According to this story, former Get Up Kids and current Reggie and the Full Effect multi-instrumentalist James Dewees has joined New Found Glory. Reggie and the Full Effect will continue despite this ...

Smashing Pumpkins aside, it’s rare for one musician to handle all the duties of an entire band. It’s even more uncommon when a tour headliner is also in the two opening acts. But James Dewees isn’t ...

Dewees graduated from Liberty High School in Liberty, MO in 1994. He started college at William Jewell College in Liberty later transferring to the University of Missouri to study music composition.

The Get Up Kids’ keyboardist James DeWees has had a quite a musical career. He spent his youth slaving over classical piano, and was once a drummer in scrotum-squishing metalcore pioneers Coalesce.