Launched in 2023 by the Azubuike African American Council for the Arts and taking place in various area locales June 5 through 8, the third-annual Pulling Focus African American Film Festival of the Quad Cities has been designed as a celebration of local film and culture that focuses on enriching the lives of Quad Cities residents, presenting unique film-watching experiences framed through the lens of African American and Black Diasporic voices.

With his discography boasting such top-10 Billboard smashes as Easy Tiger, Ashes & Fire, 1989, Prisoner, and his self-titled 2014 album, Grammy-nominated rock and alt-country singer/songwriter Ryan Adams brings his long-awaited “Heartbreaker '25 World Tour” to Davenport's Capitol Theatre, the June 17 event celebrating the 25th anniversary of Adams' solo debut Heartbreaker and delivering an intimate, acoustic set that highlights his massive career.

With their brand-new release Sounds Like ... hailed by The Fire Note as "open-hearted, unfiltered, and always in motion," the touring musicians of Florry headline a June 16 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, Pitchfork magazine raving that on their latest album, "the country-rock group rips through a set of free-spirited barnstormers with such ease and joy that even its tales of raw feelings and perpetual malaise feel uplifting."

With the indie-rock and shoegaze musician's just-released recording It's Closeness, It's Easy lauded by Boolin Tunes as a "thematically and aesthetically consistent" album that "stands out in a crowded 2025," singer/songwriter Thom Wasluck's solo project Planning for Burial headlines a June 14 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the artist's latest also hailed by Everything Is Noise as "singular in its sound, turning the slow, crushing weight of existence into an art that will weather the expanse of time far beyond all of our expiration dates.."