20 Center St
Northampton, Massachusetts 01060

Mates of State w/
Free Energy
Todd Barry
The BAAD Kinetics Project

Price: Adv: $16.00 - Door: $19.00

Mates of State launch their Summer Crushes Tour at the Iron Horse with Philly electro popsters Free Energy (who appeared on David Letterman this March) and alt-comedy king Todd Barry (Flight of the Conchords). This unpredictable assemblage of talent will also include sideshow performers, sword swallowing, bed-of-nails, straitjacket escapes jugglers, magicians, and someone who goes by the promising-sounding name of Bubble Man. This surreal roadshow gets the latter part of its name from Crushes (The Covers Mixtape), the Mates’ first self-produced album. As its subtitle implies, it finds the band offering up a collection of cool cover tunes. They tackle songs by some of their musical heroes, from Nick Cave (”Love Letter”) to Daniel Johnston’s “True Love Will Find You in the End." The self-released, digital-only album, comes out the day of the Iron Horse show and will be available at the gig as a limited-edition physical CD just in case the sword swallowers and bed of nails weren’t incentive enough for you.

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