the get up kids

Nostalgia time! After posting footage of Jimmy Eat World’s 1999 Warped Tour set, music blog WashedUpEmo has now posted rare footage of the Get Up Kids performing a full set in the spring of 1999 in Denton, Texas, at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios. The footage captures band playing in an early stage of their career (before […]

The lineup for the fourth annual Ink's Middle Of The Map Fest has been announced, and it includes more than fifty bands. The Get Up Kids and Of Montreal are amongst the headliners; Reggie And The Full Effect will be playing the festival as well. The performance would mark the Get Up Kids’ first U.S. show […]

Braid paired up with Light & Noise video at The Fest last year to create a live video capturing their performance of “Forever Got Shorter” which originally appeared on their 1997 Post Marked Stamps split with the Get Up Kids then was later featured on theircareer retrospective collection Movie Music Vol. 1. The video also […]

Matt Pryor (the Get Up Kids, the New Amsterdams) released a music video for his latest solo single today on Brooklyn Vegan. The track—released last October—is called, “Kinda Go To Pieces” and is featured on Pryor’s latest solo album, Wrist Slitter, which is out now via Equal Vision/Roary Records. The video for “Kinda Go To Pieces,” […]

Matt Pryor (of The Get Up Kids and The New Amsterdams) recently stopped by Little Elephant studios in Toledo, Ohio to film acoustic performances of three songs. The first, “As If I Could Fall In Love With You Again,” appears on Pryor's 2012 sophomore solo album, May Day. The second, Wrist Slitter, is the title track from Pryor's […]

Y’know, it’s called the music business for a reason: Whether or not they’ll readily admit it, bands, record labels, managers and everyone else are in it at least partially for the money. That’s not to say art isn’t important, but at the end of the day, it’s tough to justify the amount of time spent […]

Matt Pryor Wrist Slitter Matt Pryor’s creative output throughout the past decade has been spotty at best—the New Amsterdams have been hit-and-miss, and his previous solo albums were enjoyable but reserved. Wrist Slitter is the first time the Get Up Kids frontman has really rocked since that band’s 1999 watershed Something To Write Home About, […]

Matt Pryor is streaming his latest single titled “Kinda Go To Pieces” on YouTube. Pryor's new solo album Wrist Slitter comes out November 11 on Equal Vision/Rory Records. It will follow his collaborative EP with James Dewees released on October 1. Track Listing: 1. The House Hears Everything 2. Kinda Go To Pieces 3. Wrist Slitter […]

Matt Pryor And James Dewees Matt Pryor And James Dewees EP Matt Pryor and James Dewees are no strangers to each other—in addition to being a touring/ancillary member of My Chemical Romance circa The Black Parade until their 2013 demise, Dewees has been playing keyboards in the Get Up Kids since 1999. Although the pair toured together […]

The Get Up Kids' frontman Matt Pryor announced last week that he would release his new solo full-length album, Wrist Slitter, Nov. 12 through Say Anything frontman Max Bemis's Rory Records, an imprint of Equal Vision. Additionally, Pryor announced a three-song EP in collaboration with Get Up Kids bandmate James Dewees, slated for release Oct. 1, also […]

The Get Up Kids' frontman Matt Pryor has announced both a new collaborative EP and solo full-length album, set to be released Oct. 1 and Nov. 12, respectively, on Say Anything frontman Max Bemis's Rory Records, an imprint of Equal Vision. Here are some announcements from Pryor: Very happy to announce that I've signed with […]

Say Anything frontman Max Bemis has announced a solo acoustic winter tour, which is also set to include Matt Pryor (of The Get Up Kids), Perma, Sherri DuPree-Bemis (Bemis' wife and member of Eisley), and Merriment. Perma, Bemis' side project with wife Sherri, recently announced their full-length debut, Two Of A Crime, due out Oct. 29 on Max's […]

It seems like every day we come across young musicians pining for the “glory days” of the scene, which, depending on what type of music you’re into, seems to range anywhere from 1991 to 2003. But the current wave of ’90s nostalgia has us wondering just how young these musicians actually are. Take it from […]

Reggie And The Full Effect, solo project of James Dewees (the Get Up Kids),  has relaunched and posted a Kickstarter for an upcoming album, No Country For Old Musicians. Read a statement from Dewees and watch the project video, below, then head to the Kickstarter page to back the project and view incentives. “this is my official […]

The Revival Tour have announced that Get Up Kids' Matt Pryor has been added to its 2013 lineup. The tour also features Chuck Ragan, Dave Hause, Toh Kay, Jay Malinowski, Tim McIlrath, Jenny O., Chuck Ragan, Rocky Votolato and Jenny Owen Youngs.  Dates, listed by their respective lineups follow. You can purchase tickets at the […]

We’ve heard it a bazillion times whenever a president walks into the room: dun-dun dah-dah, dah-dah-dun-dah-dah dah-daaahh-dah. To that we say, “Boooring.” So, just in time for Inauguration Day, we’d like to offer these alternatives to “Hail To The Chief” that would have allowed our chief executives throughout history to traipse into a room and […]

Matt Pryor (of The Get Up Kids and The New Amsterdams) and James Dewees (formerly of The Get Up Kids and Reggie And The Full Effect) have announced a brief east coast tour showcasing their solo work with support from Into It. Over It.. “This is something we've talked about for a while,” says Pryor. […]

Nightmare Of You/Nightmares For A Week Nightmares EP Nightmare Of You and Nightmares For A Week share little in common besides a name association and New York residence. Their pairing on this split EP is certainly an oddball matchup, but music fans diverse enough to include post-punk alongside punk in their palette will enjoy it […]

Matt Pryor (the Get Up Kids, the New Amsterdams) has released a series of acoustic videos in which he performs “Don't Let The Bastards Get You Down” from his new solo album May Day, as well as the Get Up Kids' “Better Half” and the New Amsterdams' “The Spoils Of The Spoiled.” Check them out below.

The New Amsterdams (feat. Matt Pryor of the Get Up Kids) have announced their first show in four years, scheduled for Mar. 23 at the Jackpot Music Hall in Lawrence, Kansas; Old Canes will support. Pryor had this to say about the show: “I've been wanting to do a New Ams gig with Old Canes for […]