Best known for Being the singer, songwriter, and backwards guitar player of the Ataris. (I am right-handed, but I play a right-handed guitar left-handed with the strings upside down, like Albert King ...

The Ataris’ Kris Roe can answer the question before you’re done asking it. “Completely,” he blurts out as soon as he hears, “Did you get worried at all this summer …” ” ‘Boys of Summer,’ right?” he ...

"Car Song" is the band's first track in 15 years. By Dave Brooks The Ataris are honoring the late father of lead singer Kris Roe with a new 7-inch single that includes Roe’s father’s ashes mixed in to ...

Ataris main man Kristopher Roe may have named his band in a bout of videogame nostalgia, but there’s nothing bloopy about the music he makes. It’s dream-pop with fuzzy, melodic guitars and a sweetly ...

Three current products of heated record-biz indie-hunting roll through town separately this week; buy T-shirts from them and maybe they’ll make a few bucks for their trouble. First up, headlining a ...

OK, we’re J/King. Despite our greatest efforts (opiates, hypnotism, sensory deprivation tanks), we remember the fucking Ataris. In case your own memory needs some jogging, here are all of the ...

Who: The Ataris, the Juliana Theory, Further Seems Forever, Yellowcard. When: 7 p.m. Tuesday. Where: Huntridge Theatre. Tickets: $15. Information: 678-6800. Anyone familiar with the history of the ...

When the opening guitar chords of the Ataris’ “In This Diary” first came on last night during the Three Headed MonsTOUR, I was checking RTD’s mobile site for the latest possible Flatiron Flyer I could ...

In music’s punk rock/new wave era of the late 1970s and early ’80s, bands drew huge live crowds and influenced a generation of popular musicians despite getting little airplay on commercial radio.

It's probably fitting that The Ataris will be playing 1982 Bar tonight since it is one of the few venues in town where you can play video games. Something tells me people going to this show aren't ...

Scoring one big hit is something of a catch 22 for most bands. They often wind up going down in history as a much-derided One Hit Wonder, most of society indifferent to their talent or record of ...