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Established in 2006, Machines with Magnets hosts experimental music performances, sound and art exhibitions and installations, performance art, film and video screenings, cultural and community events, private events, and fundraisers. Past performances include The Body, Dan Deacon, Mirah, Etran de l'Aïr, Braveyoung, Lydia Lunch, Lightning Bolt, Brown Bird, Container, and Mdou Moctar.

Upcoming Events + Tickets

All ages unless otherwise noted, 21+ with valid ID to drink

Earth + Stebmo

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

8:00 pm

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Over the course of their thirty trips around the sun, Earth has remained diligent in their commitment to monolithic minimalism. The sonic vocabulary may have changed—from their early years churning out seismic drone metal on albums like Earth 2 (1993) to the dusty Morricone-tinged comeback album Hex; Or Printing in the Infernal Method (2005) to the meditative rock approach of Primitive and Deadly (2014)—but the underlying principle of austerity and restraint remains a constant. With their latest album Full Upon Her Burning Lips, Earth purges the layers of auxiliary instrumentation that embellished some of their previous records and deconstructed their dynamic to the core duo of Dylan Carlson on guitar and bass and Adrienne Davies on drums and percussion. In the process, they tapped into the Platonic ideal of Earth—an incarnation of the long running band bolstered by the authority of purpose, where every note and every strike on the drum kit carries the weight of the world.

$20 adv / $25 day of

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Earth + Stebmo

Music Show
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
8:00 pm
$20 adv / $25 day of
Over the course of their thirty trips around the sun, Earth has remained diligent in their commitment to monolithic minimalism. The sonic vocabulary may have changed—from their early years churning out seismic drone metal on albums like Earth 2 (1993) to the dusty Morricone-tinged comeback album Hex; Or Printing in the Infernal Method (2005) to the meditative rock approach of Primitive and Deadly (2014)—but the underlying principle of austerity and restraint remains a constant. With their latest album Full Upon Her Burning Lips, Earth purges the layers of auxiliary instrumentation that embellished some of their previous records and deconstructed their dynamic to the core duo of Dylan Carlson on guitar and bass and Adrienne Davies on drums and percussion. In the process, they tapped into the Platonic ideal of Earth—an incarnation of the long running band bolstered by the authority of purpose, where every note and every strike on the drum kit carries the weight of the world.
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RISD Sound presents Charmaine Lee, Aliya Ultan + WGS Johnson

Friday, November 7, 2025

8:00 pm

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$12 adv / $15 day of

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RISD Sound presents Charmaine Lee, Aliya Ultan + WGS Johnson

Music Show
Friday, November 7, 2025
8:00 pm
$12 adv / $15 day of
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Cold Flame, an audiovisual haunting with Unfeeling, Bittersweet + Kristina Warren

Friday, December 12, 2025

8:00 pm

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Cold Flame, an audiovisual haunting with Unfeeling, Bittersweet + Kristina Warren

Music Show
Friday, December 12, 2025
8:00 pm
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Event Archive

Wasteland Jazz Unit / Task Master / Ren Schofield / Double Dragon
July 18, 2017
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Wasteland Jazz Unit / Task Master / Ren Schofield / Double Dragon

July 18, 2017
9:00 pm
CBN / Cult Play / Effluvium / Lacanthrope
July 17, 2017
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CBN / Cult Play / Effluvium / Lacanthrope

July 17, 2017
9:00 pm
Hide / Lingua Ignota / Muslin / Surfacing
July 9, 2017
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Hide / Lingua Ignota / Muslin / Surfacing

July 9, 2017
9:00 pm
W00dy / Val Martino / World War / Allow
July 7, 2017
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W00dy / Val Martino / World War / Allow

July 7, 2017
9:00 pm
Pawtucket Arts Festival Fundrasier
June 29, 2017
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Pawtucket Arts Festival Fundrasier

June 29, 2017
6:00 pm
Join us for a night of celebration and conversation about the 2017 Pawtucket Arts Festival! Funds generated support local artists and the collaborative public art projects they plan to create around Pawtucket. Plus works by Pneuhaus in the gallery.
Secret Boyfriend, Violet, Ylaro, Milk Maid ii
June 22, 2017
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Secret Boyfriend, Violet, Ylaro, Milk Maid ii

June 22, 2017
10:00 pm
Hairspray Queen, Black Beach, Nice Guys, Hot Tramps
June 18, 2017
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Hairspray Queen, Black Beach, Nice Guys, Hot Tramps

June 18, 2017
8:00 pm
Gold Dime (ex-Talk Normal) / Suicide Magnets / Taskmaster / Baby;Baby
June 17, 2017
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Gold Dime (ex-Talk Normal) / Suicide Magnets / Taskmaster / Baby;Baby

June 17, 2017
9:00 pm
GOLD DIME (NYC) - Andrya from Talk Normal's new jam, spectral rock that creeps up on you like watching a photo develop in a chemical bath. SUICIDE MAGNETS (PVD) - Wendy's squall always hits below the belt and leaves you as soul-satisfied as a half-remembered dream of travel to a distant, unforgiving land. TASKMASTER (PVD) - Floor-based sonic explorations that give more than they take, you'll emerge refreshed and clear-eyed like you just stepped out of the float tank. BABY;BABY (PVD) - PVD's nouvellest of nouvelle vague, theys got the herky-jerk spasmodic spurt-spurt on lock. DJ HAND OF FOOD - between set entertainment provided by the famous slapstick duo of Dave Public and E Guy Schreiber!
Media Jeweler, Goon Planet, Brian 4 Ever
June 15, 2017
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Media Jeweler, Goon Planet, Brian 4 Ever

June 15, 2017
8:30 pm
Stranger Synths
June 13, 2017
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Stranger Synths

June 13, 2017
10:00 pm
EVENT SERIES SHOWCASING LOCAL SYNTH FETISHISTS: Composing, synthesis, home recording... it can all be extremely isolating and lonely. You can see it on the faces of a lot of people in town if you look for it, a sort of haunted obsessed look.. spooky, really. You know they've just spent 19 consecutive hours without food or water with headphones on squinting into LCD screens turning data knobs, pushing sliders and watching youtube tutrials on how to use their multiband compressor plugin.
Adios Mundo Cruel / Lower Tar / Craow / Ylaro
June 8, 2017
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Adios Mundo Cruel / Lower Tar / Craow / Ylaro

June 8, 2017
9:00 pm
Climax Denial/ Peter J Woods/ Plagues/ Scant/ Hide Stacy
May 30, 2017
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Climax Denial/ Peter J Woods/ Plagues/ Scant/ Hide Stacy

May 30, 2017
9:00 pm
SCANT (NYC) - the greatest in contemporary American harsh noise. i don't even have to say his name do i? co-founder of new Thousands Of Dead Gods label/shop in nyc. Various releases via Chondritic Sound, Monorail Trespassing, etc. CLIMAX DENIAL (Milwaukee, WI) - self hating, paranoid, nihilist harsh noise. releases via Malignant Records, Hospital, Bacteria Field, etc. PETER J. WOODS (Milwaukee, WI) - theatrical and bizarre mix of noise, absurdist performance. releases via lurker bias, FTAM, etc. PLAGUES (Grand Rapids, MI) - Brandon Hill of Cloud Rat and Dropped Calls. absolute downer, depressive power electronics. infernal hails! With local support from... HIDE STACY (new project by Katy Mongeau).
Lea Bertucci • Le Creuset • VRS • Negation • V Sinclair
May 5, 2017
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Lea Bertucci • Le Creuset • VRS • Negation • V Sinclair

May 5, 2017
9:00 pm
LEA BERTUCCI (NYC) "Lea Bertucci is a sound artist, musician and composer based in New York. After starting out on saxophone at the age of nine, she went on to learn classical music and jazz, until moving into more abstract forms in her late teens and experimenting with the amplification of her bass clarinet, effects and feedback. Her most recent work on NNA Tapes features tape collage plus extended technique on string instruments including viola and cello." With LE CREUSET (Cleveland), VRS (Los Angeles), and local support from Negation & V Sinclair.
Soren Roi ~ Dylan Cameron ~ Isabella ~ Lazy Magnet
April 29, 2017
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Soren Roi ~ Dylan Cameron ~ Isabella ~ Lazy Magnet

April 29, 2017
9:00 pm
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