TODD RUNDGREN NEW ALBUM ‘STATE’ & US TOUR

TODD RUNDGREN NEW ALBUM ‘STATE’ & US TOUR





Prolific musical experimenter, premier league pop craftsman, tireless producer, 
runt, wizard and true star Todd Rundgren will release his new studio album 
‘STATE’ on the Esoteric Antenna label via Cherry Red on Tuesday, April 9th.

‘STATE’ is Rundgren’s 24th solo studio album (and that’s not including the 2 
albums he recorded with his first band the Nazz, and the 9 albums he recorded 
with his band Utopia!).

Todd’s latest musical vision is a fusion of rock, soul, r’n’b and electronica 
that is at once danceable, groundbreaking, spiritual, challenging and 
infectious.

The full tracklisting of the album is:

TODD RUNDGREN: ‘State’

Imagination
Serious
In My Mouth
Ping Me
Angry Bird
Smoke
Collide-A-Scope
Something From Nothing
Party Liquor
Sir Reality

To coincide with the release of ‘STATE’ Todd will set out on a world tour, which 
will touch down the US in May.

The full list of shows is:

May 05 – Woodstock, N.Y., Bearsville Theater
May 08 – Norfolk, Conn., Infinity Hall
May 10 – New York, N.Y., The Gramercy Theatre
May 11 – Philadelphia, Pa., Trocadero Theatre
May 12 – Huntington, N.Y., The Paramount
May 14 – Kent, Ohio, The Kent Stage
May 15 – Pittsburgh, Pa., Rex Theater
May 16 – Columbus, Ohio, Lifestyle Communities Pavilion
May 18 – Cincinnati, Ohio, Bogart's
May 19 – Chicago, Ill., Park West
May 20 – Minneapolis, Minn., Varsity Theater

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? 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 into the 80s.

Rundgren's career as a producer has included seminal albums by The New York 
Dolls, Patti Smith, Cheap Trick, 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:  http://tr-i.com/">http://tr-i.com/>

Todd’s Facebook: www.facebook.com/todd.rundgren.94?fref=ts

Todd’s Fan Site: www.trconnection.com/

Twitter: @toddrundgren

Toddstock Website: www.toddstock2v65.com