State Champs are an Albany, New York pop-punk band whose recordings — including Around the World and Back (2015) and Living Proof (2018) — have built them a devoted following in the genre's current generation through melodic precision and hook-writing that earns the comparison to the genre's 2000s peak without simply replicating it. Their live show has always been the proof of their catalog — high energy, crowd-dependent, built for rooms exactly this size.
Taylor Acorn opens a bill at The Tabernacle on December 4 designed for listeners who follow pop-punk at its most melodically accomplished. December 4.