The Cool Kids

They also received an offer from the DJ A-Trak to sign to his fool’s gold label, which they did, but only for one single. Up until recently, all material had been released solely on the band’s MySpace page—their recording contract came after performances at the CMJ Music Festival and Pitchfork Music Festival, on July 15, 2007. Eventually, The Cool Kids signed to Chocolate Industries, another independent label, which had previously been the label of rapper Lady Sovereign. Ingersoll has been the producer for tracks released thus far, but both work in rapping and production. They have been and currently are on tour, opening for M.I.A. One of the duo’s singles, Black Mags, is featured in a late 2007 Rhapsody TV commercial, along with Sara Bareilles. In the same year, the group collaborated with Lil’ Wayne and DJ Benzi through the internet on a track entitled Gettin’ It, which will reportedly appear on the DJ’s future album “Get Right.” The band has been featured in the video game “NBA Live 08” with the song 88, and they have been featured in the video game “NBA 2K9 with the song 2K Pennies, and in the episode “The First Cut Is the Deepest” from HBO’s TV series Entourage with the song I Rock. They were listed in Rolling Stone’s Ten Artists to Watch in 2008. Their debut LP, When Fish Ride Bicycles, was released on July 12, 2011.