Mates Of State

Illinois indie rock label Polyvinyl Records is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a neat bit of self-referential reflection. On the 20-track compilation Polyvinyl Plays Polyvinyl,…

As a writer, it's always really fun when your vague assumptions about a song's meaning are justified. When I wrote about Mates Of State's single…

The mainstay indie-pop duo Mates Of State are slated to release their first EP since 2011's Mountaintops next month. The forthcoming EP will be titled…

Any song that evokes playground imagery is fated to make you feel nostalgic, regardless of whether or not those images parallel your personal experiences in…

Over 100,000 fans hit the Seattle Center for this year's Bumbershoot over Labor Day weekend. Performers included Kendrick Lamar, MGMT, Fun., Heart, Gary Numan, and…

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…

Earlier this year, Mates Of State tweeted that they were working on a remix of the Drums' "Days," and today we have that very take…

The video for Mates Of State's "Sway" chronicles the budding romance between a woman who falls into an alternate world and a creature she meets…

Connecticut-via-Kansas boy/girl duo Mates Of State return this fall with their seventh LP Mountaintops, the follow-up to 2008's Re-Arrange Us. This time out they've enlisted…

We first glommed onto the A.V. Club's covers project via Owen Pallett's take on Guided By Voices' "Game Of Pricks"; in the subsequent weeks more…

Mates Jason Hammel and Kori Gardner's Crushes..., their first album since 2008's Re-Arrange Us, includes covers of 10 fairly diverse artists. There are links between…

Indeed, this year's Virgin Mobile Festival was totally free, and Richard Branson's attempt to "put a smile on people's faces" totally worked. Aside from those…

Yo Gabba Gabba!, the kiddie show that grabbed our attention with original music from Cornelius and the Shins, has booked lots more bands to appear…

It's time to brave the ferry lines for another day in Jersey, but first: pretty pictures via the eye of Abbey Braden. As…