The Jesse Minute is a five piece punk inflected girl fronted act that takes its cue from the archetypes like letters to cleo and veruca salt.

Tabernackle: hardcore/Punk from RI, ex-members of Learn, She Rides, Crippler Cross Face, Spring Break! North Korea, etc. Heavy 90's influence (eg. Quicksand, Snapcase, Helmet), fast and frantic.

Mercury Made The Hatter plays extremely energetic shows.

A Forest Grew is indie, folky rock.

TURBO FRUITS (fat possum / members of be your own pet) "Ex-Be Your Own Pet guitarist lowers the tone brilliantly." 8/10 - NME "A gloriously daffy collection of primal rock n roll nuggets. Like the keg party in Repo Man thrown by the bastard children of the Strokes, this is the sound of teenagers refusing to grow up." - Q "Young, dumb but ridiculously fun." **** 4 stars - Artrocker "Carrying with him all the adrenaline and fire from his previous guise, these twelve tracks are a total B.L.A.S.T. of full-pelt garage rock fun likely to give The Hives a severe case of the jealous boo-hoo blues." 8/10 - The Music Fix "The missing link between the Monkees and the Dead Kennedys. Every bit as spirited as his old band." **** 4 stars - Uncut

Mast are an experimental heavy rock/post metal band.

Black Clouds are fuzz guitars, ham fisted drums, drink beer, do drugs.

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Skinny Millionaires is all original indie music. If Lucero and Wilco met at a highway rest stop for a midnight jam that deteriorated into a whiskey-induced knife fight.

Ryan Powers is from Burlington, Vermont. Haunting, unique, electronic harmonics.

Mellow Howard is an indie piano rock band which is a truly electrifying experience!

3D Mystery was spawned form the obsolete technology of analog 3D cinema. They deliver a multi-dimensional journey through the obscurities of electro-latin-dance-prog-punk.

We're like a modern trio sonata, but with three people. Backed by the rich tradition of klezmar-inspired avant-garde free jazz, we'll throw you into a polyrhythmic blend of barely tonal grooves. Oh-Dot'll ground the bass, cross your eyes, and pound your pulses.

Stress Ape is experimental doom rock four piece featuring members of Cave, Brotman & Short and Carpet of Sexy.

Fuzz Orchestra is from Milan Italy. Fuzz Orchestra was born in 2005, Luca Ciffo (guitar/voice), Fi (analogic manipulations) and Marco Mazzoldi (drums) decide, while running other musical projects (Bron Y Aur, Collettivo A6), to start a band moving on different coordinates. Starting from radical improvisation, the band achieves to forge a sound which, today, is built on strong rock textures, guitar and drums based, on which a fluxus of outer sounds (old movies, old vinyls cut ups, noise streams and real time audio manipulations) ties and rages. In 2007 they release their self titled debut album, scarcely 30 minutes between noise and kraut rock, the themes being glorious (La Resistenza against fascism) and dark (60s and 7s0 state terrorism) moments of contemporary italian history. In 2009, with the second album "Comunicato n.2", the music gets more brutal and heavy, while the band gives voice back to those who have tried to revolt against the inhuman capitalist world order. From 2007 to these days, Fuzz Orchestra has been playing live restlessly in Italy and Europe.

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Divets is solo meltcore, drum noise math Rapture of the end of the world.

People Of Color: from the ashes swept of Satan's doorstep comes a sound the pope himself can't deny is a deadly sin. Beauty meets beasts in all sorts of raw uninhibited emotions.

A Troop Of Echoes fuses elements of free jazz, noise, stoner rock, electronica, and modern progressive music.

Jesse Mack is a folk singer/songwriter who writes songs that are poems about love, death, and God set to simple alarming melodies with haunting pastoral acoustic arrangements.

Meghan Yates rolls a historical sound into a furiously curious new sound.

Hovercraft is a rock band that is inspired by The Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Who, etc.

The Valar is a combination of synth driven riffage, extended improv jams, a rhythm section deeply rooted in the sounds of classic rock, and an emphasis on the value of good songwriting.

Aldrich CANCELLED.

Judith Bingham is an acoustic singer/songwriter who plays indie rock songs.

I Was On The Football Team is a 5 piece band from Newport RI that blends jazzy guitars, spoken word, and emotional climaxes.

Herman The Great (members of Sweatlodge). Indie pop!

Panther Moderns is riff driven off kilter rock with female vocals.

"Good ole fashion vaudeville acts are a mighty rare occurrence, with the city's highfalutin' intelligentsia demanding more than just a simple tambourine dance, some blackface and a performance of the song "Uncle Grunty's Shoeless Jig. Let's just say that in the revolutions of art there comes a time for renaissance, when the avant-garde becomes too much and we must once again return to the core of what is known as pure�or as they say�"make it new." Friday sees the consummate rebirth of entertainment variety as The Lizard Lounge in Cambridge gives host to Jerkus Circus, a freewheeling whirlwind of freaks, feminism and fart-jokes hosted by hometown heroes The Steamy Bohemians. Offensive? Low-brow? Sultry, salacious and scatological? You bet your bottom dollar. It's been known to intrude on one's deepest reserves of sexual inhibition, blow a hole in the side of the tank and let flow all the milky goodness of hedonistic indulgence that a human can possibly expunge in one evening. Half-naked ladies with classically trained soprano voices singing songs about kissing cousins and bastard children all the while pulling strange things out from between their breasts? Done and done. Welcome to the new vaudeville." - Boston's Weekly Dig

You Scream I Scream is super fun rock music.

Yeah Right is a 3 piece electro dance band from Providence.

Amoretti is a 3 piece screamo hardcore band.

Riff Parade are funk/world/improv music.

Apollo's Prophets is mainly rock and classic rock band.

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Callus Black is a versatile, energetic act. Punk metal.

Single Lash is a solo outfit with abstract, abrasive, sonic textures of fuzz noise.

Last One Standing is a modern day rock and roll band. Melodic hard rock, slow driving power ballads, the crowd will be left wanting more.

P.S.S. are brutal rap/hard rock. Raw energy packed sound.

Badmotherfucker is thrash rock. Big speakers.

Birds In Paintings Can't Fly (former members of Dirty Jokes). Experimental post hardcore band with dynamic music.

Inframen from Providence/Cape Cod. Brain Shivers from PVD.

The Stress is a unique reggae and traditional ska band. Influenced by the Skatalites, The Ethiopians, and The Zombies (among others).

Blue Light District is a ska punk band.

SBT is a punk ska band.

Like Bells is an indie rock band from Cleveland, Ohio. Formed in 2006 when the three were students at Oberlin College, their music veers from hard-edged, intricate rock to slower, plaintive meditations evocative of their rural Ohio roots. Their debut LP was released in the spring of 2009 by Cleveland-based Exit Stencil Records, and was hailed by Cool Cleveland as "deliciously brilliant, ambient-minded stuff." The music blogosphere also responded favorably: Coke Machine Glow rated it a 72/100, Comfort Comes called their debut "a brilliant first attempt...Like Bells is ahead of the curve," and Orange Alert wrote that they have created an indie gem full of life, Americana, thought, and movement. NPR has featured Like Bells' music on Weekend Edition. They have spent numerous weeks on the road across the Midwest and East Coast, including recently performing in the 2009 CMJ music marathon and at the Rooftop Film Festival. They are currently working on their foliow-up LP, to be released in the spring of 2010.

Glowkid is a progressive rock band with some math thrown about.

Uke Of Spaces Corners County: Dead Pens, Flotilla & more. Psychedelic, Neo-psychedelia and Noise.

The David Wax Museum fuses exuberant Mexican roots music with rockin' country folk to create "Boston's homegrown answer to Calexico" (The Bostonist). Reminiscent of old-school Jayhawks and early Wilco, The David Wax Museum has won over audiences across the East Coast with Latin rhythms, call-and-response hollering, and donkey jawbone rattling.

Tik Tok: "in a time when acoustic music means anything played on acoustic instruments, it's refreshing to find a band who is consciously trying to bring the music back to the roots, without yielding the tendency to contemporize, or, at the very least, to bury their other influences in the name of perceived authenticity. it is authentic and fun, an album worthy of late night jam sessions, and the cops who come calling when provoked." --michael haeflinger.

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Dirge Carolers are goth rock.

Deapan Sally is an original rock band tgat blends punk, funk, and rock.

Holy Sheet : Kyle, Michael, and Lefton lived together in a sweaty dungeon for 5 years without water, or any sexual stimulus but each other, when Sean lynch appeared in the shadows with his beautiful wooden god like hands, a bronze carpenter, in the field of headless cats known to his apache tribe. The planets aligned and magic came forth from all our wands. Yes, bless this two headed apple. Songs about fucking through the sheet, glory holes, and anal beads and how we all ate kyles throw up in the middle of a pentagram, naked

Formed in 2005, Normal Love is a 5-piece Philadelphia based experimental band comprised of female vocals, sampler, amplified violin, e. guitar, e. bass, and drums. A staple of Philadelphia's DIY music scene, their unified musical language draws from a series of influences ranging from minimalism, modernist classical, (inter)national pop urges, industrial, and noise. "Segments of acidic beauty and transcendent force" -Signal to Noise Magazine

Xander Marro will screen her first film from 1997 titled "The Bunny Film".

Bellows is a ton of hot air that will burn the cold crevices in your soul.

Whore Paint : members of Made In Mexico, Teenage Waistband, Arcing.

Lifers are local hard asses.

Psonen is instrumental rock/experimental/space band.

Peter Piek was born in Karl-Marx-City.

A troubadour of the old breed, Ian Fisher is a true man of the road. Growing up along the Mississippi River in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, Ian quickly became accustomed to the constant motion of life. Nestled in this picturesque Midwestern landscape, Ian lived, laughed and loved along the same winding waters that once inspired Mark Twain, Chuck Berry, and Johnny Cash in their day. At the age of 13 Ian was existentially drawn to the world of music. Picking up a rustic old bass he strummed day and night to scare away his small-town blues as well as to enchant his high school sweethearts. After delving deep into the works of Nina Simone, Bob Dylan, and others Ian began to transcend the looking-glass of the regular consumer life. Writing his own songs, Ian started to express his ideas of and feelings for the world around him. Entering Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri, he became very interested in political science and the machinations of the shameless powerbrokers and rich influence-peddlers that populated his country. Recognizing the blurred reality and various distractions that surrounded him, Ian realized that truth was what he defined from personal experience and not what was prescribed to him by the establishment. Pent up in his dorm room, Ian composed his first album Invasions in 2006. Inspired by many long days of political philosophy courses and hapless relationships Invasions represents Ian’s ode to adolescence and college in America. Influenced by the widespread domestic anguish of the Bush years, as well as the apathy all around him, Ian’s focus gradually moved from love and emotions to more serious social and political issues. In the tumultuous summer of 2008, fate found Ian on a nationwide tour with the very politically-minded band Holy!Holy!Holy! That summer he also released his second acoustic album Pawn Heart. Recorded in one furious take, Pawn Heart is the product of a year of sporadic but extensive traveling around the US. Thoroughly enthused with an ethos of “money buys freedom in America and a lot of people are running out of money," Pawn Heart is a perfect reflection of the turbulence and anxiety of the first decade of the 21st century. Longing for more personal freedoms and opportunity, Ian departed for a new beginning in Europe in the fall of 2009. Settling in Vienna, Austria, he quickly found his way into the local independent music scene and toured all over Austria and Germany with such bands as A Life, A Song, A Cigarette and Bernhard Eder. In the spring of 2009 he released his third album Stained Glass. Written over his two year stay in St. Louis, Stained Glass manifests Ian’s romantic ideas of love and of the potential for political and social change. Also in 2009 he formed the band Nowhere Train with four other Austrian musicians. Their two week "grassroots" tour through Austria was painstakingly documented on film and was followed by Austria's most popular alternative radio station; FM4. Recently, Ian finished his first European album, Vienna You White Moon. Constituted as a musical diary of his first year in Austria, it was composed mostly while in the depths of a cold and rainy Viennese winter. Resonating with a sense of confusion and isolation, Vienna You White Moon expresses Ian’s feelings of loneliness in a foreign land but also his exuberance of living for the first time in a place in which he didn’t long to leave. Although hard to pinpoint in one place, Ian Fisher continues to sing, tour, and live around the world sharing his ideas and passions with all those willing to listen. In spite of the fact his address may often change, Ian’s music will always remain authentic and from the heart, no doubt flowing from his lips with the same beauty and consistency as that grand old river of his youth. Written by Andrew Sheeley, 2009

Fishing With Finnegan is a whole family of musicians playing beautiful celtic music.

"At the End of the Infinite Rope" is a play about a loud, abrasive drunk, and unhinged professor lecturing about civilization's inevitable march to its own destruction.

"The Title Sounded Better in French" is set not quite in reality, but the next town over. The two main characters are two young women who find themselves onstage in search of a project; they work out failures, address broken hearts, and wake up laughing. This piece was premiered at the Access Theater in New York City and was performed at 2009 Wharscape at the Baltimore Museum of Art.

Showbeast is a touring puppet show and video series created by Benjamin Beast, ERin Gleeson, and Alan Resnick. It has screened all across the country including the Baltimore Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit, the Pop Montreal Music Festival, and the Pozen Center of MassArt.

A mysterious experimental grabbag from PG13.

JOHN FUZEK: SINGER-SONGWRITER-GUITARIST: Columnist (Roots Report) for the RI magazine, MOTIF, Co-Chair of the RI SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION, Member of the band, FOREVER YOUNG-A Tribute to the Music of Neil Young. President of HEAR IN RHODE ISLAND.

The Songwriters in the Show shows have been happening at AS220 every month for the past7 years. During this time hundreds of songs have been written for themes chosen by the audience. Two CDs have been released featuring just a fraction of these songs. The Songwriters in the Round shows feature "in the round" performances which puts 3 performers on stage at once taking turns peroming their original songs.

Thou is blackened doom from Baton Rouge, Louisiana and featuring members of Barghest.

Kintaan is heavy as hell.

So is Black Pyramid.

And of course Elder!

Jacob Haller is a singer/songwriter and a member of RISA.

Steve plays viola and hurdy gurdy while Rachel accompanies on cello. The repertoire consists of Steve's arrangements of traditional melodies from France, England, Ireland and America.

Stop by the cafe at As220 and grab some food in our cafe, and sit in on an informal anarchist lunch discussion.

Malyssa BellaRosa is a singer songwriter who plays alternative modern music.

A Final Paradox is an acoustic pop band.

Math The Band 8-Bit Visual Set: a visual set performed on synced video game systems and vintage computers.

From the Austin Chronicle: "How could someone that looks so innocent make such a racket? Originally shy and introverted, Daniel Francis Doyle began by making noise in his bedroom, but when he exploded into the public eye, he became a monster, running around the stage, setting guitar loops in action, and jumping back behind the drum kit. A modern-day one-man band "you'll find no banjo here" Doyle released his debut, Sings Blues in E, in 2005, followed by sophomore LP Who Are Your Customers? (Furniture) the next year. Somewhere in between, he started to perform live. At 17-and-a-half-minutes long, Customers is a mind-melting, noise-canoodling, sweet piece of WTF rock, void of pretension or ulterior motives, and it gave Doyle the confidence to branch out into louder and more cooperative ventures. Pulled into fellow ear-haters Tuxedo Killers on drums for a 2006 tour, he was brought into that fold, eventually landing in local pop-metal sevenpiece When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth as one of two drummers." --Darcie Stevens

Global Crash is techno/electronic/ambient.

Blevin Blectum : Slow-mo sunspots, high contrast hydraulics, Cascaded Integrator-Combing, and negative acceleration. Epic sound for distressed ifrit. Peculiar winds during the eclipse allow for the rapid cooling of the organism via evaporative water loss and convection from mucous-covered surfaces. The metal-helmeted cascade-familiar performs maintenance.

Make sure to watch the early episodes of "In This Economy" so you are up to speed. Links below.

Shinobi Ninja - are the super group for the 21st century, composed of six colorful, vibrant New York City musicians and performers from different corners of the music world. “To put it simply, they are a walking, breathing and screaming cartoon: loud, colorful and full of enough energy to put nearly any other band to shame,� says New York’s Radio Exile. With their debut EP Brooklyn to Babylon and their own revolutionary video game Shinobi Ninja Attacks, the band is ready to bring the party to you, wherever you are! Onstage and online, Shinobi Ninja have built themselves a devoted following, garnering much-deserved attention from notable sources such as Mergent Music Magazine, who proclaimed the band were “taking over the world, one sweaty rock circus at a time.�

Glowkid is an exciting rock band with members of Hircine and A Troop Of Echoes. Totally fun.

3D Mystery was spawned from the obsolete technology of analog cinema and delivers multi-dimentional journey through obscurities of electro latin dance prog punk.

Valencourt is an acoustic performer. Drawing inspiration from 311, Death Cab For Cutie, Elliot Smith, and other greats.

The Real Makers are an original rock band with a backbone of blues and nasty funk.

Daniel Ephram is a one man band from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Daniels is "epic nintendo music" with video projections and drum n bass beats!

Sky Jelley is a one person psychedelic, noisey blues project/dance party.

GB pka Gâteaux Blasters is lo-fi impro electronica from Geneva, Switzerland.

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A Weather (Portland, Oregon) are on Team Love Records. Indie rock.

Liz Isenberg says: "i write songs on the guitar string bass loop pedal and banjo".

Roz Raskin and the Rice Cakes are folky, indie pop jazz songs.

Panther Moderns is riff driven, off kilter, female rock.

Anisette is a melodic experimental band.

Temporary Audio is a Providence College band that was formed by a few guys who just wanted to play some music. This band has been described as what would happen if the Beach Boys and Weezer had a love child.

A Night Sky is guitar, drums, vocals. They are a full band that ranges from soft indie rock to heavy metal.

Triple Point is a power trio from Lincoln RI that plays mostly funk inflused rock, blues, and treads carefully along the "jam band" definition.

Tim Vargulish has been doing stand up for four years. He was recently a finalist in the Catch a New Rising Star competition. He talks a lot about being a nerd; being bad with women; and in general, his awkward life.

Michael Wilbur is a local film maker and intern on the TV show Ghost Hunters, and also a stand up comedian.

Happy Cooter is pop rock with rock elements.

The Invisible Hours are rooted in the fuzz, echo, and the rolling percussive pulse of the pychedelica while still remaining anchored by the songwriting approach.

Hemlok is a progressive psychedelic band with electric violin, bowed guitars, 3 part harmony, and songs rife with shadow, texture and atmosphere.

Interplay is an experimental jazz quartet/jazz fusion.

The Royalty are a saucy band described as "totally on fire" indie rock.

Black Pus: headbanging music for feral kittens.

Derek Holzer (1972) is an American sound artist living in Berlin, whose current interests include DIY analog electronics, sound art, field recording and the meeting points of electroacoustic, noise, improv and extreme music. He has played live experimental sound as Macumbista or Derek Holzer--as well as taught workshops in Pure Data and electronics--across Europe, North America, Brazil and New Zealand. He has released tracks under the Nexsound, Sirr, and/OAR, Mandorla, Frozen Elephants Music and Gruenrekorder labels.

TONEWHEELS is an experiment in converting graphical imagery to sound, inspired by some of the pioneering 20th Century electronic music inventions. Transparent tonewheels with repeating patterns are spun over light-sensitive electronic circuitry to produce sound and light pulsations and textures. This all-analog set is performed entirely live without the use of computers, using only overhead projectors as light source, performance interface and audience display. In this way, TONEWHEELS aims to open up the "black box" of electronic music and video by exposing the working processes of the performance for the audience to see.