This year’s Rockin’ at the Knox fundraiser promises to be another memorable affair with several noted local musical acts playing at various settings in the gallery and on two outdoor stages from five to 11pm. Goo Goo Doll Robby Takac will continue his Music is Art affiliation with gallery director Louis Grachos by organizing an art installation in Clifton Hall, and the whole evening will climax with a performance by Blondie, New York new wave icons that are celebrating their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

A California desert is hardly the ideal venue for Goth music. But in April of 2005, hordes of black-clad fans sweat through their eyeliner at the Coachella Arts and Music Festival, awaiting the first live appearance in nearly a decade by seminal post-punk legends Bauhaus. Their patience was rewarded immediately, as the band kick-started their headlining set with a blistering rendition of “Bela Lugosi’s Dead,” during which singer Peter Murphy hung upside-down in a leather bat costume for the entire nine-minute epic. The remainder of the set was no less dramatic, tearing through the back catalogue that had gone on to influence acts from Jane’s Addiction to Christian Death to Interpol. At show’s close, Murphy informed the audience with typical bravado, “You can say now that you were here.”