JIMMY EAT WORLD - 25 YEARS OF BLEED AMERICAN
About This Event
Jimmy Eat World marks 25 years of Bleed American with a bill at Brooklyn Paramount. The lineup pairs the Arizona band's decade-spanning mix of pop-leaning hooks and guitar-forward arrangements with Hey Mercedes' interlocking guitars and plainspoken vocals and The Get Up Kids' Midwest-emo melodic urgency, tracing a late-1990s alternative/emo lineage in a direct, ensemble-driven live format.
About Bleed American
Not to be confused with Jimmy Eat World’s 2001 album, *Bleed American* here names a New York–area concert program built around the band’s early-2000s pivot from emo-adjacent urgency to pop-structured rock. The set lands in the city in a moment when post-9/11 naming and rebranding still shadows how that era is archived, making the title itself part of the story. At The Rooftop at Pier 17 and Brooklyn Paramount, Jimmy Eat World appear alongside THRICE, Girls Against Boys, The Get Up Kids, and Hey Mercedes. The bill reads like a cross-section of scenes that once overlapped more than they competed.
About the Artists
Jimmy Eat World
Jimmy Eat World is an American rock band that began in Mesa, Arizona in 1993, built around the songwriting and vocals of Jim Adkins alongside Tom Linton, Rick Burch, and Zach Lind. Across a decade-spanning catalog of studio albums, the group has moved between pop-leaning hooks and louder, guitar-forward arrangements without abandoning its core band format.
The Get Up Kids
The Get Up Kids are a Kansas City band formed in 1995, identified with the Midwest emo current that shaped rock and pop in the late 1990s. Their album *Something to Write Home About* helped define the style’s melodic urgency and plainspoken writing, and their influence is often traced through later generations of alternative bands.
Hey Mercedes
Hey Mercedes is an alternative rock project formed in the wake of Braid’s breakup, led by Bob Nanna alongside Todd Bell and Damon Atkinson, with roots in Milwaukee and Chicago. Their songs sit between rock and pop, built on interlocking guitars and direct, plainspoken vocals.