The Get Up Kids are celebrating the 25th anniversary of their classic, massively influential 1999 album Something To Write Home About this year, and they’re in the midst of a tour where they’re ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Midwest emo” wasn’t a thing when The Get Up Kids formed in 1995. Sure, they hailed from the Midwest and played hardcore-adjacent and pop-punk-inspired indie rock, but people couldn’t even agree on ...

"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" ...

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 have announced that they will be reissuing their album Something To Write Home About to celebrate its 25th anniversary. The reissue has been remastered and the deluxe edition comes ...

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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 ...

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 ...