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Long live punk
Sum 41 and Good Charlotte stay true to the cause
by SEAN RICHARDSON

Reading jazz
Books that tell the music's story
by JON GARELICK
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Mystery men
Revisiting Pavement's early years
BY FRANKLIN BRUNO
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Local Anesthesia: Doomed day
The Midnight Creepsmas party and other tales
by BOB GULLA
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Who'd be stupid or lonely enough to be out on tour this time of year? Well, good timing has never been the strong suit of Mindless Self Indulgence, the lethally inane potty-humored glam-metal stars whose major-label debut, Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy (Elektra), consisted of 30 brutally offensive songs in alphabetical order -- think 69 Love Songs for ADD-afflicted headbanging retards. More recently, the group's members composed a 40-song, 30-minute "children's album" under the name the Left Rights. (Sample song titles: "Metallica Doody," "Poo Out My Ass," "Darth Vader: Who Gives a Sith?") This time around, MSI are on tour with Atom & His Package, the keyboard-toting quirk-punk one-man band who's out in support of the new Attention Blah Blah Blah (Hopeless), on which Atom makes like Andrew W.K. and indulges his latent speed-metal muse. Both acts are at Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel (401-272-5876) in Providence on Friday and at Pearl Street (413-584-0610) in Northampton on Saturday.

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