The New Amsterdams

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The New Amsterdams started as a solo side project for The Get Up Kids frontman Matt Pryor. He felt he needed another outlet for his stripped melodies. So with grainy acoustics and lyrical dynamics, the New Amsterdams issued their debut, Never You Mind, in fall 2000. Two years later, Pryor took a break from his bandmates to record a follow-up album, Para Toda Vida. In 2004, The New Ams released Worse For The Wear.

The next year, the album Killed or Cured was scrapped for release and converted into an online-only, downloadable EP (featuring only some of the original album’s songs). The entire album has since been made available.

Their new album Story Like a Scar, was released early in 2005 to great acclaim. This album featured not only Matthew Pryor but a set band to make up what is now The New Amsterdams.

Worse for the Wear
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Killed or Cured
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Top Tracks

1	Hanging on for Hope	395
2	From California	320
3	Watch the World Cave In	258
4	Heaven Sent	255
5	All Our Vice	218
6	Wears So Thin	213
7	Asleep at the Wheel	205
7	The Spoils of the Spoiled	205
9	Drinking in the Afternoon	201
10	Poison in the Ink	191
11	Vignette	177
12	The Smoking Gun	165
13	Slight Return	151
14	Turn Out The Light	131
15	Worse for the Wear	130

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Gamjaevel wrote:
Friday morning

Heaven Sent, speechless <3

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sweethart5349 wrote:
last week

Hey New Amsterdams fans!! You guys just HAVE check out the new Margot & The Nuclear So and So's CDs when they come out!! BOTH albums come out on October 7th, but "Not Animal" comes out only on CD "Animal" comes out only on LP Get bothhh! They're going to be SO worth it!

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emmaforman wrote:
last month

lovely

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yoletsee wrote:
last month

I know this is random but please join. this is a new group I just started and I would love love it if you'd unite with the rest of us..http://www.last.fm/group/Save+the+Polaroids

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IndieTickets wrote:
July 2008

Tickets for the Matt Pryor solo tour in Minneapolis August 6th are available here; http://triplerock.indietickets.com

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LeDork wrote:
June 2008

new album = the shit!! damn their gig in dresden was amazing.

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nastradamus84 wrote:
May 2008

why is a concert sooooooooooooo different to the cd's??????? where were those great and beautiful melodies???? im very disappointed!

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Ricback2 wrote:
May 2008

Fucking Beautiful.

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shadedballroom wrote:
May 2008

I'm still unable to take At the Foot of My Rival out of my rotation. It's such a beautiful album.

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SauzerOCR wrote:
May 2008

V lollin' V

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DonTago wrote:
April 2008

listening to them makes me think of driving along the FL panhandle along thru Destin and Okaloosa Island with the windows down in the middle of the summer wishing some nights would never end....

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bubblegumcandy wrote:
March 2008

looking forward to seeing them in manchester :)

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punkers01 wrote:
March 2008

Death of us... amazing

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milann89 wrote:
March 2008

Full Thunder Moon... :)

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faehunter wrote:
February 2008

<3

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fabianbriggs wrote:
January 2008

story like a scar should be way higher! my new favorite :D

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J4320 wrote:
January 2008

Listen to the beginning of it with your speakers on really high.

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skapunk_axel wrote:
December 2007

wears so thin is such a beautiful song

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regnerf wrote:
December 2007

at the foot of my rival = beautiful

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kitch_i wrote:
December 2007

I'm not a bad liar! bad liar, probably the best track under two mins i've ever heard, short and sweet. it gets in, does it's business and gets outs again.

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