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

Mystery men Revisiting Pavement's early years BY FRANKLIN BRUNO

Local Anesthesia: Doomed day The Midnight Creepsmas party and other tales by BOB GULLA

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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