Get Up Kids

The Get Up Kids / Kevin Devine and the Goddamn Band / The Life and Times

The Phoenix Theatre, Toronto ON October 25

PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2009

To say that the Get Up Kids were an influential band is a vast understatement. With their second album Something to Write Home About, the K...

Get Up Kids' Matt Pryor on Weezer: "They're Jackasses"

PUBLISHED Oct 5, 2009

Matt Pryor, guitarist/vocalist of recently reunited emo poppers the Get Up Kids, has gone on record about Weezer. And what was said doesn't...

Get Up Kids Recording New Material

PUBLISHED Sep 16, 2009

First, we reported that Kansas City emo pop originators the Get Up Kids got back together, then, in some late-breaking news, we spread the...

The Get Up Kids Apologize for Helping Create Emo

PUBLISHED Jul 28, 2009

As we previously reported, the Get Up Kids are back together and celebrating the tenth anniversary of Something to Write Home About with so...

Reunited Get Up Kids Line Up Tour, Play Toronto

PUBLISHED Jul 8, 2009

You know sometimes at shows you hear the older scene dudes grumbling nonsense words like "the Promise Ring," "Christie Front Drive" and "Br...

Get Up Kids Reunite

PUBLISHED Nov 14, 2008

After hanging up the towel in 2005, the disbanded Get Up Kids are gearing up for some reunion action. The one-time emo posterboys have anno...

The Get Up Kids...It's A Whole New Emo

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Traditionally considered the more personal and introspective side of the melodic pop-punk movement, emo is a sub-genre that is probably one...

The Get Up Kids Get Back to Basics

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

"They hated it," Get Up Kids guitarist/vocalist Jim Suptic says candidly of fan reaction to his band's last record. "People hate change." W...