The Tubs (confuse with the Tubes at your own risk) are a Welsh band, relocated to London and now touring America for the first time. On first listen, their newest album Cotton Crown is a glorious wash of '90s college-rock guitar, a warm shower at midnight in a gently-lit bathroom, radio-ready four-chord nostalgia for hipsters and Blues Traveler fans alike. Taken at the most superficial, background level, it's an energizing shot of musical positivity.

ZZ Top, June 14

With their first album having debuted more than a half-century ago, and albums including Eliminator, Afterburner, and La Futura all top-10 smashes on the Billboard charts, the legendary blues rockers of ZZ Top bring their latest tour to Davenport's Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center on June 14, the artists as familiar for their signature look as they are for iconic songs including “Legs,” “Gimme All Your Lovin',” and “Sharp Dressed Man.”

With his discography boasting such top-10 Billboard smashes as Easy Tiger, Ashes & Fire, 1989, Prisoner, and his self-titled 2014 album, Grammy-nominated rock and alt-country singer/songwriter Ryan Adams brings his long-awaited “Heartbreaker '25 World Tour” to Davenport's Capitol Theatre, the June 17 event celebrating the 25th anniversary of Adams' solo debut Heartbreaker and delivering an intimate, acoustic set that highlights his massive career.

Lauded by Ease Up Mag for their "strong indie pop and rock sound that is seamlessly correlated with the stories told in their songwriting," the touring musicians of The Thing with Feathers headline a June 18 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the magazine adding that the trio is "a band you truly don’t want to miss out on."

Florry, June 16

With their brand-new release Sounds Like ... hailed by The Fire Note as "open-hearted, unfiltered, and always in motion," the touring musicians of Florry headline a June 16 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, Pitchfork magazine raving that on their latest album, "the country-rock group rips through a set of free-spirited barnstormers with such ease and joy that even its tales of raw feelings and perpetual malaise feel uplifting."

The lauded recipient of 2009 NAMMYs (Native American Music Awards) for Folk Album of the Year and Songwriter of the Year and the 2022 trophy for her Single of the Year "Bloomsday," Choctaw Nation singer/songwriter Samantha Crain headlines a June 13 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the artist's may release Gumshoe hailed by Americana Highways as "an astonishingly expansive account of yearning."

With the indie-rock and shoegaze musician's just-released recording It's Closeness, It's Easy lauded by Boolin Tunes as a "thematically and aesthetically consistent" album that "stands out in a crowded 2025," singer/songwriter Thom Wasluck's solo project Planning for Burial headlines a June 14 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the artist's latest also hailed by Everything Is Noise as "singular in its sound, turning the slow, crushing weight of existence into an art that will weather the expanse of time far beyond all of our expiration dates.."

With Turn Up the Volume calling them “one of the most exciting bands on or off the stage” and Scotland's BBC Radio raving that the artists “put on an incredible live show,” the Seattle-based female-rock quartet The Darts deadlines a June 15 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, their appeal summed up by the Phoenix New Times, which simply said, “The Darts f---ing rock.”

Winners of the Quad-City Times' 2017 Reader's Choice Award for “Best Local Band, the AC/DC tribute artists of Electric Shock headline a June 14 Summer 2024 Music Lineup concert at Bettendorf venue The Tangled Wood, this evening of songs from Billboard chart-toppers Black Ice, Power Up, Ballbreaker, and Back in Black and boasting a performance by the gifted student musicians of the QC Rock Academy.

Their most recent album XOXO lauded by Pitchfork for being "a distillation of their manifold strengths" boasting "pastoral accounts of American beauty curdling into something coarser and sadder," the Minneasota-based alt-country and country-rock outfit The Jayhawks headlines a June 19 concert at Maquoketa's Codfish Hollow Barn, Louder Than War adding that "there is a real feel of togetherness on XOXO which is reflected in the interchanging lead vocals and instruments."

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