A lot of people like to joke that they could never work with their significant other because it'd end in some sort of catastrophe. One married couple that slaps the face of statistics - and slaps it ...

Wednesday night. The dynamic duo of Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel (they are married) were playing their third acoustic show so far, which featured a cellist and bassist, and a pregnant Gardner seated ...

Kori Gardner of Mates of State (photo by Jeff Trost for Transmission). Jason Hammel of Mates of State (photo by Jeff Trost for Transmission). Noted for bringing their adorable kids on tour, Kori and ...

We drop a quarter in the BPP Jukebox and hear the band Mates of State, live in the BPP studios. It's such an age-old question, locating the inspiration for a song, either from a ditty or a symphony.

Mates of State will on tour of the southern US this month, and upon returning home they’ve got a Connecticut show with Polaris in May, followed by a NYC show on July 10 at Bowery Ballroom. Tickets for ...

On Sunday evening, the Wonder Twins — D’Anne and Laura Witkowski — headed to the Magic Stick to catch the show by San Francisco’s the Mates of State. It was a night of singing drummers, boisterous ...

Kori and Jason of Mates of State have an action-packed two months ahead of them, crisscrossing the country in support of Bring It Back, the jubilant indie-poppers' best collection to date. (Though ...

The new Mates of State album, Re-Arrange Us, is indistinguishable from most every other Mates of State album. I could comment on various tracks, but if you’ve heard previous Mates of State albums, ...

'By now, we've got a taste of what a doublemind can do," sing Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel on "Mountaintops," the newest Mates of State album. It’s one of the most revealing lines on the set — a ...

Mates of State have a new record coming out via Barsuk this week, and they’ll be playing a special show in its honor at Mercury Lounge on Wedensday…. Mates of State’s new record Re-Arrange Us is ...

Mates of State's Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel can do melancholy, and they're experts at infusing their songs with a sense of loving comfort that feels hard-won. But the emotion they convey most ...

Much like London buses Mates of State take their time, but when they rock up they rock up en masse: nine years since they last played live in the UK and four years since their last album the gently ...