{"id":40446,"date":"2024-05-06T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=40446"},"modified":"2024-05-04T07:22:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T11:22:21","slug":"the-get-up-kids-announce-something-to-write-home-about-25th-anniversary-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=40446","title":{"rendered":"The Get Up Kids announce ‘Something to Write Home About’ 25th anniversary tour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Get Up Kids have announced a North American headlining tour celebrating the 25th anniversary of their seminal 1999 LP,\u00a0\u2018Something To Write Home About\u2019.\u00a0Following\u00a0on June 23rd performance at Pittsburgh\u2019s Four Chord Music Fest, the trek will see the band playing the album in its entirety at each show, including two nights at Los Angeles\u2019 Troubadour and Chicago\u2019s Metro, plus shows at Brooklyn\u2019s Warsaw and Toronto\u2019s Danforth Music Hall, before ending with at Las Vegas\u2019 Best Friends Forever Fest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the two and a half decades since the release of this landmark album, the four core members of The Get Up Kids \u2014 Matt Pryor, Jim Suptic, Rob Pope, and Ryan Pope \u2014 have explored side projects, helmed solo ventures, and held stints in high-profile bands. They\u2019ve also started businesses, found spouses, and raised kids. Still, run into them on the streets of Lawrence, Kansas, these days, and you\u2019ll find that \u2014 perhaps beneath a beard \u2014 each has retained the high-spirited, unwavering authenticity that fans stood feet from at basement shows before the band\u2019s sophomore breakthrough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Something to Write Home About\u2019\u00a0has landed in a similar place: recognizable as the same electrifying, scrappy album it was upon release, but also transformed by time into one of the most seminal records of the band\u2019s scene. The album has been established as an important late-millennium rock-and-roll document; a convergence of power pop, alternative rock, and punk, it provided the parameters for emo\u2019s Midwest-centered second wave.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Something to Write Home About\u2019\u00a0still sounds like the lodestar it was for its fleet of followers, but it also retains something singular: an affecting, unaffected quality richer than its genre associations, bigger than its hooks, and deeper than mere twenty something turmoil. The anniversary tour will be a chance for fans to rediscover the album or to revel in a classic they\u2019ve never forgotten, and experience it live with the brash, big-hearted band that loves it as much as them. \u201cAnybody can start a band when you’re 20 and go on tour and have a couple of years of fun with that. But what it became, at least to us, is the reason that we can still do this now,\u201d<\/em> says Pryor. \u201cWe are doing this as a celebration, and we’re going to have a party every night on stage.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Get Up Kids\u2019 most recent full length album\u20132019\u2019s\u00a0\u2018Problems,\u2019 produced by Peter Katis (Kurt Vile, The National) and released via Polyvinyl Record Co.\u2013earned the band a Top 10 debut on\u00a0Billboard<\/em>‘s Vinyl Albums chart, and career-high critical acclaim from\u00a0SPIN, Billboard,\u00a0Kerrang!<\/em>,\u00a0Stereogum,\u00a0Brooklyn Vegan, All Music,\u00a0<\/em>Newsday (3.5\/4 stars), Exclaim! (9\/10\u00a0stars), Punknews (4.5\/5),\u00a0and more. Described by\u00a0Stereogum<\/em>\u00a0as \u201ca validation and revamp of Get Up Kids 2.0, honoring the indie-leaning sound of 2004\u2019s\u00a0\u2018Guilt Show\u2019\u00a0and\u00a0\u2018There Are Rules\u2019\u00a0with a stronger sense of confidence and melody\u201d<\/em>,\u00a0\u2018Problems\u2019\u00a0followed their celebrated \u201creturn to form<\/em>\u201d EP\u00a0Kicker<\/em>that earned praise and support from outlets like\u00a0Pitchfork, The FADER, Billboard, The AV Club, SPIN, Consequence,\u00a0and\u00a0Modern Drummer, among others.\u00a0
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The Get Up Kids 2024 tour dates (<\/strong>tickets<\/a>):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

06\/23 – Pittsburgh, PA – Four Chord Music Fest <\/p>\n\n\n\n

08\/23 – Dallas, TX – Studio at the Factory *<\/p>\n\n\n\n

08\/24 – Austin, TX – Mohawk *<\/p>\n\n\n\n

08\/25 – San Antonio, TX – Paper Tiger *<\/p>\n\n\n\n

08\/27 – Phoenix, AZ – The Nile *<\/p>\n\n\n\n

08\/29 – San Diego, CA – The Observatory North Park *<\/p>\n\n\n\n

08\/30 – Los Angeles, CA – Troubadour *<\/p>\n\n\n\n

08\/31 – Los Angeles, CA – Troubadour *<\/p>\n\n\n\n

09\/03 – San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall *<\/p>\n\n\n\n

09\/06 – Spokane, WA – Knitting Factory Spokane *<\/p>\n\n\n\n

09\/07 – Portland, OR – Revolution Hall *<\/p>\n\n\n\n

09\/08 – Seattle, WA – The Showbox *<\/p>\n\n\n\n

09\/10 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Depot *<\/p>\n\n\n\n

09\/11 – Denver, CO – Gothic Theatre *<\/p>\n\n\n\n

09\/13 – Kansas City, MO – Record Bar *<\/p>\n\n\n\n

09\/14 – Lawrence, KS – The Bottleneck *<\/p>\n\n\n\n

09\/24 – Columbus, OH – The Athenaeum *<\/p>\n\n\n\n

09\/25 – Baltimore, MD – Rams Head Live! *<\/p>\n\n\n\n

09\/27 – Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer *<\/p>\n\n\n\n

09\/28 – Brooklyn, NY – Warsaw *<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10\/01 – Asbury Park, NJ – The Stone Pony *<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10\/03 – Boston, MA – Big Night Live *<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10\/04 – Buffalo, NY – Electric City *<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10\/05 – Toronto, ON – Danforth Music Hall * <\/p>\n\n\n\n

10\/06 – Detroit, MI – St. Andrew\u2019s Hall *<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10\/08 – Milwaukee, WI – The Rave *<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10\/09 – Minneapolis, MN – Uptown Theater *<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10\/10 – Chicago, IL – Metro*<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10\/11 – Chicago, IL – Metro *<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10\/13 – Las Vegas, NV – Best Friends Forever Fest<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 * w\/ Smoking Popes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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