State Champs: “We’re starting to find who we are as a band and the story we want to tell”

“Adult life is fucking scary!” Derek DiScanio matter-of-factly asserts as we start to get into the really good stuff. Having recently celebrated turning the big-boy age of 32, the State Champs frontman has found himself ruminating on how almost half his time on this earth so far has been spent singing in the band. This was surely never part of the grand pop-punk plan — if indeed he or they ever troubled themselves to devise such a thing. “Everyone else is growing up and I’m over here still thinking that I’m this young kid,” he continues, light-heartedly beating himself up for his perceived arrested development. ​“I’m living on my own, going through relationship stuff having recently become single, totally fending for myself and it’s frightening. Like, what the fuck am I doin...

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