Good Kid

About

The fast-paced, guitar-driven melodies of Canadian quintet Good Kid help highlight alternate routes to rock renown. Over the course of four self-titled EPs, the group has built a loyal following consisting largely of online streamers and avid gamers; their music has been placed in Twitch broadcasts and the popular online game platform Fortnite. That internet success gradually transitioned into the real world, with popular live support slots and headlining tours alike. Their debut album, Can We Hang Out Sometime? appeared in early 2026.The five members of Good Kid -- singer Nick Frosst, guitarists David Wood and Jacob Tsafatinos, bassist Michael Kozakov, and drummer Jonathon Kereliuk -- all attended the University of Toronto as computer science majors and hold day jobs as software engineers and entrepreneurs. (Frosst, for instance, co-founded Cohere, a billion-dollar company that creates AI-driven business products.) The five friends found that music was an honest way to express themselves outside of the computer lab (the band write songs collectively, with no primary songwriter) and released music gradually and deliberately -- simple, uncomplicated rock with melodic guitar lines an…