Performing such beloved classics as "Sweet Home Chicago," "Gimme Some Lovin'," "Everybody Needs Somebody," and Aretha Franklin's "Respect," the Chicago-based tribute artists of The Blooze Brothers bring their high-energy act to Mt. Carroll's Timber Lake Playhouse on October 18, delivering an explosive mix of Motown, classic rock, soul, and, of course, blues alongside Windy City great Kimberly "Hot Sauce" Johnson.

October is Void Church season. The Quad Cities collective books shows in all seasons. But when the shadows fall and the light fades, when the veil draws thin and the wind whispers dark and suggestive secrets on the chilling air, Void Church falls into their element. The term “goth” is thrown around like a can of black lacquer, but it fits them like a pair of fishnets. They invite you to come revel in the dying of the light, with one caveat: “Are you ready to meet your shadow?”

Their October 12 event boasting works by composers Dvorák, Martinů, Mozart, Chopin, and Beethoven, Chamber Music Quad Cities opens its 2025-26 season at Davenport's Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Parish Hall with Recital X 3, in which Naumburg Award-winning violinist Grace Park performs alongside CMQC co-artistic directors Gregory Sauer on cello and Thomas Sauer on piano.

Hailed by the SA Examiner as an artist who "has made a career of romanticizing the past, the human condition, and looking at love and relationships through dark-tinted lenses," Romanian American singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Vlad Holiday headlines an October 15 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, his 2024 debut album My Favorite Drug praised by Atwood magazine as "an intimate and all-consuming 'indie noir' record full of raw reflection and inner reckoning."