event The Cool Kids (DJ Set) + DJ Mel
The Cool Kids and DJ Mel
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Sat Nov 7
9 pm,
The Cool Kids (DJ Set) + DJ Mel at Beauty Bar
The origin story of The Cool Kids—Mikey Rocks and Chuck Inglish—is an increasingly familiar one: Boy meets boy over the Internet and the two quickly discover their mutual love for '80s-styled beats and rhyming. The Chicago-based Kids naturally garnered a MySpace fan base, and the record suits soon followed. Self-described as the “new black version of the Beastie Boys,” the Kids opt out of clichéd thug-life posturing and instead write songs about sneakers and stuff. “I’m eatin’ a bowl of them Fruity Pebbles,” Rocks raps on 2008's Bake Sale. “How gangsta is that? / Not gangsta at all / You judgin’ me dog? / Please, you shop at the mall.” It’s tongue-in-cheek, that's for sure, but that's also what makes it so cool.
Beauty Bar 617 E 7th St, Austin, TX
The origin story of The Cool Kids—Mikey Rocks and Chuck Inglish—is an increasingly familiar one: Boy meets boy over the Internet and the two quickly discover their mutual love for '80s-styled beats and rhyming. The Chicago-based Kids naturally garnered a MySpace fan base, and the record suits soon followed. Self-described as the “new black version of the Beastie Boys,” the Kids opt out of clichéd thug-life posturing and instead write songs about sneakers and stuff. “I’m eatin’ a bowl of them Fruity Pebbles,” Rocks raps on 2008's Bake Sale. “How gangsta is that? / Not gangsta at all / You judgin’ me dog? / Please, you shop at the mall.” It’s tongue-in-cheek, that's for sure, but that's also what makes it so cool.
Updated 10/28/2009
