DIYRock.Com: Get Up Kids Return to DIY Roots for New Album, Own Label

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 Get Up Kids frontman Matt Pryor has his hands full: In addition to a reunited band with a new album on its own label, he has three kids who love to scream while daddy's on the phone.

Even putting his family man status aside, there's no denying that Pryor and his cohorts have come a long way since they led the second-wave "emo" movement of the mid-'90s. After the Get Up Kids' breakup in 2005, members flocked to their own musical projects (Reggie & the Full Effect, New Amsterdams) and established bands (Spoon, My Chemical Romance).

In 2009, the Get Up Kids kicked off a nostalgia-fueled reunion tour in support of the 10th-anniversary rerelease of "Something to Write Home About," during which fans began buzzing about new material. So the longtime Vagrant band -- one of the first acts the label signed after it launched in 1998 -- not only recorded an album, titled "There Are Rules" (Quality Hill, Jan. 25), but also founded its own label.
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