A lauded pop/punk/comedy ensemble that has been performing professionally for nearly 50 years will headline a special concert event at Davenport's Raccoon Motel on September 22, with The Dickies playing an afternoon set at 2 p.m.

With the band's album debut Poor Pretender hailed by The Creek as "a hushed record rife with departures and narratives that beg remembrance of broken relationships before the memories slip away," the Milwaukee-based Americana, alt-country, and indie-folk musicians of Long Mama headline a September 26 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, The Creek adding that Poor Pretender's songs are "desolate enough to mirror the gray days and long nights (of winter), but undergirded with enough dots of hope that assure us spring is inevitable."

Touring in support of his 2024 album Our Other History, a recording that fellow singer/songwriter Will Oldham called "as rewarding a listening experience as I’ve come across in recent times," genre-hopping indie artist Ned Collette performs a September 20 headlining engagement at Rock Island's Rozz-Tox venue, the artist inspiring Raven Sings the Blues to rave that "Collette captures our imagination, building worlds of sound around the listener in the longform."

With the goal of the evening's guest the creation of a rich environment in which emergent behavior can occur without a preconceived outcome, visual artist Leo Villareal takes part in a September 19 artist talk at Davenport's Figge Art Museum, this fascinating and thought-provoking discussion held in conjunction with the September 21 opening of the artist's new Figge exhibition Interstellar.