Tag Archives: The Cool Kids

Music Tuesday Newsday: New Releases from Nero, Breaking Benjamin, The Cool Kids, and Jeff Bridges

by Shop Keeper
August 16, 2011 - 6:47 pm

Big release week, and too many names to mention — but fresh off his recent appearance at The Troubadour, Jeff Bridges releases his self-titled debut…dubstep young god Nero has Welcome Reality and Dead Can Dance bring you Towards the End (the best I could come up with) — and Matthew Friedberger wants you to Cut it Out. Haha. I’ll try to be more clever next week…see ya…

Jeff Bridges - Jeff Bridges

Breaking Benjamin - Shallow Bay: The Best of Breaking Benjamins

Nero - Welcome Reality

Speed the Plough – Shine

New Villager – New Villager

Maria Taylor - Overlook

Ana Popovic – Unconditional

The Cool Kids - When Fish Ride Bicycles

Guy Clark – Songs and Stories

Matthew Friedberger – Cut it Out

Dead Can Dance - Towards the End (DVD)

Braid – Closer to Closed

Bottle Rockets - Not So Loud

Patrick Doyle - Rise of the Planet of the Apes (OST)

Case Studies - The World is Just a Ship to Fill the World

Fool’s Gold - Leave No Trace

Canon Blue - Rumspringa

Blue October - Any Man in America

Music The Cool Kids: Self Proclaimed Black Version of the Beastie Boys

by Nicole Pajer
August 3, 2009 - 12:16 pm

The Cool Kids

I don’t always agree with the saying, “opposites attract,” but how could you not after watching The Cool Kid’s perform on Saturday night at D-Fest? First, we had Chuck Inglish, wearing a t-shirt, jeans tucked into high top sneakers, “Live 95” hanging down from around his neck, and a Chicago Cubs baseball hat. Then, we had Mikey Rocks, who rapped the whole set with his right sneaker untied, whether or not it was to his knowledge remains a mystery, dressed in a blue polo shirt, cargo shorts, and a Chicago Sox hat. After watching the set, it was nonnegotiable that Mikey and Chuck may have different styles but definitely jive very well together where it counts, and that would be the rap arena. The duo arrived on stage and immediately snatched up the attention of the crowd with lyrics like: “Cool Kids drop it like we put it in the water.”

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