{"id":122187,"date":"2026-02-04T02:15:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T02:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/122187\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T02:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T02:15:13","slug":"swing-kids-announce-first-ever-nyc-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/122187\/","title":{"rendered":"Swing Kids announce first-ever NYC show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swing Kids, the influential San Diego screamo band fronted by Justin Pearson (who went on to form The Locust, Retox, Deaf Club, Dead Cross, and various other bands), were initially around from 1994 until guitarist Eric Allen\u2019s 1997 death, but surviving members <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynvegan.com\/swing-kids-reunion-chronicled-in-new-documentary-new-shows-announced\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reunited last year<\/a> and now they just announced their first-ever NYC show.<\/p>\n<p>It goes down on April 19 at Elsewhere, and it doubles as a 10th anniversary celebration for PR collective <a href=\"https:\/\/thechainworld.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Chain<\/a>, which Justin Pearson co-founded with fellow musicians Curran Reynolds and Brandon Gallagher. The lineup also features Brandon\u2019s Trace Amount project with live drummer Ignabu, Curran\u2019s Body Stuff project, experimental rapper Fatboi Sharif, and sassy Brooklyn punk duo Venus Twins. The show\u2019s being co-presented by Saint Vitus, and there\u2019s an official afterparty at Selva (a few blocks from Elsewhere) with DJ Nikki Sneakers. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/swing-kids-10-years-of-the-chain-w-fatboi-sharif-trace-amount-more-tickets-1982228315251?aff=oddtdtcreator\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tickets<\/a> are on sale now.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the mini documentary about Swing Kids\u2019 reunion and stream their 2020 Anthology comp below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swingkids.bandcamp.com\/album\/anthology\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthology by Swing Kids<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swing Kids, the influential San Diego screamo band fronted by Justin Pearson (who went on to form The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[53514,53515,9,24,63,17688,122,124,123,53516,53517,53518,53519],"class_list":{"0":"post-122187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-body-stuff","9":"tag-fatboi-sharif","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-punk","14":"tag-queens","15":"tag-queens-headlines","16":"tag-queens-news","17":"tag-swing-kids","18":"tag-the-chain","19":"tag-trace-amount","20":"tag-venus-twins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}