The Daredevil Christopher Wright This should not be taken as anything other than an inquiry from a discouraged person. We here at Daytrotter.com would like to know if the general Quad Cities public cares if we present shows here in town. We have the opportunity to host more and more shows here, with some of the best bands in the country, but have been turning them down because we can't afford to do them with the small draws that we've been getting. We want to help build this music scene up to what it could potentially be.

X + XIf all else fails, with the help of his trusty loop pedal Marty Jones could have a promising future as a one-man band. As the founder, primary songwriter, and conductor - who also handles vocals, bass, guitars, keyboards, additional percussion, sampling, and programming duties - of Silvis' X+X (spoken as "X Add X"), Jones (a.k.a. Heat) seems more than happy to take anyone willing to jam with him along for the musical ride. But he's ready to do it alone, if necessary.

Damien Jurado For somebody who's been compared favorably to Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young and Nick Drake, Damien Jurado has had a touch-and-go career, and a bit of an inferiority complex.

Rob Barber and Mary Pearson When Rob Barber and Mary Pearson met in December 2005, they quickly struck up a friendship.

"We both thought of ourselves as pretty punk with what we were doing with our solo projects," Pearson said last week.

Buckcherry When Buckcherry co-founders Josh Todd and Keith Nelson re-formed the band in 2005 after a three-year hiatus, they got an opportunity to basically start from scratch.

The Hush Sound Just Tuesday morning we were able to confirm an exciting show that you're not going to have to wait for. Like the Ingrid Michaelson show about a month ago, this one is a last-minute affair, but you have a week to prepare instead of 24 hours.

Punch BrothersChris Thile doesn't like musical boundaries, and the mandolin player seems to almost relish pissing off those who would prefer to pigeonhole him.

Pepi Ginsberg We had a last-minute show this past weekend with the always tremendous Delta Spirit, from California way. Those of you who were at Huckleberry's the last time they were in town know this. We regret that there wasn't more time to get the word out that they were going to be in town, but we found out just a few hours before they were set to arrive for a session that they were going to be here in time to play. They'd made a long drive from Salt Lake City the night before and hauled it east to make it so that we could add them to the Southeast Engine bill. It might be the best show in the Quad Cities that only 10 people showed up for in the past five years or more.

papermache.jpgIn two years, the Spokane, Washington-based five-piece Paper Mache - which will be performing at Mixtapes in East Moline on September 3 - has gone through more than a dozen members.

You might assume that singer/songwriter Chelsea Seth Woodward is difficult to work with, but to hear him tell it, it was simply a process of shaping Paper Mache.

"It started off as me doing a singer/songwriter, solo acoustic," he said last week, "but the intention was always to have the songs that I wrote have open interpretation, that we could play with them and I could have different members join and see what fit, and then develop a sound from there."

Lissie Our little hub here in Rock Island feels doubly cool on a day such as Sunday when we have into the studio a young, local talent gone Los Angeles in Lissie, then a few hours after she left to go swim at the pool and eat hamburgers we have one of Daytrotter's original alums and makers of one of the coolest records of the year, Koufax, by for the second session of the day, and last, to cap the day, one of the premier hip-hoppers on the planet: Aesop Rock.

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