By Michael Swanger scenescribe@mchsi.com
Slipknot is climbing the charts again, but this time with an introspective, genre-bending new single called “Snuff” that has landed in the Top 5 at Active Rock and Top 20 at Modern Rock charts. The band’s M. Shawn Crahan and renowned photographer/director P.R. Brown has also released an accompanying short film that features frontman Corey Taylor as never seen before. Fans can visit the Web sites of Slipknot and AOL Music to see the video.
Talk about your “once-in-a-blue-moon” kind of show. On Thursday, Dec. 31, Bob Dorr & The Blue Band hosts its annual “Happy Blue Year Celebration,” sharing the stage with several other Iowa blues acts. But this year’s New Year’s Eve bash to be held at the Hilton Garden Inn in Johnston will be unlike any other for Dorr who ‘round midnight will marry his longtime girlfriend onstage. “Carolyn and I have been alternately chasing after and running away from each other for 22 years,” Dorr tells Cityview. “It’s finally time to realize that our commitment to each other needs to be formalized in front of our friends and family. With this New Year’s Eve being a Blue Moon and so many of our friends from around the country planning on attending the ‘Happy Blue Year Celebration,’ we decided to add our ceremony to the festivities. Both of us are 50-somethings that have never been married. If the marriage can last as long as the courtship, it will certainly be ‘til death do us part!”
Young, Knoxville-based hardcore metal band Shoot the Moon is promoting its four-song EP “Mass Murder Someday” with an all-ages show on Sunday, Jan. 3 at 5:30 p.m. at the Vaudeville Mews. Serianna, Caustic Vision and The Curse of Hail open. Admission is $5.
The 2010 Botanical Blues series kicks off on Sunday, Jan. 3 with a solo performance by local singer-guitarist Matt Woods. The weekly series of concerts at the Botanical Center will be held Sundays from 1 to 3 p.m. through Feb. 28. Admission to the Botanical Center is $5 for adults, $4 for seniors and $3 for youth ages 4 to 17. Children 3 and under are admitted free, as are Friends of the Botanical Center. Other performers for January include Brad “BeBad” McCloud and his Case of the Blues (Jan. 10), “Mojo Jono” Smith (Jan. 17), J.D. Flanagan (Jan. 24) and Dewey Cantrell and Jodi Bodley (Jan. 31). For the rest of the lineup, visit www.botanicalcenter.com.
The River Music Experience in Davenport will offer a series of four specialized professional audio seminars conducted by Sound Lab instructor Lars Rehnberg that feature guest speakers on a variety of topics. Participants will receive live demonstrations and detailed explanations of professional production techniques from the series the second Thursday of each month from 6 to 9 p.m. from January to April 2010. The cost per seminar is $50 and includes a handbook and reference CD. The seminars include “Recording at Home” (Jan. 14), “Mixing Audio” (Feb. 11), “Live Sound” (March 11) and “Multi-track Recording Techniques” (April 8). Call (563) 326-1333, ext. 113 or e-mail ekell@rivermusicexperience.org.
The Pink Floyd Experience visits Hoyt Sherman Theater on Feb. 10. Tickets are $30 - $35 through Ticketmaster.
Country, blues-rock singer Delbert McClinton performs March 5 at the Val Air Ballroom. Matt Woods and The Thunderbolts open. Tickets, $32.50, go on sale Jan. 22 through Ticketmaster.CV
