Mates and States, the real life couple of Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel, will release the follow-up to 2005's well-recieved album Bring It Back this spring. For the new one, Re-Arrange Us out May 20th via Barsuk, Gardner and Hammel layered keys, drums, and alternately dueling vocals. Some tracks that make the album include "Now," "Jigsaw" and "Get Better." Much of the album was written while Ga...
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Pop duo Mates of State is offering up a remix EP to compliment their most recent album Re-Arrange Us. The EP, entitled Re-Arranged: Vol 1, is the first in a series of remix releases and will feature reworks by Mae Shi, RAC, DJ Sega, and Flosstradamus. Also, be sure to check out Mates [...]
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You all probably totally know that Jason and Kori aka the so-cute-it-makes-you-puke indie pop duo Mates Of State are heading out on a long tour, co-headlining dates across the US with Floridian upstarts Black Kids. But now comes excellent news...
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MATES OF STATE CONFIRM REMIX EP RELEASE, CO-HEADLINE TOUR WITH BLACK KIDSFresh off an appearance on ABC's Good Morning America and with Best of 2008 accolades having come in from NPR, Paste, KCRW and more, Mates of State are ready to kick off 2009 with two major announcements:First, tickets go on sale this Saturday, January 17 for Mates of State's upcoming co-headline tour with Black Kids. The
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NPR is webcasting tonight from the 9:30 Club featuring Mates of State with Black Kids co-headlining the bill.The music of Mates of State has always been playfully innocent and unabashedly upbeat. Since forming a decade ago in Lawrence, Kan., the husband-and-wife duo of Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel has released a string of sticky-sweet studio [...]
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Speaking of that webcast tonight with Mates of State and Black Kids, I missed the news earlier this week that they were heading out on a tour together courtesy of MySpace Music. Read on for the dates.Mates of State / Black Kids Spring 2009 Tour:04/02 Richmond, WA - The National04/03 Philadelphia, PA - Trocadero04/04 [...]
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In these hard economic times, parents have to do anything in their power to make sure they can provide for their children. Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel, better known to you and I as Mates of State, are doing just that — except, unlike normal parents who are working longer hours or cutting expenses, the parental unit of Mates of State is heading out on a newly confirmed tour for the rest of the.
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Mates Of State (Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel) are hitting The Loft tomorrow on their tour with rap duo, Brother Reade, behind their fifth full length album, "Re-Arrange Us," released on Barsuk. The tour will mark Mates' first extensive road trip since NPR's "This American Life" tour last February, ...
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