Chad Rieder

On Saturday, February 2, Soundgarden played at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis.

On Wednesday, November 7, Matt and Kim performed at First Avenue in Minneapolis with Oberhofer to open.

Marilyn Manson has forever been of storm of contradiction, exuding the perception of a megalomaniac leading disillusioned youth with music calculated to oppose all moral authority. And while much of his music may be calculated to push the buttons of the moral police, he is in fact, just an  artist who has chosen his own path. On his path there is no need for contrition, because as he states on the track "Rock is Dead" from the 1998 glam-metal masterpiece Mechanical Animals, "Shock is all in your head." The far leaning Christian conservatives of the world have long failed to see through this obvious transparency, and through their crosshairs, have helped put Marilyn Manson on a pedestal that has him laughing all the way to the bank.