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."

Delivering what The Big Takeover describes as “muscular, meat-and-potatoes-style blues rock” and what The Dead Hub calls “old souls making incredible new music,” the Minneapolis-based rockers of The 4onthefloor headline an October 11 concert at Maquoketa's Codfish Hollow Barn, treating audiences to what Music in Minnesota deemed “an exciting, drums-driven show with much-promised dancing, howling, and fun.”

Touring in support of their 2025 album Lonely People with Power, a recording that Rolling Stone said "mixes painterly lyrics, raw aggression, and earworm melodies on their best album yet," the San Francisco metal artists of Deafhaven headline an October 9 concert event at Davenport's Capitol Theatre, Kerrang! adding that "Six albums in, Deafheaven have made both their heaviest and most balanced, rounded record, perhaps ever."

Touring in support of their September release Right Now!, and praised by AllMusic for delivering "a spontaneous mix of rock, blues, psychedelia, jazz, and improvisation," the indie talents of The Third Mind headline an October 8 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the group's latest recording, according to Rock & Blues Muse, a work that "more than earns its confident exclamation point."