Say It Again by Subatlantic Quad Cities band Subatlantic’s new album Say It Again opens with a sparsely arranged synth/guitar/vocal thematic overture titled “Fate” asking, “What would you say if we tried today? / What would you say if we died today?” Every word counts, and we’re measured by how we use them. “Fate” acts […]
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A town full of motivated doers on a mission: Mapping the QC scene in a post-Daytrotter landscape
“What’s going to happen to the Quad Cities music scene now?!” Jason Parris, who has been booking shows at Rock Island Brewing Company for over a decade answers: “It’s just going to keep getting better.”
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Album Review: Chrash — 2017 The Music
Quad Cities band Chrash followed 2016’s ‘Things My Friends’ Say with a surprise release coinciding with the Nov. 6 primaries. Titled ‘2017 The Music,’ the album attempts to capture the year following the 2016 elections.
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A-list: Daytrotter welcomes 47 bands for two-day festival
Last year was a landmark year for Daytrotter.com. It was the 10th anniversary of the website — an almost impossible feat for any website, let alone a music site that calls its home the Quad Cities (almost the farthest place in the country from any location considered a music capital). Their intimate sessions with bands […]
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Pop punk outfit Direct Hit! comes to Davenport’s Daytrotter Dec. 3
Direct Hit! w/ Terribly Happy + Fairhaven — Live at Daytrotter Daytrotter — Saturday, Dec. 3 at 8 p.m. Drug benders, nuclear bombs and volatile relationships abound in Direct Hit!‘s driving pop punk anthems, and now they’re coming to Iowa. After touring with groups like NOFX and Blink-182, the Wisconsin punk band will play an […]
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Album Review: Chrash — Things My Friends Say
Chrash Things My Friends Say www.cartoucherecords.com/chrash Chrash is a Quad Cities trio made up of Kim Murray and Paul Bloomquist from the Winter Blanket, and Chris Bernat from ’90s alternative rock band Tripmaster Monkey (who enjoyed a brief moment in the sun when they were signed to Sire Records). Chrash (pronounced “Crash”) had four releases […]
