December 4th, 2020
Arts & Entertainment News
Hail! Hail! Rock and Roll! A get-up-and-dance musical tribute to early Rock & Roll! The Tailfins Band brings energy and excitement to the hits of the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s & 80’s and they’ll be playing at 8:30 p.m. Saturday at Rhythm City Casino in Davenport. The band’s authentic show takes you back to cruisin’ cars, […]
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November 20th, 2020
Arts & Entertainment News
Toxic Blonde makes their debut at Hawkeye Sports Bar & Grill, 4646 Cheyenne Ave., Davenport! Live rock & roll music starts at 8:30 p.m. Saturday. For more info, click it here!
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November 19th, 2020
Arts & Entertainment News
The Mandela Effect is coming to Gypsy Highway, 2606 W. Locust St., Davenport, making their area debut! Please make welcome for their first appearance at The Gypsy Highway, The Mandela Effect from Cedar Rapids Iowa. The Mandela Effect plays a wide variety of classic and timeless tunes from the 60s, 70s, 80s and beyond. We […]
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November 18th, 2020
Arts & Entertainment News
Donovan Gustafson is bringing his acoustic magic to Mayne St. Pub and Grub, 202 W. Mayne Street, Blue Grass. Get some grub, some pub, and some great music at 9 p.m. Friday! For more deets, hit this link.
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November 14th, 2020
Arts & Entertainment News
As the weather has turned colder, the River Music Experience is working to warm some hearts, building on the success of its 2020 Curbside Concerts by launching holiday Curbside Carols for December. Executive director Tyson Danner said Friday there have been nearly 200 curbside concerts since the spring, where local musicians went out to private […]
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September 25th, 2020
Arts & Entertainment News
Throughout this week, we’ve been featuring stories on Quad-Cities band Einstein’s Sister, which is releasing its first record in almost two decades this weekend, during Record Store Day at CoOp Records in Moline. The band – Kerry Tucker, Bill Douglas, Marty Reyhons, Steven Volk, and Andy Brock – is releasing a double-A side single, “Standing […]
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September 21st, 2020
Arts & Entertainment News
Einstein’s Sister are releasing their first new material in almost 20 years! The band collaborated with musicians from the bands of Paul McCartney, Sheryl Crow, Phil Collins and more, and the double-A side single was mixed at RAK Studios (where albums from Radiohead, Adele, Simple Minds and more have been recorded) and mastered at the […]
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August 19th, 2020
Arts & Entertainment News
Music certainly has the power to comfort and unify people, as exemplified in a new video by Rock Island native Lissie Maurus, who encouraged her fans to submit short videos from their recent life in quarantine. The five-minute compilation – set to her soulful 2018 song “Peace” – was released Aug. 11, and Lissie did […]
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August 5th, 2020
Arts & Entertainment News
Fourteen years before Aug. 6 was burned into the world’s memory (with the 1945 U.S. atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, killing more than 70,000 people), that date marked another impactful death. Davenport native and jazz legend Leon Bismark (“Bix”) Beiderbecke died Aug. 6, 1931 at age 28, from alcohol abuse and lobar pneumonia in […]
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August 1st, 2020
Arts & Entertainment News
Saturday In The Arts is a comprehensive weekly feature looking at a trend, personality, or major subject involving the Quad-Cities arts and entertainment scene. When Davenport jazz pianist and singer Freddy Allen returned July 25 to perform at The Grape Life Wine Store & Lounge, it was the first time the former regular played […]
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