young The Giant @ Riviera Theatre
2-26-12 Tennis @ Lincoln Hall
3-1-12 Islands @ Lincoln Hall
3-2-12 The Twilight Sad @ Empty Bottle
3-3-12 Reverend Horton Heat @ Metro/Smart Bar
3-7-12 The Head And The Heart @ Vic Theatre
3-8-12 The Head And The Heart @ Vic Theatre
3-9-12 Gomez @ Vic Theatre
3-9-12 Rich Robinson @ Schubas Tavern
3-10-12 EMA @ Lincoln Hall
3-14-12 Grimes @ Empty Bottle
3-17-12 G. Love & Special Sauce @ Metro/Smart Bar
3-19-12 The Black Keys w/Arctic Monkeys @ United Center
3-22-12 Prince Rama w/Psychic Ills @ The Hideout
3-23-12 Delta Spirit @ Metro/Smart Bar
3-23-12 We Were Promised Jetpacks @ Bottom Lounge
3-25-12 Cursive w/Cymbals Eat Guitars @ Lincoln Hall
3-26-12 The Magnetic Fields @ Vic Theatre
3-27-12 The Magnetic Fields @ Vic Theatre
3-28-12 Fanfarlo @ Lincoln Hall
3-28-12 Of Montreal @ Metro/Smart Bar
3-29-12 Bowerbirds @ Lincoln Hall
3-30-12 Chairlift @ Empty Bottle

Cincinnati:
2-17-12 Heartless Bastards @ Madison Theater
2-19-12 Dr. Dog @ 20th Century Theatre
2-24-12 Young The Giant @ Madison Theater (Covington)
3-2-12 The Black Keys w/The Arctic Monkeys @ U.S. Bank Arena
3-17-12 Reverend Horton Heat @ 20th Century Theatre
3-21-12 Reverend Horton Heat @ McGuffy's (Dayton)
3-22-12 Cloud Nothings @ Motr Pub
3-23-12 The Joy Formidable @ 20th Century Theatre
3-31-12 Bear In Heaven @ Motr Pub
4-4-12 Snow Patrol @ Bogart's
4-13-12 Blue October @ Bogart's

Louisville:
2-9-12 Drive-By Truckers @ Headliners Music Hall
2-13-12 Heartless Bastards @ Headliners Music Hall
2-14-12 Supersuckers @ Phoenix Hill Tavern
2-21-12 Charles Bradley @ Headliners Music Hall
3-2-12 Dr. Dog @ Headliners Music Hall
3-5-12 The Lemonheads @ Headliners Music Hall
3-6-12 The Head And The Heart @ Headliners Music Hall
3-8-12 Reverend Horton Heat @ Headliners Music Hall
3-21-12 Cloud Nothings @ Zanzabar
3-22-12 Fanfarlo @ Zanzabar
3-28-12 We Were Promised Jetpacks @ Headliners Music Hall
4-13-12 Death Cab For Cutie w/Low @ The Louisville Palace Theatre
4-20-12 Bear In Heaven @ Zanzabar
6-7-12 Red Hot Chili Peppers @ KFC Yum! Center
7-14-12 My Morning Jacket @ Louisville Waterfront Park

Detroit:
2-8-12 Craig Finn @ PJ's Lager House
2-10-12 The Darkness @ St. Andrews Hall
2-12-12 Charles Bradley @ The Magic Bag (Ferndale)
2-17-12 Flogging Molly @ The Fillmore Detroit
2-24-12 Jane's Addiction @ The Fillmore Detroit
2-28-12 Young The Giant @ The Majestic
3-3-12 The Black Keys w/Arctic Monkeys @ Joe Louis Arena
3-10-12 Reverend Horton Heat @ Magic Stick
3-11-12 The Head And The Heart @ Crofoot Ballroom (Pontiac)
3-23-12 Fanfarlo @ Blind Pig (Ann Arbor)
3-27-12 Cursive w/Cymbals Eat Guitars @ Blind Pig (Ann Arbor)
3-31-12 Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds @ Royal Oak Music Theatre (Royal Oak)

More Concert Listings:
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Upcoming Album Releases

February 6th
Fly Moon Royalty – Fly Moon Royalty [Sportn' Life Records]
Lindstrøm – Six Cups of Rebel [Smalltown Supersound]
Pet Shop Boys – Alternative [UK Release] [Paralophone]

February 7th
A Place To Bury Strangers – Onwards To The Wall [EP] [Dead Oceans]
Air – Le Voyage Dans La Lune [Astralwerks]
Asleep - Unpleasant Companion [Self-Release]
Bahamas – Barchords [Bushfire Records]
Ben Kweller – Go Fly a Kite [The Noise Company]
Big Sir – Before Gardens After Gardens [Rodrigo Lopez Productions/Sargent House]
Blondes – Blondes [RVNG Intl.]
Die Antwoord – TEN$ION [ZEF Records]
Dierks Bentley – Home [Capitol Nashville]
Dr. Dog – Be The Void [ANTI- Records]
EMA – Past Life Martyred Saints [Deluxe Edition] [iTunes]
Francis Harris – Leland [Scissor & Thread]
The Fray – Scars and Stories [Epic Records]
Fucked Up – “Year of the Tiger” [12"] [Matador Records]
Goldfrapp - The Singles [Astralwerks]
The Lemonheads – Hotel Sessions [Hall of Records/Breath of Saltwater]
Mark Lanegan Band – Blues Funeral [4AD]
Mux Mool – Planet High School [Ghostly International]
of Montreal – Paralytic Stalks [Polyvinyl]
Paul McCartney – Kisses on the Bottom [Hear Music/Concor]
Pretty Good Dance Moves – LIMO [Mad Dragon/Township Records]
Red Hot Rebellion – Red Hot Rebellion [Self-Release]
Rococode – Guns, Sex and Glory [Head in the Sand Records]
Royal Baths – Better Luck Next Life [Kanine Records]
Scott Matthew - Gallantry’s Favorite Son [Digital Release] [Self-Release]
Sharon Van Etten – Tramp [Jagjaguwar]
Silver Swans – Forever [Self-Release]
Sunshone Still – ThewaytheworldDies [Potato Eater Records]
The Twilight Sad – No One Can Never Know [FatCat Records]
Wire – The Black Session – Paris 10 May 2011 [Pink Flag]

February 13th
Windy & Carl – We Will Always Be [Kranky]

February 14th
Amoral – Beneath [The End Records]
Amos Lee – As the Crow Flies [EP] [Blue Note]
Anvil - Pound For Pound [Reissue] [The End Records]\
Anvil - Strength of Steel [Reissue] [The End Records]
Anvil – Worth The Weight [Reissue] [The End Records]
Anya Marina – Felony Flats [Copy Shop/Atlantic Records]
Barry Adamson - I Will Set You Free [Central Control]
Beth Jeans Houghton - Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose [U.S. Release] [Mute Records]
Busdriver - Beaus$Eros [Fake Four, INC.]
The Caretaker – Patience (After Sebald) [History Always Favours the Winners]
The Cranberries – Roses [Downtown Records/Cooking Vinyl]
The Devastated - Devil’s Messenger [Century Media]
Earth – Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II [Southern Lord]
F. Strokes – Love, Always [EP] [Potholes Music]
Field Music – Plumb [Memphis Industries]
Heartless Bastards – Arrow [Partisan Records]
Howlin Rain - Russian Wilds [American Recordings]
Isidore – Life Somewhere Else [Communicating Vessels]
Islands - A Sleep & A Forgetting [ANTI - Records]
Lake Forest – Silver Skies [Verite Records]
Mike Acerbo – The Search [Self-Release]
The Minutes – The Minutes [EP] [Citzen Records]
Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded [Young Money/Cash Money/Universal]
Oy Vey – Recession Girls [Self-Release]
The Phantom Family Halo – When I Fall Out [Knitting Factory Records]
The Phenomenal Handclap Band – Form & Control [Tummy Touch Records]
Poliça – Give You The Ghost [Self-Release]
Rosie Thomas – With Love [Sing-A-Long Records]
Shearwater – Animal Joy [Sub Pop]
Sick Friend – The Draft Dodger [Self-Release]
Tennis – Young and Old [Fat Possum]
Tonight Alive – What Are You So Scared Of? [Fearless]
Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters – Underrated Silence [Bureau B]
Various Artists - Kitsuné Parisien II [Kitsuné]
Young Magic – Melt [Carpark Records]

February 21st
Archers of Loaf – VeeVee [Reissue] [Merge]
Avan Lava – Flex Fantasy [EP] [Self-Release]
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – “Time To Be Clear” [7"] [Drag City] The Chieftains - Voice of Age [Hear/Concorde]
Cheap Girls – Giant Orange [Rise Records]
Christopher Paul Stelling – Songs of Praise & Scorn [Mecca Lecca Recording Co.]ki
Cursive - I Am Gemini [Saddle Creek]
Damian Jurado - Maraqopa [Secretly Canadian]
Dirty Ghosts – Metal Moon [Last Gang Records]
Dot Hacker – Dot Hacker [EP] [ORG Music]
Ducky – The Whether [EP] [Self-Release]
Eddie Hazel – Game, Dames and Guitar Thangs[Reissue] [Real Gone]
Fatal Lucciauno – Respect [Sportn' Life Records]
Frankie Rose – Interstellar [Slumberland/Memphis Industries]
fun. - Some Nights [Atlantic Records]
James Vincent McMorrow – We Don’t Eat [EP] [Digital Release]
Jim O’Rourke – Old News No. 7 [Editions Mego]
Jonquil – Point of Go [Dovecote Records]
Galactic – Carnivale Electricos [ANTI- Records]
Grimes - Visions [4AD]
Lambchop – Mr. M [Merge/City Slang]
McGough & McGear – McGough & McGear [Reissue] [Real Gone]
Mezingers – On the Impossible Past [Epitaph]
My Best Fiend – Ghostlike Fading [Warp]
Perfume Genius – Put Your Back N 2 It [Matador Records]
Pontiac – Echo Ono [Thrill Jockey]
Porcelain Raft – “Unless You Speak From Your Heart”/”Something in Between” [7"] [Secretly Canadian]
Princeton - Remembrance of Things To Come [Hit City U.S.A./Easter Everywhere]
The Red Bird Girls – Very First Time in True Stereo[Real Gone]
Royale Canoe – Extended Play [EP] [Nettwerk]
RxGibbs – Future [EP] [Cascine]
Sara Randle – Same Sun Shines [Self-Release]
SBTRKT – “Wildfire” [12"] [XL]
The Sidekicks – Awkward Breeds [Red Scare]
Sinead O’Connor - How About I Be Me (And You Be You)? [MRI]
Sleigh Bells - Reign of Terror [Mom+Pop Music]
The Strumbellas – My Father and the Hunter [Fontana North]
T.S. Bonniwell – Close [Reissue] [Real Gone]
Terry Malts – Killing Time [Slumberland]
Tindersticks – The Something Rain [Constellations]
Various Artists – Time To Go – The Southern Psychedelic Movement: 1981-1986 [Flying Nun]
Yalls – Fantasy [7"] [Gold Robot]
Young Liars – Homesick Future [EP] [Nettwerk Records]
War – “At War For Youth” [7] [Sacred Bones]
Wild Nothing – “Nothing” [7"] [Captured Tracks]
Zola Jesus – “In Your Nature” [7"] [Sacred Bones]

February 28th
Adam Vogelzang – Canary in a Coal Mine [Paper Anchor Music]
Alex Winston – King Con [V2/Cooperative Music]
Anaïs Mitchell – Young Man in America [Winterland Records/Thirty Tigers]
Andre Williams – Hoods and Shades [Bloodshot Records]
Auditorium – Nights Worth Living [EP] [Self-Release]
Ava Luna – Ice Level [Infinite Best]
Carolina Chocolate Drops – Leaving Eden [Nonesuch]
Chiddy Bang – Breakfast [U.S. Release] [EMI]
Dirty Three – Toward the Low Sun [Drag City]
Elliott Brood – Days Into Years [Paper Bag Records]
England In 1819 – Alma [Self-Release]
Erin Passmore – Downtown [EP] [Hidden Pony]
Estelle – All of Me [HomeSchool/Atlantic]
Eux Autres - Sun Is Sink [EP] [Self-Release]
Fanfarlo – Rooms Filled With Light[Canvasback Music/Atlantic Records]
Francis Harris – Leland [Scissor & Thread]
Gabriel and the Hounds – Kiss Full of Teeth [Ernest Jenning Co.]
Geographer – Myth [Modern Art Records]
Hank Thompson - Songs for Rounder [Reissue] [Real Gone]
House of Blondes – Clean Cuts [Glowmatic]
Hunk [of Hunx and His Punk] – Too Young to Be in Love [Hardly Art]
Jim Jarmusch and Jozef van Wissem – Concerning the Entrance Into Eternity [Important Records]
The Johnny III Band - Ask All The Doctors [Physical] [Urinal Cake]
Julia Nunes – Settle Down [Self-Release]
Juveniles – Ambitions [Kitsuné]
La Sera – Sees The Light [Hardly Art]
Loreena McKennitt – Troubadours on the Rhine[Quinlan Road]
Lyle Lovett – Release Me [Curb/Universal Music]
Mark Lindsay – The Complete Columbia Singles [Real Gone]
Masaki Batoh [of Ghost] – Brain Pulse Music [Drag City]
Memoryhouse – The Slideshow Effect [Sub Pop]
Moonlight – Twin Lakes [EP] [Self-Release]
Mouse On Mars – Parastrophics [Monkeytown]
Nneka - Soul Is Heavy [Yo Mama's Recordings/Decon]
Pink Floyd – The Wall ['Experience' Reissue] [EMI]
Pink Floyd – The Wall ['Immersion' Reissue] [EMI]
Planet Asia – Black Belt Theatre [Gold Chain/Wandering Worx/Greenstreets]
Plants and Animals – The End Of That [Secret City]
Robert Glasper Experiment – Black Radio [Blue Note/EMI]
Rick Nelson – The Complete Epic Recordings [Real Gone]
Rose Cousins – We Have Made a Spark [Outside Music]
Rotary Club – Second Year In Swine [Woodside Records]
School of Seven Bells – Ghostory [Vagrant/Ghostly International]
Soft Swells – Soft Swells [Modern Outsider]
St. Lucia – We Get It Wrong [Neon Gold/Columbia]
Sunstorm – Emotional Fire [Frontiers Records]
Suzanne Ciani – Lixiviation [B-Music/Finders Keepers]
Tiny Victories – Those Of Us Still Alive [EP] [BirdDog]
TOPS – Tender Opposites [Arbutus]
Trust – TRST [Arts&Crafts]
Water Liars – Phantom Lab [Misra Records]
We Have Band – Tension [Naïve Records]
X-Ray Eyeballs – Splendor Squalor [Kanine]

March 6th
Allo Darlin’ – “Carolina” [7"] [Slumberland]
Andrew Bird – Break It Yourself [Mom+Pop Music]
Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works Volume II [Vinyl Reissue] [1972]
backwords – By The Neck [Campers' Rule Records]y
Balkan Beat Box – Give [Nat Geo]
Bon Iver – “Towers” [12"] [Jagjaguwar]
Bowerbirds – The Clearing [Dead Oceans]
Bright Eyes – A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997 [Reissue] [Saddle Creek]
Bright Eyes - Oh Holy Fools: The Music of Son, Ambulance & Bright Eyes [Reissue] [Saddle Creek]
Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball [Columbia]
Crushed Stars – In The Bright Rain [Simulacra Records]
Denison Witmer – The Ones Who Wait[Asthmatic Kitty]
Dinowalrus - Best Behavior [Old Flame Records]
Dropkick Murphys – Going Out in Style: Fenway Park Bonus Edition [Born & Bred]
Every Time I Die – Ex Lives [Epitaph]
Fort Romeau – Kingdoms [100% Silk]
Jack Wilson – Jack Wilson [Fluff & Gravy Records]
Jennifer O’Connor – Want What You Want [Physical Release] [Kiam Records]
The Jesus and Mary Chain – Stoned & Dethroned [Vinyl Reissue] [Demon Music]
Kaiser Chiefs – Start the Revolution Without Me[Fiction/Cooperative Music/Downtown]
Lissy Trullie - Lissy Trullie [Downtown Records]
The Magnetic Fields – Love at the Bottom of the Sea[Merge]
The Men – Open Your Heart [Sacred Bones]
Mike Wexler – Dispossession [Mexican Summer]
Miniature Tigers - Mia Pharaoh [Modern Art]
Mux Mool – Planet High School [Ghostly International]
Nardwuar the Human Serviette – Busy Doing Nothing[Mint Records]
Nite Jewel – One Second of Love [Secretly Canadian]
Octoberman – Waiting in the Well [Saved by Radio]
Pond – Beard, Wives, Denim [Modular]
Ramblin’ Ambassadors – Ramble On [Mint Records]
Scott Matthew - Gallantry’s Favorite Son [Digital Release] [Self-Release]
Secret Music – Secret Music [Black Bell Records]
Scuba – Personality [Hotflush]
Tim Foljahn – Songs For An Age of Extinction [Kiam]
Tim Fite – Ain’t Ain’t Ain’t [ANTI- Records]
Todd Snider – Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables[Aimless Records]
White Rabbits – Milk Famous [tbd Records]
Yellow Ostrich - Strange Land [Barsuk]