Quad Cities this week: Blue Öyster Cult, Jeff Tweedy and more

Blue Öyster Cult plays Rhythm City on Friday, Jeff Tweedy brings his solo tour and Case Oats to the Capitol Theatre on Saturday, and the Raccoon Motel fills in the small-room side of the week.

Friday and Saturday carry the week in the Quad Cities, with a classic-rock headliner on one side of the weekend and a Wilco frontman on the other. Eight shows are listed for Nov. 2–8, and these are the ones to plan around.

Thursday, Nov. 5 — Panda Riot with Snowcuffs, Raccoon Motel, Davenport, 6 p.m. $15 (tickets).

Friday, Nov. 6 — Blue Öyster Cult, Rhythm City Casino Resort, Davenport, 8 p.m. (tickets)

Friday, Nov. 6 — Septicflesh, Skylark QC, Rock Island, 6:30 p.m. (tickets)

Friday, Nov. 6 — Free Fallin – The Tom Petty Concert Experience, The Rust Belt, East Moline, 6:30 p.m. (tickets)

Friday, Nov. 6 — The Horse Flies, Raccoon Motel, Davenport, 6 p.m. (tickets)

Saturday, Nov. 7 — Jeff Tweedy with Case Oats, Capitol Theatre, Davenport, doors 6:30 p.m., show 7:30 p.m. The week's headliner (tickets).

Saturday, Nov. 7 — Not Quite Brothers, The Rust Belt, East Moline, 7:30 p.m. (tickets)

Saturday, Nov. 7 — Camylio, Raccoon Motel, Davenport, 7 p.m. (tickets)

Tweedy's Davenport stop is the last US date on his fall solo tour before he heads to Ireland for shows in Galway, Dublin, Cork and Kilkenny. The run follows *Twilight Override*, the triple album he released in 2025. Opening is Case Oats, the duo featuring his son, Spencer Tweedy. The night before, he plays Carmel, Indiana, so Davenport gets him at the end of a long American stretch.

Davenport gets Tweedy at the very end of his US run, one night before he heads overseas.

Blue Öyster Cult's Friday show is at Rhythm City Casino Resort, which started out as a riverboat called The President in 1991 and moved to its land-based site in northern Davenport in 2016. A 2,200-capacity room is a comfortable size to catch the band.

Friday is the busy night, with four shows going at once. Septicflesh at Skylark QC is the heavy pick, Free Fallin is the Tom Petty singalong at The Rust Belt, and the Raccoon Motel has The Horse Flies at 6.

The Raccoon Motel, Davenport's 175-capacity room, books three nights of the weekend, from Panda Riot's $15 Thursday show to Camylio on Saturday. If Tweedy is sold out for you, that's where to go.

Friday for the casino rock show, Saturday for Tweedy. Get to the Capitol early enough to catch Case Oats.

Sources: Wilco's Jeff Tweedy announces fall solo tour with Case Oats (BrooklynVegan) (brooklynvegan.com); Jeff Tweedy Announces Fall 2026 Tour Dates with Case Oats (mxdwn) (music.mxdwn.com); Rhythm City Casino Resort - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org); Category:Casinos in Iowa - Wikimedia Commons (commons.wikimedia.org)