The Get Up Kids have announced a 25th anniversary tour for Something To Write Home About, and they’ll play the album in full each night. The anniversary shows starts with an appearance at Four Chord Music Fest in Pittsburgh at the end of June; the tour picks up in earnest in August, and runs through October culminating in the second wa...

The band begin a US tour with The Get Up Kids tonight (August 22) ahead of the new album's October releaseThe post Sparta announce self-titled album, share ‘Mind Over Matter’ and ‘Spiders’ appeared first on NME.

Evan Dando has some strong words for Jawbreaker after the latter band fired the Lemonheads from their spring tour. On April 14, Jawbreaker posted an update on Twitter: “Unfortunately Lemonheads won’t be joining us as planned for Philly, Boston & Silver Spring. BUT we are stoked to the Get Up Kids on those shows. Also: stay t...

Vagrant Records started in Santa Monica in 1996, and by the end of the decade, the label had signed a lot of the biggest emo and pop-punk bands out there. Vagrant did everything in its power to present its roster as a united front, sending its bands out on the road together and putting out well-circulated label compilations. Vagrant got so popul...

As the old adage goes: If you name your song after Lou Barlow, then Lou Barlow will appear in the music video for said song. Or something like that. Of course, when the Get Up Kids included "Lou Barlow" on their first album in eight years, Problems, they had no expectations for the '90s rock…