Praised by Americana Highways as "consistently exciting and rambunctious," delivering "alt-country with a little garage-rock grunge," the touring talents of Old 97's headline a June 24 concert at Maquoketa's Codfish Hollow Barn, Glide magazine adding to the band's numerous raves by saying the musicians "come off as down to earth in a rock subgenre that's rarely grounded.."

For its concert event at Davenport's Redstone Room on June 21, Polyrhythms' Third Sunday Jazz Series will deliver 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.

On June 13, visitors to Bishop Hill's Village Park are invited to celebrate America’s 250th Birthday by enjoying the 2026 Doodle Folk Music Festival, a day of outdoor events located in a bucolic, historic village of the 1840s.

With their most recent album 152 hailed by Kerrang! as "a stunning set of songs that truly defies the band's age" and "the perfect bridge between past and present," the emo-pop and alternative rockers of Taking Back Sunday headline a June 19 concert at Davenport's Capitol Theatre, the staff Consequence magazine citing the group on their list of "The 100 Best Pop Punk Bands" in America.

Performing a thrilling night of Americana, rock, and blues, the combined talents of Dick “Dickie” Prall and the Tanya English Band play an exhilarating, co-headlining engagement at Rock Island's RIBCO on June 20.

Touring in support of new songs including his critically lauded "Cattleman's Call," country-music singer/songwriter Scott Wolverton headlines a June 19 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the performer hailed by Holler Country for his "warm and balanced, widescreen quality that draws from the heartland rock of Mellencamp and Springsteen, giving his songs a soft melancholy and a wide-eyed sense of wonder that sets them apart."

Touring in support of their newly release sophomore album Di Hotel Malibu, the Indonesia-based soul trio Thee Marloes headlines a June 20 engagement at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, Far Out magazine stating that with their latest recording, the international artists "have reaffirmed their position on the upper echelon of modern soul."

Lauded by SputnikMusic for their "very chill and dreamy guitar-driven indie rock with a distinct early-'00s feel," the touring quintet Dinner Time headlines a June 21 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the ensemble also hailed by PopMatters as "a band with loads of musical chops and a great deal of vision."

With her 2022 recording Still, Here praised by Pitchfork as "an alternately deliberate and exploratory” work in which "the guitarist and composer finds flashes of beauty at the heart of each instrumental tale," singer/songwriter Marisa Anderson headlines a June 20 concert at Rock Island's Rozz-Tox in support of her May release The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music: Volume 1.

A Quad Cities-based tribute act dedicated to free-spirited and energetic concert experiences from the Stop Making Sense era, the tour de force of musicians known as Heads in Motion plays Bettendorf's The Tangled Wood on June 20, with the 10-piece ensemble celebrating Oscar, Grammy, and Tony Award winner David Byrne and his iconic rock outfit Talking Heads.

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