The 50 States Project: 500+ Bands on the Rise

Sufjan Stevens might have given up before he left the Midwest, but we’re not stopping until we cover all of America, from Florida to Alaska, Maine to Hawaii. Paste is scouring the country for great new bands. If you have a suggestion for your home state, send a link to 50states@pastemagazine.com. And check back here to see when your state gets added.

We’re 19 states in so far, and we’ll be adding a new one every couple weeks. Click on a state name to read more about each band and listen to a track.

Alabama
Banditos
Dead Fingers
Dillon Hodges
Doc Dailey & Magnolia Devil
Duquette Johnston
El Cantador
Fire Mountain
The Great Book of John
Lee Baines & The Glory Fires
Nell Robinson
The Pollies
St. Paul and the Broken Bones

Arizona
Black Carl
Dry River Yacht Club
Future Loves Past
Gospel Claws
Roar
Run Boy Run
Snake! Snake! Snakes!
Stephen Steinbrink & French Quarter
What Laura Says
Yellow Minute

California
Bleached
Branches
California
Cayukas
FIDLAR
Haim
Hit-Boy
Jessica Pratt
PAPA
Superhumanoids
The Lovely Bad Things
The Milk Carton Kids
Weekend

Illinois
Big Science
Common Loon
The Congregation
Elephant Gun
Elsinore
Exit Ghost
Grandkids
Hollows
Mazes
Shy Technology

Illinois
Big Science
Common Loon
The Congregation
Elephant Gun
Elsinore
Exit Ghost
Grandkids
Hollows
Mazes
Shy Technology

Louisiana
Au Ras Au Ras
Brass Bed
Caddywhompus
Coyotes
England in 1819
Gashcat
Gold and the Rush
Rareluth
Royal Teeth
Sun Hotel
The Breton Sound
Vagabond Swing

Michigan
Absofacto
Bars of Gold
Chris Bathgate
The Crane Wives
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.
Danny Brown
De La Montaña
The Dirtbombs
Frontier Ruckus
Lightning Love
Little Island Lake
The Soil and the Sun

Mississippi
Bass Drum of Death
Cedric Burnside
The Como Mamas
Dead Gaze
The Jag
The Jarheads
John Murray
Rosco Bandana
Sanders Bohlke
Spacewolf
The Weeks
Young Buffalo

Missouri
Bo and the Locomotive
Bob Reuter’s Alley Ghost
Capybara
Dots Not Feathers
The Grisly Hand
O Giant Man
The Hooten Hallers
Old Lights
Sleepy Kitty
Water Liars

New Jersey
Apparus
Cakes Da Killer
The Everymen
The Front Bottoms
Full of Fancy
Honeydrum
Howth
Julian Lynch
Memory Tapes
Spook Houses
The Ugly Club
Waking Lights

New York
Alexandra Stewart
Brothers
Diiv
Glass Ghost
Hunters
Lady Lamb the Bee Keeper
The Last Royals
Lucius
Rush Midnight
Skaters

North Carolina
Andy the Door Bum
Deniro Farrar
Diali Cissokho & Kairaba
Floating action
Hiss Golden Messenger
Mount Moriah
Naked Gods
Paint Fumes
Red Collar
Some Army
Wood Ear
Zack Mexico

Ohio
Bad Veins
The Black Swans
Cloud Nothings
The Lighthouse and the Whaler
Nick Tolford and Company
Old Hundred
Phantods
Pomegranates
Southeast Engine
Walk the Moon

Oregon
Adventure Galley
Ages and Ages
And And And
Lost Lander
Onuinu
Pure Bathing Culture
Radiation City
Sean Flinn and the Royal We
The River Empires
Wild Ones

Pennsylvania
Chill Moody
City Rain
Dana Alexandra
Donora
DRGN KING
New Shouts
Nicos Gun
Purling Hiss
Strand of Oaks
Toy Soldiers
Work Drugs

South Carolina
Company
Gremlins
Milton Hall
Modern Man
Pan
Pussy Wizard
Ramphastos
The Restoration
Run Dan Run
Shovels & Rope
Sunshone Still
Troth

South Dakota
Amos Slade
Avian Sunrise
The Kickback
Mystery Pills
Paradise Fears
Roman Ships
Soul Crate
The Tinder Box
Typical Hunks
Wumpus

Tennessee
The Apache Relay
The Black Cadillacs
Cherub
Cities Aviv
Dirty Guv’nahs
Glossary
The Kingston Springs
The Memphis Dawls
Moon Taxi
Plainclothes Tracy
Star & Micey
Vinyl Thief

Washington
Cathedral Pearls
The Lonleyly Forest
Macklemore
My Goodness
Night Beats
OC Notes
Pickwick
Shelby Earl
THEESatisfaction
Unnatural Helpers
The Young Elvis
Yuni in Taxco