New Year’s Eve down the shore in Keansburg sounds good to us! The ProgStock folk will be celebrating the new year for the third year in a row at a new venue, Fish & Sips, with a “Concert Extravaganza” starting at 7:00 p.m. (live music at 8:00) and going for the rest of the year on Beachway Avenue where you’ll eat, drink and be merry right on the waterfront until 1:00 a.m.

For those who like to dance to compositions in 7/8 time, with no radio play whatsoever, the American Northeast’s only international Progressive Rock Festival, ProgStock, happens October 9, 10, 11 and 12 at the Williams Center in Rutherford, Bergen County, an artist-run arts center, complete with cinema and comedy club.