VITALS
• Cover of Urb Magazine
• Voted next 20 groups to blow up in 2008 - Rolling Stone
• Voted #53 of Top 100 songs of 2007 with single "Black Mags" - Rolling Stone
• Will be performing at SXSW, Coachella, and Winter Music Conference
• Rhaposdy TV Commercial Campaign
• Did over 150 Live Performances in 2007
• www.myspace.com/gocoolkids (2.9 million visits and growing)
• YouTube Video play at close to 700,000 views
• "Black Mags" video playing on MTV Jamz, MTV U, MTV Europe, MTV Canada & Much Music
COOL KIDS
EUROPEAN / AUSTRALIAN TOUR 2008
01-31
02-01
02-02
02-04
02-07
02-08
02-09
02-10
02-12
02-14
02-15
02-16
02-17
02-19
02-22
02-23
02-28
02-29
03-01
03-02
03-05
03-06
03-07
03-08
Malmö, Sweden
Gothenburg, Sweden - Pustervik
Stockholm, Sweden - Debaser Medis
Oslo, Norway - Blå
Glasgow, Scotland - Sub Club
London, England - Fabric
Aarhus, Denmark
Copenhagen, Denmark
Dublin, Ireland - Crawdaddy
London, England - YoYo
London, England - Plastic People
Bristol, England - Blast @ The Croft
Edinburgh, Scotland
Nottingham, England - Stealth
Perth, Australia - Bakery Artrage Complex
Melbourne, Australia - Miss Libertine
Adelaide, Australia - Life Lounge
Brisbane, Australia - Empire Hotel
Brisbane, Australia - Laneway Festival
Sydney, Australia - Laneway Festival
Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso
Antwerp, Belgium - Trix
Paris, France - Tryptique
Dijon, France - La Vapeur
RHAPSODY
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COMMERCIAL
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MARCH 2008
URB MAGAZINE COVER (FEB ‘08)
URB MAGAZINE ARTICLE (FEB ‘08)
Artist to Watch: The Cool
Kids
Chicago retro-rap duo brings back BMX'ing
VIBE
MORE OBAMA LOVE
CHI-CITY RAPPERS
FROM
Common dropped his name in a track; Oprah may hate rap but has been
stumping for her fellow Chicagoan Barack; Twista publicly rides for the man.
And now? Two more Chi-town rap groups get set to Barack & roll. Kidz in the
Hall cut prObama track for B-Rock. Cool Kids lamp with the Senator in Chitown.
October 19 2007 issue
COOLER TALK
No reason to read a review of the Cool Kids. The band writes its own fairly accurate
promotional copy—in the first verse of the song “One, Two,” the Cool Kids describe
themselves as the “black version of the Beastie Boys.” Their show on Wednesday night,
at Hiro Ballroom, didn’t entirely support this assertion, but it would not be shocking to
see the Cool Kids opening for the Beastie Boys. (The Cool Kids open for M.I.A. tonight,
at Terminal 5.) The era when the Beasties made their début is more than a fixation for the
Cool Kids: this band is stalking an entire decade. Their song “88” is not about a piano,
and the band’s Imeem page features a modified version of Run-DMC’s logo.
The Cool Kids are Mikey Rocks (né Antoine Reed), a nineteen-year-old from
Matteson, Illinois, and Chuck (né Evan Ingersoll), a twenty-three-year-old from Mount
Clemens, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. The band reports, via e-mail, that “we actually
met via MySpace and originally were only going to make beats and produce for other
artists.” That doesn’t seem to be what happened. Check their MySpace page—you’ll see
that they have created a substantial amount of noise for themselves. (Though both are
producers, Chuck produced the Cool Kids tracks that are currently available.) Their songs
sample the eighties directly, taking bits of Eric B & Rakim’s “Paid in Full” and Jay-Z’s
“99 Problems,” itself something of a throwback to the sound of the first Beastie Boys
album. If 1988 is not available, the Cool Kids will probably settle for 1989, a year for
which they also express fondness, along with Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing,” and the
New York night club Rooftop, a popular eighties venue that closed when these two
young men were even younger.
At Hiro, it became clear that the band will not need nostalgia (or revivalism—they
can’t be nostalgic for something they didn’t live through, right?) to make it. Mikey is a
tall, lanky, handsome performer with a clear, strong voice. He was full of energy and
immediately watchable. Chuck is shorter, and the more relaxed of the two. They were
CONTACT
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