Quantcast

Indie Rock Show Lists:
 new york  //  chicago  //  los angeles 
My Rockness: Track your favorite bands and shows online.
My Rockness: Track your favorite bands and shows online.
SIGN UP/LOG IN
New!

Beacon Theater
Bowery Ballroom
Cake Shop
Canal Room
Central Park Summerstage
Crash Mansion
Don Pedro's
Europa
Fat Baby
Fontana's
Glasslands
Gramercy Theatre
Hammerstein Ballroom
Highline Ballroom
Hiro Ballroom at the Maritime Hotel
Issue Project Room
Joe's Pub
Knitting Factory
Lit
Living Room
Luna Lounge
Magnetic Field
Maxwell's
McCarren Park Pool
Mercury Lounge
Mo Pitkins
Monkey Town
Music Hall of Williamsburg
Nokia Theatre
Pete's Candy Store
Pianos
R Bar
Rebel
Rehab (formerly Club Midway)
Roseland Ballroom
Silent Barn
Southpaw
Spiegeltent
Studio B
Terminal 5
The Annex
The Box
The Delancey
The Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza
The Hook
Tommy's Tavern
Town Hall
Trash Bar
Union Hall
Union Pool
Warsaw
Webster Hall
Williamsburg White Room
Zebulon


Black Kids are no longer the best unsigned band.

Black Kids are the most recent addition to the Columbia Records roster, following a massive bidding war to sign these guys. I'm pretty sure Columbia is a small start-up label. Anyway, it seems that everyone wanted a piece of this Jacksonville, Florida band that takes familiar 80's synth retro rock and flips it on its ear.

Black Kids rock delightfully catchy songs that sound like the birth of MTV (think Simple Minds) meets lo-fi garage (The Ponys) meets dance-pop (Abba?) meets twee (The Go! Team) meets a high school sock-hop (which is what The Ramones were always about anyway). Weird, right?

The three guys and two girls in Black Kids combine to write giddy melodies and harmonies (often sung into what sounds like a tin can) with swirling synth hooks. This is definitely optimistic music (the stuff that "twees" are made of), but it's never nauseating. There's a nice bit of Richard Hell's swagger throughout Black Kid's repertoire, giving these toe-tapping tunes a swift punk-rock kick in the ass. And their song "I'm Not Going to Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You" was one of my favorite songs of 2007.

By the way, another reason to like these guys, their debut EP that started the giddy bidding battle (with only 4 songs!) has one of the most perfect album titles ever -The Wizard of Ahhhs.

BUY TICKETS TO SEE BLACK KIDS AT STUDIO B!


BUY TICKETS TO SEE BLACK KIDS AT BOWERY BALLROOM!


Black Kids play Studio B, on Tuesday, May 13th, and Bowery Ballroom, on Sunday, May 18th.

Recent Recommended Shows:

 05.09  Hercules and Love Affair: it sounds like Cher.
 04.29  The Night Marchers won't sneak up on anybody.
 04.22  The Teenagers: they'll annoy you with how awesome . . .
 04.15  Foals aren't too chicken to take it back to the no . . .

View the complete ARCHIVE >>

HOME | ABOUT US | ADVERTISE WITH US | PRIVACY POLICY |TERMS & CONDITIONS | ANTI-SPAM POLICY

Copyright © 2004 - 2007 Oh My Rockness Inc.