Weekends is a 2-piece art rock band formed in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Their sound has been compared to Ponytail as well as Lightning Bolt and Death From Above 1979 due to the band's experimental guitar work and unique vocal stylings. They have released one self-titled album, Weekends (2008) and Strange Cultures (2011), and two EPs Swim City EP and "Suburbuan Dome EP".
Mincemeat or Tenspeed -Harms evokes big-beat dance, abstract IDM, harsh noise, psych-rock, even death metal, all while sticking to his simple A/B rhythms. Which is probably why Dan Deacon, another artist with a knack for mixing abstraction and structure, told Pitchfork in 2007 that Harms "is my favorite performer right now. He is the master of his domain. More human than human."
The Custodians are a synth-centered indie rock group formed in the wake of Providence-based band The Valar. Luke Imbusch and Brian McLaughlin, the former Valar members, have written a new set of material with bassist Jeremy Cohen, and are joining forces with guest guitarist Liam Cassidy to perform it for new and old audiences this winter.
Open mic List goes up for sign up at 7:30pm. Doors open at 8:00pm Tonight we have an Open Mic, Feature from Providence Slam Team, and an Open Poetry Slam Your 2011 Slam Team will be featuring solo and group work from the 2011 National Poetry Slam. The Providence team features: Laura Brown-Lavoie, Jamila Woods, Megan Thoma, Franny Choi, Phil Kaye, and Fatimah Asghar. For more info contact poetry slam here: provslam@gmail.com
After years of being the lead singer of the post hardcore bands, The Roxbury Secret and Paige Yager, Chris Rice has begun to settle down. Now creating softer pop songs, he focuses on reinventing his sound and the proclamation of his new path away from his past. Collaborating with many on blanketfort, Chris speaks his mind about society, the music scene, and the person he has become today. This fall he offers his first EP, Conception: a blanketfort demo illustrating his new path musically. Chris hopes to finish his first solo album sometime in 2012, exploring a bigger and more diverse sound.
Fall & Bounce is an original rock band with music infused by blues, punk, power pop, alt folk, art rock, etc. - all rooted in the quartet's diverse influences. The band's songs reflect a range of experiences and emotions - at times introspective, playful, righteous or violent - but always honest and heartfelt.
Anthony Mattera is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and producer. He writes, records, and produces his own music as an active solo artist. In a live setting, Mattera is backed by a revolving door of talented musicians, branching off with his own sonically eclectic mix of genre-defying aural stimulus.
Celadour is: The intensely harmonious vocal melodies of Erica "badass" Ehrenbard, and her memorable guitar riffs. The driving, unique bass lines of the small, yet feisty, Melanie Steinway (with a splash of some mind-blowing guitar), and the strings of Louise Neal, a bodacious babe, who needs nothing more than a bow and violin to totally melt your face off. Together these three lovely ladies make up a one-of-a-kind neo-folk rock band hailing from Providence, Rhode Island. Enter Celadour. .
Sgt Baker & the Clones is an act not of this world. Blending the different colors and shades of this dying sphere, they mold every aspect of art into one melting pot. Bringing all walks of life into one room for one common interest, the love of art. The brain child of Mike Baker (singer/song writer) of providence RI they connect music from Beethoven to Black Sabbath. Bring a fresh pair of depends cause this act will make you soil ya britches.
Songwriters in the Round is a totally acoustic (no PA) showcasing of the songwriting craft. On the second Sunday of each month at AS220, rotating hosts, Ryan Fitzsimmons , Jan Luby, Jim Tata, and Jacob Haller will find three songwriters to join in and share their work, writing a new song on a theme specifically for the event. The show will run from 6pm to 8pm, and includes 4 rounds of original songs. Roughly a month before the show, each writer scheduled is given a common theme to write on, and is expected to perform a new, original song in the third round. This provides the rare opportunity to see 4 separate writers perspectives on the same subject matter. Two additional writers from the Rhode Island Songwriter Association (RISA) join in each month and a third spot is open anyone, not just RISA members. Anyone interested in performing should email jmlurgio@verizon.net
CATTLE DRUMS- on tour from NY, noodle punk with a mad groove
Masthead is a Punk influenced Indie Rock group out of Providence, R.I. which has been growing as a band since July of 2011. With experience in past bands (I.e, 80-SS, Tabernackle, Dead Last, and Unsung) the quartet has reached out from New Englands hardcore/punk scene to make more inspirational and emotional music. With influences ranging from California's Indie kings Jawbreaker, to the punk queen of NYC Patti Smith, the music of Masthead is as musically inclined as it is poetic and powerful.
Somewhere around the hazy year of 2007, Bog of the Infidel began to take form when friends and former bandmates of the Providence bands Sorcery and Nefarious began to write music together for a new group. The band played its first show on the Winter Solstice of '08 with Haxen while two feet of snow was dumped on the city outside. These two bands have honored the coming of winter in this fashion every year since. In 2010, the band released its first full-length entitled "Proud Descendants of Satan" at Nordcavern studios with Mike of Haxen producing. Since then, the band has continued to play around the southern New England area in a continuing effort to promote their music to a wider audience.
Mortum is a black metal band from New Jersey that was formed in July of 2006. The band was founded by current guitarist Adam Kerman (Ominous) and ex bassist/vocalist George Hamedani. In 2007 current drummer Nick Buniva (MysticYautja) joined the band which led up to the release of the band's first demo "Enslaved" in February of 2008. The lineup was then changed in July of 2008 when George left the band due to personal and musical differences. Swordbearer's Rhode Rachel (Revenge) was then enlisted on vocals and Colin Kenney (Alastor) on bass. After months of writing and performing various shows, Mortum recorded their first EP and second release, "Beyond Which Death Holds Secret". After the release of the EP in August 2010, Alastor left the band and Wretch from Nuklearenpest was brought in. Roughly a year later Revenge resigned as vocalist with Ominous taking over on both guitar and vocal duties. A split release with the band Nuklearenpest was recorded and released shortly after with the new lineup and released in November of 2011. Mortum has also just finished the recording of the bands first full length, "The Rites of Depopulation", hopefully to be released by the end of 2011/early 2012.
Witch King is a 3 piece black/death metal band. We take influence from bands such as Archgoat, Incantation, Autopsy, and Inquisition.
The AS220 Criss Cross Orchestra (also known as ACCO) will be performing every second Thursday of each month. They will lift your heart with its polyrhythmic, jumpy, musical style which is based in the traditional rhythms of Ghanaian West African music. The group is directed by Obuamah Laud Addy, an award winning West African Ghanaian musician and composer. He is joined by many of the finest West African and New England musicians and ensemble performers. Criss Cross music is currently performed in Europe and Africa; it is defined as a crossing or combination of powerful traditional native African, American, Caribbean, Cuban, Latin American and European musical styles, and includes some of the tonality, improvisations, and other musical dynamics found in Jazz, Rhythm & Blues, and Hip Hop. Per Artistic Director of AS220 Umberto Crenca, ACCO is intended to demonstrate the compelling and powerful results of cross-cultural collaborations. What better way than through the creation of new music!"
The Money from Audio McSwagger on Vimeo.
Audio McSwagger is a new musical genre defying collaboration of talented, passionate artists that incorporates drums, bass, guitars, a DJ and an MC. We call this transformed genre: "Rock & Flow".
Their sound is unique unto itself due to the blend of genres from which all the band members hail. The bass and rhythm guitarist come from various forms of rock backgrounds while Milz, the lead guitarist, DJ, and the drummer, all come from various hip hop and R&B backgrounds. This fusion has been attempted before with little to no success, but through a unique chemistry of friendship and love for all forms of music, the marriage they have created sounds and seems to be effortless and natural. Lend an ear or come to a show and listen to the influences as they range from Jimmi Hendrix to the Rolling Stones all the way through Tupac and Weezer.
Mr Slugg and DJ Rol$ -You know the story. two hard workin bro's trying to keep the party going.
Hosted by Jimmy and Hannah Devine with Mark Roberts, Andrea Cooper, Teddi Scobi and Friends!
Every Saturday from 4-7pm at the bar at AS220!
No cover charge! A full menu of food and beverage will be available, so come in for a pint or make this your regular spot for dinner while enjoying some of the best traditional Irish music around!
The Famous Winters "...gorgeous, introspective tunes/Listening to these guys was like a slow dance in a dark room" -Allston Pudding
Woodsy Pride "a Brooklyn based trio that plays some kind of haunted Western music with the songwriting skill of Neil Young and the maudit intensity of Nick Cave." -The Deli
Zachary Cale "Zachary Cale is one of those unassuming guys who, once heard, earns your undying loyalty. You just want him to be a breakout star. He’s the type of singer-songwriter that will appeal most to fans of Wilco and Iron & Wine." -The Brooklyn Paper
Sounds Like Funeral Music
Burning Bridges (NH)
Cedros
Kill Shakespeare
Valencourtis Jeff Lavender. And a guitar. And that's it. Valencourt is based out of Providence, RI and formed after Lavender's former band Roker disbanded in early 2005. Lavender began writing new acoustic demos in hopes of forming a new band around them somewhere down the line, but eventually just kept it simple and began writing and performing under the name Valencourt. Valencourt released his first full-length "The Paper Brigade" in 2006, followed by the 4 song "For Serious" EP in 2008 which is available on iTunes.
Seven Year Plan
StudyEgg aims to replace 18th century pedagogy with personalized, interactive learning tools – think study guides on steroids. At the January Geek Dinner, Co-Founder & CEO Josh Silverman – backed up by Co-Founders Jason Urton (CTO) and Bill DeRusha (CMO) – will give an overview of StudyEgg including its short, but interesting history to date (pivots!), and the first public look at its new product (already producing revenue!)
Thee Source ov Fawnation is the vocal electronic music of Bryxan Amsterdam and Pær Svn. Bryxan Amsterdam performs solo as Technicolor Yawn/Dawn/Fawn and is an ex-member of Werewolves. Pær Svn is the creator of the ritual drone group Paintings for Animals and founded the Seattle Occultural Music Festival.
Them, There is the Baltimore-based collaborative duo of Violet and Nightjar. Their work has been described as "haunting guitar tinged drone mixed with what sounds like field recordings from a cold and distant island" (Dead Formats). They are recent transplants from Olympia, WA where they co-curated events at the infamous Swamp Haus, hosting countless experimental music and art shows. They also helped organize the Olympia Experimental Music Festival. Both Them, There and Nightjar contributed to the recent Hanged Man compilatation and in 2011 Violet self-released her first solo albumMelts on CS20.
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The Encyclopedia Show is a live variety extravaganza that commissions local and touring artists and experts from many disciplines to use their individual talents to present a different verbal encyclopedia entry each month. The Encyclopedia Show endeavors to build an age-integrated community cultivating accidental knowledge and irreverent lovingkindness.Though the show is accredited by the Institute of Human Knowledge and Hygiene, it is our mission to chafe against logic and proof, find meaning in obfuscation, and wrest truth from fact once and for all.
A product of the Nintendo generation, Break Stuff Steal Things combines rock guitar, vocoded vocals, and 8-bit-style bleeps and bloops to make fun and catchy pop tunes. Their influences include Bis, Polysics, The Hives, and Anamanaguchi. They've opened for a variety of different acts, such as Math the Band, Harry and the Potters, and Afrika Bambaataa.
Gentle Captor is the current solo project of producer/engineer/turntablist DJ Milkcrates. The project is based on the idea of using jungle and IDM as a platform to explore less conventional ideas in electronic music. Punk, metal, and post rock themes stand out along with the ever present amen break and customized equipment.
Global Crash blurs the lines of all techno and electronic music, not being satisfied with just one subgenre of the genre. Dabbling in techno, ambient, electronica, house, big beat, trance, downtempo, experimental, IDM, electro, chill-out , glitch, and breakbeat, Global Crash is the brainchild of Paul Holder who lives in Narragansett, Rhode Island, USA. Global Crash is at both times; music to make you wanna dance, and music to make you contemplate the meaning of existence.
Mr. Agwa plays synth-pop and synth-soul with gay content. Not well-known but previously played as Felix Lieter JR.
Hosted by Jimmy and Hannah Devine with Mark Roberts, Andrea Cooper, Teddi Scobi and Friends!
Every Saturday from 4-7pm at the bar at AS220!
No cover charge! A full menu of food and beverage will be available, so come in for a pint or make this your regular spot for dinner while enjoying some of the best traditional Irish music around!
a unique fusion of Afro-Caribbean, reggae, rock, and hip hop sounds and call to love and rebellion that make up the music of Taina Asili y La Banda Rebelde
Ta�na Asili y la Banda Rebelde released their debut album War Cry in 2010, which has already begun to gain international attention. With an uncompromising lyrical integrity and sound that spans continents, the multilingual album War Cry interblends the energy of Ojos de Brujo, the soul of Lila Downs and the defiance of Rage Against the Machine. Journalist Josh Potter of The Metroland, Albany, NY�s alternative newsweekly, describes War Cry as �a pan-global roots-musical m�lange that appeals to the struggle of tradition to envision a world of social justice.�
Ta�na Asili [tahy-ee-nah ah-see-lee] hails from Philadelphia, PA and Albany, NY where she has worked as a musician, poet, educator and community organizer for over 10 years. She has shared the stage with renowned artists such as Ursula Rucker, Sonia Sanchez, Talib Kweli, Dead Prez, Immortal Technique, Pamela Means, Paula Cole, and Tyrone Hill of The Sun Ra Arkestra. Ta�na was a winner of the 2005 Transformation Award given by the Leeway Foundation each year to a select few of women artists who profoundly use their work towards social change. She was voted �Best Poet� in 2006 and �Best World Music� in 2010 by The Metroland. She has performed from Montreal to San Francisco and from Mexico to Spain capturing the hearts of her listeners.
SOLDIERS OF LIFE (S.O.L.) is a band for the PEOPLE. With a mixture of Hip Hop, R&B, Funk, Reggae, Rock, and Spoken Word, this unique group captures the entire essence of the SOUL, and all human emotions;awakening the hearts and minds of the listener through music and dance.
Thrillhouse - who needs vocals with brutal riffs like these
The Blue Letter - from RVA, bang your head!! they even come with their own light show
Gates - FIRST SHOW! blues-y metal, formerly Dumbell
The Pale Rider brings his Congregation to town to share the tales of the road. Blending variety of jazz & ska punk into American roots music. The Reverend preaches a toe tapping gospel.
The Quahogs are a folk/rock band from Providence, Rhode Island. Their influences are Townes Van Zandt, Bob Dylan, and so on
Muse en Lystrala is a classically trained mezzosoprano working in the genres of world and electronic music. She is a member of Lunares, a classically-rooted pagan tribal performance troupe, and composes and sings for Seeds of Atropos, a collaborative classical project. Her forthcoming double album, The Circle/Electrojump, is due out in June 2012.
Kirsten Opstad is a Boston-based singer-songwriter, better known locally as an actor/writer/comedian on Improv Asylum’s Mainstage cast. Though this release marks Opstad’s first full-length studio album, she’s self-produced four albums and two EPs as a solo artist and with her band The Crazy Exes from Hell. Recently, she’s collaborated with playwright Ilene Fischer on her play Girl Hopping and with San Francisco filmmaker Whit Scott on his film Rolled. Fear of Swimming was funded by a successful Kickstarter campaign, which raised over $5,000 in 20 days in October 2011, thanks in part to a supportive network of YouTube subscribers. She’s launching a nationwide tour in March 2012. “Opstad somehow produces incredibly accessible music without ever losing merit. Her songs are catchy and fun…but the words coming out aren’t nearly as simple as the four chord progression…Few possess [her] versatility” -- Vincent Scarpa, TheBuzzAbout.com
Yearly moves, changes in geography and a personality "like talking to a child with ADHD", Kristen Ford has been hailed as having "no easy way to categorize the music, the real deal" and a "musical cuisinart", Kristen plays everything from Reggae to Country to Folk to Pop on a handful of instruments, guitar, ukulele, piano and beatbox. Energy binds her eclectic tastes together and makes the live show a must see.
Steve Subrizi is a former co-host of the Wednesday night poetry mic at the Cantab Lounge in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has performed his poetry at such other venues as the Green Mill in Chicago and the Mercury Cafe in Denver, and his work has appeared in such places as NAP, The Scrambler, Muzzle, NOO Journal, and Monday Night. He plays in a band called The Crazy Exes from Hell.
The Aquatic Symphony is a combination of art, experimentation, and music.
Irvin de la Rosa Solo rock artist from Providence Rhode Island. Writing his own music for about two years, seeking to branch out Influenced by the white stripes, the arctic monkeys, the rolling stones, the strokes etc.
Devoted to all types of music, especially sounds of the previous generation, singer/songwriter Justin Marra (formerly known in musical circles as SHADES) has transformed his introspective journal entries and electric "garage band" tunes into a fresh folky upbeat sound. Justin's music reflects the influences of classic singer songwriters like Billy Joel, Harry Chapin, Bob Dylan, and Carol King as well as the harmonica of Junior Wells. Drawing on 'pop' sensibilities and blues guitar his music defies being pigeonholed into any one category. Though not his first album, MUSE was his first 'adult' release. Shifting focus to acoustic expression Justin's performances have become socially conscious, mature and appealing to a larger audience.
Hosted by Jimmy and Hannah Devine with Mark Roberts, Andrea Cooper, Teddi Scobi and Friends!
Every Saturday from 4-7pm at the bar at AS220!
No cover charge! A full menu of food and beverage will be available, so come in for a pint or make this your regular spot for dinner while enjoying some of the best traditional Irish music around!
THE DEWEY DECIBEL SHOW
$9 to benefit 9 libraries
Come to support the Providence Community Libraries and see performances by The Throttles, Alec K Redfearn & The Eyesores, Maria Monk, Barn Burning, and Generations Barbershop Quartet!
Hosted by Rory Raven.
Providence Poetry Slam presents: A Writing Workshop. A low-pressure setting for writers of all genres to meet and share their work. On the fourth Sunday of the month. For more info contact poetry slam here: provslam@gmail.com
The Coincidental Hour is a night of eclectically curated eccentricity, an untraditional cabaret harkening back to the days when this kind of cabaret never occurred because it hadn't happened until now, and a feast/feat of daredevilish crossings of artistic humanity from in and out of town. Master of ceremonies Ric Royer will be your guide through striking and uncanny occurrences of fun noise, weird films, "performance", different comedy, word shows, and something to dance to.
Episode 1/29/2012: "The Future is not as good as it used to be."
In this episode, Ric gets moody and believes that the good times are dead, but his friends Talibam!, Boxcutter,Diego Perez, Idiot Magnet, Puce Trubee and a cool movie all come over to the Coincidental Hour to try and show him that the good times are in our aheads, not just in our behinds! ...but will it work? Laissez les bons temps rouler!
Doors open at 9pm, and you can sign up for the open mic from 9-9:30pm.
Poetry and music 9:30-10.30pm.
Open Mike 10.30-11pm.
Traveling started in September of 2011 by a group of three friends in Bloomington, IN. Ginger Alford, Jake Alexander, and Alan Crenshaw. Ginger has toured the country many times playing in One Reason and Good Luck, and touring with Paul Baribeau playing Bruce Springsteen covers. She'd been playing bass in Good Luck for several years and wanted to play guitar again in a band. This show part of their 3 week tour. No Idea Records released their 7" in January.
Inky Skulls is Chris Clavin (me) and Emily Rose. We started in Bloomington, Indiana in August of 2011. We only had three weeks to get off the ground. We wrote 6 songs and recorded a demo, then did a week long mini-tour. At first we thought we should both play ukuleles but it was too tinny and thin so now I play bass and Emily plays the uke. This is Emily's first band. I've been in some bands... (Ghost Mice, The Sissies, The Devil is Electric, Operation: Cliff Clavin etc)
Monkee Head is a carnivalesque network of cannibal sounds from galactic jungles and gear-powered mountains, where space cowboys powwow with witchdoctors. Lift-off is battery operated, but includes bacon and some mozzarella cheese. Members: Albert 1 + Albert 2 + Albert 3 + Albert 4 + Albert 5 + Albert 6 Possible Instrumentations: (banjo)+(didgeridoo)+(drums)+(bass)+(saxophone)+(harmonica)+(keyboard)+(violin)+(synth/keyboards)+(flarinute)+(bongos)+(congas)+(whistles)+(mbira)+(washboard)+(canjo)+(clarinet)+(slitdrum)+(chekere)+(maracas)+(acordeon)+(concertina)
JACOB THE TERRIBLE IS INTERNATIONAL RECORDING SENSATION JACOB BERENDES COMBINED WITH NATIONAL PERFORMING SENSATIONS THE TERRIBLES.
"the world can be so fucked / but there's only so much shit / you can shit / on a face"
Is his synthesizer Baroquen? No-nonsese/pro-nonsense artist, Joe DeGeorge (of Harry and the Potters), recently began a series of projects in which he performs the classical music of Johann Sebastian Bach with an unusual distortion. One such project is Switched Off Bach, which consists of a solo keyboard performance utilizing a synthesizer that is turned off, with a mic on the keyboard. The performance is completely rhythmically Baroque. The volume is up all the way. The synthesizer is just turned off.
Open mic List goes up for sign up at 7:30pm. Doors open at 8:00pm Tonight we have an Open Mic, Feature from Providence Slam Team, and an Open Poetry Slam Your 2011 Slam Team will be featuring solo and group work from the 2011 National Poetry Slam. The Providence team features: Laura Brown-Lavoie, Jamila Woods, Megan Thoma, Franny Choi, Phil Kaye, and Fatimah Asghar. For more info contact poetry slam here: provslam@gmail.com
White Load photo © Amanda Stosz
Alkahest is a a Brooklyn based metal band that combines elements of doom, sludge, stoner, ambient and psych into music that is something entirely unique.
Elder is a sonic interpretation of the forces that surround us. Equal parts hypnotic rhythm, uncompromising heaviness, and soaring melody.
Songs is a Pawtucket based two-piece. Incorporating a completely original sound that is laced with stoner-doom, psychedelic and noise influences.
opening reception (free & open to the public)
Sunday, February 5 , 4-7pm
AS220 Main Gallery
New Paintings by Robert Mariani & RED FORK EMPIRE
Open Window
New Paintings by Ivy M. McDonald
AS220 Project Space (93 Mathewson St.)
DOM
New Work by Agata Michalowska
artist talk January 19th at 5:30 p.m.
Carl Haas’s Sharpwaist project has been a force in the post-industrial underground over the last 5 years. Operating out of Boston Massachusetts, Sharpwaist has had numerous collaborators, but is currently a solo endeavor.
Sharpwaist’s material presents an odd range of harsh impressions on real life tragedy and degradation. The frank and unadorned subject matter calls out for, and is supplied with, grimy and burnt-out sound spaces, stale ambiance and decrepit shamings, all swarming with the scraped-raw vocalizations informed as much by Grind and Noise-core as by early era power electronics.
Sharpwaist has released albums on numerous DIY labels including Razors and Medicine (Boston), New Forces (Minneapolis), Nil By Mouth (Italy), and Danvers State Recordings (Providence).
"great group"
-- cassette gods
Dance Party!
The AS220 Criss Cross Orchestra (also known as ACCO) will be performing every second Thursday of each month. They will lift your heart with its polyrhythmic, jumpy, musical style which is based in the traditional rhythms of Ghanaian West African music. The group is directed by Obuamah Laud Addy, an award winning West African Ghanaian musician and composer. He is joined by many of the finest West African and New England musicians and ensemble performers. Criss Cross music is currently performed in Europe and Africa; it is defined as a crossing or combination of powerful traditional native African, American, Caribbean, Cuban, Latin American and European musical styles, and includes some of the tonality, improvisations, and other musical dynamics found in Jazz, Rhythm & Blues, and Hip Hop. Per Artistic Director of AS220 Umberto Crenca, ACCO is intended to demonstrate the compelling and powerful results of cross-cultural collaborations. What better way than through the creation of new music!"
Each host ~ Ryan Fitzsimmons, Joanne Lurgio, Jacob Haller, Jan Luby & Jim Tata have invited 2 guests to join their round with a close out round by Whalebone Jackson!
Here we go!!
Ryan Fitzsimmons, Billy Mitchell & Jan Luby Paul Pasch & Marilynn Manfra Jim Tata Andrew Lewis & Charlie Cover Jacob Haller Pete Vendettuoli & Tracie Potochnik Joanne Lurgio Patti DeRosa & Jon McAullife Closing Round ~ Whalebone Jackson
Sure to be a fun night loaded with great music!
" I think it just really came down to us missing playing music and the chemistry we shared in our creative process. Things just got a little crazy in our lives at home, with being on tour all the time, having all this weight to carry and people to keep happy. It really ended up burning us out. We needed some time to step away and focus on having some sort of stability for a while. " This will be Verse's first show since reuniting.
Have guitars/basses/ amps/drums/ effects/electron ics collecting dust that you want to get rid of? Send an email to info(at)girlsrockri(dot)org to reserve a free table at Girls Rock! Rhode Island's GEAR & VOLUNTEER at AS220.
This event is from 11am-3pm and will act much like the bike swaps held at AS220, but, you know... with music gear. There will also be several workshops on topics like "How to maintain your guitar/bass/ drums", "How to use amps and effects pedals", and the like.
We'll also have info at the event about Girls Rock! programming and volunteer opportunities.
All tables and workshops are open to anyone, regardless of sex/gender identity.
In honor of Valentine's Day 2012, emerging writers and
makers read, sing and show flashes of literary erotica. Emphasis on
flashes. Come
celebrate all things pulpy, smutty, thick and whipped.
Featuring:
Evelyn Hampton, Joshua Edwin, Shannon Walsh, Sarah Tourjee, Nalini Abhiraman, Bevin Kelley, Ashley Toliver, Joseph Mains, Samantha Gorman, Raillan Brooks, Victor Cazares, Scout Willis, Gargi Harithakam, Vi Nguyen, Mimi Cabell, Eric Adamson, Sarah Seldomridge and Mary Wilson
The Body will be playing a string of dates on tour with Braveyoung. Both bands will play material from last year's collaborative LP 'Nothing Passes' on At a Loss Records
The Urban Dictionary defines whodo: A extremely old, or wrecked car that the owner still drives like its new. There is a statement there.....
Mr.Whodo plays a varied mix of contemporary Americana, old favorites and their own original material. All acoustic with an electric edge.
Deer Emerson was an idea that developed in high school after going through a cookie cutter pop phase. Sara spent lots of time performing all over CT in places such as New Haven, New London, Groton, Willimantic, and Norwich. After going to lots of concerts and reading lots of poetry, she has developed a sound that is all her own. She has opened for bands such as Terrible Things (formerly Taking Back Sunday) and she is ready to take the next step performing in her new town Providence.
The Encyclopedia Show is a live variety extravaganza that commissions local and touring artists and experts from many disciplines to use their individual talents to present a different verbal encyclopedia entry each month. The Encyclopedia Show endeavors to build an age-integrated community cultivating accidental knowledge and irreverent lovingkindness.Though the show is accredited by the Institute of Human Knowledge and Hygiene, it is our mission to chafe against logic and proof, find meaning in obfuscation, and wrest truth from fact once and for all.
JJJ//AAAZZZZZZ
Do you find yourself wondering "where can i find some really good live jazz happening in Providence?" The answer is February 18 at AS220! One night, one stage, four amazing jazz groups ready to melt your faces off and win your hearts. Come out and see local acts The Way Out, The Red Hughes Quartet, and The Greg Dudzienski Trio, with Boston's own incredible Eric Hofbauer doing a solo guitar set as the main attraction. There's beer, food, people, and of course great original jazz, happening all in one place. Cover is only $6, and the show is all ages. You do not want to miss this.
Viva le Vox is a ragtag group of ne’er do-wells hailing from the swamps and shores of southeast Florida. They have a sound that’s hard to describe, influenced by everything from the sleaziest Dixieland jazz to the most sordid punk rock. The sound is by turns loud, fast, and creepy...it’s uneasy listening, crafted for discerning musical misfits everywhere. Live performances will find a crowd of exorcised souls drenched in sweat, dancing up a frenzy.
Hailing from the Great White Mountains of New Hampshire, Yankee Cockfight was a concept developed in 2009 between The Mighty Junior (vocals/harmonica) and Scrimmy the Dirtbag (guitar/kick drum). Both musicians grew up in the woods and to this day a rural sentimentality permeates their work. Yankee Cockfight was originally an outlet to filter their eclectic musical influences, ranging from punk rock to blues to country. They played their first show off the cuff without even rehearsing. And they still play every show without a set list. It’s not punk, it’s not blues, it’s not country. You can’t describe it. It’s an experience. It’s primal and it’s real. You have to see it for yourself.
Providence Poetry Slam presents: A Writing Workshop. A low-pressure setting for writers of all genres to meet and share their work. On the fourth Sunday of the month. For more info contact poetry slam here: provslam@gmail.com
Doors open at 9pm, and you can sign up for the open mic from 9-9:30pm.
Poetry and music 9:30-10.30pm.
Open Mike 10.30-11pm.
