I interrupt my regularly scheduled time listening to David Byrne and Brian Eno to bring you a Black Kids video. The band most famous for making a MySpace-fueled ascent to blogger collective consciousness in the most rapid(share) of fashions -- and second most famous for getting Pug'd -- are defiantly refusing to cease existing because of a negative review. Imagine that, not letting their lives...
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Black Kids recently found the time to stop into the Daytrotter studios to record a session. The article to go along with the music is pretty insightful into the backdrop for lead singer Reggie Youngblood's lyrics. Check it out here. Here's a sweet version of "Look At Me (When I Rock Wichoo)" from the recordings. mp3: [...]
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The Magic Wands (who still aren’t dead) are opening for the Black Kids starting September 20th.Ugh.Now everyone will have to deal with hyper-inflated ticket prices for a hyper-inflated band in the Black Kids in order to see the Magic Wands and the Virgins if you’re so inclined.The good news is you can leave you can [...]~~
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--- - |- "I've been making these eyes now, making these eyes since '82." I consider myself pretty apathetic as far as buzz bands are concerned. My antipathy has reached new heights in the past couple of years. We all know that we've read about Sufjan Stevens to the point of exhaustion and have certainly heard more than enough about Tapes 'N' Tapes or Vampire Weekend (no negative tidings to ...
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There are moments in time when I wish the world of synth heavy campy pop had died in 1989. Then there are albums that come along and imagine old themes with such a fresh face that you can't help but love both where we've been and where we're all heading. Black Kids debut album, Partie Traumatic (amazon) (itunes), is one of those albums. From start to end, even when existentially singing from...
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Well another month has come and gone. Another thirty or so odd days and another slew of blog posts, emails, and other various forms of communication have brought to my attention enough new tracks to compile a new volume of Best of the Remix. For those of you who are new here let me explain a bit. Each month I compile two separate lists here on The World Forgot. One list contains the thirtee...
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There are moments in time when I wish the world of synth heavy campy pop had died in 1989. Then there are albums that come along and imagine old themes with such a fresh face that you can't help but love both where we've been and where we're all heading. Black Kids debut album, Partie Traumatic (amazon) (itunes), is one of those albums. From start to end, even when existentially singing from...
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Jacksonville Florida based indie-pop rockers Black Kids can be seen performing live their song "I'm Not Going To Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You" For MTV2 UK below.The group is in the middle of an extended tour though the United Kingdom riding on the residuals of their breakthrough performance at the CMJ Music Marathon in New York City last October. Previous to that they signed to th...
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I always get the Black Kids mixed up with the Cool Kids in my head, until I hear the music. The Black Kids make laid-back indie rock that borders on shoegaze while the Cool Kids make killer old school hip hop tunes. Personally, I prefer the Cool Kids coz I'm more of a b-girl, but I know loads of my MOG friends will love this new video from the Black Kids, so I'm posting it here. Plus, I can'...
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_Black Kids_ are depressingly hip. The band name is thought provoking (a la Dead Kennedys) rather than outright confrontational (cf. Violent Anal Death). Their multimedia champions are hipster's bibles Pitchfork and NME. They’re signed to Arcade Fire’s management. (_Of course_.) The front man has an afro (don’t worry, he’s not white). And, to top it all off, the band hails from the cyberp
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What's the fascination with the Black Kids? For some reason, I just don't get it. Their music makes me think of stuff that played on the radio in the 80's that made me change the channel. Was it New Wave back then? What is it now?Anyway, I know peeps like this stuff, coz MOG went record shopping with them and filmed it for MOGtv. And people post about Black Kids' music here on MOG. So tel...
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US band 'Black Kids' are touring the UK at the moment with bouncy 'I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend' getting lots of airplay./Turn up the sound and bounce!// http://www.myspace.com/blackkidsrock
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So, as you can see the northeast is being hit by a rather weak Hurricane today, not a lot of rain just a lot of tree bending wind (and some rain) and it's cold enough to make you want to lay on the couch watching crap movies all day.So I figured if I'm going to be holed up for awhile with nothing to do why not lay down of barrage of random music posts. Just a few, no more then six, maybe seven,...
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The Black Kids' new (highly anticipated) album, Partie Traumatic has hit the ground running. Although the blog-hype (and also backlash speculation) are absolutely out of control, the Jacksonville Fla group have offered up an album of better than good disposable neo-dance music. With all the hype surrounding this band based around a 4 song myspace e.p., one may speculate if the Kids are even r...
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