Photo by Jeremy D. Larson Most musicians touring in support of a solo album would play exclusively, or at least primarily, new material from that album. Matt Pryor is a man who apparently does not feel constrained by these conventions. Whether it was because he knew people would want to hear standards from his two popular bands, The Get Up Kids and The New Amsterdams, or because by the time the tour rolled into Chicago on its second-to-last stop, he was maybe getting tired of playing material from his recent May Day , Pryor played [...]
Happy Leap Day, everyone! As you all know, leap day is the extra special bonus day we get every four years at the end of February, and where ( as 30 Rock shows us ) the gilled & mustachioed Leap Day William emerges from his home at the bottom of the Mariana Trench to trade children's tears for candy. It was, of course, immortalized in the Jim Carrey film Leap Dave Williams (which is showing all day today on the USA network), where uptight lawyer Dave Williams turns into the real Leap Day William (classic line: "I definitely don't [...]
Matt Pryor May Day Nightshoes Syndicate Records [2012] Fire Note Says: The Get Up Kid, Matt Pryor, once again ventures out with a solid acoustic driven solo set which shines around every corner! Album Review: The Get Up Kids frontman Matt Pryor returns here with his sophomore solo outing titled May Day that is another exciting success story from a Kickstarter campaign. Having your record [...]
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars I'll admit that there's definitely a soft spot in my heart for Matt Pryor , though I was less than enthralled with his last effort with former band The Get Up Kids . Yet, despite that misstep, he's always had a great ability to craft songs with lyrics that somehow find attachment to my heart. Love him or hate him, you can't deny that he's been warming his way into our hearts from the get-go, and [...]
Matt Pryor's side project had serious highs and lows but Para Toda Vida lays claim to some of their best tunes.
The New Amsterdams - Wears So Thin Sharon Van Etten - Coming Home Whenever I'm visiting my 'rents, my mother steals whatever books I have on me. Sometimes she tells me what she thinks after, sometimes not. I still haven't figured out if she's trying to gauge what sort of human I've become or just enjoys reading. One snowy Michigan winter a few years ago, she quickly finished my copy of Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona by Ryan Harty. She handed it back over the [...]
Género: Lo-Fi, Darkwave, Post-Punk, Electropop. Nika Roza Danilova es Zola Jesus , y tras New Amsterdam y The Spoils , se prevé tercera puesta de largo el próximo 4 de octubre, que se titulará Conatus . Nos adelanta Vessel , con portada blanca pero que es, como no podía ser de otra manera, oscura ... aunque también gótica, ficticia, misteriosa, apocaliptica... así es Nika, así es la diva, así es la canción. Zola Jesus - Vessel [...]
I know a guy who doesn't like this song but for the life of me I can't figure out why. Hoooo Hoooo Hooooooooo!!
Today's take me back before music made me pretentious moment comes from the summer of 2003. I realize before even making this list that it will bring obvious flaws in my taste of music to light which is something i'm fine with. My entire premise behind heycoolkid! has always been to present music that may or may not be "scene" enough for other blogs and at the same time bring attention to the music that i love and wish others would as well. ("others" meaning people whose opinions i actually care about, i'm pretty sure those people do exist, god [...]
ECSTATIC MUSIC FESTIVAL AT NYC'S MERKIN CONCERT HALL CONTINUES IN MARCH WITH OWEN PALLETT, SHARA WORDEN, NADIA SIROTA, THOMAS BARTLETT, TIMOTHY ANDRES, CLOGS, BOBBY PREVITE, JOHN MEDESKI & MORE! The 2011 Ecstatic Music Festival, presented by New York City's Merkin Concert Hall in association with New Amsterdam Records, is a showcase of collaborative evenings between more than 150 genre-pushing composers, songwriters and performers who represent a new generation of artists combining diverse influences and techniques to explore the crossover of classical and pop music. All concerts include premieres. Concerts during the first two months of the festival [...]
Have you ever felt that most songs were just too darn long? Do you find yourself pressing the skip button every two minutes or so? Are you easily bored by long drawn out ballads that seem to go on and on? Well this playlist is tailor made for you! With every song clocking in under 120 seconds the Short Attention Span Playlist is guaranteed to satisfy even the most antsy of listeners. So sit back, enjoy and don't worry, if you don't like a song it'll be over before you know it.
:: Conan O'Brien has announced the lineup for the band that will back him on Conan . Thankfully both LaBamba and Jimmy Vivino (who will be the new bandleader) are members of the Basic Cable Band . :: Off! will be performing for Spinner's Interface during CMJ. :: During a Runaway screening, Kanye West admitted that he's considered suicide in the past . Just because I'm going to refrain from saying something mean right now doesn't mean you have to. :: [...]
In this installment of our 100 Albums You Might Have Missed series we look back at the year 2003. Showcasing records with some serious shredders, wispy folk/rock and incredible songwriting, all of which are deserving of some more air time. Damien Jurado - Where Shall You Take Me Released: March, 2003 A return to the rustic minimalism of his earlier work, Where Shall You Take Me is a perfect soundtrack to an easy afternoon. Jurado's [...]
MP3: Jody Redhage & Fire in July - This November MP3: Jody Redhage & Fire in July - The Botticellian Trees Ancient Star is the debut album for cellist, composer and vocalist Jody Redhage and her chock full of brass and percussion ensemble: Fire in July . If you'd like to try before you buy, Fire in July plays An Die Musik on Thursday, November 19 at [...]
:: Kraftwerk will be releasing a massive box set in October . Somewhere, my boy Shelby Cinca is changing his pants. Rightfully so. :: Kevin Seconds ( 7 Seconds ) and Greg Attonito ( Bouncing Souls ) recently sat down and interviewed each other . Are they in diapers yet? Nah, I'm kidding. Those kids are alright. :: The gals in Those Darlins are my kind of ladies. They like to go skeet shooting with records . Just like my grandma. Blue Creek represent! :: Buddyhead [...]
Sorry for the double up on Daytrotter posts this week, but damnit we can't not post when Matt Pryor records a session. We talk about Matt and his work in and outside of GUK and New Amsterdams on our site constantly, so you all know we love the guy. Hell we even interviewed him a while back ! Enough rambling, check out the awesome session with songs from Matt's debut solo record Confidence Man plus this unreleased track "Your Look Gave You Away". Download: Matt Pryor - [...]
Following a number of instantly sold out reunion shows across the country, including at New York City's Blender Theatrer , the Get Up Kids have confirmed a full U.S. tour. The tour will kick off September 11th at Harrah's in the band's native Kansas City and will coincide with the 10th anniversary deluxe reissue of its landmark second album, Something To Write Home About , September 8th on Vagrant Records . The Get Up Kids formed in 1995 and later officially disbanded following a July 2, 2005 [...]
Questa volta è l'Artic Rodeo Recordings a portare in Europa un album già apprezzato oltre oceano. Si tratta di "Storyteller & The Gossip Columnist" griffato Southerly, moniker dietro cui si nascondono le attitudini DIY di Krist Krueger. Amico dei New Amsterdams (bella cosa), Krist col suo secondo album mostra una palese attitudine (post) pop, contaminata da [...]
When it comes to music, Kansas City is generally not listed anywhere near the top of places that matter. Sure, in the 1930s, it pushed its way into the the forefront of a booming Jazz scene but, for the most part, Kansas City has always been that city bands drive through on their way from Denver to Saint Louis. Tonight, however, the national focus was on Kansas City, as the band credited with changing the face of emo, Get Up Kids , reunited for the first time since 2005. Few realized how [...]
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