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  Trey Anastasio Quietly Working on Solo Album With Members of the National

  December 9, 2011 – Trey Anastasio is quietly working on a new solo album with help from aformidable cast of indie rockers, SPIN has learned. Since winding up his fall tour, the Phish guitarist has been making adaily commute from his New York City home to Bridgeport,Connecticut's Tarquin Studios, recording with his band and members ofthe National and Mates of State for the last month. …
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  Voodoo Music Experience Hypnotizes New Orleans

  October 31, 2011 –  …
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  Mates of State, 'Mountaintops' (Barsuk)

  September 13, 2011 – Married duo Mates of State are in their second decade of refashioning Brill Building harmonies and new-wave wooziness into odes to domestic bliss. On their seventh album, they've now grown comfortable enough to cut down on the cute and flirt with new styles -- "Total Serendipity" has a Motown shake worthy of Smokey Robinson. …
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  My Favorite Things: Mates of State

  July 28, 2011 – This week: Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel, the husband-wife team behind indie-pop band Mates of State. The couple will release their seventh full-length album, Mountaintops, on September 13, then hit road for a 19-date tour. FAVORITE SONG: "'Crazy Love' by Van Morrison. This song has the chord progression that we believe are present in many of the greatest songs. …
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  FREE MP3: Mates of State Cover Girls!

  April 7, 2010 – Indie-pop husband-wife team Mates of State will join a growing legion of bands releasing cover albums -- see Nada Surf, the Bird & the Bee -- with this summer's Crushes (The Covers Mixtape), a 10-song set of other people's music. …
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  Terrific Twitter Trio of the Week

  September 11, 2009 – Lots of musicians tweet -- but all that Twitters is not gold. That's why you'll want to check out SPIN.com every Friday to see whose tweets we're reading this week -- then update your TweetDeck! …
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  Mates of State, MGMT Keep Lolla Rolling Late-Night

  August 2, 2008 – One of Lollapalooza's added bonuses: The entire city embraces the festival, and many of the Lolla bands play late-night, intimate sets, keeping the party long after Grant Park's 10 P.M. curfew. …
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  Behind the Scenes at Download 2008 Los Angeles: Mates of State

  July 31, 2008 – On Sunday, July 20, throngs of music-hungry fans converged on Los Angeles' Gibson Ampitheatre for Download 2008 to have their craving satiated by sets from Tapes N' Tapes, Datarock, Ghostland Observatory, Gang of Four, and the Jesus and Mary Chain, among others. …
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  Join SPIN.com at Lollapalooza '08!

  July 30, 2008 – SPIN.com is packing up its festival bags once again this weekend for one of summer's biggest weekends: Lollapalooza, in Chicago's gorgeous Grant Park. With headline sets from the likes of Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against the Machine, Wilco, and Kanye West, Lolla lacks little in star power, and we're unleashing our hounds accordingly. …
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  Mates of State, Jesus and Mary Chain, Duke Spirit, and Others Sparkle at Download Fest's L.A. Date

  July 21, 2008 – Two guys were talking in the Gibson Amphitheatre men's room around 4:00 P.M. during last night's (July 20) L.A. stop of the three-city Download Festival. One said to the other, "I've been to a lot of festivals, dude, and this is one weird festival! …
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