[Floor2] 8/24 thru 8/30

[Chlöe Mandel]

We've got some great stuff for you this week, sure to bring you  
happiness and wonder, joy and disbelief, fulfillment and  
confusion...and that's just three out of eight shows!

Local heavy bands play with a NYC heavy band on a heavy Friday night  
of what the kids call sludge and doom music. Sounds scary, but you  
shouldn't fight your dark side.

Happy moshing for a good cause! There's a mid-day benefit punk show  
Saturday afternoon with local favorites, St.Jude, Fight the Tides,  
The Spoils and possibly more! In light of recent events, proceeds go  
to help Alex Svoboda. All your new friends are gonna be there!

Punk funk fun time all-girl dance band, Mika Miko, plays next hump  
day along with local regulars, Made in Mexico and Triangle Forest.  
Totally worth it.

As I say goodbye and leave you with the events, remember; as a cool  
breeze wafts through the streets of Providence, don't get all mopey  
about summer's end. You can find year-round comfort in the open  
embrace of AS220. Just make sure you wear protection.

xoxo
chlöe

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Friday, August 24, 2007
8pm Sin Of Angels, Negative Reaction, Beneath Oblivion, Noosebomb,  
Howl and Kintaan
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Saturday, August 25, 2007
2pm-5pm St. Jude, Fight The Tides, The Spoils and more
$5

9pm Barn Burning, Vivan Linden, Ben Pilgrim and The Divorced
$6

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Sunday, August 26, 2007
9pm Babies In Limbo, Rut and Iosoce
$5

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Monday, August 27, 2007
8pm August Spy, Just Let It Die, The Victory Parade and California Smile
$5

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Tuesday, August 28, 2007
10pm UM: Jazz with Hal Crook, Bob Gullotti, Dave Zinno and Leo Genovese
$7

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Wednesday, August 29, 2007
9pm Triangle Forest, Mika Miko and Made In Mexico
$7

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Thursday, August 30, 2007
7:30pm Free Speech Thursdays at AS220 featuring: Providence Poetry Slam
$4

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Friday, August 24, 2007
8pm Sin Of Angels, Negative Reaction, Beneath Oblivion, Noosebomb,  
Howl and Kintaan
Heavy, heavy Friday night, watch out - heavy. SIN OF ANGELS  
(Providence, RI) was conceived of in early 2003, by friends Ray  
McCaffrey and Josh Maher. They were soon joined by Todd Laskowski  
(Warhorse) and quickly began writing. They wasted no time in  
recording and self-releasing a two-song demo, "The Dark Sky  
Sessions", which contained early versions of "At Journey's End" and  
"Dark Sky Prophecy" (later re-recorded and released on the 2005 full- 
length "From the Ashes"). Sin of Angels worked hard playing shows and  
developing a fan base in the New England area. Many lineup changes  
were had over the years, but what remained unchanged was their  
unrelenting drive. . Combining elements of doom, sludge and death  
metal, Sin of Angels has built a reputation around their pummeling  
live shows. NEGATIVE REACTION (NY, NY): Negative Reaction give any  
band in the sludge/doom scene a kick in the ass. One of the heaviest  
bands around today, NR uses feedback as a hammer and the guitars  
tuned to A as the stake. Don't be alarmed though, this band writes  
songs with feeling and heart to match creativity and give the  
listener one hell of a time. They can tear through a fast number as  
well as a slow one, which will make you think you're listening to a  
combination of Grief, Black Sabbath and Napalm Death.

http://www.myspace.com/sinofangels http://www.myspace.com/ 
negativereaction
$8


Saturday, August 25, 2007
2pm-5pm St. Jude, Fight The Tides, The Spoils and more
Punk rock matinee, y'all. http://www.myspace.com/spoils2007 http:// 
www.myspace.com/saintjudegodfree
$5

9pm Barn Burning, Vivan Linden, Ben Pilgrim and The Divorced
VIVIAN LINDEN grew up in various one-room cabins in rural northern  
California. She moved to Seattle in 1999. After spending several  
years writing music alone, she began bringing together other local  
musicians to help breathe life into her material. Vivian began  
playing shows in the Seattle area and in 2004 she released the  
Latecomers EP, a four song collection of original material. By 2005  
she had attracted the attention of several local producers including  
Beck Henderer-Pena. Recorded over the course of 2005 and early 2006,  
Watch the Light Fade was carefully crafted by Beck, Charlie Smith,  
Vivian and her bandmates. The album also features performances by  
various respected local musicians such as Wayne Horvitz, Bill Herzog,  
Jay Roulston and others. True to it's genesis, Watch the Light Fade  
became a spacious and brooding homage to love, lust, lonesomeness and  
loss. Sharing the stage will be Vivian's East-Coast label-mates, BARN  
BURNING. "With their second full-length release Barn Burning create  
soundscapes that are both stark and expansive through which singer  
Anthony Loffredio drifts, a contemplative and angst-ridden Nomad.  
Musically the sound is a blend of alt-country, folk and post-rock and  
is truly unique. The album was recorded in a large, remote house in  
the middle of winter and the music has seemingly absorbed it’s  
desolate ambience and communicates it perfectly. The instrumentation  
is minimalist but also has a widescreen feel that creates a vast  
landscape, unsettling but still. Occasionally this serenity is  
violated by a storm of crashing guitars and Loffredio’s brooding  
vocal becomes an anguished wail, as during ‘The Final Days of Our  
Better Days’." (Losing Today)

http://www.vivianlinden.com http://www.tarnishedrecords.com http:// 
www.barnburning.net/ http://www.myspace.com/thedivorcedmusic
$6


Sunday, August 26, 2007
9pm Babies In Limbo, Rut and Iosoce
BABIES IN LIMBO from Providence RI and New Bedford MA. "There had to  
be cosmic forces afoot when Joe Lemerise, Joey Whipp and Brian  
Viveiros pooled their creative energies together to form Babies In  
Limbo. Even though all three attended the same high school, they  
would have never imagined they would one day form a band together.  
Lemerise, (drummer), was originally a guitarist. He only picked up  
the sticks after Viveiros, (bass), purchased a drum kit and they  
agreed to play some covers along with Whipp on (vocals, guitars,  
keyboards). From this loose partnership a baby was born. Self- 
described as "Ob-rock," or objective-rock, Babies have sought to  
create a sonic landscape culled from many various contemporary and  
classical influences. The music is full of life and defies being  
placed into a category or genre. Babies attribute this to their  
organic creative process." IOSOCE, orginal rock from Barrington, RI.  
RUT, original funk from Barrington, RI. http://www.myspace.com/ 
babiesinlimbo http://www.myspace.com/mudrdirt http://www.myspace.com/ 
thebluepieshuffle
$5


Monday, August 27, 2007
8pm August Spy, Just Let It Die, The Victory Parade and California Smile
JUST LET IT DIE, left of center, wonderfully accidental, bedroom punk  
indie 4-track folk death strums from Cranston RI, in the tradition of  
R.Stevie Moore with Lou Barlow on guitar (battery in effects pedal  
dying) and Freddy Mercury hammering out the painfully sweeping piano  
lines. THE VICTORY PARADE also plays music, but they are not from New  
York. Instead, they live in Cranston, Rhode Island, along with JUST  
LET IT DIE. The rent is much cheaper there than in New York City.  
http://myspace.com/justletitdie http://www.myspace.com/augustspy
$5


Tuesday, August 28, 2007
/// Tuesday Night LIFE DRAWING goes on vacation this month ///
Live model figure drawing will return to its regular Tuesday night  
6-9pm slot in September!


10pm UM: Jazz with Hal Crook, Bob Gullotti, Dave Zinno and Leo Genovese
UM's weekly live jazz gig at AS220 is now into it's 13th year! That's  
right - every Tuesday since 1994 - come on down and check it out.  
"Trombonist Hal Crook is a marvel. He has evolved a singular musical  
voice echoing past masters... impressing as a modernist with  
chops." (Jazz Times) http://halcrook.com/
$7


Wednesday, August 29, 2007
9pm Triangle Forest, Mika Miko and Made In Mexico
OH HAI DERE... MIKA MIKO have an entry in Wikipedia, let's cut and  
paste it, shall we? "Mika Miko is an underground youth punk/noise  
band formed in 2003 in Los Angeles, California, USA. In 2004 they  
gained local popularity for their frenetic live performances which  
emulate being at a party and often take place at parties. Featuring  
Victor Fandgore (Jennifer Clavin), Jet Blanca (Jenna Thornhill),  
Michelle Suarez, Jessica Clavin, and Jon Erik Edrosa, the original  
line up of the band made its first demo CD-R, its first 7" record,  
and toured the West Coast extensively before replacing their original  
drummer with Kate Hall and embarking on their first national tour in  
the Summer of 2005. Also in 2005 they were featured on two  
compilations released by Los Angeles-based record labels, produced  
their first two self-released cassettes, and two members of the band  
appeared on the Hawnay Troof EP Community. Their first full-length  
album was co-released by Post Present Medium and Kill Rock Stars in  
the Summer of 2006. A second pressing on vinyl was later released by  
Sweden based label Deleted Art. In August of 2006 the band graced the  
cover of Maximum Rocknroll which within contained an interview and  
photoshoot by Vice Cooler. In July of 2006 they were featured in ANP  
Quarterly. Members of the band appeared in the film 40 Bands/80  
Minutes! released in 2006. The band was featured in the Static  
section of Punk Planet's 76th issue (November/December 2006).They  
often play at The Smell, an all-ages venue in Los Angeles, where they  
are also volunteers." Providence bands MADE IN MEXICO and TRIANGLE  
FOREST make music in a local style, also.

http://www.myspace.com/mikamiko http://www.skingraftrecords.com/ 
bandhtmlpages/mimpg.html http://www.myspace.com/triangleforest
$7


Thursday, August 30, 2007
7:30pm Free Speech Thursdays at AS220 featuring: Providence Poetry Slam
THURSDAYS are WORDSDAYS, this week:

On THURSDAYS at AS220, FREE SPEECH is in full effect with a weekly  
program of SPOKEN WORD OPEN MICS, POETRY SLAMS, YOUTH SLAMS, SONGS IN  
THE KEY OF 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!  
http://www.myspace.com/providencepoetryslam
$4