The artist’s album “New Threats from the Soul” is suffused with listlessness and yearning, dark jokes, and wordy ...

Sophomore Lounge record label founder and former State Champion leader Ryan Davis is rolling out the latest album from his Roadhouse Band, New Threats From The Soul.Its Berman-inspired title track ...

State Champion (from left): Mikie Poland, Ryan Davis, Sabrina Rush, and Aaron Osbourne. Davis is not necessarily what you'd call a technically precise or polished singer, but when I first heard ...

Dancing on the Edge is Davis’ first record under his own name, but it’s hardly a debut: He’s fronted the ragged rock band State Champion, led Louisville’s heady Cropped Out festival, and ...

Often, State Champion songs are sung in all caps too. They make deranged country math rock of the Good Will Hunting variety, played loud by necessity. The band began in the mid-2000s when its four ...

Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band. Dancing On The Edge. Read later. Louisville artist takes on the big stuff in an album of long ... He’d been busy fronting State Champion, playing in Tropical Trash as ...