THE HEAVENLY STATES

The Heavenly States have made news and garnered outstanding reviews and features in Newsweek, The Washington Post, Billboard, Spinner, The Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, Spin, NPR’s All Songs Considered, Magnet, The San Francisco Chronicle, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, Reuters, Alternative Press, The Daily Telegraph (London), The Guardian (London) and others. The band's touring adventures have been documented by The New York Times, NPR's All Things Considered, NBC News, CNN and Reuters (Libya, Tunisia, London). The band has performed live on WXRT (Chicago), KFOG (SF), 89.3 The Current (MN), and KEXP (Seattle) and has been featured on many community and internet radio stations. Veterans of the SXSW and Sasquatch music festivals, The Heavenly States have toured the USA, Australia, the UK, Egypt, and were the first rock band to play Libya. The band has made an as yet unreleased full length film entitled Borderline, an essayistic documentary account of its trip to Libya. They have also joined with film producer Jawal Nga (Sundance Grand Jury prizewinner) to develop a fictionalized narrative film of the band's Libya experience. They have further collaborated with artists and filmmakers in Milwaukee, Minneapolis and the San Francisco bay area to produce music videos for the songs “The Story Of”, "Pretty Life", "Car Wash" and "My Friends", “The Pale” and in 2011 “Berlin Wall”. The Heavenly States are currently working on their fourth full length album.