the get up kids

Matt Pryor May Day Putting it mildly, there are some really “interesting” projects folks try to get funded via Kickstarter. But what makes the site/mechanism so compelling is that for all the countless deluded nutbars out there looking to finance pillow art, books about their cat or edible drinking cups, every now and again true […]

The Get Up Kids frontman Matt Pryor has launched a stream of his new solo album May Day. You can check it out here. Pryor will be kicking off the Where's The Band? Tour this week along with Ace Enders of the Early November, Bayside's Anthony Raneri, Chris Conley of Saves The Day and Evan […]

The Get Up Kids frontman Matt Pryor has added headlining dates to his 2012 itinerary, with support from the Front Bottoms on several of the shows. The run kicks off a couple of weeks after the 2012 Where's The Band? Tour, which will see Pryor performing alongside Bayside's Anthony Raneri, Chris Conley of Daves The Day, […]

The Get Up Kids' concert in Sydney, Australia from earlier this summer is now streaming online. Check out the high-quality video here or stream it below.   Watch Metro Theatre and other great gigs on Moshcam.

The Get Up Kids are offering fans a free download of their track, “Rememorable”. The song appears on the band's latest release, There Are Rules. Download “Rememorable” here and tell us what you think!

Yesterday, news began spreading that the Get Up Kids were entering another hiatus or possibly even breaking up due to a Facebook post from the band that indicidated they would be “splitting off to do some different projects” after their current European tour ends. Alternative Press has received word directly from the band's camp that […]

You think it’s hard to write an original song? Try finding a cover song that hasn’t been done before—it’s harder than you think. That’s why we bring you Under The Covers: Each week, we’ll pit two bands who have covered the same source material against one another, and it’s up to you to decide who comes out on […]

The Get Up Kids have posted their music video for “Rally ’Round The Fool,” off their newest album There Are Rules. You can check it out right here.

The Get Up Kids have premiered a music video for “Regent's Court” off of the band's latest self-released album, There Are Rules. Additionally, the band's song “Rememorable” will be featured and available for free download here tomorrow on Amazon as their summer tour kicks off. These summer dates include co-headlinging shows with Saves The Day as well […]

Alternative Press has exclusively gotten our hands on the Get Up Kids' tour itinerary for this July. The band have scheduled eight headlining gigs throughout the Midwest, in addition to their previously announced co-headlining trek with Saves The Day this June. There is currently no word on who will support them. A pre-sale for this […]

Welcome to 2001: Turn-of-the-millennium emo poster children the Get Up Kids and Saves The Day are teaming up for a short co-headlining tour this June. No word yet on support acts (although we're considering forming our own band and begging to open). Pre-sale begins at noon local time today here; regular onsale will begin April […]

Matt Pryor Confidence Man Matt Pryor’s career has been a study in dependability, which is to say that he seldom releases bad songs let alone bad records. Confidence Man finds Pryor on his first solo production, home-recorded and sandpaper raw, a fearless, though not necessarily innovative, songwriter. No new ground is broken here, but his […]

The New Amsterdams Story Like A Scar In his latest attempt to shift from being the leader of a beloved pop-punk band to going the introspective-singer/songwriter route, former Get Up Kids frontman Matt Pryor returns to the spotlight with the fourth album from his other band, the New Amsterdams. But despite masking his apparent intention […]