THE STEPKIDS will continue to bring their futuristic electro soul and soaring harmonies to stages across the country and world throughout the summer. The Connecticut trio just announced a west coast tour with Mates of State, in addition to headline and festival dates both in the US and abroad. They are also currently on tour with former Stones Throw labelmate Mayer Hawthorne and the County. See full dates below. Jeff Gitelman (guitar/vocals) notes of the group's pairing with Mates of ...
THE STEPKIDS Announce West Coast Tour with Mates of State, International Festival Dates This Summer On Tour Now With Mayer Hawthorne and the County Critically-Praised Debut Album Available Now on Stones Throw www.stonesthrow.com/thestepkid s THE STEPKIDS will continue to bring their futuristic electro soul and soaring harmonies to stages across the country and world throughout the summer. The Connecticut trio just announced a west coast tour with Mates of State, in addition to headline and festival dates both in the US and abroad. They are also [...]
Watch all the cuteness of Mates of State 's new video, "Unless I'm Lead" above. The married duo of Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel are obviously perfect together, so why not make a single-take video of them having the time of their lives on a beach. Doesn't hurt that the track is inspiring gold. This is now the 4th single and video off of 2011's Mountaintops . Mates of State - "Unless I'm Lead"
Liz Flyntz If we can regard Beach House literally as their namesake, which is to say as a holiday getaway, a reliably stolid place to escape from the real world, then the amount of adoration they've gotten for largely sticking to their skeletal formula through four albums now is understandable. Their fans don't want them to reinvent themselves with each outing; they want that comforting blanket of Victoria Legrand's narcoleptic vocals and whirring keyboard interwoven with Alex Scally's languid slide guitar, and across their first two records - their 2006 self-titled debut and [...]
Indie popping duo, the MATES OF STATE wake up my Thursday AM at me desk, with their new video, UNLESS I'M LED . I'd do anything right now to walk across flaming logs, release a cluster of red balloons, thrash a painting, sit at a table and celebrate it around a small campfire. Instead I'm sipping on a peppermint tea just before I dive into a 10AM meeting.
Here's the video for Mates Of State's "Unless I'm Led," wherein we find the Mates Of States beachside, frolicking, jumping over fires, painting (not a landscape, though) and watching one of those morphing thousand-bird clusters in the sky. Watch it below. Read More...
Married duo Josh Hammel and Kori Gardner debut their new video for "Unless I'm Led," the fourth video from their 2011 album, Mountaintops.
Watch 'Unless I'm Led' via Rolling Stone . Mates Of State recently dropped by NPR. Purchase Mates Of State items via Insound. MP3: The Drums - Days (Mates Of State Mix)
Recently, we saw Mates of State play a show in November at the El Rey Theatre in November in support of their latest release, Mountaintops. Now the husband-wife duo of Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel of Mates of State will...
Last Saturday was Record Store Day, the one day in the year reserved to shine a spotlight on records and record stores across the country. It was a very successful one, too! The Black Angels 73 that we've been raving about did mighty well at Waterloo Records, who reported that it ...
Mates of State have announced that they will be coming to town to play not one, but two Los Angeles shows in support of their latest release "Mountaintops". You can see Mates of State when they take the stage of The Echo on Thursday, July 5th and again on Saturday, July 7th. Opening up both shows will be The Stepkids Tickets for both Mates of State shows at The Echo will go on sale starting on Saturday, April 28th at 10am through Ticketweb for $13.00 plus [...]
Recommended Show: SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 2012 MATES OF STATE @ SOUND FIX 44 Berry St Brooklyn, NY 11211 FREE, 7:30PM A free show from Mates of State on Record Store Day? Oh, THIS is going to be crowded! Mice Parade @ Littlefield Mates of State @ Sound Fix Every Time I Die @ Maxwell's Via Audio @ Rockwood Music Hall Chilly Gonzalez @ Le Poisson Rouge The Greyboy Allstars @ Brooklyn Bowl The Snow [...]
photos by Gabi Porter BestNewBands : What do you do with your downtime when you're on tour? Jason Hammell of Mates of State : There really isn't any downtime anymore. There used to be a shit load of it, because we would just sound check and then be sitting backstage drinking, waiting for the show to start. Now it's a really fine balance between doing sound check...well, waking up and [...]
I've been digging through my old records lately and I can't believe just how awesome music was between 2003 and 2007. This awesomeness has inspired a new series, The Throwback Mix Series , which will be a six or seven installment set of mixes each containing 20 songs that I loved during that time span - and each mix will be completely rad. Spread the word and be sure to support the artists you enjoy. Neutral Milk Hotel - "Holland, 1945" [...]
The 17th annual Gathering of the Vibes Music Festival runs July 19-22nd at Seaside Park in Bridgeport, Connecticut. This year's lineup is topped by four former members of the Grateful Dead: Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, who will be performing alongside Bruce Hornsby, Bill Kreutzman, who is be performing with his band 7 Walkers, and Mickey Hart. Other notable acts include Primus, STS9, The Avett Brothers, and Yonder Mountain String Band. They'll be joined by Zappa Plays Zappa, Steel Pulse, George Porter Jr. & Runnin' Pardners, Keller Williams, Dark Star Orchestra, Mates of State, ALO, The Greyboy Allstars, Deep Banana Blackout, Ryan [...]
The Brooklyn group get remixed by the Kansas husband wife duo.
Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Song: The Drums - Days (Mates of State Remix) [download here ] What's so good? In case you hadn't noticed, we're pretty keen on indie rock remixes over here. Therefore it was a bit of a no-brainer that this [...]
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The Drums ha encontrado un balance entre los momentos en los que entregan muy buenas cosas, y esos que opacan por completo sus buenos ratos como lo que encontramos dentro de " Portamento " que si bien no es una cosa terrible, les mencionaba que es como estar dentro de una montaña rusa en la que derrepente sube su potencial y despues cae en unos vacios tremendos pero, ya saben, aun asi les ha ido bastante bien y no es para menos ya que han sabido moverse bastante bien por los terrenos musicales. Pero bueno, Mates Of State acaba [...]
Catch The Drums on their North American tour. Mates Of State recently dropped by NPR. Purchase The Drums items via Insound. MP3: The Drums - Days (Mates Of State Mix)
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