11 Feb 2025

A Young, Brassy, Singing Music Mentor Stays Busy: CJ Parker at the Sound Conservatory, February 23

By Jonathan Turner

CJ Parker is just 24, but he’s been playing music since he was three, and feels lucky to make the art his full-time career.

08 Jan 2025

New Music in 2024: Going Deep, or Going Wide?

By Todd McGreevy

What's a “year in review” compendium edition without the best new music recommendations from the Quad Cities' region's independently owned local and regional radio-station programmers, disc jockeys, and musical artists and producers?

08 Jan 2025

Best Albums of 2024: Modern Sounds in Electric Guitar and Other Stuff

By Loren Thacher

Apocalyptic in its vision and ambitious in its musicality, High on Fire’s first album since 2018 is an explosion of pent-up heavy metal energy from one of the finest and most progressive bands active today.

06 Dec 2024

The Sound of Music Builds: Downtown Moline Music Hub Has Ambitious Plans

By Jonathan Turner

A little more than a year after breathing buoyant new life into the long vacant former downtown Moline library, Sound Conservatory is writing an ambitious new movement in its sprawling, surging score.

06 Nov 2024

Justice for All: New Choir to Give Inaugural Concert in Davenport on November 10

By Jonathan Turner

During a week in which liberty and justice are on the minds of many Americans, it is very fitting that a newly formed Justice Choir of the Midwest is preparing for its inaugural concert on Sunday, November 10 at 6:30 p.m. at Davenport's First Presbyterian Church (1702 Iowa Street).

29 Oct 2024

Garden Beauty in Music: ATLYS to Play Moline's Sound Conservatory, November 10

By Jonathan Turner

More than five years in the making, a deeply meaningful string-quartet record will be available to local music lovers five days before its world premiere.

22 Oct 2024

“Midsummer” in Fall: Ballet Quad Cities to Dance in the Quad City Symphony Orchestra's "Masterworks II: Midsummer Night's Dream,” November 2 and 3

By Jonathan Turner

Having kicked off its 110th-season Masterworks series on October 5 and 6 (honoring the 200th anniversary of Anton Bruckner’s birth with his Symphony No. 7), the Quad City Symphony Orchestra has a special program in November.

18 Oct 2024

Building Bridges: New Concert Series to Start at The Deanery on October 29

By Jonathan Turner

The Deanery School of Music is entering a new movement in its score, with a new concert series and new director.

01 Oct 2024

Nova Singers Tackles Big Masterworks in Davenport and Galesburg, October 12 and 13

By Jonathan Turner

It's easy to sing the praises of Nova Singers, a professional choir that has presented awe-inspiring, heartfelt concerts in the region since 1986.

23 May 2024

Live Music for June: Metal, Indie Rock, and Things Between on June 1 and 15

By Loren Thacher

Black metal was born in Scandinavia more than three decades ago, the devilish creation of bored, angry, and misanthropic teenagers who sought to take the rawness of thrash and carry it to faster and more sinister extremes. Thirty-plus years later, the style is more popular than ever, but many bands have realized that reinventing the diabolical wheel is not enough.

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