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 ...

Intra-band love — past or present, real or imagined — is the simplest way to ensure that chumps (like this one) endlessly obsess over your personal life and ignore the damn tunes. Ask the White ...

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 ...

In the past eight years, Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel have made five albums, married and had two children. The pair, who record as Mates of State, stopped by the Bryant Park Project studios to play ...

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 ...

From Matt & Kim to She & Him, there are plenty of bands vying for the title of indie-pop's most adorable duo these days. If we really wanted to weigh all the candidates' credentials, though, none of ...

Mates Of State conjure sublime indie-pop songs from the simplest of elements: one member plays a keyboard (or two), the other a drum kit. No guitars are employed, making for a quirkily irresistible ...

To paraphrase a famous musical meditation on solitude: As numbers go, two can be just as desperate, miserable and lonely as one. Over the past couple of years, several duos have shown us that simply ...

Before there was Matt & Kim, or the Submarines, there was Mates of States. I doubt that makes them the original cute-indie-rock-duo-in-a-relationship, but they certainly upped the awww factor, and ...

From Feist + Ben Gibbard to Fever Ray to Beck to Lush to Cassandra Jenkins, here are 10 of our favorite Vashti Bunyan covers. The Natvral shares “New Year’s Night” video, touring with Luna and Tobin ...

Husband-and-wife team Jason Hammel and Kori Gardner seemingly make gorgeous indie pop songs as easily and casually as the rest of us shower in the morning. Much has changed since their duo Mates of ...

Between 2000 to 2015, Mates Of State put out eight studio albums, but they've been very quiet since then. Today, the indie pop duo of Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel are back with "Somewhere," their ...