The Heavenly States

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Pretty Life 03:51 Tools
Model Son 03:57 Tools
Berlin Wall 02:36 Tools
Lost In The Light 03:33 Tools
The Race 03:59 Tools
Look And Listen 02:58 Tools
Oui Camera Oui 04:02 Tools
Morning Exercise 03:13 Tools
Monster 03:26 Tools
The Story Of 03:40 Tools
The System 03:55 Tools
Hold My Little Baby 04:02 Tools
Borderline 03:42 Tools
Monarchia 03:17 Tools
Sun Chase Moon 03:57 Tools
The Heavenly States - Lost in the Light 03:57 Tools
Make Up 03:07 Tools
Light-Dressed Storm 02:57 Tools
Black Comet 01:56 Tools
The Pale 02:58 Tools
Elastic Days 03:27 Tools
My Friends 03:35 Tools
Never Be Alright 02:25 Tools
Roses 03:58 Tools
Butterflies 04:33 Tools
Vacant 02:10 Tools
Song in F 05:55 Tools
My Little Friend 03:39 Tools
Racetrack 02:53 Tools
Pathway Dreams 05:55 Tools
A Revolution Away 02:12 Tools
Beyond the Great Beyond 04:45 Tools
Careful With That Review, Eugene 02:23 Tools
Car Wash 02:49 Tools
Cumulous to Nebulous 05:37 Tools
American Borders 03:02 Tools
The Witness 03:23 Tools
Empire 07:01 Tools
Senseless Beauty 02:40 Tools
New Parade 02:48 Tools
The Heavenly States - Model Son 02:48 Tools
Hangar 04:05 Tools
Gin and Tonic 03:55 Tools
Gin & Tonic 03:56 Tools
King Epiphany 03:22 Tools
the specialist 03:22 Tools
Can I Get a Witness 00:00 Tools
Timeless Memory 00:00 Tools
A Man for Our Times 02:25 Tools
The Heavenly States - Pretty Life 02:25 Tools
The Heavenly States - The Specialist 02:25 Tools
Berlin Wall (feat. Britt Daniel) 02:46 Tools
The Little Drummer Boy 02:25 Tools
Little Drummer Boy 02:46 Tools
Monument 03:10 Tools
Untitled 06:05 Tools
2459 The Specialist 06:05 Tools
Breathe 06:05 Tools
Beyond The Great Beyound 04:39 Tools
The Heavenly States, 'Model Son' 04:39 Tools
Race 04:01 Tools
Berlin Wall feat. Britt Daniel 04:01 Tools
I Wish 03:37 Tools
Masters of Suicide 03:37 Tools
Albatross 03:37 Tools
Not Neo 03:37 Tools
Hanger 04:06 Tools
Song 240: Pretty Life 04:06 Tools
King Epiphany II 04:06 Tools
Aerozone 04:06 Tools
Timeless Melody 04:06 Tools
The Heavenly States - Look And Listen 04:06 Tools
Madame Bovary 04:06 Tools
The Heavenly States - Lost in 04:06 Tools
Grow Up Lullaby 04:06 Tools
the story of... 04:06 Tools
Sensless Beauty 04:06 Tools
Studio C: The Heavenly States 04:06 Tools
Track 02 04:06 Tools
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The Heavenly States are Ted Nesseth, Jeremy Gagon, Genevieve Gagon and Masanori Mark Christianson. A Minnesota lefty born of humble means, frontman/lyricist Ted Nesseth plays his guitar upside down and backwards because he taught himself to play on his friends' guitars. Not wanting to wait to learn how to play straight ensured that he'd have an inexorable ticket to a certain kind of sound that was well-suited to the punk Minneapolis scene he came up in. From there, his impatience and sponge-like nature has led him to produce a range of music. A surprising, wired, sometimess livid, comedic improvisateur, Ted delivers memorable and unexpected evenings. Jeremy Gagon, drummer/instrumentalist, grew up in an offbeat, highly edited version of the "military family" in Virginia and Georgia. He leapt from Van Halen to jazz in his teens and became a student of music, philosophy and horror, studying with Ed Soph, Henry Okstel and Ron Fink at the University of North Texas. With a flexible and adaptive style he drives as much as he rides The Heavenly States song. Genevieve Gagon, lyricist/instrumentalist is a pop ascetic who abandoned virtuosity for the thrill of sketching unsentimental songs in coal. A student of music and letters at various institutions across the land including two highschools and seven universities, she collected a number of degrees before the well ran dry. Masanori Mark Christianson, bass/instrumentalist is the most recent member of the band and the one the others were waiting for. Cordial and approachable, a visual artist and amateur chef, he provides the plate on which The Heavenly States are served. A Japanese-Korean immigrant raised in the same southeastern Minnesota town as his Mexican-American bandmate, he often muses with Ted that they ended up together, contributing to a project that was once unimaginable. The band has toured the USA, Australia, the UK, Egypt and were the first rock band to play Libya. They have recorded two full-length albums entitled The Heavenly States s/t and Black Comet, as well as the 3-song single King Epiphany I, II and Monument. Also released, a 7-inch single with Coldplay and The Postal Service, several Australian b-sides and the ep Elephants from Ants under the moniker Fluke Starbucker. The band has collaborated with artists and filmmakers in Milwaukee, Minneapolis and the San Francisco bay area to produce music videos for the songs "Pretty Life", "Car Wash" and "My Friends", and a video for "The Pale" is in the works. The Heavenly States have made news and garnered features in Newsweek, The Washington Post, Billboard, The Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, Spin, The San Francisco Chronicle, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, the East Bay Express, SF Weekly, Reuters, Alternative Press, the Daily Telegraph (London), the Guardian (London) and others. Their travels and adventures are documented in interviews by NPR's All Things Considered, NBC11 News in San Francisco and Reuters (Libya, Tunisia, London). Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.