State Champs released the optimistic and confidently titled album, Kings of the New Age, on May 13 on Pure Noise Records and head out on the road. Pop punk has seen a cosmic shift in the past year, and the band spent their pandemic downtime working on songs that they’re ready to share. Bassist Ryan Scott Graham has a calm and collected attitude toward the music they make. He’s self-assured and not overstated—the album title says a lot. They know they’re good. They’ve proven it, and they’re excited to keep proving it—they’re working-class pop punk. “It feels like all of a sudden a wind blew in, and it’s just like, ‘Oh, pop punk is cool again,’” Graham laughs. “Here are all these new artists, and they’re doing pop punk kind of in a different way. There’s more, I don’...
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