HERO KID

"Before The Fall" Available on iTunes!

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:48:36 -0600

Good News Everyone! Our debut album, “Before The Fall” is done and available on iTunes. Physical copies will be available March 22. Everyone who pre-ordered should have their packages in the mail by the end of the week. Please go check it out!

We’re heading down to Albuquerque, New Mexico this weekend to play a show at the Amped Performance Center with our friends Until Chaos. It’s going to be a good time and we’re all looking forward to it. This will be our first show with our new lead guitarist, Eric Lewis. We’re pretty pumped and we look forward to seeing all our NM buddies!

Vans Warped Tour 2012

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:02:00 -0700

Want to see Hero Kid on this year’s Vans Warped Tour? Then please go HERE and vote for us. You have to set up an account and login and all of that stuff, but it’s worth it. Please go vote! Thanks!

2012 Willful Wreckords Sampler

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:15:02 -0700

The 2012 Willful Wreckords Sampler is available for pre-order! Our song “Life on the Run” is on it! You can check it out HERE!

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Before The Fall Pre-Order

Sat, 03 Mar 2012 16:39:00 -0700

Good News Everyone! We’re now taking pre-orders for physical copies of our upcoming album Before The Fall. Pre-Order now and be the first to get it! It will literally go straight from the box from discmakers into an envelope and to your door! Everyone who pre-orders will also get a Hero Kid sticker and button set, just $15 + S&H(International Orders shipping is $10) from now until March 15th! email beedlesw@gmail.com to place your order!

Album, Shows, More!!

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:07:34 -0700

We’ve been pretty busy the last few weeks, so sorry for the lack of updates. Our first album is currently being mixed and mastered and we should have it available to all of you fine people by the middle of March. We played a rockin’ show this weekend at Union Station with Hydrogen Skyline, Until Chaos, The Ingrates and Young Dead. It was a blast, and we’re super excited to playing with Until Chaos again on March 23 in their hometown of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Now that the album is done expect to see Hero Kid coming to a venue near you sometime in the near future. We’re getting ready to purchase a Ford Econoline and hit the road until the wheels fall off. We’ve added a couple new shows and will have many more coming so keep checking back!

Also, please check out our friend Damian’s podcast Mostly Harmless. This week he’s interviewing Brendan Kelly from the Lawrence arms, so give it a listen!

We had to cancel our Pueblo show because of the weather, sorry...

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:27:23 -0700

We had to cancel our Pueblo show because of the weather, sorry everybody! We’ll try again tomorrow with our show at the Black Sheep, hopefully the roads will be better.

This will be a pretty metal show. If it doesn’t get...

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:41:00 -0700

This will be a pretty metal show. If it doesn’t get cancelled for snow!

Studio Day 7

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:56:00 -0700

And guitars are done! Tyler added all the little flourishes and fancy bits to the guitar parts, so now the only thing left is vocals.

Studio Days 5 and 6

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:55:51 -0700

“Most people look at the tiles in a bathroom, but I look at the grout. That’s the role of the bass-player, like the grout, he holds it all together.” - Mike Watt

The bass is done! All we have left are the lead guitar parts and the vocals! Hopefully we’ll be done tracking this week, then we get to get ready to go and play more shows.

New Show Alert!

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:35:40 -0700

Hey Everybody! We’re playing Saturday February 4th at the Black Sheep in Colorado Springs. We’re playing with From Slaves to Kings, so come check us out!

Sunshine Studios 01/21

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 12:44:26 -0700

We had a great show last night! All the bands were really great, we had a blast. The History of Hope and Righteous Vendetta are back on the road, and if they happen to swing by your town you should definitely go check them out.

The History of Hope!

Our friends Forsake It All

Hero Kid! Thanks to Vanessa for the photo.

Tomorrow we head back into the studio to finish up the guitar and bass parts, and hopefully Jake will wrap up the vocals by Thursday. We’ve got a break from shows until February 3rd, where we’re playing our very first show in Pueblo, CO. It should be a good time! Keep checking in for more studio updates, and we should be able to start posting some of our March tour dates soon. Thanks for all the support!

Studio Days 3 and 4

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:22:52 -0700

We’ve spent the last two days working on getting the guitar parts down, and they’re sounding pretty killer. Tyler laid down all the rhythm parts, so all we have left to do is go back and put in all the solos and flourishes and cool parts. Everything is sounding really tight, we really hope this record will knock people’s socks off. Tyler’s already got the lead parts down for 3 of the songs, and they sound pretty sick.

Some Van Halen style two hand tapping.

Tomorrow I’m laying down the bass tracks, then all we’ve got left to do is the vocals next week and we’re done with tracking!

Oh! I almost forgot! We’ve been so focused on knocking out the album we failed to mention the show we’re playing tomorrow in Colorado Springs. We’re playing with Forsake It All, Life Not Our Own and Restore all Vengeance from Colorado Springs and The History of Hope and Righteous Vendetta from Wyoming, at Sunshine Studios. We’ve still got a couple of tickets available for $7, otherwise it is $8 at the door. Show starts at 7pm, we hope to see you there!

Studio Day 2

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:34:00 -0700

The drums are the heart of any band. They are the sonic foundation of any musical endeavor. The drums propel the music and drive it forward. The drums connect with the music listener on a primal level, taking them back to a time when humans danced around bonfires after a successful hunt to the basic rhythms of wood and hide drums. A good drummer is the cornerstone of any band, he is the time keeper of the whole operation. Musicians in general like to bag on the drummer, but that’s just because they know their musical lives are in the drummer’s hands, he’s the pilot, the man with his finger on the button. Without a solid drummer you are simply building a house of cards.

Lucky for us, Matt Heady is a beast. He knocked out 11 songs in just about 5 hours. This recording already sounds sick with just the scratch tracks and the unmixed drums, we can’t wait to show everyone the finished product! Tomorrow we start tracking the guitar.

Studio Day 1

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:01:19 -0700

We went in to the studio today and got everything set up. Matt put his drums together while Tyler laid down the scratch tracks. Tomorrow Matt will record the drum parts over the scratch tracks and we’ll go from there. The drums are the “heavy lifting” of the album, so once they are done we all get to kick back and mess around with all the other stuff. We’re recording 11 songs! We’re really excited about this project, and can’t wait to share it. Stay tuned for more exciting studio updates!

Triple Nickel 01/14

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 10:00:00 -0700

The Triple Nickel Tavern is Colorado Springs preeminent punk rock bar. Owned by JJ Nobody(of The Nobodys and Drag The River) it is a pretty hip little space to play. And it was pretty packed last night.

Young Dead opened the show and they did a killer job. They play eclectic indie rock, and they should have some music up on the facebook here in the next week or so, so please check them out and “Like” them. They’ll be playing with us again February 25th at Union Station here in Colorado Springs, we’re all pretty excited about that.

We took the stage shortly after and commenced rocking out. We had a blast playing the small stage at the Nickel and got a lot of positive feedback from the folks who stuck around to watch us. We’re definitely looking forward to playing there again.

We’re playing again next Saturday at Sunshine Studios with a plethora of Metal bands, it will be a good time.

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This show is actually free.

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:52:00 -0700

This show is actually free.

Hero Kid blog Activate!

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:51:00 -0700

Hello! Welcome to the brand new Hero Kid blog. This is the spot to check for show dates, recording updates, pictures and as always the self indulgent ramblings of our English major Bassist. Stay tuned for good stuff! And be sure to “like” us on Facebook

-Sean, Hero Kid