a. Check out two of our friend's blogs HERE and HERE .b. A six foot rubber band for only 5.50 HERE .c. Meh is an official WORD NOW .d. check out a friend of a friend's PHOTOS HERE .e. A giant collection of Obama pins HERE .f. I'm dying to see this.. g. A new trailer for Benjamin Button below. h. Watch the live video of the Get Up Kids reunion below.. i. Steven Colbert sings a Christma...
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Kansas City isn't often known for producing successful things as of late. (There's that Zack Greinke fellow, I guess. And they'll always have barbecue.) But in the mid-90s, the second wave of emo was bourne out of the heartland, and was led by KC's own Get Up Kids. [Other area emo acts include The Appleseed Cast (still around) and The Anniversary (not so much). Somewhere, there's irony in knowing
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WHAT RECORDS I HEART:1. The Get Up Kids / Braid Tour split 7 inch. Red House Studios, Eudora KansasPrivate Studios, Urbana Illinois. Alternative Cover. Tree Records. 19972. The Get Up Kids “shorty” 7inch. Huey Proudhon Records 1996.WHY THEY ARE SPECIAL:I loved this band for a long while and really looked hard and long to find these records. I don’t know if either of them are really rea
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Quick tip for you wanna-be ballas out there...fastest way to get a girl to sweat you-A Mix CD.Who knew it was that simple? All these years you've wasted hard earned cash on candy, flowers, expensive dinners and Designer Impostor Cologne and all it took was a Memorex 80 min CD-R! Granted, a truly excelent mix CD is a difficult thing to perfect (just ask my roomate)...but with these easy to follo...
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Something to Write Home About by the Get Up Kids is one of my "life changing" records. I remember the first time I heard it - In a friend's car, and a third friend had just bought it and put it in the stereo. The life, emotion, FEELING of the album had me completely engrossed, enraptured. I couldn't stop listening. The very next day, I took off down to HMV (the only record store out here in the...
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There has never been a time when I have complained about living in the Midwest. Certainly, people living outside of the area have criticisms and will always have their stereotypes. But having traveled to many different areas of the country, I wouldn't want to be anywhere else. That said, as much as I love living in Illinois, there is another city in the Midwest I wish I could have been last...
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Announcing a full European tour in August and the 10th Anniversary Edition of their album ‘Something To Write Home About’ on Vagrant in September, The Get Up Kids are looking “to find their second wind and remind old, and new fans, alike, what made this little band from Kansas city so influential in recent years.”“With [...]
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This bit of news may be slightly old, as the session went up last week, but I’m just now catching up on my Daytrotter-ing and it seemed fitting. Coincidence: earlier this month I was scrounging around on eBay looking to see how much that vinyl copy of Eudora would go for (just an estimate, not because I want to sell it – don’t you do that will your records too?), and I wondered if The Get U
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Recently reunited emo-rock collective The Get Up Kids have announced a new tour of Europe set in stone for August. The band will hit the road on August 16th in Kingston, going on to play another three dates in the UK (which is pretty damn good if you ask us) before spending a further twelve nights around the continent.
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The Get Up Kids are doing a surprise (not anymore) reunion show this weekend. The show is Sunday night, November 16 at Record Bar, 1020 Westport Road in Kansas City, the band's hometown. It's ten bucks, but the show, the...
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Call it a phase; call it a pattern; call it a zealous thank you to fans. Whatever the cause, reunions are the welcome trend of the 21st century. A chance for people who may have missed them the first time around to witness greatness first-hand; or a chance for lifelong fans to renew their vows with the band in question.
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Fresh out of hiatus for just over six months now, original emo outfit The Get Up Kids are bringing their comeback shows over to the U. K. The tour to is to support the tenth anniversary re-release of Something to Write Home About, the band's most successful studio album, which is being nicely repackaged into a DVD Collector's Set.
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Today's Music:The Get Up Kids - Ten MinutesBella Noir - TryGirl Talk - Shut the Club Down
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“We’re not the most successful band in the genre, but some of thepeople who were into our band went on to be some of the most successfulpeople in the genre,” says singer-guitarist Matt Pryor. It's true, you can not be an emotive-rock band these days unless you vigorously name-check this band during every single interview you ever do.
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(photo by Forester Michael) Matt Pryor hinted at the fact that there would be more than just one reunion show from the gang known as The Get Up Kids as he was leaving the stage of the Record Bar in...
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