On August 2, this year's Mississippi Valley Fair will offer a two-fer of alternative rock and post-grunge with its fifth grandstand concert of the summer: a co-headlining event featuring Lit, whose top-10 Billboard hits include "Miserable," "Lipstick & Bruises," and the chart-topping "My Own Worst Enemy," and Pop Evil, their own Billboard smashes including the number-one singles "Trenches," "Torn to Pieces," and "Deal with the Devil."

Hailed by the Kansas City Pitch as "an eclectic band that thrives in the realm of genre-bending," the Missouri-based talents of Stranded in the City play a special outdoor concert hosted by the Mississippi Valley Blues Society, their August 3 engagement in Davenport's Kaiserslautern Park treating audiences to a group that, the Pitch continued, "delves deep into pushing the limits of individual talent."

Lauded by the Charleston City Paper as its "Singer/Songwriter of the Year," and praised for "deftly blending an array of influences that nod toward crooning pop-rock in the vein of Chris Isaak or Roy Orbison, the theatrical roots-rock excess of Bruce Springsteen, and the dark post-punk romanticism of Echo & the Bunnymen," Johnny Delaware performs a solo concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel on August 2, the artist also famed for his tenures with the alt-rockers of Susto and The Artisanals.

Performing in Davenport as part of Common Chord's Live at Five Free Summer Concert Series, the nationally known, Quad Cities-based power-pop artists of Einstein's Sister play the SkyBridge Courtyard on August 1, the outfit's previous singles “Begin Again / Standing Still" mastered by Abbey Road Studios' Miles Showell, who also mastered and cut vinyl for Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, Bob Marley, Queen, The Police, and The Beatles.