In spirit of The Great Escape Artist, Louisville’s Palace Theater was a fitting venue for the theatrical performance by Jane's Addiction last night. Accompanied by eccentric stage characters and props, they left no album untouched with a mixed set list to please any fan.

There was a fairly small crowd at Uncle Slayton's last Sunday night; no doubt, many Louisvillians were still recovering from a party weekend that included both St. Patrick's Day and local March Madness contests. The Winterpills duo of Philip Price and Flora Reed were admittedly sleepless after a few days at SXSW and a long drive from Little Rock to Louisville. All in all, the band and the audience were in sync for a laid-back evening of beautifully rendered music in a cozy room.

Before I get to the Ryan Adams show proper, performed at the Palace Theater on Monday night to a sold-out crowd, let me digress on a couple of matters. If you were one of the unlucky ones who dithered around and didn't get tickets, had to work, or were simply too late to the box office, you might have been planning to live vicariously via a fan's Twitter stream or your friends's text messages: "OMG. "Come pick me up.

The Louisville Palace welcomed the Pixies last night into, according to Kim Deal, the most beautiful venue they’ve ever played. It’s hard not to be slightly overwhelmed being surrounded by its intricate sculptural architecture, pouring with details from walls to ceilings that could be mistaken for a European opera house.