the new amsterdams

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 Piece ...

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,  ...

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, with songs like “Kinda Go To Pieces” and “Won’t Speak T

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 p ...

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 o ...

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 ages. I've be ...

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 art is supported, at a time when artists need it most. Kickstarte ...

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 n ...

The New Amsterdams At The Foot Of My Rival Matt Pryor’s sixth studio album under the New Amsterdams banner sounds like it should have been released in the ’80s. All the elements are present for a thrifty rock ’n’ roll rehash, but it’s Pryor’s intimacy and the liberties he takes with wide open spaces that thrust this album into an altogether modern realm. Recorded primarily at his Lawrence ... Re

The New Amsterdams Killed Or Cured Originally self-released digitally in 2006 free of charge and to little fanfare, Killed Or Cured was overshadowed by the New Amsterdams' proper new album at the time, Story Like A Scar. Hopefully Killed Or Cured’s physical release receives better notice because it’s one of the band’s best and most compact efforts yet. In 27 minutes, front ...

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 ...