With All Punked Up raving that the band produces "the kind of music that makes you wanna get up, jump around, and sing at the top of your lungs," the pop-punk and alternative-rock musicians of We the Kings headline a July 18 concert at Davenport's Capitol Theatre, Newsday magazine adding that the touring outfit "can keep experimenting because their music is built on such a solid foundation of songwriting craftsmanship."

Delivering what No Country for New Nashville deems "a fiery, road-worn live show and a sound that fuses no-frills, hard-hitting pop punk with grungy, hook-laden alt-rock," Nashville's punk and alt-rock ensemble Winona Fighter headlines a July 14 afternoon concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, with NCfNN adding, "We haven’t been as excited about a new group like Winona Fighter in a long time."

Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as musicians "whose soulful, stripped-down approach combines the softer moments of the Replacements with a bit of the country coloring of the early BoDeans’ albums," the alt-country artists of Gear Daddies headline a July 12 concert at Maquoketa's Codfish Hollow Barn, these Midwestern favorites also lauded by the Argus Leader as "one of the most underrated Minnesota-based bands of all time."

With the band's collection of top-five Billboard smashes including such albums as August & Everything After, Hard Candy, Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings, and the chart-topping Recovering the Satellites, the Grammy-nominated alternative rockers of Counting Crows perform a July 6 engagement in the John Deere Classic's "Concerts on the Course" series, the artists also famed for such number-one hits as "Come Around," "Accidentally in Love," and "Mr. Jones."