Mates of State News

After boasting names such as Death Cab for Cutie, Rilo Kiley and Mates of State, it's a safe bet that any new act signed to the Seattle label Barsuk will have enough pop potential to reach a broader audience ...

It must be a thrill to have a professional song written about yourself. Even one success could bring the targeted interest to their knees, especially if the songwriter at hand actually holds a reciprocated ...

The idea of married music duos seems somewhat cursed . But so far, so good for Jason Hammel and Kori Gardner of Mates of State , who play the Paradise tonight.

One of Lollapalooza's added bonuses: The entire city embraces the festival, and many of the Lolla bands play late-night, intimate sets, keeping the party long after Grant Park's 10 P.M. curfew.

Garth Algar, standing over our shoulder while we read the newest Tilly And The Wall press release, declared, as he once did on the set of "Wayne's World": "We fear change." He needn't. Over two albums, the ...

Ryan has proven to be more technology savy than I with his Live blogging throughout the day yesterday, so forgive me for posting this a little late.

On Sunday, July 20, throngs of music-hungry fans converged on Los Angeles' Gibson Ampitheatre for Download 2008 to have their craving satiated by sets from Tapes N' Tapes, Datarock, Ghostland Observatory, Gang ...

Several performers have been announced for this September's MidPoint Music Festival .

Day 2 of Pemberton Festival started eerily with a soundcheck echoing off the mountains, and remote bands of dirt-caked wanderers traipsing through the hay like the last survivors of the oil crash, their faces ...

An indie-rock up-and-comer with five full-length albums, the married duo of Kori Gardner Hammel and Jason Hammel performs as Mates of State .

Who? Minneapolis' One for the Team purvey the sort of buzzing, playful, unisex indie-pop purported by bands bold older and new .

Tipsy and the Tri-Tones 8-11 p.m., The Melting Point Playing as part of John Straw's Blues Night, this Atlanta band plays American roots music.

Husband and wife duo Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel return two years later - < - ' - Re-Arrange Us .

Mates of State Re-Arrange Us out of 4 The adorable duo of Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel, a.k.a. Mates of State, has returned with its fifth album, "Re-Arrange Us". Once it was just a band.

It's months old, but those Imponderables cutups outdid themselves in gross fashion with Mush Mouth: tinyurl.com/4pnpat A much better, serious TV spot, by Toronto's Rethink ad agency: tinyurl.com/5a5saq Pop ...

Mates of State, Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, Headlights Granada Theater June 11, 20008 Mates of State, with a full band for once.

Bob Ray Sanders of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram leads the talk with Clarence Broadnax and the Rev.

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Insulin-shock alert at the Bluebird! The husband-and-wife duo Mates of State specializes in syrupy-sweet indie-pop full of gossamer piano and Disney-whimsical orchestration.

ROAD TRIP: MATES OF STATE On paper, Mates of State kind of look like they would be comparable to Marty and Bobbi Culp -- cheeseball music teachers once portrayed by Will Ferrell and Ana Gasteyer on Saturday ...