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Misfits, "Saturday Night" So far, October has been a great month for me to live out my adolescent fantasies: In the span of one weekend, I not only got to shake Leatherface's hand, but also to see Type O Negative singing "Love You to Death" from five feet away.

"I came across your cover of Bjrk's 'Possibly Maybe.'" "Oh yeah, from a while ago." "Were you a big fan? Did you have your Bjrk phase?" "I'm still in my phase, I think.

Son Volt is, from left, Dave Bryson, Chris Masterson, Jay Farrar, Andrew Duplantis and Mark Spencer.

One campaign likely to turn up on the Film and Integrated shortlists at the Cannes Lions this year is Dig Out Your Soul in the Streets , a short documentary created by BBH, New York on behalf of British rock band Oasis.

When it comes to turning a concert into a party, Jimmy Buffett ain't got nothing on No Doubt.

When guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and vocalist/lyricist Cedric Bixler-Zavala left At the Drive-In to form the Mars Volta, the duo burst out of the confines of post-punk into a kind of sprawling, Latin-infused prog that has been called everything from utterly brilliant to completely inscrutable.

When guitarist Taylor Hollingsworth went to Tepoztlan, Mexico, in early 2008, it was to hang out in the warm winter sun of the southern climes.

At the entry of Kimbaracumbara , a small restaurant club hidden between an art gallery and a Chinese restaurant in Little Havana, there's a painting of the Virgin Mary with a baby Jesus and three angels holding her afloat.

Coldplay postponed its show last week at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, so the outdoor concert season starts tonight with the first big summer show as Blues Traveler launches Albany's 20th Alive at Five season.

Hip-hop and R&B band Boys Night Out won second place at Morristown's Got Talent in February and this summer the Sussex Avenue School fifth-graders are headed for another shot at the spotlight.

When guitarist/singer/songwriter Jason Isbell put together his solo debut, Sirens of the Ditch , it was a prolonged process carried out over several years while he was a fulltime member of Drive-By Truckers , those purveyors of raucously rockin', whiskey-drinkin' alt-country music.