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Hail to the Queen: "Queen of the Blues" Shemekia Copeland, March 28 at St....
As the daughter of the late, Grammy Award-winning blues guitarist Johnny Copeland, and herself the winner of six Blues Music Awards, it would be safe to describe 34-year-old vocalist Shemekia Copeland...
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“You Cannot Let Up”: Bedroom Shrine, “No Déjà Vu”; April 5 at RIBCO
For all of about six seconds, the Quad Cities band Bedroom Shrine’s new album No Déjà Vu seems content to set a mood. The first sound on “Brown Recluse” is the whirring of a tape machine, whose...
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"Companion" Companion: The Bucktown Revue, April 18 at the Nighswander Theatre
For pianist Jonathan Turner, “It’s a really unique kind of entertainment experience in the area. There isn’t really anything like it.” For performer Korah Winn, “It’s kind of like if you take the best...
View ArticleManaging Mahler Magnificently: The Quad City Symphony, April 5 at the Adler...
From an Adler Theatre stage filled with more than 200 musicians, the Quad City Symphony forcefully premiered Gustav Mahler’s monumental Symphony No. 3 on April 5. Moving from the dissonance of...
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Building to Moments: Decker, April 20 at Rozz-Tox
The band Decker calls its sound “psychedelic desert folk,” and each of those words carries roughly equal weight. The folk influence is a carry-over from earlier incarnations of the band. Before its...
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Keep on Scratching: Joe Bonamassa, April 19 at the Adler Theatre
Roughly a quarter-century ago, B.B. King said of Joe Bonamassa that “he hasn’t even begun to scratch the surface.” It was an undeniable compliment to somebody not yet in his teens, but it was also a...
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Photos from the Joe Bonamassa Concert, April 19 at the Adler Theatre
Photos from the Joe Bonamassa concert, April 19 at the Adler Theatre. For more work by Matt Erickson, visit MRE-Photography.com.
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No Messing Around: Water Liars, May 14 at Rozz-Tox
With the Water Liars’s self-titled album – the band’s third record in as many years – you could be forgiven for thinking that you’re in for a jarring ride based on the song titles and the opening...
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Unexpected Light in the Darkness: David G. Smith, May 17 at the Redstone Room
In putting together his new album One House, Blue Grass, Iowa-based David G. Smith “ended up with 10 issues-oriented songs,” he said in an interview last week. This was a bit of an accident. Smith –...
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Pin It Beneath Glass: Julie Byrne, May 28 at Rozz-Tox
Few people would be surprised to find Julie Byrne working in the service industry. The singer/songwriter, after all, is in her mid-20s with one album to her credit, and it’s hard for an emerging...
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