With his June recording Broken Branches hailed by Cryptic Rock as "phenomenal from top to bottom," singing/songwriting superstar and Grand Ole Opry member Dierks Bentley performs a July 5 engagement in the 2025 John Deere Classic's "Concerts on the Course" series, the artist's studio albums accounting for 27 singles on Billboard's Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts, 18 of which reached number one.

Multi-platinum-selling artists with three chart-topping albums to their credit, the country and Southern-rock sensations of the Zac Brown Band play a July 6 engagement in the 2025 John Deere Classic's "Concerts on the Course" series, treating fans to a repertoire that has thus far resulted in nine Grammy Award nominations, three wins, and more than a dozen number-one hits on the Billboard charts.

Performing in support of their 2024 release Shoot the Moon, and treating music lovers to what Glide magazine calls their “inexplicable way of giving old-time blues and jazz a fresh, contemporary feel,” the touring musicians of Davina & the Vagabonds headline a July 10 concert event at Davenport's Redstone Room, their latest album praised by KAXE radio as "catchy and hopeful with the group's usual dose of fun, while also a bit more up-front about the complexity of life."

Praised by American Blues Scene for delivering "a full-throttle dose of rhythm & blues" with "introspection and grace," the touring artists of Jackson & the Janks headline a 4th of July concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, Holler Country Music adding, "With their New Orleans-inspired take on the protogenic power of rhythm & blues, the band uses early rock & roll as a loose template and turns it on its head."

With the group's most recent album Home in the Desert hailed by the Chicago Reader for its "tranquil warmth" that "calms and comforts like a hearty stew on a winter evening," the touring shoegaze musicians of Precocious Neophyte headline a July 5 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the Chicago ensemble's 2024 EP also praised by PM Press Blog as a recording that "hits like a dream pop avalanche."

Headlining a July 10 evening at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the Heligoats – what NPR called “a strange name for a guy strumming a guitar, but oddly befitting someone who stuffs his songs with so many sideways ideas and observations” – delivers acoustic indie rock courtesy of singer/songwriter Chris Otepka, whom NPR declared “writes songs that are brainy in the best way: clever without straining for cuteness, wry but never smug.”

Touring in support of his 2024 album Nite Owls, a recording that Tinnitist said "delivers the signature sounds of vintage garage-rock while also seamlessly bridging the sounds of David Bowie and Alan Vega, rockabilly and R&B singer/songwriter JD McPherson headlines a July 5 concert at Maquoketa's Codfish Hollow Barn, Metacritic adding that "Nite Owls is McPherson's most fully realized front-to-back example of his talent yet."

Delivering a sure-to-be-unforgettable night of timeless rock hits, the touring artists of Styx and the Kevin Cronin Band – the latter outfit fronted by REO Speedwagon's former lead vocalist – co-headline a July concert event at Moline's Vibrant Arena at the MARK, with, in addition to other hits, the artists performing two albums in their entirety: Styx's The Grand Illusion, and REO Speedwagon's Hi Infidelity.

Their discography including such Billboard smashes as “Let It Be Me,” “Ball and Chain,” “Bad Luck,” “I Was Wrong,” and “Machine Gun Blues,” the venerated punk rockers of Distrotion headline a June 29 concert event at Davenport's Capitol Theatre, with founder Mike Ness (vocals and guitar), Jonny "2 Bags" Wickersham (guitar), Brent Harding (bass), David Hidalgo Jr. (drums), and David Kalish (keyboards) continuing to write and tour some 47 year's after the band's inception.

Sinkane, July 2

With Pitchfork declaring the artist's 2024 recording We Belong "an exuberant new album" that "rejoices in the power of Black diasporic identity and community," progressive-rock and Sudanese-pop musician Sinkane headlines a July 2 concert event at Davenport's Redstone Room, Pitchfork adding that "glittering with disco lights and showered with confetti, We Belong is a radiant homage to Black music and Black people."

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