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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
Jayden Barber, Don Nothing, Excavator + Angel Louis
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.
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.
from NYC... die Reihe - good irish boy Jack Callahan is back to grace us with his decontructed absurdity. a true freak human, who knows what he will do? the man has vrious releases on fine labels such as anòmia and NNA tapes. Farewell My Concubine - longtime weird person Mark Iosifescu coming back to town with his lovely songs. also known for his work in Angels In America. oh boy! Ben Kudler - aka 'luminous all kudler' provides alienating music sound of computer. heartwrenching releases via Salon, Bánh Mì Verlag, and Mistake By The Lake. With local support from The Charles Allin Trio - Jeremy Harris and Co. will bring us some... jazz? pure class and elegance provided throughout the evening by DJ Valise.
STREET SECTS (Austin TX)
"In the regularly rotating arena of heavy music, where metal tends to dominate more often than not, Street Sects stand out as being uniquely adversarial and should not to be overlooked. Their new record, End Position, emerges at an appropriate time more than ever as a much needed silver lining to the many shapes of punk that never came." -New Noise Magazine. With local support from:
KURT SNELL, POWER MONSTER, STRAP-ON RITUAL, &
with DJ TJ MAXX (Eric Grieshaber) starting at 9:00pm.
HOLY SHIT SHIT&SHINE HAD TO CANCEL THE GIG BECAUSE HE IS LITERALLY DYING I HOPE HE IS OKAY BUT WHO GIVES A SHIT RIGHT!? WE ARE STILL DOING A GIG PAL IT'S OK! WE GOT ... CONTAINER, FINISHED, WORLD WAR, DJ MANDY AND WE'VE GOT EIGHT SEAS TIKI BAR POP UP!!! I AM READY TO PARTY FAM!!!!!! 🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹
Machines with Magnets is proud to welcome back: ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO!
"Arrington de Dionyso is an Olympia, Washington-based artist and experimental musician. He was a member of Old Time Relijun since the 1990s. After Old Time Relijiun dissolved, he formed a new band based on Indonesian music called Malaikat dan Singa. de Dionyso directed "Reak: Trance Music and Possession in West Java", a documentary film about the music of an Indonesian trance ceremony; the film was shown by the Olympia Film Society in May, 2016. He is also an organizer of the Olympia Experimental Music Festival."
https://arrington.bandcamp.com/ With SELECTOR DUB NARCOTIC and ALEC K REDFEARN & THE EYESORES.
Machines with Magnets proudly presents the first Providence performance of early minimal synthesist, JOHN BENDER. "The few self-issued recordings by experimental electronic musician John Bender attained legendary status decades after their initial release during the early '80s. Bender's bizarre, shadowy songs were inspired by Robert Ashley and Pere Ubu, and recorded using bare-bones recording equipment and primitive synthesizers. He issued three full-length LPs and a few cassettes before vanishing; subsequently, his recordings became holy grails for aficionados of minimal synth, avant-garde, and obscure music in general." With local support from:
UNIVERSAL CELL UNLOCK (CF, Daily Life, Kites), VALISE (Maralie of Humanbeast), CREAM CANDLES (Carlos of Russian Tsarlag & Bridget of Aether Jag), and HAND OF FOOD (Eric and Dave of Finished) with SAKIKO MORI (Daily Life/Lazy Magnet) playing keys and select tracks between acts.
Suicide Magnets • Carlos Gonzalez • Domestique • Andy Cigarettes • Inspired School of Astral Music
March 13, 2017
9:00 pm
Come out and have a weird night with SUICIDE MAGNETS, ANDY CIGARETTES, INSPIRED SCHOOL OF ASTRAL MUSIC, DOMESTIQUE, and a new movie by CARLOS GONZALEZ. DJ CLUNK slings 8-track classics at 9 PM.
✧✧✧ Machines With Magnets & Wolfstuff Presents ✧✧✧ Stellar Aussie outfit The Ocean Party make their Rhode Island debut with a very exciting new Providence band (Lookers) and a super looper (Host). A great Sunday night at Machines! ✧✧ The Ocean Party ✧✧ Melbourne, Australia ✧✧ Lookers ✧✧ ✧✧ HOST ✧✧
Machines with Magnets is excited to present: UNNATURAL WAYS - Unnatural Ways is the main project of Brooklyn-based guitarist Ava Mendoza, who has performed in bands led by Fred Frith, Nels Cline, and Weasel Walter among others. The group was originally formed in early 2012 in her longtime home of Oakland, CA and relocated to NY in 2013. The current trio of Mendoza on guitar/vocals, bassist Tim Dahl (Lydia Lunch, Child Abuse, Yusef Lateef), and drummer Max Jaffe (Normal Love, Killer Bob), has developed a highly personal sound; sharp, heavy, and psychedelic. Drawing from complex rock, avant jazz and warped post-punk, the players push the boundaries of their own vocabularies and of the written music to put on powerful and unpredictable live shows. They have released recordings on ohn Zorn’s Tzadik label as well as the New Atlantis label (William Hooker, Microwaves, Elliott Sharp).
With local support from:
FINISHED, HAIRSPRAY QUEEN, FEEDBACK PSYCHOSIS & DJ BARRY MAALOT.
