Hailed by Nashville Scene as an artist who "sings and plays like nobody's business," country and honkytonk singer/songwriter and fiddler Greg Garing makes his Quad Cities debut with a May 30 engagement at Davenport's Bootleg Hill Honey Meads, this veteran of the Nashville and New York City music scenes inspiring none other than the legendary Johnny Cash to call him “the best country singer I’ve heard in 30 years."

Lauded by The Beverly Review as "a multi-talented musician from the northern suburbs of Chicago" who "brings a unique sound blending elements of funk, jazz, indie, and country," singer/songwriter Josh Spinner headlines a May 30 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the artist also hailed by the Chicago Tribune as "the epitome of a hardworking musician."

Delivering what Pitchfork called "militantly adventurous heavy metal" that runs the gamut "from stoner metal to psychedelic rock, free jazz to electric blues," The Chicago rockers of The Atlas Moth headline a May 28 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, Angry Metal Guy raving that their most recent EP Coma Noir is " an inventive, addictive and fun extreme-metal album with a burly, beer swilling rock soul, loaded with a bounty of killer riffs, memorable songs, and daring experimentation."

The three live-music events scheduled at Rozz-Tox (2108 Third Avenue, Rock Island, IL) in May pair talented local artists with respectable regional bands, and, on May 18th, a topnotch, brand-new, international heat-seeker.