An evening of arresting avant-garde compositions by artists both visiting and local is set for Rozz-Tox on September 11, the Rock Island venue and OUTLETProgramme presenting a shared bill with the touring artists of Zoh Amba Sun Ensemble and Rock Island's own Randall Hall.

Performing one of the final concerts in the 2025 summer-music series at Bettendorf venue The Tangled Wood, The Matt Fuller Band will deliver hypnotic grooves and powerful vocals and instrumentation on September 6, the evening featuring the lauded talents of Fuller on lead guitar, Joshua Kain on rhythm guitar, Dewey Lacefield on bass, Tyrone Phillips on lead vocals, and Jim VanHyfte on drums.

Currently touring in support of his 2024 album Little Sun, a work that Americana Highways deemed " a masterful record with stunning production and musicianship of the highest quality," Charlie Parr headlines a September 6 concert at Maquoketa's Codfish Hollow Barn, the country and blues-rock singer/songwriter's most recent offering also leading PopMatters to rave that Parr "never betrays his own vision, one that continues to find new routes to explore even 18 albums in."

Popular touring artists and two-time winners of the Scottish Live Act of the Year Award, the Celtic rockers of Red Hot Chilli Pipers headline a September 8 concert at the University of Dubuque's Heritage Center, the group's hits including popular covers of Queen's "We Will Rock You," Coldplay's "Clocks," and Journey's "Don't Stop Believing."

His smash singles including "You've Got to Stand for Something," "My Blue Angel," "For You I Will," and the chart-toppers "There Ain't Nothin' Wrong with the Radio" and "That's as Close as I'll Get to Loving You," singer/songwrfiter Aaron Tippin brings his tour to Galesburg's Orpheum Theatre on September 11, the country artist's repertoire boasting such hit albums as You've Got to Stand for Something, Call of the Wild, Lookin' Back at Myself, People Like Us, and the platinum-selling Read Between the Lines.

One of the nation’s most authentic and electrifying Guns N’ Roses tribute bands, the touring rockers of Sins N' Roses take the stage a Mt. Carroll's Timber Lake Playhouse on September 6, performing both classic hits and deep cuts that hardcore fans know and love.

Having sold more than 10 million albums worldwide, and with their discography boasting six top-100 Billboard hits, nine top-200 Billboard albums, and two platinum-selling albums, Great White brings their national tour to Davenport's Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center on August 29, the Grammy-nominated glam rockers currently celebrating the band's 48th year of professional performance.

Hip-hop, reggae, and rock talents whose Billboard hits include their self-titled 2016 album, 2012's Cabin by the Sea, and 2014's top-10 smash Sea of Change, the musicians of Dirty Heads bring their national tour to Davenport's Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center on September 4, performing from a repertoire that boasts "My Sweet Summer," "Life's Been Good," and the chart-toppers "Lay Me Down" and "Rescue Me."

Praised by the Memphis Flyer for "eschewing de rigueur hoarse screaming for simple but effective melodies (and yes, screaming!)," resulting in "an irresistible combination," the Japanese punk rockers of TsuShiMaMiRe return to Davenport's Raccoon Motel on August 31, the female trio famed for mixing pop instrumental sounds with idiosyncratic, quirky, and oftentimes funny and disturbing lyrics.

Touring in support of his July release Space Brain, a recording that The Rock Father Magazine said finds the artist "throwing gasoline on the campfire and lighting up his metal roots," Nashville's Alex Williams returns to Davenport's Raccoon Motel on August 30, the musician hailed by PopMatters as “a winning songwriter who manages to mix humor with traditional country sentiment without falling into hokey pastiche."

Pages