Black Kids, a Jacksonville, FL-based indie-rock outfit, is in the midst of a fall European tour in support of its summertime release, "Partie Traumatic."

LiveDaily contributor Maya Marin sat down with two of the five members--Kevin Snow and Dawn Watley--to discuss the group's inception, their impending trip to Japan and much more.

[Click here to view video footage of Black Kids' exclusive LiveDaily Sessions performance.]

You guys have been doing lots of interviews lately. You've got a big web presence at the moment and you've talked about how you've known each other for a while, but this is the first time you all played in a band together. So who was it that actually instigated getting the group as it is now together?

Kevin Snow: Probably Reggie. We've been playing in various bands for the last 10 years, but I think, for this band, Reggie called up the friends and decided to have our first practice.

Dawn Watley: Then he got his sister in and I'm his sister's best friend, so that's how I got in the band.

How long have you been best friends?

DW: Maybe five years.

That's definitely a fortunate connection. Tell me about when you first started recording music, which wasn't too long ago. You made an EP, "The Wizard of Ahhhs," which you guys famously put up for free download on MySpace. How did you get the word out about the music? I know there are a billion bands out there on MySpace. How did you promote your music?

KS: When we first recorded the demos, we put them up on MySpace and nobody downloaded them because nobody knew who we were. They were up for three or four weeks with very little downloads. It wasn't until we did a festival in Athens, Georgia. It was our first time playing outside of our hometown of Jacksonville, FL. It took that event to start getting the word out, because we gave out demos at that festival and a lot of people starting blogging about it.

How did you get that festival gig?

KS: We had a friend back home who works at our favorite venue to play and they asked him to recommend a local band from Jacksonville for the festival, so he insisted that we go.

Now with only a couple of singles released in the UK back then, you became an overnight sensation out there, charting in the Top 10. Do you remember where you were when you got this news and how did you react?

DW: We were actually over in the UK when they first told us. I was shocked. It was amazing to hear that that happened.

KS: Yeah, we were surprised. There were other artists that we admire whose albums came out the same day that we outsold and that was just pretty unbelievable for us.

Like who?

KS: I don't want to name names, but I think Beck's album came out the same day as ours, and ours charted slightly higher.

So with all this buzz and a huge fan base in place who are eagerly anticipating your debut album, did you feel any pressure at all to deliver a record that met their expectations?

DW: I think there was a lot of pressure at first, but we recorded it in three weeks so I think it was just something we put our heart into and we went and we did it in the hopes that people will like it.

KS: A lot of the pressure came from ourselves to make a classic album. I think we succeeded.

DW: I don't think we had really too much time to think about it.

And all the songs thus far I believe are written by Reggie?

KS: Yeah, so far. The general songwriting process is that Reggie would write the lyrics and the chords and bring them to the rest of us and we all hash it out together structurally.

When did he actually write the music? Did he write the songs prior to forming the band?

KS: Some of them. It's funny, some of the songs were written very quickly, other ones took a couple years I think to sort of hone in on. I think a couple of these he's been sitting on for awhile. Other ones have been written since we started the band.

It might be an unfair question without him here to defend himself but a lot of the songs seem to take a very cynical view of dating and relationships. Let me ask you guys: do you consider him a cynic?

KS: I don't know. I think it comes from an honest place, as far as his experiences with relationships, either frustration or whatever he's tackling. I don't think he's necessarily cynical, maybe just a bit honest.

Let's talk about your tour. You've been on the road a lot, first on the tour with Cut Copy and now you're going to start performing some headlining dates. I believe you're going to the UK again soon. Are you guys looking forward to going back?

DW: For sure. We spent a lot of time over in the UK and London and I kind of miss it. It's like a little bit of home, really, because that's where we started off. I'm really looking forward to being able to play for those audiences again and seeing those fans.

Do you feel in any way indebted to the audiences out there because they're who championed you at the outset?

KS: Yeah, definitely. They sort of took us on in the beginning. That's where all the interest came from. They've been very generous to us.