DAVENPORT, IOWA (December 18, 2023) — This is exciting as hell for us, gang! We have been asking for all of your input to put together the most comprehensive and inclusive list of deserving artists who released music in anytime in 2023. We listened and we crunched and we added a couple that we really believed in over the course of the last twelve months and we've distilled it all down to the Steele Awards nominees that we're announcing today for all to see!

DAVENPORT, IOWA (November 28, 2023) — Robin Taylor Zander is the son of Cheap Trick’s Robin Zander. His debut album, The Distance (below) was released April 2023. Listen to album

DAVENPORT, IOWA (November 24, 2023) — Every single year, the Grammy nominations come out, and there are typically a few old homies that get a nod for something. But what more often tends to be the case is that all of the most deserving artists — the deserving ones that we here at the Raccoon Motel/Codfish Hollow/The Fox Den and in past lives through ten years of Daytrotter and other iterations see on a regular basis — tend to be snubbed in these year-end awards.

MOLINE, ILLINOIS (November 14, 2023) — Foreigner — The Farewell Tour will hit Vibrant Arena Sunday, March 3, 7PM. Tickets go on sale Friday, November 17, 10AM. With ten multi-platinum albums and sixteen Top 30 hits, FOREIGNER is universally hailed as one of the most popular rock acts in the world with a formidable musical arsenal that continues to propel sold-out tours and album sales, now exceeding eighty million.