16 Apr 2020

Sizzle and Crash: Murnau's “Lungs”

By Max Allison

The duo was scheduled to play a set at the Renwick Mansion in the near future to air out Lungs tracks into the public sphere, but of course, that date has since vanished. One hopes that they’ll get back to the stage before too long to let their amps sizzle and their drums crash in the live setting.

04 Apr 2020

The State of Things: Quad City Symphony Orchestra

By Mike Schulz

Marc Zyla, Director of Education and Community Engagement and principal horn musician for the Quad City Symphony Orchestra (QCSO), discusses the organization's operations during this period of social distancing. We spoke on Friday, April 3.

04 Apr 2020

Pop Secrets: New Albums by The Weeknd and Dua Lipa

By Max Allison

Two recently released marquee pop albums by The Weeknd and Dua Lipa each represent an artistic and commercial peak for the artists, and both happen to fully inhabit sonic palettes sourced from bygone eras of production.

29 Mar 2020

Music as Medicine: A Soft Playlist of Albums to Escape Into

By Max Allison

Is it possible for us to escape to anywhere right now? For many of us cooped up at home, binge-watching TV shows and plugging into live-streams fill the time and take us to places we literally can’t access at the moment. But music remains the greatest escape available to us.

27 Mar 2020

Bob Dylan's Time Capsule: “Murder Most Foul”

By Max Allison

With little preamble, Bob Dylan released a track titled “Murder Most Foul” that uses the assassination of John F. Kennedy as a jumping point to weave a rambling tale of 20th-century history, musical lineage, and the confluence of art and culture writ large as glimpsed through decades of hindsight.

24 Mar 2020

The State of Things: River Music Experience

By Mike Schulz

Tyson Danner, Executive Director of the River Music Experience (RME) in Davenport, discusses the live-music and music-education venue's operations during this period of social distancing. We spoke on Monday, March 23.

02 Mar 2020

Big Amps and Smashed Glass: Rezinator CD Release at RIBCO, March 6

By Loren Thacher

At approximately 9 p.m. on Friday, March 6, every piece of glassware in the Quad Cities will come crashing to the ground and shatter in one brilliant cascade as a stupid-loud agglomeration of amplifiers begins to power up.

04 Feb 2020

Stiles and Styles: Music of 2019

By Loren Thacher

What follows is a subjective list of my 10 favorite releases of 2019, as well as some honorable mentions. My personal tastes tend toward rock and metal, and this list reflects that, with a few exceptions. There's much good music that I've either missed or haven't fully appreciated. You are probably in the same boat. So read on – and feel free to recommend anything I may have overlooked.

07 Jan 2020

Everything Is Everything: The 10 Best Albums of 2019

By Max Allison

As time drags closer to the inevitable apocalypse and the modern world continues to develop in grisly and unforeseen ways, we can find some comfort in the fact that there is now more music available than ever before.

05 Sep 2019

An Interview with Tobias Forge: Ghost, at Moline's TaxSlayer Center on October 8

By Bruce Walters

The Swedish rock band Ghost will be performing at the TaxSlayer Center on October 8. Coming off a European stadium tour with Metallica, the group has headlined summer festivals and has embarked on a massive North America tour that includes New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto, Boston … and Moline.

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