We’re drifting into college rock season when indie bands and quirky singer/songwriters rule. There’s some evidence of that transition on Connecticut stages this week, with Mother Mother and Briston Maroney among others. Yet this week is dominated by loud classic-style rockers from Creed to Testament to Kings of Leon to the Doobie Brothers.
Country stars Travis Tritt and Trace Adkins are around, as are the sensitive Kentucky act The Cold Stares . Puerto Rican dance-pop star Luis Fonsi is at Foxwoods, and the pop superstar of the moment, Sabrina Carpenter, is at the XL Center. If it’s just beginning to feel like fall for you, you can see some of these big old stadium acts and pretend it’s still summer.
The Floridian “With Arms Wide Open” rockers formed 30 years ago and have undergone some very long hiatuses. The bans is back on the road with Scott Stapp at the mic on Sept. 30 at 7 p.
m. at Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater in Bridgeport with Tonic and Finger Eleven. $153-$828.
hartfordhealthcareamp.com . The Canadian rock band Mother Mother has a new album out, “Grief Chapter.
” They will rock the stage in New Haven on Sept. 30 at 8 p.m.
$50.75-$171.50.
toadsplace.com . Japan’s National Theatre is renowned for how it has maintained the centuries-old puppetry style of Bunraku.
Oct. 1 at 7:30 p.m.
$35. quickcenter.fairfield.
edu . It’s a tremendous double bill of Psychedelic Furs — a dark British post-punk band who became New Wave darlings with “Pretty in Pink.