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About Me

We are formerly known as Maria Sweeney and the State Troopers. However, once we aquired new band members and a new sound we decided that another name would suit us.YERBA MATE is named after a traditional South American tea, which provides one with natural good feeling and energy. Our band also contains a bit of South American flavor (the lead singer is from Colombia and the guitarist is half Colombian) and also provides one with good feeling and energy. Cool huh?

My Interests

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Member Since: 8/22/2006
Band Website: You can check out lonjandis.com for pics, etc.
Band Members: Maria Sweeney (vocals, guitar), Ethan Snyder (drums), Jon Lipscomb (guitar) and Greg Albert (bass)
Influences: Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, Pearl Jam, Sonic Youth, The Sundays, The Smiths, Broken Social Scene, Whoarfrost, SBAB.
Sounds Like: music to your ears!
Record Label: Still looking.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

NEW SONG BITCH!

New song. Listen mortals!
Posted by YERBA MATE on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:01:00 PST

RECORDING AT SQUID HELL STUDIOS!

Yerba Mate is getting ready to record at Squid Hell Studios at the end of March. We have ten tunes that we're going to get recorded.That's like... a whole album. Everyone is in for a treat. We ha...
Posted by YERBA MATE on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:54:00 PST

New members = better sound!

I am very excited! Things are looking brighter for the Troopers now that Jon Lipscomb has joined as the second guitar player and Ben, who's last name I don't know at the moment, is playing bass. We ha...
Posted by YERBA MATE on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:38:00 PST

New Songs and April gigs

So I finally stopped being lazy and put up new tracks today. Well, they're new in the sense that you haven't heard Pinwheel Mind and the Emo Song yet (unless you've gone to one of our shows of course)...
Posted by YERBA MATE on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 05:53:00 PST