A theatrical musical event boasting the combined talents of father-and-son team John and Jonathan Lyons, the touring sensation Elvis Through the Years lands at Mt. Carroll's Timber Lake Playhouse on November 16, this rock-and-roll showcase designed to capture the essence of a young Elvis from his appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show right on through to the King's legendary comeback special from 1968.

More than five years in the making, a deeply meaningful string-quartet record will be available to local music lovers five days before its world premiere.

With Distorted Sound raving that, in the band's most recent album Swan Song, the musicians "have laid their souls bare and offered us access to the most honest and intimate parts of themselves," the post-hardcore rockers of The Plot in You headline a November 8 concert at Davenport's Capitol Theatre, Rock 'N' Load adding that "this album is everything fans of The Plot In You would have come to expect of the group, while still sounding fresh and refined."

Currently traveling the country in support of their 2024 album It's Getting Late (… and More Songs About Werewolves), and now celebrating their astounding 48th year of professional performance, the garage rockers of The Fleshtones headline a special November 7 concert event at Davenport's Redstone Room, the group's Bandcamp page inviting audiences to "see why they’ve been your favorite band’s favorite band for decades."

With the musicians having thus far released 20 studio albums, three live albums, two compilation albums, three EPs, and one box set over the course of more than four decades, the thrash-metal rockers of Overkill headline a November 9 concert at Davenport's Capitol Theatre, Metal Injection describing last year's Scorched as "a violently spiky and virtually flawless cherry on top of a 43-year-long career."

With his 2024 single "This Town's Been Too Good to Us" a gold-certified hit, CMT Music Award winner Dylan Scott headlines a November 8 concert at East Moline's The Rust Belt, the U.K.'s Culture Fix insisting that the artist's 2022 recording Livin' My Best Life "presents all the facets that make Dylan one of country’s strongest rising talents: soaring when tackling high-octane, feel-good country with a sense of charm and swagger, yet managing to deliver a sense of sincere emotional conviction in the album’s quieter, more intimate moments."

Praised by Time Out Chicago for their "heavenly harmonies on top of furious fingerpicking," the bluegrass quartet The Henhouse Prowlers headlines a November 9 concert at Davenport's Redstone Room, the group also lauded by Sound Fuse for their "straight-laced, tight-knit, barn-burning bluegrass with enough vocal harmonization to make Del McCoury blush."

A celebrated Virginia string outfit currently enjoying their 25th year of professional performance, the country, folk, and Americana musicians of the Hackensaw Boys play Davenport's Raccoon Motel on November 11, the group's talents having inspired Pitchfork to rave, "The band infuses their grassy tornado with brazen punk attitude and catchy pop structure, while simultaneously remaining vehemently sincere."

Touring in support of her new album Baptized by the Blaze that Turn Up the Amp deemed "a rousing blend of honky-tonk brash-and-sass, by turns invigorating and healing," Americana singer/songwriter India Ramey headlines a November 8 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, No Depression adding that the artist's latest is "a fascinating portrait of a honky-tonk queen who shows the way to having a good time even while expressing her vulnerability."

Having kicked off its 110th-season Masterworks series on October 5 and 6 (honoring the 200th anniversary of Anton Bruckner’s birth with his Symphony No. 7), the Quad City Symphony Orchestra has a special program in November.

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