About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 51. Chapters: Puddle of Mudd, Pavlov's Dog, The Get Up Kids, Story of the Year, Ike & Tina Turner, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Stir, Reggie and the Full Effect, Modern Day Zero, Ludo, Bunnygrunt, 7 Shot Screamers, Flee the Seen, Skatterman & Snug Brim, Cavo, DigHayZoose, Heroes and Villains, The Gadjits, The Ikettes, Ha Ha Tonka, The Urge, St. Lunatics, Redding, Bullets and Octane, Brewer & Shipley, The Rainmakers, MU330, Gravity Kills, I Love You, Ultraman, The Coctails, The Rats & People Motion Picture Orchestra, The Elders, Honeytribe, Gateway Indoor, In the Midst of Lions, Axium, Mama's Pride, The Casket Lottery, The Coil of Sihn, Antennas Up, Pomeroy, Lo-Key?, The Life and Times, Autovein, The Morells, Greek Fire, Blinded Black, Well Hungarians, A Full Moon Consort, Messy Jiverson, Laclede Quartet, Boy's Life, The Five Du-Tones, Disturbing the Peace, Red Line Chemistry, Tango Lorca, The Golden Republic, Ol' Skool. Excerpt: The Get Up Kids is an American alternative rock band from Kansas City, Missouri. 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. However, like many early emo bands, The Get Up Kids sought to dissociate th...