Tripmaster Monkey, one of the most commercially and creatively successful bands in Quad-Cities music history, will release its first album in more than two decades, “My East Is Your West,” in record stores and online stores and sites on August 6. The group — guitarist and singer Jamie Toal, singer Chris Bernat, drummer Marty Reyhons, […]
Tripmaster Monkey released its first album in over 20 years, “My East Is Your West,” this week, and like the veering navigation implied by the title, it’s been a strange trek of various directions for the members over the past few decades back to their current reunion. At their mid-’90s peak, Tripmaster were signed to […]
It was a situation akin to signing divorce papers after a three-year separation: On March 30, the Davenport Daytrotter operation ceased recording bands coming through the area, and on April 1, the DT owners, Wolfgang’s Vault/Paste, announced that they would be closing up shop here in the Q-Cs and consolidating their recording in their already-existing […]
Tripmaster Monkey, one of the most commercially and creatively successful bands in Quad-Cities music history, has reunited to begin recording a new album, and has begun a kickstarter campaign to get fans involved in the process and raise money for the project. The group — guitarist and singer Jamie Toal, singer Chris Bernat, drummer Marty […]
One of the hottest indie bands of the last decade, The Faint, will be performing in the Codfish Hollow barn in Maquoqueta with Choir Boy and Closeness Sunday, May 26th! Tickets to this monster show go on sale this Friday at 10 a.m. at www.codfishhollowbarnstormers.com
Tripmaster Monkey, one of the most commercially and creatively successful bands in Quad-Cities music history, has reunited to begin recording a new album. The group — guitarist and singer Jamie Toal, singer Chris Bernat, drummer Marty Reyhons, and bassist Wes Haas — is not signed to a label and plans on releasing the record independently, […]
Against Me! rocked a packed crowd July 26 at the famous Codfish Hollow Barnstormers venue in Maquoketa, Iowa. Speedy Ortiz and Typesetter opened the show, which thrilled fans of the seminal band. For more info on Against Me! and their new tour, see Against Me! http://www.againstme.net/tour
Erin Rae and Black Milk brought an eclectic mix of airy folk and hip-hop to the Raccoon Motel in downtown Davenport last weekend, and we were on the scene to check it out and take some pics…
Grammy nominated singer/songwriter Ray LaMontagne announces tour dates for his 25-date North American Just Passing Throughacoustic tour. John Stirratt of Wilco will accompany Ray on bass throughout the tour. The tour will kick off on October 7 in Portland, ME before making its way to the Adler Theatre in Davenport on Wednesday, October 24 at 7:30 p.m. During the tour, […]
Local band The Velies recently celebrated the release of their new record with a live show at Davenport’s Daytrotter stage… Daytrotter recently stopped hosting live shows, and this was the area group’s last gig there, but a fun time was had by all the fans, friends and family that packed in to see the band […]
