DC401 is the local Defcon Group for Rhode Island. DC401 is a gathering for folks interested in the alternate applications of modern technology, referred to properly as 'hacking'. DC401 is not intended to compete with any other computer group, such as Providence Geeks, 2600 or Linux User Groups, but rather to provide yet another gathering place for the discussion of technology and security topics. DC401 meetings are open to anyone, regardless of their skill, age, job, gender, etc. DC401 is here to help you learn new things, meet new people, mentor others in areas you may be strong in, and provide some cohesion within the hacker culture and it's members. For more information, visit http://dc401.org or email dcg401 {at} gmail {dot} com

"Two Piece punk band from Atlanta GA. Booking our Punk Panther 09 summer tour. A black guy in a kilt on guitar and vocals with my best friend Sam Adams on drums, playing loud fast catch and fun punk rock n roll." - Jesse Nobody

Perfect Static is a pop punk DIY band.

The Silver City is glam punk. Weirdos, escaped from normal life, only concerned with rockin the s*** out of anyone who will listen. Connected to the life energy of stars and planets. Future and past.

Johnny Clotheshanger & the Anti-babies is old school punk.

1ST THURSDAY: OPEN MIC, FEATURE, OPEN SLAM *OPEN MIC LIST GOES UP AT 7:30PM/DOORS OPEN AT 8PM
On THURSDAYS at AS220, FREE SPEECH is in full effect with a weekly program of SPOKEN WORD OPEN MICS, POETRY SLAMS, YOUTH SLAMS, HIP-HOP - OPEN MIC SHOWCASE (on 2nd Thursdays), MUSICIAN OPEN MICS, and so on and so forth. Come teach, share, and learn! The stage is open to writers, poets, rappers, comedians, professor's, ranters, and ravers; come down and keep the oral tradition alive! The Providence Poetry Slam: Providence is one of the most well known and exciting Poetry Slams nationwide - The PVD team has made it to the National Poetry Slam Tournament semi-finals for the last 5 seasons!

Get in touch through our myspace page!

B SHARP MUSIC - NEW, USED, BUY, SELL, TRADE, BUILD, MODIFY, GUITAR, AMP, AND PEDAL REPAIR - BSHARP CUSTOM, GODIN/SIMON & PATRICK ACOUSTICS, EASTWOOD, CORT, DR STRINGS, ELECTRO-HARMONIX, YORKVILLE/TRAYNOR, HUGHES & KETTNER, ORANGE AMPLIFICATION, DIMARZIO PICKUPS, EMINENCE SPEAKERS, AND MANY MORE!

- 265 BROADWAY PROVIDENCE RI 02903

- 12 - 8 MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY, 12 - 6 SATURDAY, CLOSED SUNDAY

- 401.223.2112

- B-SHARPMUSIC.COM - SUPPORT LOCAL MUSIC AND YOUR LOCAL MUSIC STORE!

We are a participating venue for Sound Session this year.

Witness a raft of talented local performers the likes of which you have never seen at Providence's premiere variety show! The Empire Revue brings you sketch comedy, improv, musical interludes, burlesque, magic, and general devilment, on the first Sunday of every month. Featuring: sizzling music by Superchief Trio and your favorite funnybone fondlers, The Sparkling Beatniks: Richard Goulis, Hannah Devine, & Kate Lohman. Plus, special guest performers every month, unpredictable pre-show shenanigans, a talking squirrel and more! Empire Revue is sponsored by Empire Loan on North Main Street.

Armageddon cancelled their show because The Kids cancelled their tour. We will have a show with Anisette, Half Shaved Yak and more! We are a participating venue for sound session this year.

Every Tuesday bring your drawing utensils and paper to AS220 and sketch from a live model! Please note the time shift!

We are a participating venue for Sound Session this year.

The Missoula Oblongata is an experimental theatre company dedicated to creating and touring original work. Our lights, sound, and sets are all homemade, transportable, and operated by the performers themselves. This allows us to perform in venues which are accessible—financially and geographically—to a larger population than the regional theatre system serves. We meet unlikely audiences in their neighborhoods, their parks, their favorite music venues, and their homes—and transform these spaces into temporary, anarchistic theaters.

Come down to AS220 Labs and join the Pd club for it's first meeting! Pd (Pure Data) is a graphical programming language and open source project with a large and growing user base. Pd is widely used by artists to create interactive computer music and multimedia works, and to some extent is interoperable with its commercial cousin Max/MSP.

The Pd club will be a periodic, informal gathering (a "patching circle") where Providence-area "patchers" can work together, exchange ideas, trouble-shoot, and learn from one-another. The club is open to all, from beginners to experts. Artists, students, teachers, programmers, hobbyists, and the "just-curious" are welcome. The only requirements are that you like a challenge and have a laptop.

We are a participating venue for Sound Session this year.

SHV (Superior Human Vomit): satan's seamstress revamps your wardrobe through aural asphyxiation.

Baaddd (from Australia) are an electronic mess with ripe costumes and toxic lipstick. Kiss you deadly.

Green Cobweb: Buoys Towne crack grooves for ghouls and skeece.

Forever is like a mix of Buzzcocks, Sleater Kinney, and X.

Querent: an oracle who flitters about on an unseen web whispering quizzical psalms about moon tonics and healing brews into your ear. Panic not, dear children, no need for ire, accept her fortune and unleash your desires in the smoke billowing off her aural pire.

*6:30-9pm: Providence Slam: Poetry Tag & Writers Workshop!!
2ND THURSDAY: POETRY TAG/WRITER'S CIRCLE *Laid back, low pressure writer's group. A chance to share and talk about poems away from the stage. 6:30PM/UPSTAIRS, 2ND FLOOR AS220 CLASSROOM SPACE

For more information contact us through our myspace page.

We are a participating venue for Sound Session this year. *When: *6pm -9pm / *Where: *AS220 / 115 Empire Street / Providence, RI *How Much: *2 Bucks at the Door! Elementary Showcase is returning to its 6pm - 9pm slot, That's right, Three hours of Open Mic time to hear from Rhode Island's young (16-21yrs) and up and coming Emcees! Elementary Showcase is a Hip-Hop Open Mic Dedicated to getting young performers on stage. We want everyone to get up and have a chance to Rock-Da-Mic. Come Early as the list fills up quick! For More Information on the event, Contact Anjel Newmann at Anjel@as220.org

We are a participating venue in Sound Session this year.

We are a participating venue for Sound Session this year. Menya is homemade blend of electronic pop and danceable hip hop.

Sacred Objects is avant garde postmodern melodies and atmospheric layers of sound scapes.

Robot Dick is a three piece progressive instrumental band. Loops and riffs and crunchy grooves.

Building Program for Broad Street members only.

Until the Light Takes Us is a feature length documentary chronicling the history, ideology and aesthetic of Norwegian black metal - a musical subculture infamous as much for a series of murders and church arsons as it is for its unique musical and visual aesthetics. This is the first (and only) film to truly shed light on a movement that has heretofore been shrouded in darkness and rumor and obscured by inaccurate and shallow depictions. Featuring exclusive interviews and verité with the musicians, a wealth of rare, seldom seen footage from the "Black Circle"s earliest days, Until the Light Takes Us explores every aspect of the controversial movement that has captured the attention of the world. This is the movie that gets inside the minds and hearts of black metal's musicians. The filmmakers moved to Norway, living and filming there for two years. The movie is not about them though - it's about the extraordinary people and events that make black metal unique, unforgettable, and inevitable. This is black metal as seen through the eyes of those who created it, of those who live it, of those who are at the center of the story of black metal. Featuring: Gylve "Fenriz" Nagell, Varg Vikernes, Jan Axel "Hellhammer" Blomberg, Kjetil "Frost" Haraldstad, Ivar Bjornson, Abbath and Demonaz Doom Occulta, Kris "Garm" Rygg, Bjarne Melgaard, Harmony Korine, and more. The film, shot on 35 mm and dv, is directed and produced by Audrey Ewell and Aaron Aites.

We are a participating venue for Sound Session.

Witchking is a black metal band.

Tovarish is a Soviet inspired black/doom metal band. Influenced by Celtic Frost, Sunno))) and full of political samples. Droning keys and excrutiating vocals.

Paranthropus is back on this bill and will perform as a solo black metal act.

shows for the month of July 8-27, 2009
opening receptions (free admission): Sunday, July 12, 4-7pm
AS220 Main Gallery: new work by Deanna Hope, John McCaughey & Roberta Sulls
Open Window: photography by Diego Correal
Youth Gallery: new work by Tiffany Ng
AS220 Project Space @ 93 Mathewson St.: Not Just Women In White Dresses -new work by C.W. Roelle & Trash Island - new work by Jill Colinan & Kendra Plumley

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 , John Fuzek, 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 John Fuzek at fuzmek@aol.com or Ryan Fitzsimmons at songwriters@ryanfitzsimmons.com.

Religious Girls is a diverse group of multi-instrumentalists, with each member hailing from separate musical backgrounds that ranges from metal to noise to math rock and pop. Using their talents, Religious Girls focus thier energy into creating beautiful harmonies and layering them over intricate percussive ryhthms. Prefering to play on the floor near listeners rather than a distant stage, they feel that no matter how high of quality a recording may be the live set is what moves people, and therefore focus on creating intimacy with the crowd. Collectively, the band has tried to push aside the standards of popular song writing with non-repeating structures, an intricate mathmatical style, and a carefully laid out set in which all songs are interweaved into one. Religious Girls offers an intense and dramatic set, leaving viewers in awe by the end of the performance.

Our Brother the Native is on FatCat Records- blending freak folk, experimental, electro-acoustic ethereal hymns.

Kokomo is a little bit of gravity melting in your hand.

Vanquisher is self described as Death Metal.

On Hell's Path is metal. Influenced by Slayer, Iron Maiden, etc.

Dreppe God is black metal who loves Cradle of Filth and Dimmu Borgir.

Every Tuesday bring your drawing utensils and paper to AS220 and sketch from a live model! Please note the time shift!

These Lost Years is a post hardcore/screamo band.

Bomb Strapped Chest is hardcore.

Regency is a fusion of styles with a core of rock.

The goal of Providence Geeks is to help Rhode Island's digital innovators connect, collaborate, and ultimately make the City-State and its geeks info-technology leaders. Topics of conversation will vary as they will at any gathering of geeks, but many of us will be talking about AJAX, Mashups, Startups, and Web Services. It's totally casual. Wear whatever, bring whoever, arrive and vamoose whenever. And don't worry about eating or not. Come famished or full, eating is optional, and frankly, the least of the festivities.

The Andalusians just released a single "Do the Work" on Dischord Records. Includes Basla Andolsun from Del Cielo.

Wishing Wells sounds like Television/Talking Heads with country and western undertones. Kinda like Minutemen at times. With Ruby from Made In Mexico, Fish Wells from Idiot Savant, Joe Piller and Demian Battit (polka musician).

Gambees are a bunch of loving losers.

Despite common opinion, This Moment in Black History can be traced back to a humble start in a Cleveland, OH basement in 2002, when the idea of a "personal" stereo experience was a bit of a novelty. Buddy Akita, Mike D'Amico (later replaced by Lawrence Daniel Caswell), Lamont Thomas, & Chris Kulcsar were quick to debut this hybrid stereo--not quite a home stereo console, but more than a portable combination radio-cassette. The models were small, heavy and black, plus sound quality and AM/FM tuning was quite good. The pinnacle in functionality was an array of input and output jacks, so the stereo could be integrated with other audio equipment, like microphones and turntables.

This event will be at the As220 Project Space (not our space on Empire Street) so please go to 95 Mathewson Street for the fun!!!

Free Speech Thursday's Singer-Song Writer and Singer/Songwriter's Open Mic!! Come and play your songs in front of an appreciative, respectful Poetry Slam audience used to giving their full attention to performance art, at an event run by professionals who know how to maintain a listener's environment and keep the show moving. The mic is open to all on 3rd Thursdays, but the focus is definitely on the music: Singers and Songwriters get 8 minute blocks, acapella poets get 3 minutes. Open mic list goes up at 7:30/Doors at 8pm. Come early because the list fills up quick!! For more info: contact us through our myspace account!

Hip Hop! July Birthdays REPRESENT.

Building Program for Broad Street members only.

Ghosting (VT), Jesuscentric, Heisai Yasokawa's Empty Orchestra (from MA),

"Providence Cutting Sessions" is a new Jazz Program at AS220. The program has just changed time slot and will now run every THIRD Sunday of the month from 5:30 pm - 8 pm. The goal of this program is to inspire others to contribute to and support a growing jazz community. Students and Jazz musicians of all levels can contribute to this jazz community through performance, composition, and appreciation. The "Providence Cutting Sessions" is a program created by the Artistic Director of AS220, Bert Crenca, and a trio of local jazz musicians, Nick Sollecito, Mike Bernier, and Alex Chapman. This program's mission is two-part. First, to give jazz musicians a venue to display their art and talent; second, to compose a new repertoire of jazz standards. Providence Cutting Sessions will display new and original jazz compositions by local musicians. These compositions will mainly be in the style of the "Real Book", which contains hundreds of well-known jazz standards. This program welcomes jazz musicians to come to performances and sit in with the house trio. All instruments are welcome. Original charts are available at performances and online in .pdf format (go to www.anglesideside.com for more info). Available charts have been transposed in keys C, B flat and E flat. We welcome composers to submit original songs to be performed (email providencecuttingsessions@gmail.com for more info). This program is inspired from the original cutting Sessions that took place in the 1930s and 1940s in many cities around the United States. Some of these cities included Kansas City, Milwaukee, Chicago, and of course, New York City. They were held in smaller clubs where jazz was played. Musicians would come to these sessions and join the band on stage to perform well-known songs of the time, or standards. One rumor of how the term "cutting sessions" came about is if the musician did not know the song, he/she would essentially be "cut" from the stage. While this may have been true of these sessions in their time, there is another belief in how these performances got the name "cutting sessions" and this is more our vision of the program. Cutting sessions offered musicians the opportunity to "cut their teeth." In other words, these sessions gave musicians a chance to get their experience in a real life situation of performing jazz on stage, with professionals, in front of an audience.

Talbot Tagora on Sub Pop records.

The Kingwoods : You ain't seen a mic stand this well scarfed since Axl Rose brought it to ya in the 90's.

Shark is spacey, heavy, shoegazey rock.

A Night Sky is post rock/indie.

Stone Fish: Steely Dan meets Soulive and a lot of rock n roll.

Every Tuesday bring your drawing utensils and paper to AS220 and sketch from a live model! Please note the time shift!

It's the return of Wild Draw! Back by popular demand! Bands put their name into a hat and are chosen for a random lineup! Anything goes! Eclectic and Electric.

Hip Bosha: "We will tear the roof off without destroying anything."

No Opinion is alternative blues rock.

Come down to AS220 Labs and join the Pd club for it's first meeting! Pd (Pure Data) is a graphical programming language and open source project with a large and growing user base. Pd is widely used by artists to create interactive computer music and multimedia works, and to some extent is interoperable with its commercial cousin Max/MSP.

The Pd club will be a periodic, informal gathering (a "patching circle") where Providence-area "patchers" can work together, exchange ideas, trouble-shoot, and learn from one-another. The club is open to all, from beginners to experts. Artists, students, teachers, programmers, hobbyists, and the "just-curious" are welcome. The only requirements are that you like a challenge and have a laptop.

RECORD RELEASE SHOW! for Prayers For Atheists performing with Roz Raskin & the Rice Cakes: Providence Indy/Punk

Just Die - Asheville Hardcore

Mowgli - Providence Punk/Hardcore (with bad-ass front woman)

Prayers For Atheists is the first punk band signed to Strange Famous Records, the Independent music label owned by Sage Francis. PFA is fronted by long-time AS220 community members Jared Paul and Alan Hague. The 8 song EP drops on July 21st and this is the official record release show. $7 admission- $10 gets you 1 admission + 1 EP!!!

Jessica Hopper is a music and culture critic based in Chicago. Her work regularly appears in Chicago Reader, LA Weekly, SPIN, ANP and Chicago Tribune and has also been included in DaCapo's Best of Music Writing 2004, 2005 and 2007. She is also the music consultant for the public radio show, This American Life. The New York Times called her widely-anthologized essay "Emo: Where The Girls Aren't" "influential". Holding fast to the music-is-my-life credo, Hopper has also done time as a tour manager, band publicist, DJ, touring bassist, Girls Rock Camp booster and fanzine publisher.

Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic began in 1980 as a side project by half of Boston's famed rock band, Mission Of Burma: Roger Miller and Martin Swope. Miller and Swope joined forces with Rick Scott and Erik Lindgren. Perhaps because of their tie to the ever-popular Burma or perhaps because of their sheer excellence Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic earned international recognition for their innovative sound. The New York Times called them "the world's hardest rocking chamber music quartet." Their unlikely mix of rock, punk, classical, minimalism, and free-form sound appealed to a broad range of musical tastes. From July 24 - 30, Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, featuring founding member Roger Miller (of Mission of Burma), will be playing five East Coast shows in support of the recent 2-CD release Dawn of the Cycads on Cuneiform Records. This package contains their complete recordings plus unreleased material for the Boston-based Ace of Hearts Records (Mission of Burma, Lyres, etc). The original line, with current Birdsongs guitarist Michael Bierylo filling in for Martin Swope, will perform music exclusively from their new retrospective and will play on vintage equipment.

Early in 2006 Everett Brown, Mary Audette, and Tim Reilly formed Barnacle -- a high energy Celtic/sea music/folk band. (See detailed bio in blog) Entrenched deeply in the traditions of the sea (Tim as rigger, sailor, chanteyman and Everett as member of the Wickford Express and Compass Rose and Jon as a member of Sharks Come Cruising), Barnacle sails into a variety of world ports, evolving from the band members' diverse musical backgrounds, ethnicities, and tastes--hence many ports, one sea. Nominated as best New Act of 2009 by the Motif Magazine Music Awards.

1,000 times better than banging your head into your cement basement wall is banging your head against a thick wall of harsh noise and black metal. dead times---local sample based noise/black metal work/death---local noise genius sewer goddess---depressive noise from mass. tomb---blackened noise from philly

Building Program for Broad Street members only.

Hip Hop! Rock & Roll (Could Never Ever Hip-Hop Like This) - Handsome Boy Modeling School

Marching band music for My Little Ponies to listen to while they graze on wild mushrooms.

Psychedelic rock/ambient experimental music

"Snotty nasal punk rock garage grunge. Like you are at a 80's roller rink disco and the party is kinda lame but then this punk rock smoothie bar gets set up and the Buzzcocks and the Wipers are put in a blender and you chug that shit and all of a sudden you are skating backwards with a real hottie and feeling all nice nice."-MS From the Lovvers promo team: Lovvers concisely sum up their influences as "Germs. Wipers. SST." And there's little arguing that Lovvers' aural blitzkrieg is built from the spare parts of the first decade of American punk rock, though it's the way they combine the sloppy and the furious that truly sets them apart. Comprised of Shaun Hencher on vocals, Henry Withers on guitar, Michael Drake on bass, and Stephen Rose on drums, Lovvers formed in Nottingham ENGLAND in 2006, and within two weeks of their first rehearsal the band started playing their first shows.

14Foot1 is a math rock band, instrumental, avant garde mixed with late 90s screamo.

Friendenstein is a killer duo from Boston/Providence playing basement music in the vein of Ski-metal pioneers MARIO FETTUCINE, the neo-blues-punk of STANK WILSON, and France's pagan-electro enviro-punsters THE BEACH BOIS.

Every Tuesday bring your drawing utensils and paper to AS220 and sketch from a live model! Please note the time shift!

The Road to High Street is a multimedia extravaganza by Andrew Potter. Storytelling, songs, and video stories on an eccentric array of characters Andrew has encountered through 25 years of storytelling.

Andy Suzuki and the Method is similar to Joni Mitchell, John Legend and Jason Mraz.

It's the return of Wild Draw!

And the Eskimo is grunge/ska

Knuf Said is funk, jam, jazz fusion.

Kyle Anderson is a singer/songwriter.

Far Off Place is alterna rock.

Infinite Children are a trio who play jazzy outerspace vampiric surf metal.

Max Cudworth Experiment incorporates elements of hip hop, funk, rock, gospel and improv dance tunes.

The Band Called Music is an instrumental trio that plays jazz, rock, funk, Latin, and fusion.

Interplay is an experimental jazz quartet with all original compositions.

Something Red is a complex band with catchy instrumentation featuring a cello!

Smash your panties into a freezer overnight and put them on your head right before this show and maybe you can handle the massive attack of aural hell that awaits you. Thanks, Alaska is screamo punk!

Make It Last Forever is a straightedge hardcore band from Coventry.

My Only Freedom is punk.

Nursery, Nursery is grime. experimental.

Firing Squad is two piece doom and black metal from the swamps of Louisiana; stranded in the deserts of Texas. Pummelng bass fury with the fiercest drummer, buried beneath layers of distortion, amplification, and vocals like echoes from medieval torture chambers.

In the galleries.
New work by Christine Olszewski, Sharon Kahn-Cutts, Wendyll Brown, Sarah Samways.

August 2-29 opening reception Sunday August 2, 4-7pm AS220 Main Gallery On-the- Line 19 on Paper group exhibition (http://www.nineteenonpaper.com/) Open Window Collages by Christine Olszewski AS220 Project Space Pieces new work Sharon Kahn-Cutts & Wendyll Brown Youth Gallery Quiet RIot new work by Sarah Samways

Witness a raft of talented local performers the likes of which you have never seen at Providence's premiere variety show! The Empire Revue brings you sketch comedy, improv, musical interludes, burlesque, magic, and general devilment, on the first Sunday of every month. Featuring: sizzling music by Superchief Trio and your favorite funnybone fondlers, The Sparkling Beatniks: Richard Goulis, Hannah Devine, & Kate Lohman. Plus, special guest performers every month, unpredictable pre-show shenanigans, a talking squirrel and more! Empire Revue is sponsored by Empire Loan on North Main Street.

The glory days of mosh it up, epic hardcore punk are back for one night at AS220 with these touring acts. Reflector is bashing and shrieking rock with members of Salt Of The Earth!

Cold Shoulder - dancey old school HC from Indiana. Intifada - Female fronted mosh it up HC from Chicago. Reflector - Black Flag meets Ruins, from Providence.

Every Tuesday bring your drawing utensils and paper to AS220 and sketch from a live model! Please note the time shift!

Guitar plucking and vocal harmonies blend like a smoothie. Alt like an alternator, prog like a progress report, rock like rock cleavage.

Soup Kitchen is a rock trio of 3 dudes who mostly play soccer and videogames together. With goofy songs like "I'm a robot".

Vudu Bevy is an energetic five piece rock/garage band.

DC401 is the local Defcon Group for Rhode Island. DC401 is a gathering for folks interested in the alternate applications of modern technology, referred to properly as 'hacking'. DC401 is not intended to compete with any other computer group, such as Providence Geeks, 2600 or Linux User Groups, but rather to provide yet another gathering place for the discussion of technology and security topics. DC401 meetings are open to anyone, regardless of their skill, age, job, gender, etc. DC401 is here to help you learn new things, meet new people, mentor others in areas you may be strong in, and provide some cohesion within the hacker culture and it's members. For more information, visit http://dc401.org or email dcg401 {at} gmail {dot} com

Come down to AS220 Labs and join the Pd club for it's first meeting! Pd (Pure Data) is a graphical programming language and open source project with a large and growing user base. Pd is widely used by artists to create interactive computer music and multimedia works, and to some extent is interoperable with its commercial cousin Max/MSP.

The Pd club will be a periodic, informal gathering (a "patching circle") where Providence-area "patchers" can work together, exchange ideas, trouble-shoot, and learn from one-another. The club is open to all, from beginners to experts. Artists, students, teachers, programmers, hobbyists, and the "just-curious" are welcome. The only requirements are that you like a challenge and have a laptop.

Punks and Folkies disrupt all conventions like when an all lady bike gang takes over the mall.

Destroy Nate Allen is lyrically driven, high energy punk rock folk. Spirited sing alongs.

Distort John Kenny is folk.punk.grind.

Glasseye indie folk influenced by Leatherface, Jonathan Richman and Chuck Ragan.

Ghost Storys folk indie!

Rhode Island Council on the Humanities presents a free grant writing workshop.

1ST THURSDAY: OPEN MIC, FEATURE, OPEN SLAM *OPEN MIC LIST GOES UP AT 7:30PM/DOORS OPEN AT 8PM
On THURSDAYS at AS220, FREE SPEECH is in full effect with a weekly program of SPOKEN WORD OPEN MICS, POETRY SLAMS, YOUTH SLAMS, HIP-HOP - OPEN MIC SHOWCASE (on 2nd Thursdays), MUSICIAN OPEN MICS, and so on and so forth. Come teach, share, and learn! The stage is open to writers, poets, rappers, comedians, professor's, ranters, and ravers; come down and keep the oral tradition alive! The Providence Poetry Slam: Providence is one of the most well known and exciting Poetry Slams nationwide - The PVD team has made it to the National Poetry Slam Tournament semi-finals for the last 5 seasons!

Get in touch through our myspace page!

B SHARP MUSIC - NEW, USED, BUY, SELL, TRADE, BUILD, MODIFY, GUITAR, AMP, AND PEDAL REPAIR - BSHARP CUSTOM, GODIN/SIMON & PATRICK ACOUSTICS, EASTWOOD, CORT, DR STRINGS, ELECTRO-HARMONIX, YORKVILLE/TRAYNOR, HUGHES & KETTNER, ORANGE AMPLIFICATION, DIMARZIO PICKUPS, EMINENCE SPEAKERS, AND MANY MORE!

- 265 BROADWAY PROVIDENCE RI 02903

- 12 - 8 MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY, 12 - 6 SATURDAY, CLOSED SUNDAY

- 401.223.2112

- B-SHARPMUSIC.COM - SUPPORT LOCAL MUSIC AND YOUR LOCAL MUSIC STORE!

Andrew Jeffery Wright

Frankie (pa) Brian (pa) Muffy (the Vampire Layer) Robert Pickle Quinn Emc'd by Joseph Hanks:

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 , John Fuzek, 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 John Fuzek at fuzmek@aol.com or Ryan Fitzsimmons at songwriters@ryanfitzsimmons.com.

The Marksman is melodic hardcore band.

Mercury Made the Hatter is an extremely energetic band.

SBT is a ska punk band.

SoundOff is loud, raw, but still catchy garage rock.

Every Tuesday bring your drawing utensils and paper to AS220 and sketch from a live model! Please note the time shift!

Plaid flannel shirts, cheap trucker speed, and verbal slam mash up for a bit of grungy madness.

Jeff Byrd and the Dirty Finch is alt-rock country.

Nervous Insurgents is indie/blues/grunge.

Birds on a Wire has its roots in rock, jazz and providence flavor.

Angels in America: "one of those out of nowhere experiences where you encounter something with no reference or connection to any of the noise, punk, no wave, junk, skuzz musix you've been soaking in and it completely grips yr mind and purrs against yr sweet spot. Weird, sultry, damaged and almost always falling apart with lyrics spun from some poet head zone, Angels In America are a goddamned curiosity." -Thurston Moore

*When: *6pm -9pm / *Where: *AS220 / 115 Empire Street / Providence, RI *How Much: *2 Bucks at the Door! Elementary Showcase is returning to its 6pm - 9pm slot, That's right, Three hours of Open Mic time to hear from Rhode Island's young (16-21yrs) and up and coming Emcees! Elementary Showcase is a Hip-Hop Open Mic Dedicated to getting young performers on stage. We want everyone to get up and have a chance to Rock-Da-Mic. Come Early as the list fills up quick! For More Information on the event, Contact Anjel Newmann at Anjel@as220.org

*6:30-9pm: Providence Slam: Poetry Tag & Writers Workshop!!
2ND THURSDAY: POETRY TAG/WRITER'S CIRCLE *Laid back, low pressure writer's group. A chance to share and talk about poems away from the stage. 6:30PM/UPSTAIRS, 2ND FLOOR AS220 CLASSROOM SPACE

For more information contact us through our myspace page.

"Thollem McDonas is simply one of the great improvisers of today" - The Detroiter "Van Dyke Parks, Kurt Weill, Captain Beefheart, Thelonious Monk and Tom Waits are just a few of the many spiritual godfathers guiding the hands of this exceptional author." - Massimo Ricci, Touching Extremes

FOO FEST! with: Sun Ra Arkestra, Lightning Bolt, White Mice, Tinsel Teeth, Black Clouds, Lolita Black, Fierce/Close, Big Scythe and Chachi, Made In Mexico, DENIMVENOM, Math the Band, Badman, Samuel James and the Wrong Reasons, Uke of Spaces Corners, Alec K Redfearn and the Seizures, Hotbox, Joes Backyard Band, Mary Bee, BSS, Keith Munslow, and A Special Surprise Guest! 2 Stages! 21 Bands! and MORE!!! It's the return of FOO FEST!

Mellow Howard are the cure for anything that ails you! Their original music will drive you wild! Boisterous and fun. They are the new indie new darlings of providence.

Green Castle is alt rock powerhouse.

Hush Darling is a fun and upbeat female fronted rock band that blends elements of punk, reggae, and alternative to forge a fresh sound.

Can!!Can is a punk/metal band. We are touring to pre-promoting our album coming out on JDub Records (Matisyahu, Golem, Balkan Beat Box, Sway Machinery).

Howlies is a four piece doo wap band from Atlanta, Georgia. Their record was produced by Kim Fowley and charted in the top 50 of the CMJ charts. they were Paste's band of the week and Spin magazine's band of the day. Rock and roll. Live show is unexpected and can involve "musical thugs/male cheerleaders running amok i a madhouse rubber room."

Cliffs & Bangers is a 4 piece instrumental surf/punk/rock band. Sounds like accidentally crashing your T-500 through the front window of your favorite bar...

You Scream I Scream is fun rock and roll dance music. Songs about dogs and fishes. Get your dance on like the doggies Goofy and Scooby Doo.

An Army of Robots is indie rock that shakes the earth to its core.

"Providence Cutting Sessions" is a new Jazz Program at AS220. The program has just changed time slot and will now run every THIRD Sunday of the month from 5:30 pm - 8 pm. The goal of this program is to inspire others to contribute to and support a growing jazz community. Students and Jazz musicians of all levels can contribute to this jazz community through performance, composition, and appreciation. The "Providence Cutting Sessions" is a program created by the Artistic Director of AS220, Bert Crenca, and a trio of local jazz musicians, Nick Sollecito, Mike Bernier, and Alex Chapman. This program's mission is two-part. First, to give jazz musicians a venue to display their art and talent; second, to compose a new repertoire of jazz standards. Providence Cutting Sessions will display new and original jazz compositions by local musicians. These compositions will mainly be in the style of the "Real Book", which contains hundreds of well-known jazz standards. This program welcomes jazz musicians to come to performances and sit in with the house trio. All instruments are welcome. Original charts are available at performances and online in .pdf format (go to www.anglesideside.com for more info). Available charts have been transposed in keys C, B flat and E flat. We welcome composers to submit original songs to be performed (email providencecuttingsessions@gmail.com for more info). This program is inspired from the original cutting Sessions that took place in the 1930s and 1940s in many cities around the United States. Some of these cities included Kansas City, Milwaukee, Chicago, and of course, New York City. They were held in smaller clubs where jazz was played. Musicians would come to these sessions and join the band on stage to perform well-known songs of the time, or standards. One rumor of how the term "cutting sessions" came about is if the musician did not know the song, he/she would essentially be "cut" from the stage. While this may have been true of these sessions in their time, there is another belief in how these performances got the name "cutting sessions" and this is more our vision of the program. Cutting sessions offered musicians the opportunity to "cut their teeth." In other words, these sessions gave musicians a chance to get their experience in a real life situation of performing jazz on stage, with professionals, in front of an audience.

Sweet, saucy, savory! Mind expanding mantras.

J.A.C.K. is indie/noise/crunk.

Pep Rally is a rap group out of Brooklyn comprised of two girls named Elizabeth, a hype man who is missing his lower eyelashes, and a mystery man; a ghost. They met at the half time of a ball game and took over the show. FROM IMPOSE MAGAZINE: This music is southern as fuck... I don't understand them, will never claim to, but I do ask that you listen.

Minimalist band from Austin Texas. Influenced by Lucrate Milk, Los Microwaves, among others. Members of Finally Punk/The Carrots/Zom Zoms. Destined to be in your dreams forever...

Every Tuesday bring your drawing utensils and paper to AS220 and sketch from a live model! Please note the time shift!

Lullabies for sleepless scorpions and elephants engaged in espionage.

DB Leonard is a singer/songwriter and a teller of tall tales.

Mike G is a roots rock/folk rock americana style singer.

Kayla Ringelheim is a folk poet, in the vein of Joni Mitchell and Ella Fitzgerald. She is a member of RISA.

Come down to AS220 Labs and join the Pd club for it's first meeting! Pd (Pure Data) is a graphical programming language and open source project with a large and growing user base. Pd is widely used by artists to create interactive computer music and multimedia works, and to some extent is interoperable with its commercial cousin Max/MSP.

The Pd club will be a periodic, informal gathering (a "patching circle") where Providence-area "patchers" can work together, exchange ideas, trouble-shoot, and learn from one-another. The club is open to all, from beginners to experts. Artists, students, teachers, programmers, hobbyists, and the "just-curious" are welcome. The only requirements are that you like a challenge and have a laptop.

JTO: "Peaceful Original Music Generating Psychedelic, Ska, Folk Rock Experience."

Leave it blank is alternative reggae funk.

Shogun is indie, noise, punk.

All Dead is odd ball, whimsical, disasterous fun. Indie metal two piece.

Gila Monster is a band that formed our of disgust and frustration. Also secretly features some current and former members of Hayworth.

Judastrain is hard rok/grunge.

420 Blackbirds: The Danglers are the maggots that have infested the corpse of Americana and its music, as though to proclaim that country failed us the way the hippies failed us, the way punk failed us, the way alternative just plain failed. Their songs are full of sickening, degrading slide guitar solos, drum tempos that approached thrash-metal speeds, and bipolar moments of quiet and noise.

Brokedown Serenade is ragtime, blues, jazzy original act. Dirty blues rock n roll.

Whitey is heavy, apocalyptic blues rock.

Spindrift just had a song used in the Quentin Tarantino movie Hell Ride. Members of Brian Jonestown Massacre; they are psychedelic roots rock.

It's like being in math class and then your teacher strobes the lights and he's now wearing leather chaps and riding a Lyger with a gold chain around his neck singing epic battle hymns.

Arma is a complex band that defies categorization.

Vulgarrity is a brother sister team of non-confirmists.

Infinite Children is a rock/metal/instrumental trio.

Glowkid has tight rock composition and elements of progressive and math rock.

Rumrunners: devotee of the dark goddess KALI, proud graduate of Butler hospital, DJ and MC from Men of Letters, the voudoun ensembe of Rumrunners and the Jizz Jars, druggy sounds molested with sampler.

Copper Eskimo is a terrible visual and musical project that involves organs, accordians, walkie talkies and radios.

The DEM is ambient, noise, experimental rock.

Holy Sheet is casio tone for the stone deaf.

Whoarfrost is a rock band that does not exceed three members. They play Drum and Bass and Guitar music. It all started in the higher learning shit hole of Boston. They wanted to make the most popular, over produced, white music known to man. Like a rabid dog, most of the Boston population hated and avoided them. They then relocated to Northampton Massachusetts where they proceeded to try and out noise the Northampton Wools. They failed and now live in Baltimore living on a healthy diet of crabs and free jazz.

Music that feels like lying in the grass watching clouds, skipping through fields.

Indie Urban Rock Band with influences in indie, classic rock, blues, alternative, and 60s r & b.

Scarlet is an indie rock/melody rock band. A bit of emo rhythms and singing and a little noodling on the high strings on the guitar.

Big Tall Buildings is indie rock. Their music is featured in Jonah and the Whale.

Last One Standing is an alterna-progressive . Vocal harmonizing, sing along songs!