TIGUE, JPA Falzone, Martim Galvão + Todd Anderson

December 2, 2015

8:00 pm

!!¡¡!¡¡¡¡!¡ TIGUE !¡¡!¡¡¡!!¡!¡¡¡ EXPERIMENTAL POWERHOUSE PERCUSSION TRIO TIGUE, FROM BROOKLYN, READY TO MASSAGE YOUR MIND. THEIR NEW ALBUM, PEAKS, DEBUTED NOV 13 ON NEW AMSTERDAM RECORDS. CHECK OUT THEIR SINGLE "MOUTH" FEATURING Ira Kaplan and James McNew OF Yo La Tengo. The "bubbling and hovering" track is featured on stereogum. With local spectacles JPA Falzone + Martim Galvão & Todd Anderson https://martimgalvao.wordpress.com/ 8pm, $8

John Faraone, INFJ, Haunt the House, and Ian Fitzgerald

November 20, 2015

7:00 pm

This is an early(ish) show! Doors are at 7pm, music starts at 8pm SHARP!!

PechaKucha Night Providence #80: Canned Presentations

November 18, 2015

7:20 pm

Announcing the 80th consecutive PechaKucha Providence (er... the Greater Providence area)! This month we return to Machines With Magnets, the cool performance space/recording studio/art gallery in downtown Pawtucket. During this month of giving thanks and eating too much, we will be doing a special canned goods drive for the Rhode Island Community Food Bank. Please bring a canned good or other nonperishable food item to donate. In keeping with that spirit, our theme will be "canned." Presenters should feel free to interpret the theme literally, loosely, or not at all. If you haven't heard of this global yet unpronounceable phenomenon, PechaKucha is a monthly format for sharing ideas in which presenters are allotted 20 slides and 20 seconds per slide. Simply put: it's 6 minutes and 40 seconds of show and tell for grown-ups. It began in Tokyo in 2003, has since spread to over 780 cities worldwide, and first landed in Providence in March of 2009.

Coke Weed . Pixels . String Builder

November 6, 2015

8:00 pm

Wash yourself away in the November surf. We're turning the heat up for this one, so don your suits and shades. Coke Weed: Uncontrolled substances swelling out of Bar Harbor, ME. Pixels: Providence home-schooled garage rock. String Builder: The ever-resonant and uplifting Thibodeau Brothers.

Cloud Becomes Your Hand /// Omnivore /// Minibeast /// Host

November 5, 2015

8:00 pm

Coming in for landing: //// Cloud Becomes Your Hand Coming in from Brooklyn, psych-rock quintet Cloud Becomes Your Hand's magical sound will take you safely over the crests of the sea's most impressive swells. //// Minibeast Minibeast is the musical creation of Peter Prescott (Mission Of Burma, Volcano Suns, Kustomized, Peer Group). Minibeast combines surf, psych, punk, easy listening, 60's children's music, and soundtrack influences to create instrumental soundscapes. Providence homies: //// OMNIVORE Providence's own Glenna Van Nostrand eats all. Riding a border between experimental electronic music and vocal performance, Omivore has been known to repurpose corded phones and electronic bits to piece together an ethereal and overwhelming sound. //// HOST Recent Providence transplant from Savannah, GA, Host, (Alex Maddalena) creates melodic, repeating compositions that build tick, wet astmospheres using a guitar and table of electronics.

All Boy / All Girl ~ Secret Lover ~ Silverteeth ~ Leiko

October 29, 2015

8:30 pm

All Boy / All Girl [[NEWYORKCITY]], Secret Lover [[WORCESTER]], Silverteeth [[NEWYORKCITY]], & Leiko [[PROVIDENCEHOMIES]]

The Quahogs . Tapestries . Pyramid . Ian O'neil and Dennis Ryan

October 24, 2015

8:00 pm

Tour Come Back Show!! The Quahogs, Tapestries, Pyramid, & Ian O'neil and Dennis Ryan (of Deer Tick). We wish Rafay Rashid continued superhuman strength in his beastly recovery.

Ctrl + Alt + Repeat: experimental music series featuring: KONUS QUARTETT, JÜRG FREY, TOMAS KORBER

October 22, 2015

8:00 pm

CTRL+ALT+REPEAT is an experimental music series that was founded in 2004 by Mark + Laura Cetilia out of an interest in exploring the intersections of electronic music, improvisation, contemporary classical music, and sound art. KONUS QUARTETT: As a chamber music ensemble whose instrumentation changes frequently, the Konus Quartet engages its audience with highly expressive and idiosyncratic sounds. Contemporary original compositions are interpreted predominantly by the quartet, but these are also contrasted with pieces from past centuries and arrangements for saxophone instrumentation. TOMAS KORBER: Born in 1979 in Zurich, Swiss-Spanish composer/improviser Tomas Korber has written numerous compositions and played improvised music since the early 90’s. He has worked solo and collaboratively. and composes music for theater- and film-productions.

BLACK PUS X TIMEGHOST X TIGER HATCHERY X JOEY MOLINARO X SHAMBLING MOUND

October 17, 2015

9:00 pm

An evening of cybernetic constitution. Touring Creatures: X Tiger Hatchery X welcome to the feline aviary. Free-rage-jazz birthing beasts. Accompanied by Mr Paul Flaherty. X Joey Molinaro X Bow wielding, note shaker. This guy really tears. with Local Behemoths: X Black Pus X ooozing, dripping, rattling, vibrational heartquake machine. X Timeghost X android protoplasm brewing wave motion interference. signature socket grid. bulb shock. X ...Shambling mound... X A mass of tangled vines and dripping slime rises on two trunk-like legs, reeking of rot and freshly turned earth.

Cosmic Optimism || Nadia // My Body // Crystal Ghost // TBD j

October 17, 2015

9:00 pm

GOING BOLDLY. A Star Trek Party.

October 8, 2015

7:00 pm

Come to mankind's final frontier, Pawtucket! Where we will playing choice episodes of one of the most recognizable sci-fi franchises of all time...STAR TREK! Enjoy some special star trek cocktails, such as bloodwine, and sit back and get ready to go boldly, where no one has gone before!!!

Courtney's Birthday Partay! feat. Westeryear ☀ April Fish ☀ Courtney Swain ☀ Jaggery

October 5, 2015

7:30 pm

There will be cake. There will be great music. There will be much fun. Please come and enjoy this evening with us. It will be a beautiful birthday memory for Courtney. Also, this will be an awesome chance for you to meet a fantastic musician from New Zealand, and to support local/regional music. Please PM Courtney, Mali, Emily, or Katie if you need further justifications for attending this shindig. Doors @ 7:30 Show @ 8:00 SHARP (Don't be late!) // All Ages Westeryear - Beautiful layers and harmonies of tender music that feel a warm hug. April Fish - Mysterious voices-in-your-head-esque 'proto-punk' from New Zealand. Courtney Swain - Dreamy and sorta progressive singer-songwriter sounds. Jaggery - Haunting and somewhat demented chamber-pop from Boston MA.

MIKE COYKENDALL, DEATH VESSEL, BEN MASON, FIELD DRUMS

September 26, 2015

8:00 pm

MIKE COYKENDALL // Currently most well known for his duties as a sideman, producer, and recordist via his work with M Ward, Blitzen Trapper, She & Him, Annalisa Tornfelt, & Tin Hat Trio, Coykendall has been making his own unique outsider records since the mid '80s. BEN MASON // A songwriter from Melbourne, Ben Mason's psych-pop band, the Smallgoods released three critically acclaimed albums between 2003-2007. DEATH VESSEL // That Joel Thibodeau’s slender, winsome voice is at once so comforting and so unsettling might be the greatest of his many strengths. Reed-thin but sturdy, youthful but somehow ageless, its deep benevolence is also slightly eerie. FIELD DRUMS // Taking a cue from their mutual love of great pop hooks and harmonies, Field Drums is a playground for Rachel and Jeffrey to embrace and play around with their pop and other musical leanings, incorporating drums, guitar, and two voices.

Rafael Toral // Scøtt Reber + Sakiko Mori // Ouxatil 95 // Titans of Jazz

September 18, 2015

8:15 pm

Rafael Toral plays electronic music today as a jazz musician would play his instrument, applying jazz discipline and working practices to his abstract electronics. The result is truly evolutionary music, once described as "a brand of electronic music far more visceral and emotive than that of his cerebral peers". Melodic without notes, rhythmic without a beat, familiar but strange, meticulous but radically free, it is riddled with interesting paradox. Toral has developed a musical system to physically play experimental electronic instruments and puts it to practice with large-scale project Space Program — a complex network of recordings and performances to deliver music that is full of clarity and space, articulating silence and sound in a thoughtful, yet physical way.

FLICKER, PULSE: An Evening with Bruce McClure & Alexander Dupuis

September 15, 2015

7:30 pm

Magic Lantern Cinema Presents FLICKER, PULSE: An Evening with Bruce McClure & Alexander Dupuis, curated by Seth Watter. The art of Bruce McClure is sometimes called, with a nod to the sixties, “expanded cinema.” A more apt expression might in fact be “reduced cinema,” or cinema stripped to its most elementary components: light, sound, a room full of bodies. McClure himself calls it “projector performance,” a phrase that highlights the aspect of live enactment and improvisation that is so integral to all his efforts. McClure creates “a remystification of cinema… meant to elicit astonishment and wonder, but calibrated for a twenty-first-century audience attuned to the aesthetics of noise and distortion” (Ed Halter, Artforum).

BLEVIN BLECTUM, ANIMAL HOSPITAL, FINAL BOSS

September 13, 2015

9:00 pm