With its quartet of gifted tribute artists composed of Rich Kosak, Quinton Kufahl, Mark Hermansen, and Mike Collins, the rockers of Mr. Speed: The World's Best KISS Tribute perform a lakeside concert at Bally's Quad Cities on August 20, the group's musicians boasting, as heralded on their MrSpeedOnline.com site, "over 26 years of experience under their spandex."

With Laz Luhrmann's movie smash still in theaters, unforgettable hits such as “Hound Dog,” “Jailhouse Rock,” “All Shook Up,” and other classics will have Coralville Center for the Performing Arts audiences dancing in the aisles during the August 20 stage celebration Joseph Hall: Rock N Roll Remember, a salute to the King of Rock 'n' Roll led by the lauded tribute artist and a former competitor on America's Got Talent.

Revered for contemporary-folk hits including "Words," "The Stable Song," "Big Black Car," "If I Go, I'm Goin," and "San Luis," the South African-born singer/songwriter Gregory Alan Isakov headlines an August 14 concert at Maquoketa's Codfish Hollow Barn, the artist's most recent recording Evening Machines lauded by Paste magazine as "an album of small intentions with a grand sweep, intimate and boundless at the same time."

With the Colorado-based indie rockers praised by Bandwagon magazine as "bright, energetic, and bursting with pop polish," the rising stars of Lady Denim headline an August 12 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the group's talents having inspired 303 magazine to rave about their "catchy tunes and relatable lyrics," and to state, "If you aren’t listening to their music already, then now’s the time to try their songs on for size."