Welcome to the month commonly referred to in the music world as "Rocktober." This is where the summer festival season officially becomes a distant memory, and bands get on the road en masse to push the latest product for the holiday shopping season - or maybe just to put some extra scratch in their own pockets. Either way, there are some great shows coming to town this fall, and the ones you ...

Toad's Place, New Haven Buckethead Tuesday, Oct. 7, 8 p.m., advance tickets $17 Experimental/instrumental/progressive rock artist Buckethead is best known for playing guitar while wearing a white mask and a KFC bucket on his head. He can play numerous instruments, including bass guitar, banjo, ukelele, saxophone, and more.

ROCK AND POP Musicians and night-club proprietors live complicated lives; it?s advisable to call ahead to confirm engagements. B. B. KING BLUES CLUB & GRILL 237 W. 42nd St. (212-997-4144)--Oct. 8: In the early nineties, Digable Planets forged a fusion of jazz and hip-hop that sounded to some . . .

KOTA KINABALU : Night crawlers will experience groovy nights throughout this month in Blue Note at Shangri-La?s Tanjung Aru Resort and Spa. A group of celebrity percussionists will be performing for guests at Blue Note every Friday night.

Gerard Way 's emo-goth music can be pretty comical sometimes, but the My Chemical Romance singer is actually an award-winning comic author who'll publish his second series of books next month.