Saturday, September 23, 8 p.m.
Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center, 7077 Elmore Avenue, Davenport IA
Two signature forces in the 1990s' alternative-rock scene headline a special concert event at the River City Casino, performing both their early-'90s hits and numbers from the bands' past two decades of recording.
With its 1991 debut Pocket Full of Kryptonite, Spin Doctors immediately established itself as an alt- and funk-rock band to be reckoned with. A quintuple-platinum-seller in the United States, the album was also an international smash – selling quadruple-platinum in Canada and topping the charts in Australia and New Zealand – and earned a 1994 American Music Award nomination for Favorite Pop/Rock Album of the Year and Grammy nomination for the song “Two Princes.” Pocket Full of Kryptonite was followed by the group's platinum-selling 1994 release Turn It Upside Down, and since then, Spin Doctors has released four additional studio albums, four compilation albums, and three live albums, most recently 2015's Songs from the Road.
Joining Spin Doctors in this local September 23 engagement are the alternative rockers of Cracker, whose 1992 song “Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)” from the band's self-titled album debut hit number-one on Billboard's U.S. Modern Rock chart. Additional hits for the band include such top-20 singles as “Happy Birthday to Me,” “Low,” “Get Off This,” and “I Hate My Generation,” and Cracker's quarter-century discography boasts 15 live, compilation, and studio albums to date.
Tickets to Spin Doctors' and Cracker's 8 p.m. concert are $27, and can be reserved by calling (563)328-8000 or visiting RhythmCityCasino.com.
