Used Kids Today:
Nato Coles - lead guitar, guitars
Kate Eldridge Cleaver - lead guitar, guitars
Danny Kaye - bass guitar, bass guitars
Slightly Used Kids:
C.J. - home drummer
Amos "Fast" Pitsch - away drummer
Yesterday's Kids:
Mikey Benmont Ergs - drums, percussion
Influences
The Ramones, Chuck Berry, Husker Du, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Bruce Springsteen, Motown, Stax and Volt Records, the Dillinger Four, the Figgs, Little Richard, Johnny Cash, the Replacements, the Descendents, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, 60's punk rock, Phil Spector-produced girl groups, other girl groups of the 50's and 60's, and Greg Cartwright.
Bonus musical and lifestyle influence from the Minutemen.
Sounds Like
A constantly evolving cross between Mississippi delta blues and Appalachian hillbilly music, but played with electric guitars, bass, and drums, and played LOUD.
USED KIDS THEME
The Used Kids are a punk rock and roll band from Brooklyn, NY, formed
in late 2007 by members of the Modern Machines (Nato and Danny), the
Ergs! (Mikey), and Cheeky (Kate). It's not easy to pin down what the
Used Kids are all about, but there's just a certain kind of electric
feeling that they create when they're bringing the noise. Like when
it's midnight and you're at a dance party with your friends, maybe
some enemies, and someone's been hijacking the stereo and playing
shitty ironic indie dance music all night. Maybe you've just cracked
open a can of Schlitz, or passed around a fifth of Evan Williams, but
whatever you're doing, you're ready to really cut loose, and suddenly
the Exploding Hearts are on the sound system and you're running around
the place, knocking over chairs and preaching Gospel-style to all the
clueless hipsters how you're a Pretender at the Game of Love. And as
you rampage and thrash around the place, you feel once more what it
was like when you heard the Ramones for the first time and there was a
nuclear detonation in your brain. Or maybe the songs of the Used Kids
recall for you how it felt that time when you and your roommate were
driving straight from Seattle to Minneapolis, the tape deck broken,
and as you searched at dawn through the toxic waste on the FM dial in
the badlands of Montana, you heard the riff from Tom Petty's "Running
Down A Dream" and you punched the ceiling of your car as you both sang
along with every word. The Used Kids have a three-song 7" on Salinas
Records, other records and a full-length album in the works, and look forward to seeing you at this year's Gainesville Fest and many
Fests to come.
Nato's History Of The Used Kids
We formed in late 2007, after Nato and Danny moved to Brooklyn from their hometown of Milwaukee, WI, where their prior band, the Modern Machines, had basically broken up. Mikey joined to play a show with the Modern Machines at The Fest VI, and ended up stickin' around. Kate joined shortly thereafter on lead guitar. For awhile, this lineup was still called the Modern Machines (or Modern Machines Hovercraft). Our first show as the Used Kids was February 1st, 2008.
We played a bunch of shows in and around Brooklyn, and meanwhile, we recorded a 3-song 7". It came out on April 8th, 2008. It's available from Salinas Records, who have a REAL website, so go there: http://unshadowed.com/salinas/. In addition to that REAL website, they have a myspace: www.myspace.com/salinasrecords. They're in our Top Friends, too.
Our first tour started right after that on April 9th in State College PA, and ended April 20th in Buffalo NY. On the way we played the record store in Columbus which we're named after, many awesome houses, nearly had a show cancelled in Minneapolis which was rescued at the last second and brought to the classic Mnpls punkhouse: The Alamo!, rocked a raucous homecoming in Milwaukee, played an attic in Lansing MI in a neighborhood which had a serial killer on the loose, opened for BBQ (Mark Sultan) in Toronto (ruled), and on the final night, played the best show of our tour to a collection of humans and hobbits in the biggest house in the history of the universe - the cops came, so we started playing really quiet until they left, and then we TURNED THAT SHIT UP! All in all, the first Used Kids tour was awesome.
More records, shows, and tours are planned for the near and far future. We'll see you out there on the wide open road, or maybe right here in the place called New York City. Tacos!
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I need to know... I'm getting psyched for my first time seeing yous guys. Do you play Modern Machines songs? Can I prepare myself listening to Taco Blessings or Take it, Somebody!?
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soso SO great to see ya'll again the other night (down the street from my home, no less). i'll try to get out to YOUR neck of the woods soon, so we won't have to wait as long next time
Hey Hi Hello...
Been daydreaming about getting over to rawk your side of the country, but the piggy bank is looking pretty sad lately. So, we'll just give you a virtual cruise till we can get an east coast thing happening (hopefully in the next year). Have a kickass week.
Punk Rock!
-Obedient Waves
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