Delivering an exhilarating timeline of country music from the 1960s to the '90s, the Midwestern tribute artists of The Cowtippers headline a January 25 concert event at Maquoketa's Ohnward Fine Arts Center, covering smash hits from four decades sure to inspire loads of wonderful memories in fans of the genre.

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?

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.

Their January 19 event boasting works by legendary composers Igor Stravinsky and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Chamber Music Quad Cities continues its 2024-25 season at Davenport's Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Parish Hall with Classic Neo-Classic, in which Naumburg International Violin Competition winner Grace Park will join CMQC co-artistic directors Gregory Sauer, on cello, and Thomas Sauer, on piano, for a thrilling exploration of works ranging from the 18th through 20th centuries.

Celebrating an iconic band that revolutionized the music scene through hard-hitting hits from the '90s and 2000s, Land of Linkin: Linkin Park Tribute headlines a January 18 concert at Davenport's Redstone Room, reproducing the dual-vocal screams of Chester Bennington and raps of Mike Shinoda revered from such chart-topping albums as Meteora, Minutes to Midnight, and A Thousand Suns.

Hailed by the Virginia Pilot as being "as close as it gets to the real thing," the funk-rock tribute musicians of Red Not Chili Peppers take the stage at Davenport's Redstone Room on January 23, performing from a Grammy-winning repertoire that includes such top-10 Billboard smashes as "Under the Bridge," "Scar Tissue," and "Dani California."

Performing a glorious repertoire of works by Dieterich Buxtehude, Johann Sebastian Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Felix Mendelssohn, Jeremy Bankson, Franklin Ashdown, and Percy Fletcher, University of Dubuque organist and professor of music Dr. Charles Barland will deliver a faculty organ recital of varied works on January 19, the event demonstrating the many varieties of sound and color that are possible on the Heritage Center's magnificent John and Alice Butler Pipe Organ.

Revered for such Billboard smashes as Radioactive, Love Story, and the platinum-selling single “Till It's Gone,” hip-hop, rap, and Southern-rock artist Yelawolf headlines a January 10 concert event at Davenport's Capitol Theatre, the musician's discography including eight studio albums, five collaborative albums, six mixtapes, nine EPs, 50 singles, and 82 music videos over less than two decades.

Touring in support of their 2024 release Her Way Out and praised by Glide magazine for songs that "radiate a sense of optimism and purpose ever so welcome in these fragmented times," the alternative rockers of Big Head Todd & the Monsters return to Davenport's Capitol Theatre on January 14, the platinum-selling Billboard artists also hailed by the Los Angeles Times for their "great songs that incorporate blues, folk, rock, and country."

Its hard-rocking ensemble featuring guitarist/vocalist Zakk Wylde (Black Label Society, Ozzy Osbourne), bassist Blasko (Ozzy Osbourne, Rob Zombie), and drummer Joey Castillo (Danzig, Queens of the Stone Age), the popular touring act Zakk Sabbath: King of the Monstours headlines a January 10 engagement at East Moline venue The Rust Belt, performing from a repertoire that includes such Billboard top-1o smashes as Master of Reality, Sabotage, and the chart-topping Paranoid.

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