Paradise Fears will be touring this May and June with Phone Calls From Home, Rocky Loves Emily, Call Me Anything, and a few other bands. Check out the dates below by clicking “Read More.”[[MORE]] May 31 – Brighton Music Hall – Boston, MA (w/ Phone Calls From Home, Call Me Anything, Boom Boom Crash) June 1 – The Barbary – Philadelphia, PA (w/ Phone Calls From Home, Sandlot Heroes, New County, Joshua Morgan) June 3 – Studio @ Webster Hall – New York City, NY (w/ Phone Calls From Home, Call Me Anything, The New Amsterdams) June 8 – iLounge @ Clutch Cargo’s – Pontiac, MI (w/ Rocky ...

Some new acoustic videos from *Matt Pryor* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/tags/matt+pryor/) can be found in the replies. He plays a solo song, one from The Get Up Kids, and one from The New Amsterdams. All kinds of Pryor awesomeness.

The New Amsterdams have announced their first show in four years, which will take place on March 23rd at the Jackpot Music Hall in Lawrence, Kansas, with opener Old Canes.

Matt Pryor May Day Nightshoes Syndicate Records [2012] Fire Note Says: The Get Up Kid, Matt Pryor, once again ventures out with a solid acoustic driven solo set which shines around every corner! Album Review: The Get Up Kids frontman Matt Pryor returns here with his sophomore solo outing titled May Day that is another exciting success story from a Kickstarter campaign. Having your record funded by fans must make an artist feel appreciated so it only makes sense that a high level of quality is returned. With May Day , Matt Pryor definitely will make his followers and backers proud ...

probrucer : If you’re driving on America’s highways over the next few weeks and think you see five of your favorite pop-punk/post-hardcore bandleaders in the vehicle next to you, you are probably correct! The all-acoustic “Where’s The Band?” tour is currently out for its fourth iteration, with solo sets from returning upperclassmen Chris Conley (Saves the Day), Matt Pryor (The Get Up Kids, The New Amsterdams), and Anthony Raneri (Bayside) as well as freshman participants Ace Enders (The Early November, I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody’s Business) and Evan Weiss (Into It. Over It.). We ...

I started collecting vinyl in January of 2008.  Here is what I have amassed. (updated January 2012) AC/DC Back in Black American Football American Football Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha Band of Horses Everything All the Time Infinite Arms Battles Gloss Drop Mirrored The Beach Boys Endless Summer The Beatles 1962-1966 1967-1970 Abbey Road Hey Jude Let it Be Magical Mystery Tour Rubber Soul Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Beck Modern Guilt Odelay The Bee Gees Best of Bee Gees Vol. 1 [pre-disco] Saturday Night Fever Ben Folds Five Ben Folds Five Blackalicious A2G [EP] Blazing Arrow The ...

Artist: Matt Pryor Album: May Day Genre: Indie/Folk Label: Vagrant It seems that Matt Pryor enjoys constructing challenges for himself with his solo albums. For Confidence Man Pryor was determined to write-record-mix an entire album before he hit the age of 30. The result was a folk-y, alt-country stripped down version of his side-project The New Amsterdams. This time Pryor challenged himself to write-record-mix an entire album in May of ’11, hence the title. The end product of Pryor’s month of labored love finds Pryor unbridled, free to write an album that in the end has an overall ...

Matt Pryor (The Get Up Kids and The New Amsterdams) has announced a solo tour (dates below) in support of his new album May Day due out January 24th through Pryor’s own label, Nightshoes Syndicate. His first solo album, Confidence Man, was released in 2008. Matt’s offering up a free download of the single “Your New Favorite” ( Listen / Download ). You can now pre-order May Day through Blue Collar Distro , which includes an exclusive t-shirt as…

After he wraps up his current tour , Matt Pryor ( The Get Up Kids , The New Amsterdams ), will be embarking on a headlining tour. Pryor will be touring in support of his upcoming release, May Day , which is due for a January 24 release. The Front Bottoms will be joining Pryor on select dates. Matt Pryor last released Confidence Man in 2008 on Vagrant Records .

The New Amsterdams - und Get Up Kids -Frontmann Matt Pryor veröffentlicht mit "Polish The Broken Glass" einen auditiven Eindruck in sein Zweitwerk "May Day", welches hierzulande am 27. Januar via Arctic Rodeo in die Plattenläden wandern wird ( motor.de berichtete ). Im musikalischen Gegensatz zu seinen Hauptbands soll das neue Album mit simplen Folk-Melodien überzeugen. Seht an dieser Stelle das Cover-Artwork sowie die Tracklist und hört gleich in den neuen Song rein: Matt Pryor – "Polish The Broken Glass" "May Day" – Tracklist: 01. Don’t Let The Bastards Get You Down 02. The Lies Are Keeping Me Here 03. Where Do We ...

Matt Pryor, Gitarrist und Frontmann bei The New Amsterdams und The Get Up Kids , veröffentlicht am 27. Januar sein zweites Soloalbum. "May Day" wird in Europa bei Arctic Rodeo Recordings erscheinen und im Gegenteil zu seinen Hauptbands durch einfache Schlichtheit auffallen und Pryors Folk-Vorlieben betonen. Das neue Album wurde in seinem Heimstudio aufgenommen und entstand unter finanzieller Mithilfe der eigenen Fans. Diese konnten über das Portal "Kickstarter" Geld für die Aufnahmen sammeln und bekamen im Gegenzug unter anderem exklusive Songs von Pryor geschenkt. Das folgende "Nobody Gives A Damn" war einer davon: Matt Pryor - "Nobody Gives A Damn" Matthew Pryor ...

Matt Pryor (of The Get Up Kids, The New Amsterdams) will release his much anticipated sophomore solo album May Day on January 24th. The album features 12 brand new tracks, which, like his first solo effort Confidence Man, were recorded at Pryor’s home studio. Recorded and mixed in the month of May, the album title takes on [...]

Matt Pryor (The Get Up Kids, The New Amsterdams) will release his sophomore solo album,  May Day , on January 24th. The album features 12 brand new tracks, which were recorded at Pryor’s home studio. Check out the artwork and track listing for the record below by clicking “Read More”. 1. Don’t Let The Bastards Get You Down 2. The Lies Are Keeping Me Here 3. Where Do We Go From Here 4. Like A Professional 5. As If I Could Fall In Love Again 6. Polish The Broken Glass 7. Unhappy Is The Only Happy That You’ll ...

I started collecting vinyl January of 2008. Here is what I have amassed. (updated Sept. 11) AC/DC Back in Black American Football American Football Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha Band of Horses Everything All the Time Infinite Arms Battles Gloss Drop Mirrored The Beach Boys Endless Summer The Beatles 1962-1966 1967-1970 Abbey Road Hey Jude Let it Be Magical Mystery Tour Rubber Soul Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Beck Modern Guilt Odelay The Bee Gees Best of Bee Gees Vol. 1 [pre-disco] Saturday Night Fever Ben Folds Five Ben Folds Five Blackalicious A2G [EP] Blazing Arrow The Craft ...

The New Amsterdams – Wears So Thin Sharon Van Etten – Coming Home Whenever I’m visiting my ‘rents, my mother steals whatever books I have on me. Sometimes she tells me what she thinks after, sometimes not. I still haven’t figured out if she’s trying to gauge what sort of human I’ve become or just [...]