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Leila Abdul-Rauf, Vaelastrasz, House Red + The Oracle
Tuesday, October 6, 2026
$15 adv / $18 day of
Multi-instrumentalist and composer Leila Abdul-Rauf enters a world all of her own weaving brass, piano and various othertextures into filmic soundscapes that echo the sounds of memories faded through time. Songs are not so much composed as captured from dreams. Time and space are distilled down to the remains of distant memories and hidden emotions, melded into a symphony of ethereal melancholy.
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Music Show
Tuesday, October 6, 2026
8:00 pm
$15 adv / $18 day of
Multi-instrumentalist and composer Leila Abdul-Rauf enters a world all of her own weaving brass, piano and various othertextures into filmic soundscapes that echo the sounds of memories faded through time. Songs are not so much composed as captured from dreams. Time and space are distilled down to the remains of distant memories and hidden emotions, melded into a symphony of ethereal melancholy.
More Info + RSVP Flatwounds, Killusonline, Two Boys Kissing, I Want My Fifty Dollars + Porcelain
Friday, October 16, 2026
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Music Show
Friday, October 16, 2026
7:30 pm
More Info + RSVP DITZ
Sunday, November 8, 2026
$15 adv / $18 day of
‘Never Exhale’ is the sound of a band that hasn’t stopped for a breath. DITZ have toured relentlessly since the release of their first album ‘The Great Regression’ and even before that, travelling at least 100 days a year since COVID. The songs that form their newest offering were written across Europe, often on off days and in borrowed rehearsal rooms just to break up the long drives.
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Music Show
Sunday, November 8, 2026
8:00 pm
$15 adv / $18 day of
‘Never Exhale’ is the sound of a band that hasn’t stopped for a breath. DITZ have toured relentlessly since the release of their first album ‘The Great Regression’ and even before that, travelling at least 100 days a year since COVID. The songs that form their newest offering were written across Europe, often on off days and in borrowed rehearsal rooms just to break up the long drives.
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Container/ Finished/ World War/ DJ Mandy
April 10, 2017
xContainer/ Finished/ World War/ DJ Mandy
April 10, 2017
9:00 pm
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!!!!!! 🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹
Arrington De Dionyso, Selector Dub Narcotic, Alec K Redfearn & the Eyesores
April 4, 2017
xArrington De Dionyso, Selector Dub Narcotic, Alec K Redfearn & the Eyesores
April 4, 2017
8:00 pm
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.
Colleen Green / The Memories / Emotional
March 26, 2017
xColleen Green / The Memories / Emotional
March 26, 2017
8:30 pm
Machines With Magnets & Wolfstuff Presents: Colleen Green (sup-pop / hardly art), The Memories (gnar-stars / burger recs gang / weed) & Emotional. $8 advance // $10 day-of-show.
JOHN BENDER. VALISE. UNIVERSAL CELL UNLOCK. SAKIKO. CREAM CANDLES. HAND OF FOOD.
March 25, 2017
xJOHN BENDER. VALISE. UNIVERSAL CELL UNLOCK. SAKIKO. CREAM CANDLES. HAND OF FOOD.
March 25, 2017
9:00 pm
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.
The Ocean Party (Melbourne, AUS) w/ Lookers & Host
March 12, 2017
xThe Ocean Party (Melbourne, AUS) w/ Lookers & Host
March 12, 2017
8:30 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 ✧✧
Unnatural Ways, Finished, Hairspray Queen, Feedback Psychosis
March 10, 2017
xUnnatural Ways, Finished, Hairspray Queen, Feedback Psychosis
March 10, 2017
9:00 pm
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.
GNAW (members of Khanate, Ike Yard, Angels of Light) with RECTRIX, KINTAAN, & TIMEGHOST
March 4, 2017
xGNAW (members of Khanate, Ike Yard, Angels of Light) with RECTRIX, KINTAAN, & TIMEGHOST
March 4, 2017
9:00 pm
GNAW
Gnaw is a New York City noise band created by Alan Dubin after the dissolution of Khanate. The band was originally composed of Dubin, Carter Thornton (of Enos Slaughter and others), Jun Mizumachi (a former live member of Ike Yard) and drummer Jamie Sykes (of Burning Witch). Guitarist/sound designer Brian Beatrice, drummer Eric Neuser, and lap-steel guitarist Dana Schechter (Angels of Light, Insect Ark) later joined the group. In addition to the traditional 4 piece rock format and string and wind instruments, Gnaw utilizes synthesis modulation, found sound and manipulated recordings. In issue 302, The Wire magazine called Gnaw "a terrifying rock sextet whose blackened vision has enough dark energy to blot out the sun". With local support from:
RECTRIX (Pippi Zornoza of Bone Dust, Worms in Women & Cattle), KINTAAN (members of Finished, Longpig, Ultra Spasm Aktion), & TIMEGHOST (opening with new material). With DJ LE BOURREAU (of Theologian).
Alec K Redfearn & the Eyesores / Saajtak / Laurie Amat / Bellerophon
March 3, 2017
xAlec K Redfearn & the Eyesores / Saajtak / Laurie Amat / Bellerophon
March 3, 2017
9:00 pm
A night of progressive, electronic, and experimental songwriters: ALEC K REDFEARN & THE EYESORES - Many buzzwords have been used to describe the band’s playing and Redfearn’s composing and arranging, but they all fall short of conveying the dark beauty of the music and lyrics. The group's unmistakable sound is the result of Alec's songs, which have poignant melodies and lyrics filled with doom-laden imagery. These songs are performed by a band who use unusual instrumentation in interesting and creative ways. The music touches on elements of Americana, folk, European cabaret, minimalism, noise, and progressive rock, but it ultimately transcends all categories except for 'excellence'. SAAJTAK - a Detroit-based avant-rock quartet. LAURIE AMAT - Laurie Amat is an acclaimed vocalist, improvisational performer, experimental composer and teacher. BELLEROPHON - an electronic musical act by Mauricio Ossa that is based in Providence, RI.
VERHALTEN // CEREMONIAL ABYSS // MARK CETILIA // POWER MONSTER // AMBER ROOM
February 24, 2017
xVERHALTEN // CEREMONIAL ABYSS // MARK CETILIA // POWER MONSTER // AMBER ROOM
February 24, 2017
9:00 pm
A night of stark electronics: ambient, minimal industrial & noise. CEREMONIAL ABYSS - Solo project featuring Bryxan of Thee Source ov Fawnation:
"Denver’s Ceremonial Abyss inhabits his own space in the techno landscape, a space that blurs the boundaries of what that classification can possibly mean. It’s not just the improvised, analog nature of his art, nor the pressure cooker intensity he conjures – it’s the way he glues it all together. It’s that kind of vital meditative quality, born in noise, that brings him to playing alongside acts like Wolves in the Throne Room, and at bacchanals like Katabatik’s Summer Kampout in Northern California." VERHALTEN (Chicago):
"...a new project from Unur’s Patrick Scott. While Unur focuses more on stories of broken selves and melodic coldwave, Verhalten finds its noire minimalism in radio static and rhythm. Industrial, noise and muted dark techno all make their presence known." With MARK CETILIA, POWER MONSTER, AMBER ROOM & DJ KURT SNELL.
