Subject: The Get Up Kids

• Dude, Your Band's Gay.

  January 24, 2007

• Around Hear

  July 6, 2000

• Concert Review: The Get Up Kids at the Record Bar, Sunday, November 16, 2008

  The Get Up Kids Novemer 16, 2008 The Record Bar By AARON LADAGE Photos by FORESTER “When the hell did the Get Up Kids get back together?” Give or take the superfluous swear word, this was undoubtedly the question on most people’s minds when word of a TGUK reunion show started trickling in over the last few months and culminating in a hush-hush show announcement last week. To answer that and several of the inevitable follow-up questions: yes, all five members of the Get Up Kids performed

  November 17, 2008

• Two of hearts

  February 10, 2000

• Good Clean Fun/Indiana/The Short Bus Kids/The Syndicate

  June 29, 2000

• Best Homecoming

  October 19, 2000

• Best Denial of Newfound Stardom

  October 19, 2000

• Around Hear

  February 8, 2001

• Around Hear

  March 22, 2001

• Songs in the Key of Life

  November 8, 2001

• Best CD Cover

  October 17, 2002

• Best Reason To Stop Hating The Get Up Kids

  October 9, 2003

• Full Throttle

  December 30, 2004

• Warm Wishes

  The Get Up Kids� final farewell concert and other notable summer music moments.

  May 19, 2005

• Unmarried

  James Dewees of Reggie and the Full Effect reflects on marriage, divorce and hookers in Guam.

  April 7, 2005

• Get Up, Get Down

  A local favorite celebrates its tenth -- and, skeptics say, last -- year.

  January 6, 2005

• 2004 PMA Winners

  August 19, 2004

• Music Showcase 2004

  Official Showcase Program.

  August 5, 2004

• GuiltFree

  The Get Up Kids' new Show merges maturity and manic energy.

  April 22, 2004

• Vagrant Foul

  Bridges burn as the Anniversary parts ways with its former label.

  April 10, 2003

• Waking Life

  Atmosphere's Slug has miles to go before he sleeps.

  September 12, 2002

• Showcase Showdown

  The price is right for the Pitch Music Showcase: 25 bands, $5.

  April 4, 2002

• Power Ball

  The Casket Lottery fills Survival is for Cowards with winning numbers.

  March 14, 2002

• The Get Up Kids

  Eudora (Vagrant)

  January 17, 2002

• Buy, Buy Love

  Local bands help inspire shopping sprees by offering something for everyone.

  November 29, 2001

• Best Surprise Shows

  Reggie and the Full Effect, August 6, 2001 / The Get Up Kids, May 11, 2001

  October 18, 2001

• Man of Mystery

  Reggie won't share the secrets of his special Effect.

  August 30, 2001

• Night & Day Events

  Week of July 19, 2001

  July 19, 2001

• Around Hear

  When The Icarus Line comes to town, Buddyhead.com might make a few friends in Lawrence's music scene.

  June 14, 2001

• Around Hear

  A local-band-heavy lineup makes for a Memorial Day weekend to remember.

  May 24, 2001

• Around Hear

  The Klammies deliver diverse performances and some surprises.

  April 19, 2001

• Buzz Kill

  Kill Creek returns to discover a kinder, gentler scene.

  February 22, 2001

• Packing Heat

  With an established tour mate and reliable transportation, the Revolvers set their sights on a successful national tour.

  September 28, 2000

• The Get Up Kids/The Anniversary/Koufax

  The Bottleneck -- Friday, September 1, 2000

  September 7, 2000

• Kids in America

  Barnstorming overseas has earned the Get Up Kids plenty of new fans, but the group looks forward to seeing some familiar faces.

  August 31, 2000

• Around Hear

  Be/Non, Season to Risk, Paws Fest, and Meet in the Middle

  August 24, 2000

• Plea for Peace

  Thursday, July 20 at Liberty Hall

  July 20, 2000

• Saturday, May 27

  Shaking Treeat McCoy's Public House

  May 25, 2000

• With Buddies like these ...

  April 27, 2000

• The Klammies Go Uptown

  A recap of all the music, awards, glamour, and humor that encompassed the fourth annual Klammies (Kansas City/Lawrence Area Music Awards).

  April 6, 2000

• Around Hear

  March 16, 2000

• Ultimate Fakebook

  January 13, 2000

• Get Up Kids covers and show review at Popwreckoning

  TGUK: 2 know is 2 love.A Get Up Kids superfan over at Popwrecking has posted two, MP3-enhanced fruitcake examinations of TGUK covering other bands, plus a gushing review of the Kids' recent reunion show in New York City. The Get Up Kids with Brand New @ Blender Theater, NYC Telling excerpt [sic]: "You could tell their hardcore fans were in the house since not only did everyone know every word to every song, but they insisted on singing along almost as loudly as the band. In fact, lead singer Ma

  May 6, 2009

• Pre-Order the Get Up Kids Something to Write Home About 10th Anniversary Edition

  The Get Up Kids' Something to Write Home About turns ten years old this year. In celebration, Vagrant is reissuing it as a special 10th anniversary edition, complete with a bonus DVD chock full of awesomeness like "a live concert performance of the entire record, and never before seen archival footage from the time of the original release." ​ Ooh la la. It doesn't come out until next month, but you can motor on over to Blue Collar Distro and pre-order it, along with pretty new limited edi

  August 12, 2009

• Weezer Apologizes to the Get Up Kids

  Okay, so Matt Pryor of the Get Up Kids told a story to Spinner earlier this month about the tour they did opening for Weezer back in 2001 (it played Memorial Hall, and Ozma also played, and it was fucking AWESOME). So, in it, Pryor said of the Weez that they were "the only band I've toured with for a month that I've never spoken to. They're jackasses." Well, Rivers Cuomo is telling his story and making overtures towards healing via Twitter: ​ Aw. How sweet. If anyone is going to be in NYC

  October 19, 2009

• The Get Up Kids' Daytrotter Session Posted

  It was announced earlier this month that the Get Up Kids had stopped by the Daytrotter studios and recorded a session. Well, that session has finally been posted. You can go right over there and listen to, as well as download, four song​s. There are two songs you've probably never heard before: a new song called "Your Petty Pretty Things" and a cover of the Vitreous Humor's "Sharin' Stone," as well as versions of Something to Write Home About's "I'm A Loner, Dottie, A Rebel" and "Overdue"

  October 23, 2009

• Get Up Kids Donating Record Bar Proceeds to Anne Winter Fund

  The Get Up Kids just announced via Twitter that they will donate all the money from their upcoming Record Bar shows on November 20 and 21 to the Anne Winter Fund: our friend anne winter has died. all proceeds from our shows at record bar in kc will go to the fund for her children. we miss you anne!!! If you'd like to help her children, you can go donate here.

  October 26, 2009

• Incoming new album: Spoon

  It's a good year to be Rob Pope. The Get Up Kids bassist is not only selling out venues with his old bandmates on their reunion tour, Pope's other band, Spoon, is preparing to drop a new one, his second with the Austin-based band. Pope (2nd from left) got that Spoon, that Spoon that Spoon-ful.​On Thursday, December 3, at the Midland by AMC, Pope, lead singer Britt Daniel, and those two other guys dip into town to headline KRBZ's the Buzz Stole Christmas show. Also on the duosyllabic bill

  November 3, 2009

• The Get Up Kids

  November 19, 2009

• The Get Up Kids play two nights at RecordBar

  November 19, 2009