With the group's most recent album The New Dark Ages inspiring Kerrang!'s Sam Law to say that the musicians "remain the sickest band in the universe," the touring shock rockers of GWAR headline a March 19 concert event at Davenport's Capitol Theatre, their Billboard-charting hits including America Must Be Destroyed, Lust in Space, and Battle Maximus.

Touring in support of his 2026 album Freedom of Speech that Rolling Stone praised as "a defiant, humorous victory lap," Grammy-nominated rap artist Joseph Edgar Foreman – better known by his alias Afroman – headlines a September 18 concert at Davenport's Capitol Theatre, the musician's discography including 19 studio albums, 13 mixtapes, four EPs, one live album, and the Billboard-charting hit "Because I Got High."

Garnering national attention for their high-energy performances since 2017, the seven world-classic musicians of The Seven Wonders bring their Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks tribute to Davenport's Redstone Room at Common Chord on September 24, authentically recreating such timeless hit singles as "Dreams," "Go Your Own Way," "Rhiannon," "Edge of Seventeen," "Landslide," and "Gypsy."

Hailed by The Guardian for delivering "jubilant indie singalongs" and by SputnikMusic for their "tune sense and magnificent, swelling choruses," the Portland-based rockers of Ages and Ages headline a September 18 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the outfit's recent credits including a Tiny Desk performance for NPR's All Songs Considered, an appearance at Newport Folk Festival, and the March release of their fifth album Fine Thanks and You.

A founding member and periodic collaborator of KMFDM who has toured with Nine Inch Nails, Schaft, Schwein, and Einstürzende Neubauten, industrial rocker Raymond Watts brings his project PIG to Davenport's Raccoon Motel on September 23, the group's June release Hurt People Hurt praised by SIDE-LINE as "an outstanding album packed with consistently strong material."

Boasting more than 3.5 million career streams and supporting performances alongside Houndmouth, Wilderado, Briscoe, and Penelope Road, the independent country and blues-rock musicians of The Takes headline a September 22 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the band's 2026 single "Uprooting Roses" hailed by Off the Record Press as "a beautifully soft declaration of love that leaves you breathlessly hopeful and dazed from affection."

A pair of exciting, independent, Midwestern music projects, one of them based in the Quad Cities, shares the September 23 bill at Rozz-Tox, staffers at the Rock Island venue proud to present an evening with the trio of Barreleye and the quartet of Lazy Hex.

Celebrating the 40th anniversary of R.E.M.'s iconic Lifes Rich Pageantry, tribute-artists musicians and friends Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy, alongside special guests, headline a September 24 concert event at Maquoketa's Codfish Hollow Barn, Narducy also lauded for his solo project Split Single, and Shannon an Oscar-, Emmy-, and Tony-nominated actor whose film credits include Man of Steel and Knives Out.

Performing under the baton of conductor Maurice Cohn, the Knox-Galesburg Symphony will treat Orpheum Theatre patrons to A Little Night Music on September 19, the evening beginning with a performance of Eine kleine Nachtmusik – meaning "A Little Night Music" – that stands as one of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's most famous compositions.

With the show chockful of upbeat, honky-tonk hits including “On the Road Again,” “Ring of Fire,” “Folsom Prison Blues,” “Good Hearted Woman,” and “Whiskey River,” the tribute talents of The Highway Men Live land at the University of Dubuque's Heritage Center on September 19, the ensemble having performed country-music to millions of fans around the country, and emerging as perhaps the greatest country-music super-group in America.

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