Black Kids Sign To Columbia Records For North America.
Greg here mentioned this band in our 2007 Wrap-up blog post. We’re psyched the band is growing up and awaiting their official album, Partie Traumatic — a collection of 10 songs to be released on July 22, 2008. They are a crew of 4 friends from Jacksonville, Florida (Kevin Snow, Owen Holmes, and brother/sister Reggie & Ali Youngblood).
The song on heavy rotation at the Starworks office is “I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You” which we just found out debuted at #11 on the UK singles chart. All this started from just posting 4 songs on their MySpace. They spent early 2008 touring with Kate Nash and Sons and Daughters in the UK. Check out the Black Kids website to hear stuff.
The latest? They killed it at Coachella this year.
(Black Kids at Coachella 08. Photo by Kevin Tachman)
If you care to see them, I’d buy tickets now. Their shows keep selling out.
Full tour dates below:
04-30 Seattle, WA – Neumos *#
05-02 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge *#
05-03 Denver, CO – Larimer Lounge *#
05-05 Omaha, NE – Waiting Room *#
05-06 Minneapolis, MN – 7th St Entry *#
05-07 Chicago, IL – The Abbey *#
05-08 Detroit, MI – Magic Stick *#
05-09 Toronto, Ontario – The Phoenix *#
05-12 Boston, MA – Paradise *#
05-13 Brooklyn, NY – Studio B *#
05-15 Washington, DC – Black Cat *#
05-16 Philadelphia, PA – Pure *#
05-17 Baltimore, MD – Sonar *^
05-18 New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
06-01 Middlesbrough, England – Middlesbrough Music Live
06-02 Oxford, England – Oxford Academy
06-03 Cardiff, Wales – Clwb Ifor Bach
06-04 Glasgow, Scotland – King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut
06-06 Manchester, England – Academy 3
06-07 Lancaster, England – Library
06-08 York, England – Fibbers
06-09 Sheffield, England – Carling Academy
06-11 Stoke, England – The Sugarmill
06-15 Norwich, England – Norwich Arts Centre
06-16 Northampton, England – The Soundhaus
06-18 London, England – ULU
06-23 Tromoya, Norway – Hove Festival
06-25 Stockholm, Sweden – Accelerator Festival
06-28 Glastonbury, England – Glastonbury Festival
06-29 Oxford, England – Wakestock Festival
07-02 Nottingham, England – Rescue Rooms
07-03 Leeds, England – Cockpit
07-05 Liverpool, England – Barfly
07-10 Brighton, England – Concorde 2
07-11 Canterbury, England – Lounge on the Farm
07-12 Naas, Ireland – Oxegen Festival
07-13 Kinross, Scotland – T in the Park
07-19 Dorset, England – Camp Bestival
08-01 Chicago, IL – Grant Park (Lollapalooza)
08-10 Jersey City, NJ – Liberty State Park (All Points West Festival)
08-14 Salzburg, Austria – Frequency Festival
08-15 Erfurt, Germany – Highfield Festival
08-20 Newcastle, England – Academy
08-21 Bristol, England – Thekla
* w/ Cut Copy
# w/ Mobius Band
^ w/ Ponytail
Stay tuned for a Coachella visual wrap-up from our buddy Kevin Tachman who went to document the weekend.
J
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