Video: Mates of State - Goods (Middle East, Cambridge, 9/13/06)

I made the drive down to Boston yesterday to see Mates of State, who put on the best show I've seen in quite a while. They've got one of my favorite albums of the year ( Bring It Back ), a super-cute backstory, and enough excitement to power a small city for several months. In an hour and a half they managed to play basically every song of theirs that I love, and did a mighty fine job of it. Highlights included rousing rendition of "Fraud in the 80s" and "For the Actor," an [...]