A little more than a year after breathing buoyant new life into the long vacant former downtown Moline library, Sound Conservatory is writing an ambitious new movement in its sprawling, surging score.
During a week in which liberty and justice are on the minds of many Americans, it is very fitting that a newly formed Justice Choir of the Midwest is preparing for its inaugural concert on Sunday, November 10 at 6:30 p.m. at Davenport's First Presbyterian Church (1702 Iowa Street).
More than five years in the making, a deeply meaningful string-quartet record will be available to local music lovers five days before its world premiere.
Having kicked off its 110th-season Masterworks series on October 5 and 6 (honoring the 200th anniversary of Anton Bruckner’s birth with his Symphony No. 7), the Quad City Symphony Orchestra has a special program in November.
Black metal was born in Scandinavia more than three decades ago, the devilish creation of bored, angry, and misanthropic teenagers who sought to take the rawness of thrash and carry it to faster and more sinister extremes. Thirty-plus years later, the style is more popular than ever, but many bands have realized that reinventing the diabolical wheel is not enough.
There are a number of fine performances scheduled at Rozz-Tox as detailed on their Web site, but the arrival of the Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet on May 4 is unique even by the standards of that most eclectic of QC venues.
Something is coming, looming on the horizon like madness in the spring, leaving chaos and destruction in its wake. GWAR is coming on March 26, and there is no escape.
In the 2020s, the “doom” or “sludge” tag is increasingly self-applied, as an ethos as well as an aesthetic, by bands who create oppressive, cathartic music intended as a reflection of our dismal times. Such are the three bands – Body Void, SERAC, and Everlasting Light – playing Davenport's Raccoon Motel (315 East Second Street) on Friday, December 8.
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