Cool Kids
By user • Jul 1st, 2007 • Category: Band Bios
The Cool Kids will make appearances at two of the summer festival circuit’s biggest dates without having to leave their hometown. In less than a 3-week span, the Chicago hip hop duo will have stints at both the Pitchfork Festival and Lollapalooza. And their timing couldn’t be better, with the duo’s record The Bake Sale set to be released last month before distribution demands pushed the date back. With an affinity (and fashion sensibility) of the late ’80s and early ’90s fun-time beats and quirkily turned phrases, the tandem gives wink-wink-nudge-nudge acknowledgments to some of the genre’s trappings like “a little bit of gold and a pager,” while never allowing their tongue-in-cheek presentation to sound comical. And if rock ’n’ roll’s current roster of buzz bands can embrace every element of throwback nostalgia, why can’t hip hop?
Chicago Innerview Magazine, July 2008
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