State Champs Massive Announcement! (Derek DiScanio)
The Joe Vulpis Podcast
Joe Vulpis
4.9 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
State Champs have been a driving force in the modern pop-punk scene, blending high-energy anthems with heartfelt lyrics that defined a generation. In this exclusive interview, frontman Derek DiScanio sits down to talk about the band’s journey, the evolution of their sound, and what it means to stay authentic in today’s music world. He also announces their 10-year anniversary tour celebrating the iconic album Around the World and Back — a milestone moment for fans and the pop-punk community alike.
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| 0:00.0 | Our second album around the Wildenbach is 10 years old this year. |
| 0:03.0 | And everyone keeps asking, where's the tour? |
| 0:06.0 | Where's the anniversary tour? |
| 0:07.0 | We're going to do it. |
| 0:08.0 | It's just going to be at the top of next year. |
| 0:11.0 | You're getting the exclusive, by the way. |
| 0:13.0 | Guys, we're breaking it out now. |
| 0:14.0 | I've got more secrets than you'll ever know. |
| 0:19.0 | The more money you make, the more money you're going to watch Go Away. Would State Champs ever do a live album? I've thought about that. Who are your top three performing bands that you've seen live that just blew you away? I'm going to put a day to a member in this as far as top three because Sean, the violin player of Yellow Card. How come stories so far never does interviews? |
| 0:37.7 | Is that just a personal thing? |
| 0:39.1 | 15 years of state champs. |
| 0:41.1 | How do you figure out how to keep reinventing the sound and keep the energetic shows so alive to make people wanting to keep coming back? |
| 0:49.3 | It's a great, great question, man. I think 15 years is something that I never thought we'd get to as a band number one the the live show I think is still the most important thing that I think about |
| 0:58.2 | every time what's next how are we going to keep the integrity and whatnot but I don't |
| 1:02.3 | think it's ever been a question of like how are we going to re like completely redefine ourselves |
| 1:06.8 | as a band in our sound sonically or anything. I think we've established something and built a |
| 1:11.6 | community around this certain thing that has worked for us. And yes, we're going to try new things |
| 1:15.6 | and try to develop it and still be the best at it and better ourselves and set other goals, but |
| 1:19.1 | it's not like we're trying to pull a 180 on anybody in any sense. I think if anyone asks, |
| 1:25.2 | what's the difference between album one and album five? |
| 1:28.3 | Well, they're all still pop punk, right? But there's a little bit of like maturity in some |
| 1:33.3 | eras, but that's the easy way out of saying, yes, this is more mature. But I think collaboration has been a |
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