GRAND CHAMPIONS! Congratulations to the Pride of Rock Island as they won best guard, 1st place in class 4A, and overall Grand champion of the entire show of 20 bands at their state competition for marching bands on Saturday night! What a way to end a great season. #ThisHouseRocks  Read More

Like a lot of us, Molly Conrad has learned a lot about light and darkness during the Covid pandemic. The 29-year-old singer/songwriter and Bettendorf native — currently living in Buffalo, N.Y. – has had a pretty productive pandemic, producing a new boy with her husband, and a new album, “Light of the Dark.” One took nine months to make, and the other just three days. “I really love sad songs,” Conrad said recently, noting she’d written the new music over the past couple years. “I love melancholic truth with glimmers of hope sprinkled about, and tried to capture the nuance of... Read More

Davenport‘s Raccoon Motel is pleased to announce that on Sunday, OCT.  24 OKEY DOKEY will be playing at 7 p.m. Tickets on sale NOW for the general public. TICKETS to all Raccoon Motel shows can be purchased HERE!! For more info, see www.theraccoonmotel.com  Read More

Get your Howl-o-Ween Trip Out! tonight with Giallows, Dasombra, and Del Rockford TONIGHT at the Village Theater, Village of East Davenport. Doors at 6PM, show at 7PM $5 to get in. All proceeds go to the mighty Darsombra! NOW TAKING PLACE AT THE VILLAGE THEATER! Darsombra aren’t a band, they are a multi-media psychedelic experience. They are star-crossed yogic warriors of groove, working in ecstasy with heavy guitar, eight-string bass, synth, and color: The Baltimore two-piece crafts bespoke visual explorations in sync with their sonic studies of the karma wheel, which they project on themselves... Read More

The Raccoon Motel will be hosting Joy Oladokun and Bre Kennedy April 23, 2022 and we couldn’t be more excited about this special booking. This will be the smallest place she plays on the entire tour and is poised to be a breakout superstar in 2022. Just give a listen to her pained and soulful songs and you will understand why. For fans of Adele, Tracy Chapman, Phoebe Bridgers and Frank Ocean. DO NOT MISS. Tickets are on sale today and going fast. Click here for info and tickets.  Read More

The Western Illinois University Singers were named the first place national co-winners of The American Prize in American Music (College/University Division), winning the coveted Ernst Bacon Memorial American music award for their performance of “Considering Matthew Shepard.” Ensembles of all types (instrumental, stage and vocal) and levels, high school to professional, from around the United States, submitted recordings in late April 2020. From those recordings, a national panel of judges selected semi-finalists, finalists, and finally winners in each category. “I could not be... Read More

Midwife and Amulets will perform at 7 p.m. TONIGHT at Rozz Tox, 2108 3rd Ave., Rock Island. Tickets are $15 at the door. MIDWIFE https://midwifemusic.com/album/luminol Midwife is the moniker of multi-instrumentalist Madeline Johnston. She lives and works in San Miguel, New Mexico by way of Denver, Colorado, where she spent the better half of the past decade developing her experimental pop project. As a self taught guitarist and recording engineer, Midwife explores dark subject matter in her anthemic, soft-gaze hits. Self-described as “Heaven Metal,” or emotive music about devastation. AMULETS https://amulets.bandcamp.com/ The... Read More

Jared Mahone is rocking RIBCO in downtown Rock Island, 1815 2nd Ave, TONIGHT! As a forerunner of the Midwest “garage soul” movement, Jared Mahone fills out singer/ songwriter tunes with dynamic and transparent live looping and a full band. Jared Mahone has patiently turned hometown open mic night glory into a humble career as a nationally touring independent musician. His raw, acoustic songs and storytelling are inspired by Jared’s upbringing in a touring family band who fed his musical appetite with the writing of Bill Withers, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon and Sting. Despite regional... Read More

Stone Temple Pilots will rock The Rust Belt, 533 12th Ave. East Moline, with special guest Tyler Bryant & the Shakedown, on Saturday, October 23! Tickets go on sale this Friday! For tickets, click HERE!  Read More

Syrian-American funk and soul band Bassel & The Supernaturals’ public show in downtown Davenport will take place at  7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 20, at the Raccoon Motel, 315 E. 2nd St., Davenport. Tickets are $10 and available at 10 a.m. Friday at https://tixr.com/e/30180. Doors open at 6 p.m. on Oct. 20. This show is for ages 21 and over. Bassel & The Supernaturals are an artist in residence with Quad City Arts’ 2021-2022 Visiting Artist Series. This performance is a new collaboration between hosting venue the Raccoon Motel and Quad City Arts to provide affordable access to high quality... Read More