Postmodern Jukebox spend Halloween at the Warner

Scott Bradlee's vintage-styled revue brings its Future Is Vintage world tour to downtown Erie on Saturday, Oct. 31.

Halloween in Erie usually means costumes, house parties or a bar crawl. This year there's also a dressier option. Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox, a band that already dresses like it's a different decade, takes the Warner Theatre stage on Saturday night.

Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox play the Warner Theatre on Saturday, Oct. 31. The Erie Events listing has doors at 7 p.m. and the show at 7:30, and tickets are on sale through Erie Events and AXS. The Warner is cashless, so leave the bills at home and bring a card. The room holds 2,250.

The show is a stop on the Life In The Past Lane World Tour, which the Erie Events listing says returns to 40 US cities this fall. The North American leg has been working down the East Coast this month, with stops in Boston and Manhattan in the week before Erie. By the time the band gets here, the show has had a long time to tighten up.

What do you get for your ticket? The formula is in the name. Postmodern Jukebox take songs you know and rearrange them in older styles. The tour's billing promises everything from '70s rock classics and '80s Britpop hits to current chart-toppers, movie and video game soundtracks. The listing files them under jazz and R&B/soul, which is where the arrangements end up even when the source songs come from somewhere else.

The formula is in the name: songs you know, rearranged in older styles.

That's a good fit for Halloween. It's a costume party where the band is in costume too. A crowd that dresses up for the night won't stand out at a show like this, though nothing on the listing asks you to.

It's also a good fit for the Warner, Erie's big downtown theater. A revue built on vocal performance works best in a room with real seats and real sightlines, and a 2,250-seat house gives the singers something to fill. More on the show and the tour is at postmodernjukebox.com.

A few last things. Doors at 7 gives you half an hour to find your seat before the 7:30 start, and it's Halloween downtown, so expect company on the sidewalks. Buy through Erie Events or AXS, the official sellers.

Erie's Halloween options are usually a costume or a party. This year you can see a band that turns current songs into old ones.

Sources: Erie Events: Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox (erieevents.com); Erie Events: Warner Theatre (erieevents.com); AXS: Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox tickets (axs.com); AXS: Postmodern Jukebox - Boston - Wilbur Theatre - Oct 27, 2026 (axs.com); The Note: Postmodern Jukebox announce The Future Is Vintage Australian and New Zealand tour 2026 (thenote.com.au); Pensacola Saenger: The Future is Vintage World Tour (pensacolasaenger.com); Postmodern Jukebox official site (postmodernjukebox.com)