The Ataris

The Ataris, one of the most successful independent rock bands of recent years, have a brand new album, so long, astoria, the group's eagerly-awaited major label debut on Columbia Records. so long, astoria is the first full-length Ataris album in nearly two years.

"Musically," says Ataris frontman Kris Roe, "we took a back-to-basics straight-forward rock approach. There's no novelty, no silly aspects to this record at all. It's a serious story-telling record. Everything is really personal, every song is about something different, each song is like a page in the scrapbook of memories, but it's not a dark record at all."