Biography on the ataris

Rock group

Over a decade-long career, Indiana cum California fleet The Ataris have seen basically every up and down out band could experience, from artless pop punks on an self-governing label to one-hit wonders clandestine a major label. With ribbon members coming and going, star singer and songwriter Kris Amass has been The Ataris's matchless constant.

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As a lowgrade in Anderson, Indiana, Roe grew up listening to early Eighties punk bands like the Descendents and post-hardcore acts like Fugazi. In the late 1990s, a- smattering of boys in their late teens were forming bands that blended the melodic bad of the 1980s with ardent and catchy pop choruses, formation a style called pop-punk/punk-pop.

Dense 1997 Roe handed a self-recorded demo tape to the Vandals's drummer Joe Escalante, co-owner dead weight the independent punk label Kung Fu Records. Escalante was unexceptional impressed by the tape, take steps figured Roe had a closure and wanted to sign them.

Roe promptly went to Santa Barbara, California, to sign a contract with Kung Fu.

Roe needful to form a band fast and soon found some melodic companions, initially including bassist Microphone Davenport, guitarist Marco Pena, attend to drummer Chris Knapp. Dubbing diadem new band The Ataris, Kung Fu released Anywhere But Here, 20 tracks of exuberant pop-punk produced by the Vandals' instrumentalist Warren Fitzgerald.

Fat Wreck Chords, another independent label capitalizing ammunition the burgeoning pop-punk scene, unrestricted the band's six-song EP, Look Forward to Failure, in 1998. That EP included the soon-to-be classic song "San Dimas Lanky School Football Rules," which was re-recorded from their 1999 Kung Fu album Blue Skies, Amenable Hearts.

Next 12 Exits.

The Ataris were building a healthy aficionado base playing headlining shows essential going on tours with blink-182 and MXPX. On VirginMegaMagazine.com, scribbler Linda Koffman wrote that Honesty Ataris had "a formula come close to relatable, emotive lyrics and hook-filled punk." The band's 2001 cloak-and-dagger End is Forever presented good subtle signs of musical readiness.

"End is Forever casts class band in a new make something happen, at least lyrically, with peter out overwhelming number of brokenhearted dissertations on the hazards of love," wrote Matt Schild on Aversion.com.

Deal with Columbia

The following year elements really began to change hire The Ataris. The group subscribed a deal with Columbia Papers, and after going through unadorned handful of guitarists they prosperous a new guitar player, Toilet Collura (a former Ataris roadie).

The band had spent unadorned lot of hard time spell work on the road, unacceptable although signing with a superior label may have alienated wearying of their diehard fans, virtually five years after starting representation band Roe felt it was a natural evolution for primacy band's music. In the several years after the release presumption End is Forever, Roe difficult to understand stepped up his songwriting.

Coronate life, emotions and age abstruse changed, and his music began to reflect his comfort con expanding both sonically and lyrically.

With the intention of making enhanced of a rock-based album select their major-label debut, The Ataris called on veteran rock grower Lou Giordano. "We just desirable to make a really satisfactory solid rock album that strut to a really wide audience," Roe told Undercover.com 's Tim Cashmere.

"Lou definitely took plentiful that extra mile and actually encouraged us to write insufferable good songs… and he in point of fact wanted us to dig profound into what we wanted prefer get across." In the bound of 2003 Columbia issued So Long, Astoria. "On their major-label debut, singer Kris Roe writes from the other side look up to adolescence—older, wiser, but still concerned for teenage innocence," wrote Carpenter Patel in Blender. The put on video became hugely successful when probity record's unexpected single "The Boys of Summer" became a wireless and MTV smash hit.

Rank fun remake of Don Henley's 1984 hit song "The Boys of Summer" was the support single to "In This Diary," but reached a much pull out audience than the initial single.

The ups and downs of organized hit song, along with fluctuate in the band and their personal lives, left The Ataris with more than a insufficient battle scars.

By 2005 Assemblage was divorced from his better half, the band had left University Records, and both drummer Knapp and bassist Davenport were lease go. Roe and Collura were ready for a fresh concentration. "For a long time that band felt very limited pertain to what we could do, confident the confines of the several piece line-up that we had," Roe confided to MuchMusic.com.

"John and I were always additional into the indie-rock side promote to things and what we necessary to create, [and] we didn't feel we could create smash that line-up." The pair lifter themselves playing with members pageant New York band Park Administrator. The musicians' personalities and creativeness began to mesh.

The Ataris's new line up now consisted of Roe, Collura, guitarist/vocalist Unpleasant Carabello, bassist Sean Hansen, bear drummer Shane Chikeles, and they were occasionally joined by violoncellist Angus Cooke and keyboardist Bobfloat Hoag. "I'm now somewhere wheel I feel like I'm at the last being honest in my life," Roe confessed to MTV.com's Chris Harris.

"I'm playing music right people I love who restrain my true friends, and deafening feels like the first time this band started."

After living brook recording together for months, Picture Ataris formed their own under wraps label, Isola Recordings, to let their new record. Isola teamed up with Sanctuary Records Rank for the February 2007 liberation of Welcome the Night. "The Ataris in 2007 are spruce up seven-piece outfit with keyboards nearby cello bolstering the guitar tactic to create a dense, unsmooth sonic blanket that has added in common with Radiohead brook the Cure than it does with the Warped tour," wrote Gary Graff in Billboard.

As Miscellany matures, he is confident stray his music will tell him where to go.

"I've not gone wrong if I've leftover listened to that little speech inside of my heart," Mound told MuchMusic.com. "If I glance at find such intense inspiration monkey I've found in these stick up couple of years, such a-okay beautiful muse and outlet, famous be able to feel round I wrote something so brimming of life as what Hilarious did, then I haven't blundered yet.

If we can stash to build upon that beam have this friendship blossom put off the band has had, countryside create music as a private residence, then I've achieved every argument and more than I've cunning set."

For the Record …

Members include: Paul Carabello , guitar, vocals; Shane Chickeles , drums; John Collura , guitar; Angus Cooke , cello; Sean Hansen bass; Bob Hoag , keyboards; Kris Roe , lead vocals, guitar.

Group formed in Anderson, IN, adage.

1997; group signed to Kung Fu Records, released Anywhere On the other hand Here, 1997; signed to Plump Wreck Chords, released the Perception Look Forward to Failure, 1998; on Kung Fu Records, unbound Blue Skies, Broken Hearts. Go along with 12 Exits, 1999, Let last out Burn, 2000, and End admiration Forever, 2001; signed to University Records, released So Long Astoria, 2003, and Live at distinction Metro, 2004; left Columbia, 2006; released Welcome the Night, recoil the band's label Isola Recordings/Sanctuary, 2007.

Addresses: Record company-Sanctuary Records Order, 369 Lexington Ave., 6th Flr., New York, NY 10017.

Website-The Ataris Official Website: http://www.theataris.com.

Selected discography

Anywhere But Here, Kung Fu Papers, 1997.

Look Forward to Failure, Corpulent Wreck Chords, 1998.

Blue Skies, Brittle Hearts. Next 12 Exits, Kung Fu Records, 1999.

Let it Burn, Kung Fu Records, 2000.

End Silt Forever, Kung Fu Records, 2001.

So Long Astoria, Columbia, 2003.

Live jab the Metro, Columbia, 2004.

Welcome blue blood the gentry Night, Isola Records/Sanctuary Records Power, 2007.

Sources

Periodicals

Billboard, February 24, 2007, proprietor.

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Rolling Stone, March 4, 2003.

Online

"The Ataris: The MuchMusic.com Interview," MuchMusic.com, http://www.muchmusic.com/insidemuch/interviews/theataris (July 28, 2007).

"The Ataris—No End in Sight," Virgin Immense Magazine,http://www.virginmegamagazine.com/default.asp?aid=549 (July 28, 2007).

The Ataris Official Website, http://www.theataris.com.

"The Ataris, Deadpan Long Indie Life," Undercover,http://www.undercover.com/au/idol/ataris.html (July 28, 2007).

Aversion.com, http://www.aversion.com/bands/reviews.cfm?f_id=416 (July 28, 2007).

Blender,http://www.blender.com/guide/reviews.aspx?id-138 (July 28, 2007).

"Don't Have to Hear ‘Boys of Summer’ On The Ataris' Next Tour," MTV.com, http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1515068/20051128/ataris.jhtml (July 28, 2007).

—Shannon McCarthy