*THE ADULTS, who were featured two weeks ago on a float in Newtown’s Labor Day Parade, will be making more music tonight when they return to Proud Mary’s.

The guys have a headlining show on September 18 at the bar below The Inn at Newtown, 19 Main Street.

*THE WAY-BACK MACHINE will be playing music of the 60s and 70s at Widow Brown’s Café this weekend. The four guys from Fairfield County with a passion for music (who have taken than dream and turned it into opening gigs for ORLEANS and GARY U.S. BONDS) will be at the eatery on Federal Road in Danbury for a 9:30 show on Saturday, September 19.

*I missed getting any news about The Blue Z Coffee House into my column last week,  but this weekend I promised myself to share the world about that place. Singer-songwriter COREY DURKIN will return to open the weekend on Friday. Showtime is 7 pm.

Then on Saturday at 7:30, the South Main Street venue will celebrate OCECMIC’s debut release, called The 5th Sun. The album will be played in its entirety, and Lauren from The Blue Z tells me the band will also perform “a full blown set of epic proportions to cap off the night.”

*Across town and next to the Pootatuck River, Mocha will host its performance debut of singer-songwriter KRISTIN RYAN on Friday night and a return by THE SKANKTONES on Saturday.

Kristin, reportedly a longtime customer of the Glen Road coffee house, will offer “sweet and contemplative music.”

The Skanktones is a reggae band out of Danbury. Members Rich-I “Skank” Treatwell, Chris “Stickman” Yake and Colin “The Man” Mannion are able, their PR says, “old friends able to open up the creative platform to play, write and produce music freely, without inhibitions.”

Next Tuesday Mocha will host SPIDER & OCTOPUS, featuring Renee Arozqueta, who perform folk, something called “acousmatic,” something else called “tape music” and still something else called “minimalist.” The duo plays accordion, guitar and drums, are traveling folk musicians from Pensacola, and are celebrating the Spider & Octopus release La Arana Esta Susurrando.

It all sounds kinda neat, even if the translation I’m thinking of for that album title is as nonsensical as the rest of this duo’s descriptors.

The music on Friday, September 25, will be alternative-punk-experimental and performed by BURN THE BELL TOWER, andt hen Saturday night will feature the pianist RONALD HAWKINS.

All of these shows start at 8.

*Due to “overwhelming demand” (the venue’s choice of words, not mine) — and the fact the trio already has a pair of sold out shows under its belt for this autumn — THE JONAS BROTHERS will be performing a third concert at Mohegan Sun Arena next month. The boys will now be in Uncasville on October 9 (in addition to a pair of shows the following day) and tickets will be on sale Saturday, September 19, at 10 am through TicketMaster.

Seats are $82 and $92, and will be available through the casino’s box office beginning Sunday morning if the show doesn’t sell out before then.

*Meanwhile, tickets for ROB ZOMBIE’s Hellbilly Deluxe 2 World Tour, which will be at Mohegan Sun on December 3, will be on sale Friday morning. All tickets are $18 and will also be available through TicketMaster first, then the box office as well 24 hours later.

*Also on Friday morning, tickets for STEVIE WONDER’s October 22 show at MGM Grand at Foxwoods will be going on sale.

These have been priced at $85 to $125 and will be available through MGMAtFoxwoods.com, calling the theater at 866-646-0609, through TicketMaster, and from the theater’s box office.

*While they are on separate tours at the moment, TAKING BACK SUNDAY and THE ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS will launch their own co-headlining tour in the fall, and will bring it to Mohegan Sun Arena on Friday, November 6. Tickets went on sale for this last weekend (sorry, missed that announcement) and are still available, all priced at $25, through TicketMaster and the casino’s box office.

Anberlin will be opening that show.

Until next week, I’ll be seeing you… on the road.

Questions and comments should be sent to Shannon Hicks c/o The Newtown Bee, 5 Church Hill Road, Newtown CT 06470, or shannon@thebee.com, or call the office at 426-3141. Shows listed at clubs are for ages 21 and over unless specified.

UPCOMING SHOWS

SEPTEMBER 18 — The Adults at Proud Mary’s, Newtown; Kristin Ryan at Mocha Coffee House, Sandy Hook; Corey Durkin at The Blue Z, Newtown; Los Lobos at the Quick Center/Fairfield University, Fairfield; Smokehouse at Georgetown Saloon, Redding;

September 19 — Skanktones at Mocha Coffee House; Ocecmic at The Blue Z; Curtis T at Georgetown Saloon; The Way-Back Machine at Widow Brown’s Café, Danbury;

September 20 — Jaimoe’s Jasssz Band at Infinity Music Hall;

September 22 — Spider & Octopus featuring Renee Arozqueta at Mocha Coffee House;

September 24 — Shawn Colvin with Judith Owen at Infic Hall;

September 25 — Burn The Bell Tower at Mocha Coffee House; Levon Helm at Klein Memorial Auditorium; Jay Stollman & The Black Rock All-Stars at Georgetown Saloon;

September 26 — Ronald Hawkins at Mocha Coffee House; Alice Cooper at The MGM Grand at Foxwoods Casino, Ledyard; The Bernadettes at Georgetown Saloon;

September 30 — Jimmie’s Chicken Shack at The Webster Underground, Hartford, The Energy opening.