With the band's most recent album Egosystem hailed for songs that, according to Higher Plain Music, "veer from depressed and vacuumed-out acoustic moments to barrages of grungy walls of sound with glee," the independent alt-grunge outfit Tummyache headlines an April 21 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, Higher Plain Music adding that the ensemble's latest is "ragged, raucous, angry, and a bit knackered (in a great way) with everyday life."

A pair of gifted independent artists hailing from the Midwest will share an exciting co-headlining engagement at Rock Island venue Rozz-Tox on April 23, with Circuit Des Yeux's Haley Fohr a vocalist, composer and singer/songwriter based in Chicago, and Netochka Nezvanova's Gabi Vanek an experimental bassoonist living in Iowa City.

With its gifted ensemble composed of members of the Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse's performing wait staff the Bootleggers, castmates from the current Elvis Presley bio-musical Heartbreak Hotel, and a special star, the Rock Island venue will stage a one-night-only performance of the original revue Shake, Rattle, Rock & Roll, an April 17 concert event saluting iconic hits from yesteryear’s rock-and-roll era.

Lauded by legendary composer and EGOT (Emmy/Grammy/Oscar/Tony) recipient Marvin Hamlisch, who said of the ensemble “I can't imagine better ambassadors for our country,” the United States Army's premier big-band outfit the Jazz Ambassadors headline an April 17 concert presented by Quad Cities Arts, the group's April 17 Davenport engagement demonstrating why the musicians have earned acclaim both at home and abroad while performing America’s original art form.