Pitchfork

Ah, to be young, and in love, and touring the country in a van, and rocking the crap out of cramped, sweaty basement apartments and dive bars. Chances are if you use a computing device, your pointer has, at some time during the last week, hovered over the names of two ebullient whippersnappers doing just that: Matt & Kim.

A lovable Brooklyn couple/keys'n'drums duo, Matt & Kim serve up some mean synth-poppy punk (or synth-punky pop, if you prefer) on their self-titled, IHeartComix debut-- call 'em Mates of the Empire State-- and they're touring up a storm behind it right now. Reports indicate you will enjoy experiencing Matt & Kim live, even if you can't actually see them, so you should totally check them out, for real.

Further enticement: they're cute and carefree, as evidenced by this pair of uncleanly M&K videos, both of which see Matt (keyboard) and Kim (drums) simultaneously satisfying their fetishes for playing in kitchens and making a big ol' mess.

It's blood that stains the kitchen in Colin Devin Moore's video for "5K", while Matt and Nick Chatfield-Taylor's "Yea Yeah" clip takes food fights to a whole 'nother level. The latter wins the day with its surprise finale alone.

"5K"

"Yea Yeah"

Matt & Kim & you:

12-04 Ft. Worth, TX - 1919 Hemphill
12-06 Phoenix, AZ - Trunkspace
12-07 Flagstaff, AZ - Duchess Manor
12-08 San Diego, CA - Che Café
12-09 Los Angeles, CA - TBA
12-11 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill
12-12 Arcata, CA - The Green House
12-13 Portland, OR - Rotture
12-14 Seattle, WA - Camp Nowhere
12-15 Missoula, MT - The Sweatshop
12-16 Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court
12-17 Denver, CO - Rhinoceropolis
12-19 Omaha, NE - TBA
12-20 Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock Social Club
12-21 Chicago, IL - Abbey Pub
12-22 Kalamazoo, MI - Rocket Star
01-12 San Francisco, CA - Independent *
01-13 Los Angeles, CA - Independent *

* with Girl Talk