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 play the final concert in Bettendorf venue The Tangled Wood's 2025 Summer Concert Series, this September 27 show with the 10-piece ensemble celebrating Oscar, Grammy, and Tony Award winner David Byrne and his iconic rock outfit Talking Heads.

In their powerful tribute to American spirit and local legacy, the Knox-Galesburg Symphony will open their 2025-26 season with a powerful performance of Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait at Galesburg's Orpheum Theatre, the September 27 concert event presented under the direction of Richard Cangro, and featuring actor Steven Duchrow portraying Carl Sandburg as narrator – a nod to Sandburg’s Grammy-winning 1960 performance.

With the touring ensemble boasting the talents of keyboardist Vic White, lead guitarist Steve Sheroan, bassist Trenton "Poptart" Shuler, drummer Criss Cheatham, and lead vocalist Bryan Cole, Resurrection: A Journey Tribute lands at Galesburg's Orpheum Theatre on October 2, the rockers delivering a celebration of the band's legacy sure to feature such Billboard smashes as “Separate Ways,” “Wheel In the Sky," "Lights," and many more.

Lauded by The Guardian as "mercilessly catchy and meticulously camp," the Chicago-based garage-rock/pop trio of Dehd headlines a September 17 concert event at Rock Island venue Rozz-Tox, their 2024 album Poetry inspiring Pitchfork to rave, "With more ambitious melodies, bolder harmonies, and compositional complexity, the Chicago trio’s new album hypercharges their already electric sound."