24 Jun 2025

The Heligoats, July 10

By Reader Staff

Headlining a July 10 evening at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the Heligoats – what NPR called “a strange name for a guy strumming a guitar, but oddly befitting someone who stuffs his songs with so many sideways ideas and observations” – delivers acoustic indie rock courtesy of singer/songwriter Chris Otepka, whom NPR declared “writes songs that are brainy in the best way: clever without straining for cuteness, wry but never smug.”

24 Jun 2025

JD McPherson, July 5

By Reader Staff

Touring in support of his 2024 album Nite Owls, a recording that Tinnitist said "delivers the signature sounds of vintage garage-rock while also seamlessly bridging the sounds of David Bowie and Alan Vega, rockabilly and R&B singer/songwriter JD McPherson headlines a July 5 concert at Maquoketa's Codfish Hollow Barn, Metacritic adding that "Nite Owls is McPherson's most fully realized front-to-back example of his talent yet."

10 Jun 2025

Risk and Reward for a Bettendorf Native: The Mike Conrad Trio, June 29 at the Redstone Room

By Jonathan Turner

Like many of us, Mike Conrad is just making it up as he goes along. Unlike most of us, however, the 37-year-old – a Bettendorf High School alum whose trio headlines a June 29 concert at Davenport's Redstone Room – has won international acclaim and several awards for his improvisational wizardry as a composer, arranger, pianist, and trombonist.

17 Jun 2025

Styx and the Kevin Cronin Band, July 3

By Reader Staff

Delivering a sure-to-be-unforgettable night of timeless rock hits, the touring artists of Styx and the Kevin Cronin Band – the latter outfit fronted by REO Speedwagon's former lead vocalist – co-headline a July concert event at Moline's Vibrant Arena at the MARK, with, in addition to other hits, the artists performing two albums in their entirety: Styx's The Grand Illusion, and REO Speedwagon's Hi Infidelity.

17 Jun 2025

Social Distortion, June 29

By Reader Staff

Their discography including such Billboard smashes as “Let It Be Me,” “Ball and Chain,” “Bad Luck,” “I Was Wrong,” and “Machine Gun Blues,” the venerated punk rockers of Distrotion headline a June 29 concert event at Davenport's Capitol Theatre, with founder Mike Ness (vocals and guitar), Jonny "2 Bags" Wickersham (guitar), Brent Harding (bass), David Hidalgo Jr. (drums), and David Kalish (keyboards) continuing to write and tour some 47 year's after the band's inception.

17 Jun 2025

Sinkane, July 2

By Reader Staff

With Pitchfork declaring the artist's 2024 recording We Belong "an exuberant new album" that "rejoices in the power of Black diasporic identity and community," progressive-rock and Sudanese-pop musician Sinkane headlines a July 2 concert event at Davenport's Redstone Room, Pitchfork adding that "glittering with disco lights and showered with confetti, We Belong is a radiant homage to Black music and Black people."

17 Jun 2025

Yogev Shetrit Trio, June 29

By Reader Staff

For its concert event at Davenport's Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Quad Cities on June 29, Polyrhythms' Third Sunday Jazz Series will deliver (on the fifth Sunday of the month) a rich Andalusian-jazz feel in a concert with the acclaimed Yogev Shetrit Trio, an ensemble boasting the collective talents of Moshe Elmakias on piano, Itai Eliezri on bass, and the bandleader/composer himself on drums.

17 Jun 2025

Logan Springer & the Wonderfully Wild, June 28

By Reader Staff

Treating audiences to heartland Americana steeped in an amalgamation of country and rock, and lyrically swinging from bluegrass to the blues, Logan Springer & the Wonderfully Wild perform on the rooftop of Davenport venue The Last Picture House on June 28. The event is being presented as part of the 2025 Big 9 Concert Series (sponsored by the City of Davenport and Common Chord) bringing live music to downtown hotspots and riverfront parks that highlight Davenport’s nine miles of Mississippi riverfront.

17 Jun 2025

Emperor X, June 27

By Reader Staff

Lauded by Album of the Year for his "vivid imagination and a strong sense of surrealism," Emperor X, the indie-rock project of Chad Matheny, headlines a June 27 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, his talents inspiring Echoes & Dust to label him "one of the most subversive American songwriters" who "is f---ing on fire now."

17 Jun 2025

Tomar & the FCs, June 28

By Reader Staff

Touring in support of their February release Soul Searching, which the Austin Chronicle hailed for its "jaw-dropping anecdotes, 200 years of family timeline, and palpable musicality," the Texas-based talents of Tomar & the FCs headline a June 28 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, The Alternate Root adding that the group's latest soul album "tags the past with the same love for the sound that filled recording studio in Memphis, Muscle Shoals, New York City, Philadelphia, Detroit, and Los Angeles during the genre’s heyday."

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