Fans of the self-described "polyethnic Cajun slamgrass" band Leftover Salmon have reason to rejoice this summer, as the outfit is reuniting for a few festival dates in July. But washboard player, vocalist, and guitarist Vince Herman said those shows aren't a sign that the band is back together. His priorities are elsewhere.

When I put the album from the electronic duo EOTO in a CD player at work, my office mate Mike Schulz asked - after about five seconds of music - "You're not watching porn, are you?"

I'm guessing that question would please Jason Hann, a percussionist with jam-band/bluegrass favorites String Cheese Incident and half of EOTO. While he's more than happy to talk about the impressive technical elements of the live-looping project - which will be performing at the Redstone Room on Monday, May 28 - he'd rather you just dance.

The City of Davenport has more than $66 million in the bank. One committee within city government hopes to make that money work harder for the city as a whole by encouraging banks to reinvest more in the community.

Most everybody knows that Blur song as "Woo Hoo," even though its proper title is "Song 2." Neither is particularly meaningful.

But Kyle Ferguson, a senior philosophy major at Augustana College, called one of his songs "Notes from a Solipsist," and that title frames the song's lyrics. Solipsism is a belief that one can only know what one directly experiences - that there might not be a world outside of your own mind.

"You identify your experience with the world," Ferguson explained. "So there's no reality external to your experience."