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  • 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.
  • Counting Crows / Collective Soul
    6:30 p.m., Tuesday, August 7. GCS Ballpark, 2301 Grizzlie Bear Boulevard, Sauget, Illinois.
  • The Sleeping
    8 p.m. Monday, July 16. Creepy Crawl, 3524 Washington Boulevard.

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Talk about chutzpah: First, the Ataris covered Don Henley's "The Boys of Summer" on a nostalgia-drenched breakthrough, 2003's So Long, Astoria. Then frontman Kris Roe and guitarist John Collura, the only two members to survive the pop-punk band's 2004 implosion, broke with Columbia Records and established their own Isola Recordings. Not surprisingly, today's version of the Ataris — now an alt-indie quintet that calls New York home — is experiencing some undeniable growing pains. But the band's wholehearted embrace of the DIY revolution exposes its true, unshakeable punk roots — even if this year's Welcome the Night leaves behind all traces of SoCal sunniness for moody atmospherics, sober introspection and (as the name implies) pitch-black lyrics.

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