A variety of traditional craft demonstrations, live-music performances, food options, vendors, hands-on children's activities, and much more will be enjoyed in Bishop Hill, Illinois, during the 2024 agriculture-days celebration Jordbruksdagarna (pronounced "yord-brooks-dah-ga-na"), the September 28 and 29 event that will also boast a petting zoo, a book signing, a bake sale, and a concert of Swedish music with Johan Johansson & Friends.

An important issue affecting our present and future will be explored in fascinating detail when Black Hawk College reference and instruction librarian Atticus Garrison presents AI Apocalypse: A Survival Guide for Navigating AI Disinformation, an October 3 program at the Rock Island Public Library's Watts-Midtown Branch designed to equip attendees with the critical thinking and media literacy skills necessary to navigate the digital landscape with confidence.

Currently holding a perfect 100-percent critical-approval rating on the Rotten Tomatoes aggregate, Fritz Lang's classic 1931 thriller M serves as the fifth and final presentation in the German American Heritage Center's German Expressionist Film Series for 2024, its October 2 screening at Davenport venue The Last Picture House demonstrating why Rotten Tomatoes' critical consensus calls the work "a landmark psychological thriller with arresting images, deep thoughts on modern society, and Peter Lorre in his finest performance."

Touring in support of their July release As Above, So Below that inspired Record Weekly to call it "another demonstration that this fiery lot can dial it up to 11 then pare the punchy rock back, too," the alternative-rock and grunge masters of Highly Suspect headline a September 29 concert at Davenport's Capitol Theatre, their latest also leading The Soundboard to rave, "The melodies, the lyrics, the emotion ... . It's all incredible and fresh and new."

Touring in support of last year's album Fatalism, a recording that reached the number-on spot on Australia's ARIA charts, that continent's metalcore band Polaris headlines a September 28 concert at Davenport's Capitol Theatre, the ensemble famed for blending elements of metalcore with progressive/post-rock soundscapes, electronics, and melodic hooks intertwined with personal lyrics, many of them dealing with anxiety, depression and loss.

In celebration of one of the best-selling and most popular bands of all time, the alt-rock musicians of Nivrana: A Tribute to Nirvana will brings their grunge talents to Common Chord's Redstone Room on September 27, with the Davenport venue hosting a repertoire of hits from the platinum- and diamond-selling albums Bleach, In Utero, and the timeless Nevermind.

Currently touring in support of her 2023 album Haunted Mountain, a work that Twittering Machines calls "a wonderful, rich, country/folk-inspired ramble of a record," singer/songwriter Jodie Holland performs a September 27 headlining engagement at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the artist's latest also leading Americana Highways to praise it as a work in which "graceful vocalizing expertly adds the necessary individualistic tone that's easy bait for any ear."

Touring in support of their 2023 album Street Sermons, and hailed by American Songwriter as the New York area's "most driving, intimidating, and rambunctious blues/garage/punk outfit," the genre-blending musicians of Daddy Long Legs headline a September 28 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, their latest recording also praised by No Depression as "one of the most fun records to come out in quite some time."

Praised by Downbeat magazine as a trio that "expresses both its melodic rigor and appetite for adventure" and by Radio New Zealand as an outfit that makes "melodies and rhythms move like single primitive organisms," the Chicago-based musicians of Twin Talk play Rock Island's Rozz-Tox on April 2 in support of their September 27 release Twin Talk Live, their previous recording Weaver hailed by PopMatters as "inventive and exhilarating, combining unique arrangements and arresting melodies."