News:  The AV Club filmed 25 bands doing 25 covers in a web series called "Undercover".  Click here to view our version of The Replacements "I Will Dare" with Todd Barry on drums.

Mates of State are a part of the $5 albums of the month at Amazon.  Click here to purchase.

Our music video for "Love Letter" is up at Dickiessounds and you can view it here.

Nice review of Crushes from Under the Radar...

Enter to win a chance to have dinner with Mates of State before their show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on July 15th. As part of eMusic A+R Access + Rewards program, one lucky winner and guest will join the band at a restaurant near the venue. Tickets for the show are included.  You must be 21 or over.  Click here to enter: http://sflow.us/9XIvDZ

Mates will be playing a set at the new Apple Store in Uptown in Minneapolis tonight at 7pm! http://www.apple.com/retail/uptown/ 

Mates of State’s brand new video for their interpretation of Daniel Johnston’s “True Love Will Find You In The End” will make its broadcast debut today at 2:35 p.m. EST during an ABC News Now “Amplified” segment, which can be seen on RCN and Verizon FiOS as well as at abcnews.com/amplified, and will also feature an exclusive segment documenting the making of the clip.

The “True Love Will Find You In The End” video, which will also be viewable separately at MatesofState.com, features Mates Jason Hammel and Kori Gardener roaming the subways and streets of New York making mischief with mobile video projectors. The video began as  concept hatched over beers by Hammel and ABC reporter Dan Harris and was ultimately realized as a unique collaboration between Mates of State and ABC.

Hi Everyone,

Our new album, Crushes (The Covers Mixtape), is now available for pre-order at www.matesofstate.com for a reasonable five dollars!  We are really proud of this record - it may be our best yet. We made it as efficiently and independently as possible, so in turn we kept the price low to make it as easy for anyone and everyone to hear it.  The record will be officially released on June 15 and will be available at all finer digital music retailers as well.

Also just unveiled at www.matesofstate.com is the brand new video for Nick Cave's "Love Letter."  The literally and figuratively smoldering clip was directed by Daniel Garcia, who also directed "Get Better" from Mates of State's 2008 album Re-Arrange Us, and has directed videos for TV On The Radio, The Go! Team and J Dilla.

Lastly, the Summer Crushes tour is on sale now and is coming to a city near you.  Check the SHOWS page to get advance tickets.  Besides Free Energy, Todd Barry, Nick Thune, and Suckers on various shows, we are close to announcing the variety and sideshow acts that will be opening most shows too. See you soon!

Mates of State are going out on a 27-date US summer tour! Tickets go on sale in select cities tomorrow, April 21, and the rest this Saturday April 24 for what will be known as "The Summer Crushes 2010 Tour".    

The Summer Crushes 2010 tour will feature Free Energy, comedian Todd Barry on select dates, comedian Nick Thune on select dates, and special variety and sideshow acts to boot. We intend for this to be the most extravagant Mates show ever!  We're talking live magic, sword swallowers, human blockheads, contortionists, and much more. On top of all this, Jason and Kori will be DJ'ing post-shows.  It's going to be a fun party, folks, and you all are invited. Dates and ticket info below.

Also, a big thank you to all of you who signed up to receive "Laura" as a free MP3. If you didn't get it and still want it, head on over to the homepage.  More news on the release of Crushes (The Covers MIxtape) and additional tour information to come in the following weeks...

SUMMER CRUSHES TOUR

Mates of State

* w/ Free Energy

# w/ Todd Barry

^ w/ Nick Thune

% w/ Suckers

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6/15 Northampton, MA @ Iron Horse * #

6/16 Rochester, NY @ Water Street * #

6/17 Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church % #

6/18 Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Small’s * #

6/19 Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop * #

6/21 Cincinnati, OH @ 20th Century * #

6/22 Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall * #

6/23 Minneapolis, MN @ 400 Bar *

6/24 Minneapolis, MN @ 400 Bar *

6/25 Omaha, NE @ Slowdown *

6/26 Denver, CO @ Bluebird *

6/28 Salt Lake City, UT @ In the Venue *

6/30 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall * ^

7/1 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall * ^

7/2 Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo * ^

7/3 Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo * ^

7/4 Tucson, AZ @ Club Congress *

7/6 Lubbock, TX @ Jake's *

7/7 Dallas, TX @ Granada Theatre *

7/8 Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live *

7/9 Baton Rouge @ Spanish Moon *

7/10 Birmingham @ Workplay *

7/12 Athens, GA @ 40 Watt * ^

7/13 Asheville, NC @ Orange Peel * ^

7/14 Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar  * ^

7/15 Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall ^

7/16 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom ^