Riddlin' Kids
Encyclopedia
Riddlin' Kids was a punk rock
band from Austin, Texas
and was made up of Clint Baker (guitar
and vocals
), Dustin Stroud (guitar and vocals), Mark Johnson (bass
), and Dave Keel (drums
).
entitled What Does it Matter? on KYQ Records. The band followed with another EP, Any Day Now
, which they sold as they toured with Goldfinger
and Reel Big Fish
. The band's audience began to grow as they received airtime on KROX-FM
in Austin.
The band released their first full album entitled Hurry Up and Wait
on August 6, 2002 featuring "I Feel Fine", which was featured in the 2002 movie Orange County
. The band also made a music video
for this track, based on the movie Loverboy
starring Patrick Dempsey
. In addition, the song "Pick Up the Pieces" was featured in the soundtrack
for the video game ATV Offroad Fury 2
, and in the movie Extreme Ops
.
The band toured for over two years to promote their first album. The Riddlin' Kids' second album, Stop the World, was released on October 22, 2004. "Never Live it Down" and "Stop the World" became the Riddlin' Kids' next single
s, and the latter was featured on MX vs. ATV Unleashed
's soundtrack.
Riddlin' Kids won "Best Alternative Rock/Punk Band" at the 2001-2002 Austin Music Awards. They were also nominated in the same year for "Best Rock Band", "Best Single" (for "Blind"), and "Best Pop Band".
After heavily touring for over 5 years to promote their two albums, the band began to feel quite "burned out". Riddlin' Kids mutually agreed to break up in August 2005.
Baker also had a cameo appearance
in the Fox
hit TV show House
. In addition, Paul Ebersold, the producer
for two of the Riddlin' Kids' albums, helped to record the demos tracks for Baker and Keel's new project. Some of these songs may be part of the soundtrack for the new movie Weekend Junkies.
Riddlin' Kids reformed for a reunion show in Austin at the Red Eyed Fly with Rubberhed, Born to Lose, and The Banner Year on September 25, 2009.
In March 2010, Riddlin' Kids played two additional reunion shows in Austin.
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
band from Austin, Texas
Austin, Texas
Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...
and was made up of Clint Baker (guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
and vocals
Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
), Dustin Stroud (guitar and vocals), Mark Johnson (bass
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
), and Dave Keel (drums
Drum kit
A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
).
2001-2005
Stroud and Baker met at a local pizza parlor in Austin where they both worked and formed "Igmo" (derived from Ignorant Motherfucker). Following the departure of Mikey Baker, brother of lead singer Clint, the group decided to rename their band after Ritalin, the drug commonly used in children to treat attention deficit disorder. Following this name change, Keel and Johnson joined the band, and the Riddlin' Kids released a 500-copy limited edition EPExtended play
An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
entitled What Does it Matter? on KYQ Records. The band followed with another EP, Any Day Now
Any Day Now (Riddlin' Kids EP)
Any Day Now is an extended play by Austin, Texas based punk rock band Riddlin' Kids. It features three songs that would later appear on the Riddlin' Kids' debut album Hurry Up and Wait, including "See the Light", "It's The End of the World As We Know It" , and their first single, "I Feel Fine"...
, which they sold as they toured with Goldfinger
Goldfinger (band)
Goldfinger is a Los Angeles pop punk/ska punk band that formed in 1994. Currently, the band is composed of vocalist/guitarist John Feldmann, guitarist Charlie Paulson, bassist Kelly LeMieux, and drummer Darrin Pfeiffer...
and Reel Big Fish
Reel Big Fish
Reel Big Fish is an American ska punk band from Huntington Beach, California, best known for the 1997 hit "Sell Out". The band gained mainstream recognition in the mid-to-late 1990s, during the third wave of ska with the release of the gold certified album Turn the Radio Off. Soon after, the band...
. The band's audience began to grow as they received airtime on KROX-FM
KROX-FM
KROX-FM, aka 101X, is an alternative rock terrestrial radio station in Austin, Texas, United States.-History:101X signed on as "Austin's New Rock Alternative" on June 8, 1995....
in Austin.
The band released their first full album entitled Hurry Up and Wait
Hurry Up and Wait
Hurry Up and Wait is the debut album from the punk rock band Riddlin' Kids. It was released August 6, 2002 under the record label Sony. The album features the song "I Feel Fine", featured on the American Pie 2 soundtrack, and "Pick Up the Pieces", featured in ATV Offroad Fury 2.- Track listing...
on August 6, 2002 featuring "I Feel Fine", which was featured in the 2002 movie Orange County
Orange County (film)
Orange County is a 2002 American comedy film starring Colin Hanks and Jack Black. It was released on January 11, 2002. The movie was distributed by Paramount Pictures and produced by MTV Films and Scott Rudin. The movie was directed by Jake Kasdan and written by Mike White.-Plot:Shaun Brumder is a...
. The band also made a music video
Music video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...
for this track, based on the movie Loverboy
Loverboy
Loverboy is a Canadian rock group formed in 1980 in Calgary, Alberta. Throughout the 1980s, the band accumulated numerous hit songs in Canada and the United States, earning four multi-platinum albums and selling millions of records...
starring Patrick Dempsey
Patrick Dempsey
Patrick Galen Dempsey is an American actor, known for his role as neurosurgeon Dr. Derek Shepherd on the medical drama Grey's Anatomy. Prior to Grey's Anatomy he made several television appearances and was nominated for an Emmy Award...
. In addition, the song "Pick Up the Pieces" was featured in the soundtrack
Soundtrack
A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...
for the video game ATV Offroad Fury 2
ATV Offroad Fury 2
ATV Offroad Fury 2 is the second racing video game in the ATV Offroad Fury series, developed by Rainbow Studios and released on November 9, 2002. The game is preceded by ATV Offroad Fury and followed by ATV Offroad Fury 3...
, and in the movie Extreme Ops
Extreme Ops
Extreme Ops is a 2002 action thriller film directed by Christian Duguay, written by Michael Zaidan, Timothy Scott Bogart, and Mark Mullin, and starring Devon Sawa, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, Rupert Graves, and Rufus Sewell.-Premise:...
.
The band toured for over two years to promote their first album. The Riddlin' Kids' second album, Stop the World, was released on October 22, 2004. "Never Live it Down" and "Stop the World" became the Riddlin' Kids' next single
Single (music)
In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...
s, and the latter was featured on MX vs. ATV Unleashed
MX vs. ATV Unleashed
MX vs. ATV Unleashed is a racing simulation console video game for Xbox, PlayStation 2 and PC. It was developed by Rainbow Studios and published by THQ. It features same console support for 2 players and online support for 8 players. It was released in 2005.- Soundtrack :*Bullets And Octane -...
's soundtrack.
Riddlin' Kids won "Best Alternative Rock/Punk Band" at the 2001-2002 Austin Music Awards. They were also nominated in the same year for "Best Rock Band", "Best Single" (for "Blind"), and "Best Pop Band".
After heavily touring for over 5 years to promote their two albums, the band began to feel quite "burned out". Riddlin' Kids mutually agreed to break up in August 2005.
2006-present (solo careers)
Following the break-up, Johnson formed the rock band New Disaster, who released their first album entitled Last Night Rites in February 2008. Baker and Keel are currently working on a project entitled Vegas Bomb, previously named "Clint's Junior Orchestra" and "Twenty Questions". Stroud formed Say Hello to the Angels, and is in the process of recording their debut album.Baker also had a cameo appearance
Cameo appearance
A cameo role or cameo appearance is a brief appearance of a known person in a work of the performing arts, such as plays, films, video games and television...
in the Fox
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...
hit TV show House
House (TV series)
House is an American television medical drama that debuted on the Fox network on November 16, 2004. The show's central character is Dr. Gregory House , an unconventional and misanthropic medical genius who heads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in...
. In addition, Paul Ebersold, the producer
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
for two of the Riddlin' Kids' albums, helped to record the demos tracks for Baker and Keel's new project. Some of these songs may be part of the soundtrack for the new movie Weekend Junkies.
Riddlin' Kids reformed for a reunion show in Austin at the Red Eyed Fly with Rubberhed, Born to Lose, and The Banner Year on September 25, 2009.
In March 2010, Riddlin' Kids played two additional reunion shows in Austin.
Band members
- Clint Baker, guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
and vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments... - Dustin Stroud, guitar and vocals
- Mark Johnson, bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
- Dave Keel, drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
Extended Plays
- What Does it Matter? (2001)
- Any Day NowAny Day Now (Riddlin' Kids EP)Any Day Now is an extended play by Austin, Texas based punk rock band Riddlin' Kids. It features three songs that would later appear on the Riddlin' Kids' debut album Hurry Up and Wait, including "See the Light", "It's The End of the World As We Know It" , and their first single, "I Feel Fine"...
(2002)
Studio albums
- Hurry Up and WaitHurry Up and WaitHurry Up and Wait is the debut album from the punk rock band Riddlin' Kids. It was released August 6, 2002 under the record label Sony. The album features the song "I Feel Fine", featured on the American Pie 2 soundtrack, and "Pick Up the Pieces", featured in ATV Offroad Fury 2.- Track listing...
(2002) - Stop the World (2004)
External links
- Official Website
- Live Video of "Crazy" from Hurry Up and Wait at sonymusic.com