The Disco Biscuits have been doing something for three decades that most bands never quite crack: making you feel like you are inside the music, not just watching it happen from a row back. Their trance fusion sound (progressive rock, trance, funk, and electronica wound together) plays differently live every single night, because improvisation is the whole premise. On Thursday, Oct. 8, they bring it to Rutland’s Paramount Theatre as the opening night of a Northeast run.
About the Show
The Disco Biscuits formed in 1995 at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and have spent the time since road-testing an approach to live performance that is, genuinely, different from most. Jon “The Barber” Gutwillig (guitar), Marc “Brownie” Brownstein (bass), Aron Magner (keyboards and synthesizers), and Allen Aucoin (drums) built a genre they essentially invented and named: trance fusion, or jamtronica, depending on who you ask. It is what happens when rock improvisation and electronic production are treated as the same impulse rather than two different ideas. The band also founded Camp Bisco, their own music festival, in 1999.
Oct. 8 opens one of two additional fall weekend runs confirmed for the Northeast, with the band continuing through Buffalo (Oct. 9–10), Syracuse (Oct. 11), Hartford (Oct. 29), and Worcester (Oct. 30–31). That Halloween weekend in Worcester is earning its own conversation: on Oct. 31, the Biscuits will improvise a live soundtrack to an unannounced film at The Palladium Downstairs. They have done this before. They scored Akira on New Year’s Eve 1999 and Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey on Oct. 31, 2024.
Burlington organ trio Three Piece Meal opens. Van Garrison (Crumar Mojo Suitcase organ through a 1966 Leslie speaker), Luca Medina-Downs (guitar), and Zach Brownstein (drums) have been building a sound in funk, jazz, and blues since 2024. Worth arriving early to catch them.
Venue & Logistics
The Paramount Theatre sits on Center Street in downtown Rutland, Vermont, a historic theater with 838 seats. For a band that plays festival stages at Bonnaroo and Electric Forest, that is a close-up. All tickets are General Admission, first come first served. Doors open at 6 p.m., Three Piece Meal plays at 6:30 p.m., and The Disco Biscuits take the stage at 8 p.m. Shows like this rarely come through the north country.
Tickets
Tickets are $43.50 plus tax and fees. Buy tickets