With their most recent recording Afterglow lauded by SputnikMusic as "the strongest album in their career," the experimental-rock and synth-pop musicians of The Bunny the Bear headline a September 29 concert event at Davenport's Redstone Room, Ghost Killer Entertainment adding that Afterglow is "versatile enough to accommodate even the most casual of listeners while still retaining songwriting and orchestration prowess that would appeal to a hardcore music nerd."

Touring in support of last year's album Fatalism, a recording that reached the number-on spot on Australia's ARIA charts, that continent's metalcore band Polaris headlines a September 28 concert at Davenport's Capitol Theatre, the ensemble famed for blending elements of metalcore with progressive/post-rock soundscapes, electronics, and melodic hooks intertwined with personal lyrics, many of them dealing with anxiety, depression and loss.

Lauded for albums including 2006's Whiskey on a Sunday, 2011's Speed of Darkness, and their 2022 critical smash Anthem, the contemporary Celtic rockers of Flogging Molly bring their national tour to Davenport's Capitol Theatre on September 27, AllMusic raving that "the group's hard-hitting sound still makes room for the nuances of their folk influences, and the songs make room for tales of brawling and wild times and more sentimental stories of love, loyalty, and times past."

In celebration of one of the best-selling and most popular bands of all time, the alt-rock musicians of Nivrana: A Tribute to Nirvana will brings their grunge talents to Common Chord's Redstone Room on September 27, with the Davenport venue hosting a repertoire of hits from the platinum- and diamond-selling albums Bleach, In Utero, and the timeless Nevermind.

A program designed to captivate audiences with an exquisite fusion on timeless masterpieces, Haley Myles featuring Beethoven & Chopin will find its gifted Steinway artist performing at Moline's Sound Conservatory on October 2, the pianist breathing new life into classical gems, and transporting listening on a thrilling journey through the depths of musical brilliance.

Currently touring in support of her 2023 album Haunted Mountain, a work that Twittering Machines calls "a wonderful, rich, country/folk-inspired ramble of a record," singer/songwriter Jodie Holland performs a September 27 headlining engagement at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the artist's latest also leading Americana Highways to praise it as a work in which "graceful vocalizing expertly adds the necessary individualistic tone that's easy bait for any ear."

PIG, October 3

With Brandon Watts' outfit touring in support of their 2024 release Red Room, a work laded by Aural Aggravation as "an unapologetically hefty set with some inspired twists," the alt-rock outfit PIG headlines an October 3 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, Red Room additionally praised as a recording that "captures PIG at their darkest and heaviest, but also marks a return to their eclecticism and experimentalism of the mid-'90s."

Touring in support of their 2023 album Street Sermons, and hailed by American Songwriter as the New York area's "most driving, intimidating, and rambunctious blues/garage/punk outfit," the genre-blending musicians of Daddy Long Legs headline a September 28 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, their latest recording also praised by No Depression as "one of the most fun records to come out in quite some time."

Led by Josh Harlow (on piano, synth, and electronics) and Jonathan Barahal Taylor (drum set, percussion, synth arrangements), the independent outfit Teiku featuring bass clarinetist Jason Stein performs a special headlining engagement at Rock Island venue Rozz-Tox on September 27, the ensemble designed to reflects its leaders’ musical and spiritual sensibilities: a yearning for insight, an acute sensitivity to the present moment, and a space made for searching deeper.

Praised by Downbeat magazine as a trio that "expresses both its melodic rigor and appetite for adventure" and by Radio New Zealand as an outfit that makes "melodies and rhythms move like single primitive organisms," the Chicago-based musicians of Twin Talk play Rock Island's Rozz-Tox on April 2 in support of their September 27 release Twin Talk Live, their previous recording Weaver hailed by PopMatters as "inventive and exhilarating, combining unique arrangements and arresting melodies."

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