Local Live: B-52s and Blue Oyster Cult

THE B-52s They never bomb.

WHEN | WHERE 8 p.m. Tuesday, The Paramount, 370 New York Ave., Huntington

INFO $39.50-$85; 800-745-3000; ticketmaster.com

GEORGE THOROGOOD AND THE DESTROYERS Still bad to the bone.

WHEN | WHERE 8 p.m. Thursday, NYCB Theatre at Westbury

INFO $39.50-$69.50; 800-745- 3000, livenation.com

PSYCHEDELIC FURS WITH TOM TOM CLUB One for the LIR crowd.

WHEN | WHERE 8 p.m. Friday, NYCB Theatre at Westbury

INFO $29.50-$49.50; 800-745-3000, livenation.com

BLUE ÖYSTER CULT Favorite song: "Godzilla." With Uriah Heep. Read more in Thursday's Explore LI.

WHEN | WHERE 8 p.m. Saturday, the Paramount, 370 New York Ave., Huntington

INFO $36.50-$75; 800-745-3000; ticketmaster.com

JOSEPH ARTHUR The singer-songwriter-painter recently helped out Pearl Jam's Jeff Ament on his solo album.

WHEN | WHERE 8 p.m. Saturday, Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center, 76 Main St.

INFO $30; 631-288-1500, whbpac.org

THE TOASTERS The 30th anniversary tour for New York City's ska favorites.

WHEN | WHERE 5:30 p.m. Sunday, Ollie's Point, 140 Merrick Rd., Amityville

INFO $15; 631-264-7712, clubloaded.com -- Kevin Amorim

HOT TIX

Jane's Addiction

WHEN | WHERE Oct. 17-18, Irving Plaza, Manhattan

INFO $39.50; 800-745- 3000, livenation.com

Guns N' Roses

WHEN | WHERE Nov. 17, IZOD Center, East Rutherford, N.J.

INFO $26-$71.50; 800-745-3000,ticketmaster.com

Jadakiss and Lloyd Banks

WHEN | WHERE Nov. 24, Best Buy Theater, Manhattan

INFO $47.50; 800-745- 3000, ticketmaster.com

NYC SOUNDS

Wednesday & Thursday

JAMES BLAKE DJ-singer-songwriter brings his dub-stepping self to the States.

WHEN | WHERE 6:30 p.m. tomorrow, Webster Hall, 125 E. 11th St.; 8 p.m., Thursday, Music Hall of Williamsburg, 66 N. Sixth St.

INFO $25; 800-745- 3000, ticketmaster .com

Thursday

JOE JONAS Easy, girls. With Jay Sean

WHEN | WHERE 8 p.m., Best Buy Theater, 1515 Broadway

INFO $39.50; 800-745-3000, ticketmaster

IN STORES

* Feist's "Metals" (Cherrytree/Interscope)

* Mutemath's "Odd Soul" (Warner Bros.)

* New Found Glory's "Radiosurgery" (Epitaph)

* Indigo Girls' "Beauty Queen Sister" (Vanguard)

* "The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams" compilation (Columbia)