Ma’aM to Celebrate Debut Album, Kick Off Tour at State Theatre

State College-based band Ma’am will celebrate the release of their debut album and kick off their upcoming tour with a special show on Saturday at The State Theatre.

The cowpunk rockers will be joined by special guests Old Lady and Phil Spector’s Gun.

Doors open at 6 p.m. with Lowercase DJ-ing in the lobby and the show starts at 7 p.m. Tickets are $30 in advance through The State Theatre’s website and $35 at the door.

Formed in 2019 by State College native Araelia Lopatic and Georgia transplant Tiger Cabus, Ma’aM has built a dedicated following through its live shows locally and regionally, as well as its own Burning Ma’aM music festival in Woodward. In September, the band played the Another World Music Festival with headliner Donna the Buffalo and opened for Replacements’ co-founder Tommy Stinson during a show at 145 Studios in Millheim.

Out Nov. 17 on Nudie Records, the group’s 10-track debut LP, “Rules 2 Ramblin’” was produced by Dave Bielanko of Marah and recorded at 145 Studios. The album, according to the label, “takes all who dare to listen to a raucous road side dive bar with a revolving cast of chaotic crooners and songwriters, Smashing together swirling alt country, greasy garage rock, and hell-bound honky tonk with a commotion of emotion. Ma’aM concocts a sound all their own leaving you with a tear in beer and your middle finger waving high in the air.”

Saturday’s show will be followed by an after-party at Zeno’s with with Chris Rattie & The New Rebels and Crater & The Catalyst.

Ma’aM then joins Phil Spector’s Gun on a Mid-Atlantic run over the following week, with stops in Pittsburgh Morgantown, W.Va., Arlington and Richmond, Va., Raleigh, N.C., Atlantic City and Philadelphia.

Listen to the title track from “Rules 2 Ramblin’”: