State is Rundgren's
24th solo album (And that's not including the two albums he recorded with
his first band the Nazz and the nine albums he recorded with Utopia)
Todd's latest musical
vision is a fusion of Rock, Soul, R'n'B and Electronica that is at once
danceable, ground breaking, spiritual, challenging and infectious
The full track
listing of the album is:
Todd Rundgren
"STATE"
1. Imagination
2. Serious
3. In My Mouth
4. Ping Me
5. Angry Bird
6. Smoke
7. Collide-A-Scope
8. Something From
Nothing
9. Party Liquor
10. Sir Reality
To coincide with the
release of ‘STATE’ Todd will set out on a world tour.Dates
Below
May
5/5 Bearsville Theater, Bearsville NY (warm up
date)
5/8 Norfolk CT, Infinity Hall
5/10 New York, NY , Gramercy Theater
5/11 Philadelphia, PA, Trocadero
5/12 Huntington, NY, Paramount Theater
5/14 Kent OH, Kent Stage
5/15 Pittsburgh, The Rex
5/16 Columbus OH, Pavilion
5/18 Cincinnati OH, Bogart's
5/19 Chicago, IL, Park West
5/20 Minneapolis, Varsity Theater
5/29 Helsinki, Club Tavastia
5/30 Stockholm, Debaser
6/1 Oslo, Rockefeller
6/4 Amsterdam, Paradiso
JUNE
6 GLASGOW
O2 ABC
7 EDINBURGH
Picture House
9 MANCHESTER
The Ritz
11 GATESHEAD
The Sage-Gateshead
12 BIRMINGHAM
O2 Academy
13 BRISTOL
O2 Academy
15 LONDON
O2 Shepherds Bush Empire
Tickets go on sale at
10am on Monday 11th February from www.ticketweb.co.uk,
box offices and usual
agents.
Born and raised in
Philadelphia, Todd Rundgren began playing guitar as a teenager going on to
front The Nazz, the quintessential `60s psychedelic pop group. In 1969,he left
the band to pursue a solo career, recording his debut Runt but it was 1972's
seminal Something/Anything? album on which he played all the instruments, sang
all the vocal parts, and acted as his own producer, that catapulted Todd
into the limelight prompting the media to dub him “Rock's New Wunderkind.”
It was followed by such landmark LPs as Todd, The Hermit of Mink Hollow
and A Wizard A True Star.
In 1974, Todd formed
Utopia,who were on the cutting edge of progressive rock in
the 70s and developed
into a very tidy power pop outfit in the 80s.
Rundgren's career as
a producer has included seminal albums by The New York Dolls, Patti Smith, Cheap
Trick, the Psychedelic Furs, XTC, Hall And Oates and one of the best-selling
albums of all time, Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell.
Sealing his reputation
as rock's Renaissance Man,Rundgren composed all the music and lyrics for
Joe Papp's 1989 Off-Broadway production of Joe Orton's Up Against It
(the screenplay
commissioned by The Beatles for what was meant to have been their third motion
picture), as well as the score for Dumb and Dumber and a number of television
series including Pee Wee’s Playhouse and Crime Story.
Todd’s annual musical
summer camp, this year celebrating his 65th birthday and
dubbed Toddstock
v6.5,takes place near New Orleans on June 17-22.
Todd's Official Site:
Todd’s Fan Site:
Twitter:
@toddrundgren
Toddstock
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