With the outfit's most recent recording When the Wind Forgets Your Name praised by Pitchfork as "dotted with cool surprises and intricately plotted melodies," the indie-rock trio Built to Spill headlines a May 13 concert at Maquoketa's Codfish Hollow Barn, Pitchfork also placing three of the band's albums – There's Nothing Wrong with Love, Perfect from Now On, and Keep It Like a Secret – in the top 50 of its "Top 100 Albums of the 1990s list."

An iconic group of chart-topping, multi-platinum-selling musicians whose 2026 album I Beat Loneliness was hailed by the Daily Express for its "forceful blend" of melancholy lyrical content and "explosive" choruses, the English rockers of Bush bring their "The Land of Milk and Honey" tour to Moline's Vibrant Arena at the MARK, the May 5 concert event by the band's founder, lead vocalist, and rhythm guitarist Gavin Rossdale.

Touring in support of their September release I Feel the Everblaxk Festering Within Me, a Billboard-charting hit that made the top five in Germany, the deathcore musicians of Lorna Shore headline a May 2 concert event at East Moline venue The Rust Belt, the group composed of lead guitarist Adam De Micco, drummer Austin Archey, rhythm guitarist Andrew O'Connor, vocalist Will Ramos, and bassist Michael Yager.

With Americana UK raving that the talents are an "outstanding" duo who "demonstrate excellent musicianship," folk rockers Mandy Fer and Dave McGraw bring their outfit Sway Wild to Davenport's Raccoon Motel on May 6, First-Avenue.com adding that the project's album debut was "nothing short of an artistic epiphany."