Those Ataris? For real?

Glancing through my local event listings and noticed that the Ataris (yes, the boys of freakin’ summer) are still playing shows, still going on tour, with…wait for it…a new album this summer. Who likes The Ataris anymore? Aren’t they stuck in the dreaded no man’s land? The mainstream doesn’t know they exist anymore after their flavor of the week status has ended, yet they’re original fans remember the betrayal. No place for the Ataris to go. Maybe they should bank on whole new level of nostalgia and call themselves The N64s.

Tour dates (in case you’re interested) and the “Boys of Summer” vid for (old time’s sake) after the jump.

interv. w/ mc lars

No doubt I’m a big fan of MC Lars, just got his new one–Gigantic Robot Kills in the mail. His cutting commentary about punk rock and other suburban pop topics is definitely needed. Good to see then a nat’l mag like URB is giving him some love with an interview. This is one of the few on-set, in-person interviews I’ve seen with him. (h/t Emotional punk).
And after the jump, a vid of Lars’ “Guitar Hero Hero” with a bunch of kids messing around.

The best: MC Lars: “Honestly, nerdcore to me is kind of a limited genre,” he professes. “There are all these kids now who sample Nintendo music and rap about how high school is boring, and that is so uninteresting to me. It’s hip-hop in that people are talking about their lives, but the problem with nerdcore is that it’s a joke.”

interv. w/ Jay Reatard

From the AV Club. Don’t see a lot of interviews with Jay Reatard, and this one was pretty forthcoming about song processes and a new album.

controlling the famous “the easy life”

I was trolling around on The Militia Group website looking for info about the new Brandtson but alas it has been delayed. Not that you would find that from the militia group page.
But being there reminded me of this band, Controlling The Famous, who put out a pretty smart punk album called “Automatic City” a few years ago. They broke up last year, but this song was on Fuel TV, an acoustic version of “the easy life” which may be some sort of ironic band lament.

…Blacklist Royals Video

…Nashville punk that sidles the genres of alt-country and rockabilly along with it. They’re definitely fronting the rockabilly greaser hair, but with a twang like The Wednesdays and probably countless other bands that I don’t know. It seems like that alt-country/Americana is still a fertile ground for hybridization and doesn’t seem to be tiring for the time being. Plus, the evocative name kind of shows that off–its outlaw with a sense of respect.

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