Last month we shared the deets about the upcoming Bernard Butler produced release from Black Kids, Partie Traumatic. The band just confirmed a bunch of North American dates for this - Source

Two bands riding high on recent Best New Music-inducted releases, Cut Copy and Black Kids, just started taking the continent by storm on a joint tour. Last night found the hook-happy pairing at Portland's Doug Fir Lounge, with Cut Copy showing off their Ghost Colours and Black Kids inviting many ooohs and Ahhhs. - Source

Black Kids have revealed that their debut album will not be living up to the hype and is in fact going to be terrible. - Source

The trio not only has a run of dates currently in progress warming up European crowds for Editors, but will follow that with a trek opening up for Black Kids and Cut Copy on their forthcoming North American tour. Mobius Band will even find a little room in their overstuffed Rolodex for the DFA's Tim Goldsworthy and Tim Sweeney, who'll join the ace openers in New York May 14. Who will Mobius Band open for next? Guess we'll know soon enough. [MORE...] - Source

You have to figure this was the one band least envious of the Vampire Weekend hypestorm. While both sides of the Atlantic were lavishing praise on the young Columbia grads, the even younger Jacksonville Kids were able to enjoy a few moments in the shade and out of the scorching spotlight scrutiny. Which gave everyone enough time to pause and remember, hey, "I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend..." is a really fun song. Well we hope they enjoyed their time out, because with this video, the proper Almost Gold push (i.e. so long, free MySpace demos) is on. This is a re-recorded version of the song you know -- a little sturdier in the rhythm section, a little brighter in the mix -- and the video's colors and cheerleaders makes good on all those cheer-core tags the track got back around CMJ. The clip's a tad scattered -- it's a visual hodgepodge of powdered wigs, neon shadows, and literal lyric illustrations (two left feet, represented by ... two left feet) but they are still kids, after all. - Source

How do those Black Kids do it? Without a full-length album, a label (on their home continent, anyway), a proper tour of their own home country, or even a fully functional website to their credit (er, amp;quot;coming soonamp;quot;), Black Kids have managed to win hearts around the globe. - Source