Used Kids
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"Hey youse kids, get offa my stoop!"
Brooklyn, New York
United States
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| Member Since | 1/26/2005 | | Band Website | geocities.com/slums/crybabys | | Band Members | Used Kids
Nato Coles - lead guitar, guitars
Kate Eldridge Cleaver - lead guitar, guitars
Danny Kaye - bass guitar, bass guitars
Mikey Benmont Ergs - drums, percussion | | Influences | Totally. | | Sounds Like | someone's got a case of the "s'posed-ta's." | | Record Label | Salinas and more. | | Type of Label | Major |
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| About Used Kids |
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, 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. Mikey joined to play a show with the Modern Machines at The Fest VI (info on the Modern Machines can be found below), 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 do not have a myspace as of this band bio. However, they do have a REAL website, so go there: http://unshadowed.com/salinas/.
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.
Now, we continue to exist. More records, shows, and tours are planned for the near and far future. Specifically, a full-length on Salinas should be out by the Fest VII. Tacos!
HISTORY OF THE MODERN MACHINES
The Modern Machines were born in Milwaukee, WI, in the winter of 2000-2001. Nato and Ben "BJ Oihawk" Woyak wrote some songs on their guitars, and Danny and Jon Hands-on joined up on bass and drums, respectively. We recorded and released some tapes, a split cd with the Fragments (a much missed WI pop-punk band) on New Disorder Records, a full-length on that same label called "Thwap!", a short album/long e.p. called "Taco Blessing" on Recess Records, a split cd/lp with IfIHadAHiFi (great Milwaukee art/noise/punk band) on Crustacean Records, and our most recent album is "Take It, Somebody!" on Dirtnap (cd) and Recess (lp). And we've done split 7"s with the Ergs!, Blotto, and the Measure SA. And some other stuff, too. Write us if you're interested.
Since the dawn of Mo-Macs time, some people have come and gone. All have stayed gone. Ben left, to be replaced by BTO (whose name is Ben), who left, to be replaced by Ben "Kid" Kastner, who left, and after that, we decided to stay a three-piece (for the time being). Then, on New Year's Eve, 2006, Jon played his last show as a Modern Machine, and we went on hiatus, as Nato moved to Brooklyn in early 2007 to try some other musical stuff. Danny eventually moved there too.
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