State Champs (CD) Comedy Prince emerged with one of

Prince emerged with one of his most urgent and wide-ranging releases to date — an epochal double album that would be hailed as a creative

Charlie Haden's woody bass and Coltrane's sweeping harp combine to create a dreamy vortex of sound

owning the record was a right of passage

propelled the trumpeter onto the world stage

Merriweather Post Pavilion

State Champs (CD) Comedy Prince emerged with one ofState Champs surges with the energy of The Finer Things (2013), Around the World and Back (2015), and Living Proof (2018). It expands on the Kings of the New Age (2022) blueprint. That beloved post pandemic album proved the band will survive. State Champs now sees them thrive. Songs like "Silver Cloud," "Clueless," "Sobering," "Tight Grip," "I Still Want To," and "Golden Years" explode with high energy, passionate, and smartly constructed precision.