Blue Skies Revisited

Related Content

• The Ataris at Yucca Tap Room, 3/16/12
  March 17, 2012
• The Ataris at Martini Ranch, 8/12/11
  August 13, 2011
• Weekend: Black Tusk, John O'Callaghan, The Ataris, St. Patrick's Day, and Dustin Wong
  March 16, 2012
• Cut Copy, The Ataris, Colored Water, and Splash Pool Party Over the Weekend
  August 15, 2011
• Concerts to Catch This Weekend
  August 12, 2011

More About

• The Ataris
• Kris Roe
• San Dimas
• High School Football
• Pop-Punk and Emo

Like this Story?

Sign up for the Events Newsletter: What's happening in town? From underground club nights to the biggest outdoor festivals, our top picks for the week's best events will always keep you in on the action.

Privacy Policy Cancel Continue

Like most hardcore musical gormandizers, we’ve got a few “desert island discs” (i.e. albums we’d want in our possession if ever stranded on some abandoned atoll). The Dead Kennedys’ Frankenchrist is one. Perhaps surprisingly, so is The Ataris’ Blue Skies, Broken Hearts . . . Next 12 Exits. While we’ll be eviscerated by music geeks everywhere for daring to compare the rancorous “Jock-O-Rama (Invasion of the Beef Patrol)” with teenage pop-punk like “San Dimas High School Football Rules,” we’ve got something of a soft spot for The Ataris’ breakthrough album from 1999. So we were pleased to hear that Ataris frontman/guitarist Kris Roe will be visiting Chyro Arts Venue to perform the entire disc in solo acoustic fashion, as well as a few new songs he’s been writing on the side. Locals It’s Like Love, February State, and Bring on the Fame will also perform.
Fri., Jan. 9, 7:30 p.m., 2009