Blog: melophobe

Before Sunday night, my only exposure to Mates of State came from their contributions to numerous episodes of “This American Life.” Hearing them in bite-sized pieces, I assumed they were simply an innocuous, tepid folk duo. Boy, was I wrong. Opening with the incomparably peppy “The ReArranger,” husband and wife duo Jason Hammel and Kori Gardner had the sparse crowd nodding heads and grinning--a picture that lasted throughout their ceaselessly upbeat and spirited set. While promoting their Summer 2010 release Crushes (The Covers Mixtape) , the show also served to workshop a handful [...]

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