AS220's Events For Friday, October 22nd-Friday October 29th

Friday, October 22, 2010 / 9pm / $6
JTO, Meccalily, Full Void, and Cosmic Sneeze

Saturday, October 23, 2010 / 4-7pm / Free
Irish Traditional Music

Saturday, October 23, 2010 / 9pm / $6
The Hot Minutes, The Silks, Denver Boot, and Any Port In The Storm

Sunday, October 24, 2010 / 9pm / $8
Supply & Demand Presents: Dark Dark Dark, Brown Bird, Spirits of the Red City, and Liz Isenberg

Monday, October 25, 2010 / Closed

Tuesday, October 26, 2010 / 6-8:30pm / $6
Life Drawing

Tuesday, October 26, 2010 /  9:30 pm / $6
Jacob Haller, Christina Holmes, and Chrisy Gavin

Wednesday, October 27, 2010 / 5:30-7pm, Seating at 5pm / Free
Action Speaks: What's Eating Us? : 1987 The Roaming Mobro Garbage Barge; Garbage, Garbage Everywhere and no direction home!
With Special Guests Juliet Schor & Robin Nagle

Wednesday, October 27, 2010 / 9pm / $6
Future Islands, Amil Byleckie Band, and Young Male

Thursday, October 28, 2010 / 7pm / Free / 115 Empire Street, 2nd Floor Classroom Space
Providence Poetry Slam presents: Writer's Workshop

Thursday, October 28, 2010 / 9pm / $6
Skull Kingdoms, /\, Global Crash, and Sky Jelly

Friday, October 29, 2010 / 9pm / $6
Dangerchunks, Radio Guru, Miss Geo & The Metrics, and Homewreckers

Friday, October 22, 2010 / 9pm / $6
JTO, Meccalily, Full Void, and Cosmic Sneeze
JTO is classic rock psychedelica.
Meccalily adheres to a sacred and pristine mythos and they attempt to tap into the great archetypal wisdom born from the process of becoming.
Full Void is a three man band whose influences range from jazz to classic rock to classical.
Cosmic Sneeze is a jazz rock funk band. Sax, drums, guitar, and bass.
http://RiFunkyMusic.TK
http://www.myspace.com/meccalily
http://www.reverbnation.com/cosmicsneeze

Saturday, October 23, 2010 / 4-7pm / Free
Irish Traditional Music
Hosted by Jimmy and Hannah Devine with Mark Roberts, Andrea Cooper, Teddi Scobi and Friends! Every Saturday from 4-7pm at the AS220 bar! 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!

Saturday, October 23, 2010 / 9pm / $6
The Hot Minutes, The Silks, Denver Boot, and Any Port In The Storm
(Sorry, 'From Eastern Shores' cancelled.)
The Hot Minutes are a rock and roll indie show.
The Silks are a fresh folk blues project that consists of guitars, bass, and drums.
The Denver Boot are former members of Brokedown Serenade and Fury 3. Bluegrass with fiddle, mandelin, saw.
Any Port In The Storm is a three piece from Toll Gate High School. Experimental fun.
http://www.myspace.com/thehotminutes
http://www.myspace.com/anyportinthestorm
http://www.thesilksmusic.com
http://www.myspace.com/thedenverboot

Sunday, October 24, 2010 / 9pm / $8
Supply & Demand Presents: Dark Dark Dark, Brown Bird, Spirits of the Red City, and Liz Isenberg
Dark Dark Dark performs haunting songs. Themes include love and heartbreak, death and loneliness, and the persistent sense of hope that keeps you living and moving. These themes tangle with tales of ghosts, fermenting bodies, and magical dreams.
Brown Bird is a five piece orchestra of voices and instruments. Haunting lyrics surge on waves of appalachian, gypsy, and shanty music. Pulling from the backgrounds of each musician to create a quiet, dark, folk music that often swells into high spirited foot stomping madness.
Liz Isenberg writes songs on the guitar string/bass/loop pedal/ and banjo.
Spirits of the Red City is a Minneapolis-based, eight-member ensemble who call home places as scattered as Alaska, Chicago and New York City. Call the music time-weathered folk or strewn remnants of Americana or something else entirely. What you will hear: Opaque lyrics, at once lonely and longing and hopeful and weary and love-strewn, given breath with explorative structure and melody from cello, violas, mandolin, trumpet, drums, banjo, accordion, layered vocal harmonies and more. Following a pair of celebrated, sold-out release shows in Minneapolis, the ensemble spent much of 2009 touring across the country, playing everywhere from well-recognized venues including Skull Alley (Louisville, KY), Bob's World Famous Java Jive (Tacoma, WA), Hotel Utah (San Francisco, CA), Vaudeville Mews (Des Moines, IA), The Middle East (Cambridge, MA), and 7th St. Entry (Minneapolis, MN) to speakeasies, basements, ocean piers, and other nontraditional venues. In 2010, the ensemble plans to perform over a hundred dates across the country, release a 7" featuring three new songs, and continue work on a follow-up to its acclaimed debut recording. "... Plays with the airy intimacy and elegance of a minimalist duo, with wistful themes and relatively spare orchestrations: a simple cello line, a gently strummed guitar or a lonely fiddle. Spirits of the Red City singer Will Garrison has a whiskey-soaked voice that's a little weary but full of honesty and passion." -National Public Radio
http://www.sad-music.net
http://www.myspace.com/brownbird
http://www.myspace.com/lizisenberg
http://spiritsoftheredcity.com/site/?p=media

Monday, October 25, 2010 / Closed

Tuesday, October 26, 2010 / 6-8:30pm / $6
Life Drawing
Every Tuesday bring your drawing utensils and paper to AS220 and sketch from a live model!

Tuesday, October 26, 2010 /  9:30 pm / $6
Jacob Haller, Christina Holmes, and Chrisy Gavin
Jacob Haller, joined by Natalie Markward and Joe Auger, will be playing folk blues.
Christina Holmes is a singer, songwriter who loves music. She is classically trained asn has been singing since the age of ten.
Chrisy Gavin is a musician and artist. Her songs are full of emotion and heart. Indie folk music.
http://music.jwgh.org
http://www.myspace.com/christinaholmesmusic
http://www.myspace.com/chrisy_gavin

Wednesday, October 27, 2010 / 5:30-7pm, Seating at 5pm / Free
Action Speaks: What's Eating Us? : 1987 The Roaming Mobro Garbage Barge; Garbage, Garbage Everywhere and no direction home!
With Special Guests Juliet Schor & Robin Nagle
In 1987, a Barge filled with garbage was dragged up and down the East Coast of the United Sates and down into Caribbean and Mexican waters. Starting as an attempt to produce methane, the barge became synonymous with our society's problems with consumption and disposal. In our discussion of this classically underappreciated moment, famed Boston University Professor, Juliet Schor will join with the only "Archeologist in Resident" ever hired by the NYC Department of Sanitation, Professor Robin Nagle to discuss the issue of what to do with the waste products from a material rich society.
http://www.actionspeaksradio.org

Wednesday, October 27, 2010 / 9pm / $6
Future Islands, Amil Byleckie Band, and Young Male Amil "The Band" Byleckie has been resisting his inevitable fate to be a heartthrob pop-star for over a decade. Strategies utilized to thwart this destiny include: bad haircuts, elaborate pop operas about pirate-snakes, devotion to producing a you-tube sitcom about economics, a stint singing only songs with lyrics lifted straight from adult personal ads, etc. Destiny has its own designs though. Through all the side roads taken he has never forsaken his pop roots and has coalesced finally into a force of unstoppable catchiness with his new band, consisting of JD "Fingers" Fontanella, Lyndon "Licks" Lopez, and Diego "Skins" Perez.
Future Islands: "Replacing the dance-pop movement with rich characterization and storytelling, they've found themselves at a pleasant distance from most formal genre comparisons. Their music is playful but steeped in subtle detail, with both emotional heft and a pungent sense of theatricality... Drawing from a few different traditions while making them their own, Future Islands prove here to be a well-versed group of wild, woolly storytellers."- Pitchfork (7.6)
Young Male is Quinn Taylor.
http://www.iamamil.com
http://www.myspace.com/futureislands

Thursday, October 28, 2010 / 7pm / Free / 115 Empire Street, 2nd Floor Classroom Space
Providence Poetry Slam presents: Writer's Workshop
Poetry Tag / Writer's Circle is a laid-back, low-pressure writer's group, a chance to share your work and talk about poems away from the stage.
For more information contact us through our myspace page.
http://www.myspace.com/providencepoetryslam

Thursday, October 28, 2010 / 9pm / $6
Skull Kingdoms, /\, Global Crash, and Sky Jelly Global Crash blurs the lines of all techno and electronic music. Ambient, house, big beat, trance, breakbeat and electro. Music to make you want to dance and contemplate the meaning of existence.
Skull Kingdoms: voodoo ritual culled from the journals of renegade narcosanto Alvaro Ojos, ex-rumrunners run aground on the shoals of your mind: The Future Is Now!!!
/\ is avante pop doom. Conceptual audio-visual performance with influences ranging from doom, shoegaze, hip hop, and more.
Sky Jelly is a one person psychedelic noisey project.
RSVP for this event at the facebook link: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=163610890317593&ref=mf
http://www.myspace.com/globalcrashmusic
http://www.myspace.com/wireswires
http://www.menofletters.org
http://www.myspace.com/skyjellymusic

Friday, October 29, 2010 / 9pm / $6
Dangerchunks, Radio Guru, Miss Geo & The Metrics, and Homewreckers
Dangerchunks is stoner post rock.
Miss Geo and The Metrics are an all girl indie pop quartet. Catchy garage pop.
Radio Guru is a three piece band that plays heavy blues and hard rock influenced music with a bit of psychedelica thrown in.
Homewreckers is original rock music. Killer harmonies and amazing leads.
http://www.myspace.com/missgeoo