Described by PopMatters.com as a quartet of “great vintage sounds,” “triumphant jams,” and “a strong and diverse sonic palette,” the rockers of Georgia's Perpetual Groove play Davenport's Redstone Room on May 11, and according to Get Some magazine's Jared Farmer, the group's most recent EP Familiar Stare “has me on the edge of my seat to see what this band has in store for the future.”

Playing in support of the band's studio-album debut Guppy, a release lauded by NPR for its “razor-sharp one-liners” and “impossibly catchy hooks,” the New York-based power-pop quartet Charly Bliss performs locally in a May 15 Moeller Nights concert, demonstrating why Pitchfork.com deemed the ensemble's first album “both wry and sincere in its expression of the endless crap-conveyor belt that is life and love as a girl.”

Delivering what PopWrapped.com described as “a polished sound filled with strong vocals and fantastic harmonizing made all the better with vivid lyrics and powerful instrumentation,” the folk and Americana musicians of The Way Down Wanderers headline a May 4 Redstone Room concert, demonstrating why BestNewBands.com wrote, “Their live show is full of energy and just a damn good time.”

Writing in Guitar Player Magazine, reviewer Michael Molenda stated that blues artist Dave Fields delivers “an exhilarating concert experience if you ever get a chance to see [him] live.” And on May 6, blues fans and Moline Viking Club patrons will get that chance in a special event presented by the Mississippi Valley Blues Society (MVBS), one that will show why Fields was praised by Elmore magazine as “a superb guitarist with an over-the-top, inecndiary style.”