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Recent Articles By Julie Seabaugh

  • Scary Kids Scaring Kids
    7 p.m. Monday, January 28. Creepy Crawl, 3524 Washington Boulevard.
  • The Starting Line
    10 a.m. Sunday, September 30. Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, 14141 Riverport Drive, Maryland Heights
  • The Used
    8 p.m. Monday, September 17. Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.
  • The Ataris
    6 p.m. Friday, September 7. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.
  • Counting Crows / Collective Soul
    6:30 p.m., Tuesday, August 7. GCS Ballpark, 2301 Grizzlie Bear Boulevard, Sauget, Illinois.

National Features

Mêlée isn't cutting-edge: After three full-lengths and a jump to a major label (that'd be Warner Brothers), the Orange County quartet still geeks out on piano-saturated love songs — the more radio-friendly, the better. Sunny, optimistic and downright timeless, the band's upcoming album, Devils and Angels, brings to mind bygone moments on west-coast beaches still untarnished by teen-marketed TV dramas and their gut-punch soundtracks. And while Mêlée is marketed as pop-punk, with its clap-happy choruses and guileless "ooh, ooh, ooh!" harmonies, it falls more accurately between a less-introspective Jackson Browne and "Footloose"-era Kenny Loggins. It doesn't get less hip — or more memorable — than that.

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