Billboard chart-toppers whose top-10 hits on the Hot 100 include “You Found Me” and “Over My Head (Cable Car),” the Colorado-bred rockers of The Fray bring their national tour to Davenport's Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center on May 22, their career highlights including four Grammy nominations, three Billboard Music Awards, and their song “How To Save A Life" becoming the unofficial theme song for Grey's Anatomy.

Touring in support of their 2024 album Sam's Place, a Grammy Award nominee that AllMusic described as "filled with excellent songs that will undoubtedly satisfy blues enthusiasts," the venerated rockers of Little Feat bring their national "Strike Up the Band Tour" to Davenport's Capitol Theatre on May 16, the band's discography over more than a half-century including 17 studio albums, 14 live albums, and 30 singles including Billboard chart-toppers “Hate to Lose Your Lovin'” and “Texas Twister.”

Hailed by Rolling Stone as “a powerhouse unit” and by American Songwriter for delivering “introspective lyrics and world-class musicianship,” the progressive Americana and bluegrass musicians of Nefesh Mountain headline a May 16 concert event at Davenport's Redstone Room, their 2025 release Beacons inspiring Americana Highways' John Hancock to rave, “I loved every song and am excited to see this band on tour.”

Lauded by Complex for his "undeniable charisma and musical gifts," the site adding that "he isn't being called 'the underground Sean Kingston' for no reason, the Los Angeles-based Davenport native Dave Blunts brings his tour to Davenport's Capitol Theatre on May 17, the 23-year-old hip-hop musician and epo rapper's nearly two dozen singles including three released (so far) in 2025 alone: "Thinking of You," "Balcony," and "First Day Out the Hospital."

Delivering a unique blend of retro-bluegrass, traditional country, gospel, and Appalachian Mountain music, Joe Hott & the Short Mountain Boys bring their tour to Maquoketa's Ohnward Fine Arts Center on May 17, the group having shared stages with artists such as Rhonda Vincent and Vince Gill, and performing to-tapping tunes by Ralph Stanley, Hank Williams Sr, and original numbers written by Hott himself.

On May 17, a revered group of chart-topping, Grammy-winning rockers will be celebrated when Mt. Carroll's Timber Lake Playhouse presents the six-piece tribute event Heartache Tonight: The Music of the Eagles, an evening of beloved, iconic hits sure to include such chart-toppers as "Hotel California," "Peaceful Easy Feeling," "Best of My Love," "One of These Nights," and, of course, "Heartache Tonight."

Plenty of albums feature songs that are also love stories. Far fewer albums are themselves love stories.

The three live-music events scheduled at Rozz-Tox (2108 Third Avenue, Rock Island, IL) in May pair talented local artists with respectable regional bands, and, on May 18th, a topnotch, brand-new, international heat-seeker.

Hisham Bravo Groover is nearing the close of his first season leading several QC orchestras. And the articulate, passionate conductor is earning key bravos along the way.

On May 13, the artist whom The Rolling Stone Album Guide calls “the world's most beloved heavy-metal entertainer” makes a special appearance at Moline's Vibrant Arena at the MARK with the Quad Cities return of Alice Cooper, whose 2023 recording Road was hailed by Classic Rock as "a cohesively themed album lathered in multi-tiered guitars, anthemic choruses, and high-density power riffage, tempered by road-honed dynamism and built for the stage."

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