event The Cool Kids
Also Playing: Bun B and Chip The Ripper
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Thu Dec 10
8 pm
None The Cool Kids, Bun B, and Chip The Ripper at Reggie's Rock Club
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.
Reggie's Rock Club 2109 South State St, Chicago, IL
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 11/14/2011
