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The Get Up Kids are a Kansas City-based American band. Formed in 1995, the band was a major player in the mid-90’s emo scene, otherwise known as the “second wave” of emo music. As they gained prominence, they began touring with bands such as Green Day and Weezer before becoming headliners themselves, eventually embarking on international tours of Japan and Europe. They founded Heroes & Villains Records, an imprint of the successful indie rock label Vagrant Records. While the imprint was started to release albums by The Get Up Kids, it served as a launching pad for several side-projects such as The New Amsterdams and Reggie and the Full Effect.
The Get Up Kids were viewed throughout their existence as a prototypical emo band, having been major players in the Midwest emo movement of the mid-1990s.[4] However, like many early emo bands, The Get Up Kids sought to dissociate themselves with the term, as it was considered dismissive to be seen as an “emo band.”Years later, guitarist Jim Suptic even apologized for having the influence they did on many of the modern third-wave emo bands, commenting that “the punk scene we came out of and the punk scene now are completely different. It’s like glam rock now . . . If this is the world we helped create, then I apologize.”

Influential Kansas City five piece, The Get Up Kids, return in January 2011 with a new studio album,There Are Rules – the band’s fifth full-length collection, and the first on their own Quality Hill Records imprint.
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  • iiSuicide

    I do. I see you're also into emo. Nice bands you got there. But emo stuff like Indian Summer are different from TGUK, way different. Thus, being a different genre. Anyways, I'm not saying anything bad because I like these guys!

    2 hours ago

  • tabasco_pirate

    you should learn something about 90's emo, dude ;D

    Thursday morning

  • iiSuicide

    Wrong. They were never emo, however they might have a few punk influence here and there, but they're not emo.

    Tuesday morning

  • Timppa2000

    wow, tguk are definitely emo (or were).

    11 days ago

  • iiSuicide

    This isn't emo, but it's a great pop rock band.

    13 days ago

  • HeMont

    I think most emo is pretty great. old, new, fake, real, underground, Hot Topic-core. [2]

    last month

  • pauullina

    :)

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  • elliotrosewater

    heyy wow...i was formed in 95 too, what a coincidence

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and this is a fun thing to watch (& listen to) this afternoon... http://youtu.be/Lna0kve2jV0 The Get Up Kids - Automatic (Official Video) www.youtube.com "Automatic" comes from The Get Up Kids' new album There Are …

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