$15
Audio / Video
Gallery
About This Event
Minimum Age:
18+Doors Open:
6:30 PMShow Time:
7:30 PMDescription:
This is a general admission, standing event. Happy hour from 6:30pm-7:30pm.
Artists
Mates of State- SOLD OUT
Kori Gardner (keyboard/vocals) and Jason Hammel (drums/vocals) were both playing guitar and singing in the Kansas music metropolis of Lawrence before forming the Mates of State in 1997. With their dual vocal harmonies and minimal pop appeal, Omnibus Records released Mates of State's first EP as a split with Fighter D in 1999. Upon a relocation to San Francisco, the duo's second EP, It's the Law/Invitation Inn, and a debut studio effort, My Solo Project, followed in 2000.
Tours of the Midwest followed into the next year and creative ideas continued to swirl. Hammel and Gardner, who were married in early 2001, inked themselves a deal with Polyvinyl prior to recording a follow-up. Summer days were spent playing shows with Superdrag, the Anniversary, and Beulah while writing songs on the road. Those sessions lead to the second album, Our Constant Concern, in 2002. The next spring Polyvinyl reissued their debut album, My Solo Project, and later on the full-length Team Boo. After their contract was up with Polyvinyl (ending with the 2004 EP All Day), Mates of State decided to head over to Barsuk, the label that released Bring It Back in 2006 and Re-Arrange Us in 2008.
Their next full length album entitled "Crushes (The Covers Mixtape)" is set to be released to be released on their own label June 15, 2010. "Crushes" is an album consisting of covers of songs by some of the Mates’ personal favorites by artists ranging from Nick Cave to Death Cab For Cutie to Fleetwood Mac to Girls, whose “Laura” is now available in its Mates reinterpretation as a free download at matesofstate.com. It is the first full album recorded and produced by Mates Hammel and Gardner themselves, with a mixing assist from longtime collaborator Peter Katis (The National, Swell Season, Interpol, etc.).
their most recent album is Mountaintops.
Tours of the Midwest followed into the next year and creative ideas continued to swirl. Hammel and Gardner, who were married in early 2001, inked themselves a deal with Polyvinyl prior to recording a follow-up. Summer days were spent playing shows with Superdrag, the Anniversary, and Beulah while writing songs on the road. Those sessions lead to the second album, Our Constant Concern, in 2002. The next spring Polyvinyl reissued their debut album, My Solo Project, and later on the full-length Team Boo. After their contract was up with Polyvinyl (ending with the 2004 EP All Day), Mates of State decided to head over to Barsuk, the label that released Bring It Back in 2006 and Re-Arrange Us in 2008.
Their next full length album entitled "Crushes (The Covers Mixtape)" is set to be released to be released on their own label June 15, 2010. "Crushes" is an album consisting of covers of songs by some of the Mates’ personal favorites by artists ranging from Nick Cave to Death Cab For Cutie to Fleetwood Mac to Girls, whose “Laura” is now available in its Mates reinterpretation as a free download at matesofstate.com. It is the first full album recorded and produced by Mates Hammel and Gardner themselves, with a mixing assist from longtime collaborator Peter Katis (The National, Swell Season, Interpol, etc.).
their most recent album is Mountaintops.
Sean Bones
Last we heard of Sean Bones he was riding a triple wave with RINGS, his oddball reggae debut, an acclaimed feature film Wah Do Dem and still shipping orders of swim trunks for his S/S Friends line. The three projects were born out of an intense musical connection. If it was unclear to anyone that Bones is an intriguing and adventurous record-maker then it won’t be much longer.
Shortly after being invited to open for Spoon at Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn (the last show supporting RINGS), Sean decamped to Treefort Studios with Shane Stoneback to start creating an album he’s calling Buzzards Boy. The songs are a departure from the debut (less Jamaica here) but he’s still after something warm and broken in. The island he’s trawling is darker and more beautiful - tracks are swathed in reverby surf guitars and loose percussion. It’s easy to imagine hearing these songs outdoors, at night. (And considering who we’re dealing with, sunglasses would be fine in that moonlight.)
While plans are afoot for a 7” release later in the fall, Sean is playing out both with his evolving band and alone with a boombox. The solo shows have been happening more and more lately and they are loose and engaging sights to behold. As always, he’s giving us options and they are all uniquely Bones.
Shortly after being invited to open for Spoon at Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn (the last show supporting RINGS), Sean decamped to Treefort Studios with Shane Stoneback to start creating an album he’s calling Buzzards Boy. The songs are a departure from the debut (less Jamaica here) but he’s still after something warm and broken in. The island he’s trawling is darker and more beautiful - tracks are swathed in reverby surf guitars and loose percussion. It’s easy to imagine hearing these songs outdoors, at night. (And considering who we’re dealing with, sunglasses would be fine in that moonlight.)
While plans are afoot for a 7” release later in the fall, Sean is playing out both with his evolving band and alone with a boombox. The solo shows have been happening more and more lately and they are loose and engaging sights to behold. As always, he’s giving us options and they are all uniquely Bones.