"We were drifting away from our own identity as a dance band. That's no bueno." He said he feels the new songs embrace Black Kids' fun, bratty persona, as well as hold true to their 1980s ...

Black Kids took a chance to work on their album with Bernard Butler, former lead guitar of Suede, a band Youngblood and Snow share devotion for. As the band's guitarist, Youngblood had the most to ...

Everything about the Jacksonville, Fla.-based indie-pop band Black Kids is calculated to provoke and thrill: There's that partly allegorical name, for starters. (Only some of the Kids are actually ...

Black Kids have said that they are happy to be labelled a “cheesy pop” band, and have compared themselves to naff 80s hitmakers Spandau Ballet. Speaking to BBC News, frontman Reggie Youngblood ...

Blog darlings Black Kids dropped out for day jobs, but return with an album that's "not as bratty" as their debut. By Jill Menze “We were the poster children for a band getting popular on the ...

Very early this morning, before we did the show, the music website Pitchforkmedia.com posted today's reviews, leading with the debut album, Partie Traumatic, from the Florida band Black Kids.

Eight years ago, the band Black Kids seemed to be the next big thing. What started with an extremely successful EP that gathered the approval of Rolling Stone, BBC, and, surprisingly, Pitchfork, led ...

Now it’s common to see a sprinkling of Black people at these jam band events. Little Black kids sport band T-shirts and Black couples pull up to venues in cars covered in band decals and bumper ...

Yet it looks like the final band on that list might be the first to crack it. It helps Black Kids’ cause that in ‘I’m Not Going To Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You’, they’ve ...

Zulu, an ambitious 4-year-old L.A. hardcore band, wouldn’t perform for many hours. Yet dozens of mostly Black and Latin kids with ear gauges and neck tats snaked around the building, enduring ...