![]() The Get Up KidsOfficial Website: http://www.thegetupkids.com/Hometown: Kansas City, MO (USA) Labels: Vagrant Records, Doghouse Records, Flyover, Quality Hill Related Bands: The Terrible Twos Other Local Bands: Architects, Bent Left, Blackpool Lights, Coalesce, Flee the Seen (more) Fans also liked: Jawbreaker, Hot Water Music, The Lawrence Arms, Against Me!, Alkaline Trio Login to rate this band About:Seven years since five kids from Kansas City, Kansas crashed the party of every
punk-leaning teen in the nation with their breathless hooks and rollicking intensity? Seven years since the Get Up Kids
got up and got going, off the grid, with a spunky debut record called Four Minute Mile which brilliantly bashed together
sweet Midwestern power-pop with the poisoned punk that can only come from being young, frustrated, and unlucky in love in
the suburbs. Uncool, unknown, and unclear on what exa(show more) Seven years since five kids from Kansas City, Kansas crashed the party of every
punk-leaning teen in the nation with their breathless hooks and rollicking intensity? Seven years since the Get Up Kids
got up and got going, off the grid, with a spunky debut record called Four Minute Mile which brilliantly bashed together
sweet Midwestern power-pop with the poisoned punk that can only come from being young, frustrated, and unlucky in love in
the suburbs. Uncool, unknown, and unclear on what exactly was going on, the Get Up Kids from Kansas City and barely in their
20’s, were suddenly the darlings of the underground. Major-labels – then, as now, always good at rubbernecking at the scene
of an explosion – came calling but the young quintet decided instead to sign with up and coming West Coast indie label Vagrant.
1999’s Something to Write Home About was one of the last great records of the 20th century and it made the Get Up Kids the
most popular band in America that most people had never heard of. Reviews | Features
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