Black Kids' Partie Traumatic

A Hot New Band's Debut Album Full of Modern-Retro Pop Music A prime example of the Internet's ability to break new bands, Black Kids demonstrate a fresh wit and excellent taste in music and deserve the title of next big thing. Floridian five-piece Black Kids blends some of the best of 80s new wave, 60s pop and R&B for an infectious aesthetic in one of the year's most exciting albums, Partie Traumatic. Jacksonville Sunday School Black Kids are Reggie Youngblood, the band's singer, songwriter and guitarist, his sister Ali and Dawn Watley on keyboards and backing vocals, Owen Holmes on bass guitar and Kevin Snow on drums. They met in, of all places, Sunday school. If this strikes anyone as a surprise (anyone who's heard their arch, gender-twist lyrics might react that way), so might the fact that the five originally started... [read full story]