Quad City Bands

I need reviews of local bands to post on this site. I'm in the process of requesting pictures, song samples, and other content from the individual bands. I'm also taking pictures at all the shows I see. If you would like to send me information about a band, email it to quadcity at gmail dot com. .

Without your support of local artists, the scene will get smaller. There was once a time you could go out every night of the week to see live music. Slowly over the years, live music was replaced by karaoke and other forms of entertainment. You can change all that. With summer fast approaching there will be lots of opportunities to see bands inside and outside. Sturgis is coming up next month, over 50 bands will be playing. So help make this the "Summer Of Live Local Music." - John Pepping from Guns For Hire, May 2005

This month's featured band is Spatterdash.

QC Bands I Want To See

These are the five local bands I most want to see perform, that I haven't caught yet.

  • Josh Duffee Orchestra. Big Band Jazz Like Jean Goldkette
  • Blackhawk Pipe Band, My friend Dale was telling me how good they are. bppipers@qconline.com; Peggy at 309-796-0426
  • First Impression Classic and southern rock

QC Bands and Solo Artists

  1. Anthrofuge Metal
  2. Barley House Band traditional Celtic
  3. Blackhawk College Jazz Combos
  4. Black and Blue Blonde Modern Jazz
  5. Blind the Sun Rock like Incubus and Tool
  6. Blitzkrieg Brat Ramones Tribute Band
  7. The Blue Collar Band Classic Rock
  8. Boris Arratia and Tony Sconyers Jazz Vocals and Guitar
  9. Braille Illustrated Rock like Smashing Pumpkins and Radiohead
  10. Brains Brains Brains Horror Punk like the Misfits.
  11. Catfish Jazz Society
  12. Caught In The Act Classic rock
  13. Chad V Pop, Rock
  14. Chordbusters Barbershop Chorus
  15. Civilized Anarchy Metal
  16. Class Act Classic Rock
  17. Claudie Smith Review Soul
  18. Closer Than Now Alt Rock
  19. Cobalt Blue Blues
  20. Crosstown Band Classic rock
  21. Dani Lynn Howe Band, the Rock like Bonnie Raitte and country rock
  22. Deadroots Roots rock
  23. John Resch And The Detroit Blues Chicago style electric Blues
  24. Drophammer KISS meets Pantera
  25. Elementary Hard rock
  26. Ellis Kell Band Blues
  27. Ernie Peniston Band Soul and R+B
  28. Evil Twin Classic Rock like Joan Jett
  29. First Impression Classic and southern rock
  30. Fry Daddies Buffet-infused rock
  31. Funktastic Five Funk and Soul
  32. Grace Notes Flute quartet
  33. Grey Wolf Band Classic Rock
  34. Guns For Hire Classic Rock
  35. Head Held High Rock
  36. Hedroom Hertz Classic and Blues Rock.
  37. House Arrest Classic Rock
  38. Identity Crisis Classic Rock
  39. Intensity Acid Jazz Rock and Roll
  40. Jim The Mule Rock
  41. Josh Duffee Orchestra Big Band Jazz Like Jean Goldkette
  42. Juke Joint Sinners Blues and Blues Rock
  43. Julie Jurgens Acoustic rock and saucy folk
  44. Justin Morrissey & Friends Groovy Bluegrass
  45. Katalina Rock like the Deftones and Chevelle
  46. Lee Blackmon Acoustic classic rock like James Taylor
  47. Left of Center Metal
  48. Los Mocambos Tejano
  49. The Lovedogs Power Pop
  50. Mariannis Loud Rock
  51. Meth and Goats Hardcore
  52. Mike Wallace - Walleytunes Jazz guitar
  53. Minus Six Rock like Ben Folds Five
  54. Moline High School Jazz Band Jazz
  55. Mr. Whoopie Rock Covers
  56. Nervous Rex Rock and pop
  57. New Grass Revue Bluegrass
  58. Night Crawlers Jazz Band
  59. Nine-1-1 Classic Rock
  60. Olenka Gadzik Multicultural folk
  61. One Night Standards Rockabilly and surf guitar
  62. Pappa Razzi Classic Rock like Lenny Kravitz, the Pretenders, and Cheap Trick
  63. Parish Festival Rock
  64. The Post Mortems
  65. Ron LaPuma Blues Band
  66. Rude Punch Rock,Reggae (Formerly Seed)
  67. Rust Metal
  68. Scott Hays Acoustic singer-songwriter
  69. Ron Madow's Society Jazz
  70. Scott Silver's Chicago Jazz
  71. Shakespeare Jones Rock like Dave Matthews and John Mayer
  72. Skintight rock like Velvet Revolver
  73. Small Hand Sam Rock
  74. Smokehouse Blues
  75. Smooth Groove Salsa and Funk
  76. Spatterdash Rock
  77. Speedfinger Metal-hardcore
  78. Spike Blues Bands
  79. Steve Grismore Trio Jazz
  80. Strange Neighbors Groove Rock
  81. Tandjent
  82. Terry Hanson Ensemble Jazz
  83. That Seventies Band 70's party rock
  84. Third Rail 80's Rock
  85. Tripod Classic Rock
  86. William Trotter Traditional and contemporary folk
  87. Bad Girl (formerly Twistyr) Rock
  88. Under the Knife Rock like the Misfits
  89. Verbal Warning
  90. Cosmic Hit Parade (Formerly Why Not? Band) Classic Rock
  91. Wicked Liz and the Bellyswirls
  92. Wilson Brothers Band Country and Country Rock
  93. The Winter Blanket Minimalist Rock like Low and Red House Painters
  94. The XL's (House Of Cards Band) Classic Rock
  95. A.J. "Emo" Haut
  96. Driver Of The Year Rock
  97. Marlboro Chorus Rock
  98. Roman Castles Rock
  99. Seth Knappen Rock
  100. Tenki Rock
  101. The Afterdarks
  102. Adrian Guerra Latin rock
  103. Philli Fakeouts
  104. Mommy's Little Monster Rock/pop
  105. Vow, The Rock featuring Donnie Bobb
  106. Down the Deuce (Basement Boys) Rock
  107. Human Aftertaste Redneck goth
  108. King's Kiss Kiss Tribute band with Elvis singer. (Like Dread Zeppelin, but Kiss instead of LZ.)
  109. Lojo Russo singer/songwriter like Ani DiFranco
  110. Lynn Allen Pop,classic rock
  111. Nitrix Classic Rock
  112. Repeat Offender Rock
  113. Ruth Girls Pop
  114. Imminent Peril (formerly Stoic) Metal like Lamb of God
  115. Blue Band with Bob Dorr Blues
  116. The Phonographs Rock covers and blues rock originals
  117. King Of Clubz Metal-hardcore
  118. Tony Hoeppner Blues
  119. Led By Last Rock like Blink 182 and Taking Back Sunday
  120. The Siyg
  121. KˆØller Bear
  122. Hollow Rock
  123. Oratory Rock
  124. Ben Prewitt Acoustic Rock [picture]
  125. Bent
  126. Brad Nye Folk [picture]
  127. Caddywhompass Classic Rock
  128. Chrash Rock
  129. Chris Sheridan Acoustic rock
  130. Corporate Rock Rock
  131. Daddy's Lunch Box
  132. Danielson And Cobb Acoustic Rock danielsenandcobb@yahoo.com
  133. Dave Churchill Band Blues and soft rock
  134. David Saelens Easy listening like Barry Manalow
  135. Dixie Cats, the Jazz
  136. Douglas And Tucker, will ocasionally get together for a show.
  137. Dry Classic Rock
  138. Einstein's Sister, will ocasionally get together for a show.
  139. Eric Vandevoorde from Shakespeare Jones
  140. FatLads fatlads@msn.com
  141. Greg Wilde Solo
  142. Hap Hazard Classic Rock like Buddy Holly and Bob Seger [photo]
  143. HI-FI oldies and classic rock
  144. Jenny Lynn Acoustic folk
  145. Just 'Cuz (Crzy N Sane) classic rock
  146. Ken Willers Acoustic classic rock like James Taylor
  147. King's Kiss Kiss Tribute band with Elvis singer. bookinginfo@kingskiss.com
  148. Larry Miller Solo
  149. Paul Waters Band Rockabilly
  150. Rocket Park 80's Rock
  151. Lazer Mountain Rock
  152. Lillyschull (Ben Prewitt's project)
  153. Lonnie and Ray
  154. Manny Lopez Trio Jazz
  155. Mark Ridolfi Solo
  156. Matt Barber Easy listening
  157. Mauzer Hardcore like the Rollins Band
  158. Memory Obscura Metal
  159. Money Shot Rock
  160. Paul Cioe Acoustic
  161. Patio Acoustic
  162. Paul DePauw and Co. Rock, blues, funk
  163. Quiet Bears
  164. Randy Arcenas Acoustic
  165. Riverboaters, the Dixieland Jazz and big band swing
  166. Rob Dahms Solo
  167. Rose-N-Thorns Oldies
  168. Ryan Flaherty Solo
  169. Sovereign Hard rock
  170. Steady Rollin' Band Blues?
  171. Tritones Jazz
  172. Tapped Out Classic Rock rocktappedout@yahoo.com / 563-332-7315
  173. Warmth, the Rock ; Scott Walker - sqwalkrgtr7@yahoo.com

Bands From Outlying Areas

  • Aledo: Crossroads classic rock
  • Aledo: Urban Hate Machine
  • Cambridge, IL.Echo Drive Emo / Hardcore like Story of the Year.
  • Clinton, IA:Down24 Classic rock
  • Clinton, IA:Second Chance Band Classic rock from the sixties, seventies and eighties.
  • Morrison, IL:Far From Words Rock like Smashing Pumpkins and Perfect Circle
  • Kewanee, IL: Inside Out Classic Rock and Country
  • Sherrard, IL:The Andersonville Horror Grindcore/Experimental Metal
  • Prophetstown, IL: Freeweed, Your Farmland Metalband
  • Patrick Hazell Blues (local?) http://www.patrickhazell.com/schedule.html

Are these bands still around?

Those new to the list are in bold. I haven't seen any of these listed in local event calendars in a while.

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