Latchkey Kids

Latchkey Kids is a punk band forged in New Brunswick, NJ, playing the same dirty basements that made punk legends like The Bouncing Souls, Lifetime, and Screaming Females. Hanny Ramadan, Joey Gryzbowski and Cyle Morris are three friends who met in Rutgers University, and bonded over their love of The Menzingers and Pinegrove, and began writing songs about being 20-somethings alive in America today. As second- generation immigrants, Hanny and Joey have a particular POV that gets to the quintessential American experience of assimilation and alienation, as well as growing up and breaking up, love, and loss.

The band self-recorded their first record, and in 2023 played over 100 shows from Atlantic City to Appleton. Exhausted, they went back to jamming in Hanny’s parent’s garage in Voorhees, NJ writing new songs for producers Kyle Pulley (Alex G, Dr. Dog, Hop Along) and Tom May (singer/songwriter of The Menzingers). They dug deep at Pulley’s Headroom Studios to make new songs that are heart-on-your-sleeve- rock- and- roll anthems. Hanny’s raw and sonorous vocals have elicited comparisons to two other New Jersey-ians: the grit and honesty of Springsteen with the twang and playfulness of Evan Stephens-Hall (Pinegrove).

His pipes even landed him on the TV show, The Voice , as a 2022 contestant, though he never made it past the first episode. Judge Gwen Stefani, apparently not seeing pop idol stardom, opined, “It seems like you just want to be in an indie rock band….”