the weekender - Saturday
The Quad Cities music community is really great at two things in particular: stacking a lot of bands on to a bill and including varying genres to further community beyond genre.
It’s an outstanding ethos.
Saturday (all of Saturday) the Bier Stube in Moline plays host to the inaugural QC Collective mini music festival. 12 bands, from metal to hip-hop (…even a cover band?), will take to Moline’s German Embassy for an entire day of local music.
A band with members who’ve been at the fore of Quad Cities metal for the past 20 years, Kronos Resistor is not a re-hash or throwback band. Blending elements of 90s math rock with heavy-fucking-metal and plenty of space to explore, this Jacob Gregory// Billy Gardner Jr. led project is a most beautiful bludgeon.
The Last Glimpse make loud and warm music in the vein of Hum and Filter (or the Deftones after a big hug). Part of the Gentle Edwards collective, the band is constantly working local clubs, recording and producing local projects, or perfecting their fuzz heavy pedal chains.
The band Fairhaven may be young in years (at least compared to some of their contemporaries) but the band has grown an amazingly loyal following for its brand of rude boy fourth-wave ska and have already worked out the kinks of how to tour semi-successfully (a feat in-and-of itself).
Also on the bill are: Dividing the Masses Five AM Boogie GetEm Crater Sports? Sports. Remember My Name Petrichor Left For A Living Going Nowhere
(IF YOU GO) YOU SHOULD KNOW: DATE: May 7, 2016 @: Bier Stube (415 15th St., Moline, IL) DOORS: 12P TIX: Door
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