The Get Up Kids‘ classic 1999 album Something To Write Home About turns 25 this year, and the band is celebrating with an expanded reissue and a tour, and for the occasion, co-leaders Matt Pryor and ...

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The Get Up Kids have announced their return to Australia for a run of shows in September 2025. The tour will see the band celebrating a quarter century of their second studio album, 1999’s Something ...

The Get Up Kids‘ 1999 emo classic Something To Write Home About turns 25 this year, and the anniversary celebrations keep coming. The band already announced that they’ll play it in full on a 25th ...

Even with a limited lead singer, the band made the most of their album play on Tuesday night at The Rave. If you’re in a band, there’s a fine line about celebrating the anniversary of an album. If it ...

Alternative Press teamed up with the Get Up Kids for an exclusive violet and silver mix vinyl variant of the 25th anniversary edition of Something To Write Home About, limited to 500 copies. Head to ...

The Get Up Kids recently announced the 25th anniversary reissue of their seminal album, Something to Write Home About. Today, they have released the first ever music video for “Ten Minutes,” a beloved ...

"What became of everyone I used to know? / Where did our respectable convictions go?" The Get Up Kids frontman Matt Pryor bellows those two questions as an opening salvo and tone-setter on "Holiday" ...

The Get Up Kids have announced the 25th anniversary reissue of their seminal album, Something to Write Home About. They have also shared a demo version of “Holiday” and the first ever music video for ...

Ahead of the band's tour stop at The Rave, the guitarist reminisces on 25 years of their breakout album. Nearly three decades into their career, emo pioneers The Get Up Kids have plenty to write home ...

Matt Pryor, the frontman and guitarist of the Get Up Kids, doesn’t consider being called “emo” a term of endearment. To him, it’s more like the opposite – at least that’s how he felt when the band ...

We’re a few weeks overdue, but Matt Pryor from The Get Up Kids and The New Amsterdams needs the attention of every millennial who wore thick horn-rimmed glasses in high school and put far too many ...