With their most recent album For Old Times Sake lauded by Bluegrass Unlimited as "delivered with an explosive spark and an unbridled joy," the Stephens Point, Wisconsin natives of Horseshoes & Hand Grenades headline a September 14 concert event at Maquoketa's Codfish Hollow Barn, the bluegrass and roots musicians also praised by Americana-UK for delivering "a youthful energy, an engaging honesty, and a loose sense of fun."

Two venerated rock outfits with their origins in Washington D.C. will co-headline a special September 18 concert event in downtown Davenport, with the Raccoon Motel proud to host the hardcore and punk rockers of Scream alongside the post-hardcore trailblazers of Soulside.

Delivering what The Big Takeover describes as “muscular, meat-and-potatoes-style blues rock” and what The Dead Hub calls “old souls making incredible new music,” the Minneapolis-based rockers of The 4onthefloor headline a September 14 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, treating audiences to what Music in Minnesota deemed “an exciting, drums-driven show with much-promised dancing, howling, and fun.”

Offering a seductive mix of dream pop, shoegaze, and trip-hop influences with an experimental bent, the independent musicians of Bodywash headline a September 13 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, their 2023 album I Held the Shape While I Could lauded by I Am Tuned Up as "an experience that encompasses many moods yet is strangely consistent."

Producing what Album of the Year calls "an ominous twilight mood blending trip hop, darkwave and ambient for a serious gothic vibe," the independent musicians of Public Memory headline a September 15 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, their 2023 single "Savage Grin" hailed by Post-Punk as a work that "feels as though we’re ensconced in a mountainous hotel lounge or a timeless, glittering ballroom, yet with an underlying sensation of being pursued or haunted."

Praised by Top40-Charts for their "thoughtful lyrics, powerful hooks, dynamic stage show, and obsessive hard work," the Canadians indie rockers of Autopilot headline a September 19 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the popular outfit also hailed by Top40-Charts as a group that "somehow seem to effortlessly walk the line between passionate art and massive appeal."

Performing a special concert event with a fresh style all his own, rising country singer/songwriter Brett Westgrove performs a September 19 engagement in the John & Alice Butler Hall of the University of Dubuque's Heritage Center, an evening that will find the headliner sharing his journey from aerospace engineering to Nashville, and detailing how he overcame the challenges to pursue his musical dream.

Currently touring in support of their 2024 album Contractual Obligations, a recording that The Grateful Web praised as a "wildly life-affirming portrait of growing older without losing heart," the alternative rockers of Deer Tick headline a September 8 concert at Maquoketa's Codfish Hollow Barn, their latest recording also inspiring Mxdwn Music to rave that "each song has a story that opens up new emotions simultaneously through powerful lyricism and a passionate production."

An evening of exhilarating metal and hard rock is promised at Davenport's Redstone Room on September 7, when the downtown venue hosts one spectacular show with four fist-pumping acts, including musicians from here in the Quad Cities: headliners Illusion of Fate, and the guest artists of Empty Graves, Wyvern, and Braver Than I.

With his live show described as a "blues punk guitar dance party," and the artist having enjoyed frequent tours of North America, Europe, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Taiwan, and Iceland, experimental rocker Bob Log III headlines a September 6 concert event at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, the artist famed for donning a full-body human-cannonball sui and a helmet wired to a telephone receiver, which allows him to devote his hands and feet to guitar and drums.

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