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The Get Up Kids

Kansas City’s GET RIGHT UP Children play melodic, pop-inflected emo like the Guarantee Band and Braid, with whom the music group released a divide single in 1998. The important group — vocalist/guitarist Matthew Pryor, guitarist/vocalist Jim Suptic, bassist Robert Pope, and drummer Ryan Pope (Robert’s youthful brother, who changed Nathan …

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Blackpool Lights

Once the pioneering emo band the GET RIGHT UP Kids known as it quits in 2005, guitarist Jim Suptic pressed in with his up coming project, Blackpool Lights. The indie rock and roll foursome were only available in 2004 with Suptic (vocals/electric guitar), Brian Everard (bass), Billy Brimblecom (drums), and …

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Waking Ashland

Since its inception, Waking Ashland — drawing a lot of its sound from Ben Folds — has mainly centered around vocalist/keyboardist Jonathan Jones and guitarist Ryan Lallier, who originally formed the band alongside drummer Thomas Lee in November 2003 while all three were music majors at California State University. Robert …

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The Belles

Christopher Tolle (vocals/acoustic guitar/bass) and Jake Cardwell (drums/percussion) were having some beverages in an area pub in Lawrence, KS, if they struck up a discussion about music. It had been 2001 and both got got their hands in additional projects over time and were searching for something even more long …

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