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Federal! State! Local!

About Me

Federal! State! Local! used to suck pretty bad, then they got their shit together.

Federal! State! Local! is now an Indie Folk-punk band that utilizes melodic elements in order to soothe your soul, and yet reserves the ability to build to a cacophony of music that will fill you up with awesome and (hopefully) leave you begging for more.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/18/2007
Band Website: http://www.purevolume.com/federalstatelocal
Band Members: NATHAN "Yip Yap" FLECKENSTEIN:
Piano, organ, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin, singing, claps, ooohs and ahhhs.

MATHEW "Knapsack" WOJCIK:
Acoustic guitar, electric guitar, singing, organ, claps, harmonica, ooohs and ahhs.

GIANNI "Race Track" SARMIENTO:
Acoustic guitar, singing, harmonica, piano, claps, ooohs and ahhhs.

BRENNA PRITCHARD:
Violin, backing vocals, oohs and ahhhs, claps, harmonies.

PHIL AULIE:
Drums, uke, some backing vocals, oohs and ahhs, claps, harmonies.

DOUG PENA:
Bass, backing vocals, oohs and ahhhs, claps, harmonies.
Influences: Matthew Squires, Philip Woodbury, SuperHouse, Bridges, Marcus Rubio, Oh No! Oh My!, Okkervil River, Bye Bye Tiger, Electric Toy Danger, The El Guapos, Little Islands, Little Triggers, Bob Dylan, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Beach Boys, They Might Be Giants, of Montreal, Beirut, Arcade Fire, Franz Ferdinand, The Killers, Shiny Toy Guns, Angels and Airwaves, The Beatles, The Long Goodbye, The White Stripes, Rocco Deluca, Andy McKee, Wolf Parade, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Final Fantasy, The Velvet Underground, Peter Paul and Mary, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Moldy Peaches, Kimya Dawson, Pete Doherty, Adam Green, Donovan, The Unicorns, Islands, Belle and Sebastian, Cat Stevens, Charles Manson, Daniel Johnston, The Flaming Lips, The Magnetic Fields, The Mountain Goats, The Shins, Sufjan Stevens, The Zombies, Page France, Death Cab For Cutie, Beat Happening, The Libertines, Dirty Pretty Things, The Dandy Warhols, Frank Sinatra, Baby Shambles, Margot & The Nuclear So and So's, Blitzen Trapper, Noah & The Whale, Islands
Sounds Like: nothing you've ever heard before... but not in a pretentious kind of way, we just sound really weird.
Record Label: none
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

As Far as the Sun (NEW SONG!!!)

Yes! We finally have one demo done. Check it out and let us know what you think.We recorded it with Phil Aulie on Matt Squires and Chris Goodson's Tascam (at least I think it's theirs). Thanks to Jack...
Posted by on Sun, 25 Jan 2009 06:30:00 GMT

Our first shows with our new band

We finally have the official permanent lineup for our band.It is Nathan, Gianni, and Mat on guitar/piano/organ/other various instruments and lead vocals.Brenna Pritchard playing Violin and doing harmo...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:25:00 GMT

this is what we sound like live sometimes...

and other times not like this at all. But it's a good representation of our overall sound... for now, at least (but that could all change at a random whim)
Posted by on Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:20:00 GMT

DOWNLOAD OUR DEMO (inside)

A month of work, and 20 dollars put into it is finally paying off. We are proud to put up our Free SXSW Demo EP (appropriately titled "Free SXSW Demo!").In the downloadable version you not only get al...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:01:00 GMT

Demo is COMPLETE!

Hey,We have completed our Demo EP, it’s packaged, and ready to be handed out. It will contain all of the songs on our myspace page plus a new one called Dwayne Is Colorblind.The track list is as...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:04:00 GMT

Free SXSW Demo!

Hey,We're almost done with the Free SXSW Demo EP. Today we put up "Tonight" which is a song by Gianni, and Gianni and Nathan recorded Dwayne Is Colorblind.We're going to put finishing touches on "Dway...
Posted by on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:23:00 GMT

Were Still Alive!

I was asked about a week ago if we were still doing stuff. The answer to that riddle is yes. We are still being very productive, we have decided the new singer will be all three of us, we're working o...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 04:13:00 GMT

DOWNLOAD OUR MEDIOCRE SONGS!

Actually, some of them are pretty good.Anyway, this is a new link to the "album" we made called "Hide! Seek! Repeat! (The Early Garage Recordings)". The name comes from the fact that it chronicles the...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:46:00 GMT

Hide! Seek! Repeat! (Early Garage Recordings)

Hey!As promised here are all of our Early Garage Recordings. These chronicle from a pre-changes white recording made by Gianni into our first live ...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:58:00 GMT

Our Ultimatum!

Okay. The deal is you guys have until Friday to download our songs. After Friday, we are going to delete all of the songs off our page, and possibly put up one of our new ones. Or we may delete the o...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:37:00 GMT