Upcoming Events + Tickets
All ages unless otherwise noted, 21+ with valid ID to drink
Ora Cogan with Bong Wish and Luci Dead Limb
Friday, September 25, 2026
$15 adv / $18 day of
Ora Cogan’s music is alchemical: part instinct, part ritual, and always conjured from the edges where life feels sharpest. With Hard Hearted Woman, she mixes haunted folk, psych rock, and a shadowy strain of country, building a realm where catharsis feels lush, mysterious and vital. Shaken by the tenor of modern life, Cogan pulled in a circle of kindred musicians and made a record shaped by someone who has looked into the abyss and decided, again and again, to choose curiosity.
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Music Show
Friday, September 25, 2026
8:00 pm
$15 adv / $18 day of
Ora Cogan’s music is alchemical: part instinct, part ritual, and always conjured from the edges where life feels sharpest. With Hard Hearted Woman, she mixes haunted folk, psych rock, and a shadowy strain of country, building a realm where catharsis feels lush, mysterious and vital. Shaken by the tenor of modern life, Cogan pulled in a circle of kindred musicians and made a record shaped by someone who has looked into the abyss and decided, again and again, to choose curiosity.
More Info + RSVP LITURGY with House Red, Bicentennial Memorial Accordion Choir + Harry Gould Harvey IV
Saturday, September 26, 2026
$18 adv / $25 day of
Join us for a special night with LITURGY, the devotional and transcendent black metal of artist Haela Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix, distilled into an intimate solo performance. Countering the genre’s nihilistic leanings, Liturgy seeks truth, affirmation, and beauty through searing, intricate guitar work, blissful shrieks, choral vocals, acoustic passages, and meditative drone.
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Music Show
Saturday, September 26, 2026
8:00 pm
$18 adv / $25 day of
Join us for a special night with LITURGY, the devotional and transcendent black metal of artist Haela Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix, distilled into an intimate solo performance. Countering the genre’s nihilistic leanings, Liturgy seeks truth, affirmation, and beauty through searing, intricate guitar work, blissful shrieks, choral vocals, acoustic passages, and meditative drone.
More Info + RSVP Leila Abdul-Rauf with Vaelastrasz, RECTRIX and 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 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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Whore Paint Record Release with Rectrix and Bed Death!
January 27, 2017
xWhore Paint Record Release with Rectrix and Bed Death!
January 27, 2017
9:00 pm
Sweet mother of all things, Whore Paint got honest to Jesus vinyl records in. Come celebrate this record in the very place of it's birth, Machines With Magnets. There will be a sheet cake emblazoned with the lyrics to Rebel Girl in their entirity. One yet-to-exist band will be formed and perform 100% within the confines of this show. (Will YOU be in it? Time will tell!) Fabulous also local support=kings of banter and matching pants BED DEATH. Bed Death is Whore Paint's favorite band. Trust us on this one. RECTRIX JUST ADDED! "2017: Let's Give It A Shot"
Drew McDowall :: Hiro Kone :: Humanbeast :: Timeghost
January 21, 2017
xDrew McDowall :: Hiro Kone :: Humanbeast :: Timeghost
January 21, 2017
9:00 pm
DREW MCDOWALL - "Drew McDowall started out making music in Glasgow in 1978, playing in punk group The Poems with his then wife Rose McDowall (who would go on to form Strawberry Switchblade). In the early 1980s McDowall relocated to London and became involved in the industrial scene there, working with Genesis P-Orridge and Psychic TV, then later with Sleazy Pete Christopherson and John Balance in Coil. McDowall has lived in New York for the past decade, regularly collaborating with Tres Warren in their project Compound Eye, as well as doing production work." HIRO KONE - "Hiro Kone is an Iroquois phrase that means “I have spoken,” and it’s also the alias of Nicky Mao, formerly of Effi Briest and Up Died Sound. As Hiro Kone, Mao certainly speaks, fusing rich, melodramatic vocals with synth swells and electronic percussion that ranges from skittering to propulsive, all with hints of her former bands’ psych experiments." With local support from: HUMANBEAST & TIMEGHOST.
Rose E Kross • Richard Gamble • Bergsonist • Isabella • World War • DJ Scott Murakami
January 14, 2017
xRose E Kross • Richard Gamble • Bergsonist • Isabella • World War • DJ Scott Murakami
January 14, 2017
9:00 pm
Thaw yourselves out mid-winter and melt into a singular mass on our floor with this techno vitality cleanse, featuring live sets by producers from Lost Soul Enterprises, Borfft, Cititrax, and More Records: ROSE E KROSS (Katie O'Sullivan of Further Reductions), RICHARD GAMBLE, BERGSONIST, WORLD WAR, ISABELLA & DJ SCOTT MURAKAMI all night.
Boy Harsher :: The Wheal (Fr) :: Lingua Ignota :: Kurt Snell :: Strap-on Ritual
January 6, 2017
xBoy Harsher :: The Wheal (Fr) :: Lingua Ignota :: Kurt Snell :: Strap-on Ritual
January 6, 2017
9:00 pm
BOY HARSHER returns
"Jae Matthews and Augustus Muller have been doing Boy Harsher for a little while now, constantly honing their craft of danceable bleakness and etching their name in the wall of electronic music. Unrelenting rhythm sections match with addictively dark synth compositions and curiously ominous vocals, to make for a sound as disconcerting as it is intoxicating." With THE WHEAL, from France:
"Initially a one-off performance act combining visual arts and found-sound, The Wheal has evolved into a full-fledged music project whose lineage traces back to early 80's industrial and synth-pop bands as well as modern day electronics. From heavy drum-machine and synthetic bass-lines to ritual/ambient sequences, The Wheal's dark romanticism is equal parts channeling live energies and blissfull introspection." Supported by these local acts: LINGUA IGNOTA, KURT SNELL, STRAP-ON RITUAL, and DJ MUSCLE ACADEMY (Dylan Going of Houseboy).
Valerie Martino _ Sharlyn Evertsz _ Andy Borsz _ Bird Lady _ Øxømø
December 29, 2016
xValerie Martino _ Sharlyn Evertsz _ Andy Borsz _ Bird Lady _ Øxømø
December 29, 2016
9:00 pm
Traveling from Philadelphia:
SHARLYN EVERTSZ "Evertsz, formerly of confrontational noise collective The Laundry Room Squelchers, bleeds genuine ferocity. Her troubling, beat driven noise blasts brains with PE-strength and noise-punk operatics, hovering carefully between sensibilities in synth-based constructions and cacophonous free improv. She is originally from Miami, Florida and now lives in Philadelphia." ANDY BORSZ "Andy Borsz has played enough noise fests to have a pair of shoes specifically for stepping in piss. Eschewing a project moniker he approaches solo performance like a naked ape, deliberately forgetting and relearning every time on stage. The familiar maximal approaches and harsh broods of his collaboration work are always present but often the unexpected is as well: an a cappella Johnny Cash cover, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, a spontaneous meditation on the inside of a drum." With local support from:
Valerie Martino, Bird Lady, Oxomo & DJ YU//F.
Fyne Artist _ RRLEW _ House Red _ Droplet & Atropos _ [[ DJ Recepticide ]]
December 18, 2016
xFyne Artist _ RRLEW _ House Red _ Droplet & Atropos _ [[ DJ Recepticide ]]
December 18, 2016
9:00 pm
FYNE ARTIST (LA): "Bashir Naim is a movement/performance artist and actor based in Los Angeles. His family founded a dance and performance art community in The Berkshire mountains. Naim was recently an Artist-in-Residence at Movement Research NYC and S & S Projects (Chicago). He can be seen opposite Anjelica Huston and Jeffrey Tambor on Amazon’s “Transparent," in Benjy Russell’s “Battlefield of Flowers," and the upcoming short film, “Raymond.” He has been featured in Bullet Magazine, Vice magazine - in print as well as on their docuseries with Ellen Page, “Gaycation." His solo performance work has been shown at LA><ART, The Hammer Museum, S & S Projects Chicago, the Tom of Finland House, Human Resources Gallery in LA, with Rhonda and Soho House International, RK Projects, Art Basel Miami, 700B in Portland, and at dozens of nightclubs and warehouses internationally." Local support from: RRLEW, HOUSE RED, DROPLET & ATROPOS, & DJ RECEPTICIDE.
Forced into Femininity • VOSP • Power Monster • YÜ//F
December 14, 2016
xForced into Femininity • VOSP • Power Monster • YÜ//F
December 14, 2016
9:00 pm
FORCED INTO FEMININITY (Chicago)
"Forced Into Femininity has been the "marxist body horror act" of performance artist and musician Jill Lloyd Flanagan for 9 years. Jill is known for playing in the bands Coughs (Load Records), 2watt, Gula-Gila, and more. The music of Forced Into Femininity is a mix of asymmetrically assembled beats, strange electronic outbursts, and of course Jill's arresting vocal style. It has that truly rare quality of being unlike anything else." with local support:
VOSP (formerly SOFT TARGET),
POWER MONSTER, and
YU//F.
Foodman, DJ Fulltono, Container, DJ Mandy (+ TIKI specials!)
December 12, 2016
xFoodman, DJ Fulltono, Container, DJ Mandy (+ TIKI specials!)
December 12, 2016
9:00 pm
Monday December 12th 2016...Tiki Day in Pawtucket. all the way from Japan on their first ever US tour: FOODMAN - brain bending electronic musician who manages to skirt between hyper speed polyrhythmic blasts, full on ambient drifts, and seinfeld theme-esque wackiness, all while retaining a singular, highly recognizable sound. DJ FULLTONO - 'godafther' of japanese juke and footwork. local support from
CONTAINER and everyone's favorite party host
DJ MANDY. all taking place at the wonderful
MACHINES WITH MAGNETS
at 9 PM for the cost of $8 DOLLARS.
with a seriously legit TIKI MENU at the bar!
Universal Cell Unlock // Andria Penesadoe // Aspakt // Retribution Body
December 11, 2016
xUniversal Cell Unlock // Andria Penesadoe // Aspakt // Retribution Body
December 11, 2016
8:00 pm
Machines with Magnets presents a great show of experimental sounds: from near and far:
ANDRIA PENESADOE* (Argentina)
"AP works with sound as a performer and programer. She has been using digital media and live interactive musical systems since 1995... Harsh dense layers of sounds, often interwoven with her voice, combine hybrid synthesis techniques to create a highly personal sound language, which reflects an intuitive, emotional and paradoxically also logical approach to music making." ASPAKT* (Italy)
"An Italian duo working with electro-acoustic instruments, digital devices and systems of feedback and resonance, their music shares the timbral research and execution typical of radical improv music. The result is a fascinating and inextricable forest of sounds: frenetic structures, noise explosions, ancestral cries, an unceasing perversion of soundscapes and time." With local support from:
UNIVERSAL CELL UNLOCK and
RETRIBUTION BODY.
Escape-Ism / Whorepaint / Shells / Querent at the Mirror Door
December 7, 2016
xEscape-Ism / Whorepaint / Shells / Querent at the Mirror Door
December 7, 2016
9:00 pm
A much needed dose of reality and perspective after a few unrealistic weeks, the legendary Ian Svenonius (the mind that brought you Nation of Ulysses, The Make Up & Chain and the Gang) returns to Machines with Magnets with ESCAPE-ISM. Also touring is Michigander (and member of Tyvek) Shelley Salant performing as SHELLS. Beautifully cosmic, droney solo guitar musings and meditations. Local heroes, famous Load Records recording artists, recent mothers and/or homeowners, your friends and mine the inimitable WHORE PAINT in their first show defending against the patriarchy since... a real long while? And what a goddamn pleasure it is to bring to you our dearest bud––local mystic, greatest thinking, and rare performer Natalja Kent; gracing us with the presence of QUERENT AT THE MIRROR DOOR. It’s another lovely evening in Pawtucket, folks. On the eve of December 7th, 2016, we plan to have libations. We welcome your attendance.
Synth Pop Party w/ Bellerophon, Favourite, TimeLapzzz, SMS & djs TMP
November 19, 2016
xSynth Pop Party w/ Bellerophon, Favourite, TimeLapzzz, SMS & djs TMP
November 19, 2016
9:00 pm
Bellerophon - Winner of the #Dorry for Electronic Act of the Year; Favourite - Electronic dream-pop on the rocks for dancefloor lovers; Timelapzzz (Philadelphia, PA) Haze and thick low end; Straw Man Standing - Frantic synth-pop from the woods | ep release, and The Music Please - Winners of the #Dorry for DJs of the Year
Uniform, Timeghost, Finished, Trim
November 18, 2016
xUniform, Timeghost, Finished, Trim
November 18, 2016
9:00 pm
achines with Magnets Studio presents: UNIFORM (Sacred Bones Records, NYC) with Providence's
TIMEGHOST (Load Records, first PVD show of 2016),
FINISHED (Load Records), and
TRIM (MA).
Uniform / Timeghost / Finished / Trim
November 18, 2016
xUniform / Timeghost / Finished / Trim
November 18, 2016
9:00 pm
Machines with Magnets Studio presents: UNIFORM (Sacred Bones Records, NYC) with Providence's
TIMEGHOST (Load Records, first PVD show of 2016)
FINISHED (Load Records)
TRIM (MA)
Chasms, Boy Harsher, V Manuscript, Houseboy
November 15, 2016
xChasms, Boy Harsher, V Manuscript, Houseboy
November 15, 2016
9:00 pm
CHASMS (CA) and BOY HARSHER (MA). With local support from V MANUSCRIPT (Eli of Humanbeast) and
HOUSEBOY (Rebecca Mitchell of Whore Paint/Made in Mexico, with Dylan Going of White Mice).
Cienfuegos / Emil Bogi-Naz / Mario Sisters / Tayla Roberge / Orgonon Pit
November 11, 2016
xCienfuegos / Emil Bogi-Naz / Mario Sisters / Tayla Roberge / Orgonon Pit
November 11, 2016
9:00 pm
CIENFUEGOS (Miami/NYC, L.I.E.S., Bank, Primitive Languages, Unknown Precept), EMIL BOGI-NAZ (NYC, FKA Flared Nostril, member of L.O.T.I.O.N., ex-Dawn of Humans/Hank Wood and the Hammerheads). With local support from MARIO SISTERS, TAYLA ROBERGE, ORGONON PIT and special guest DJ DO-GOODER DUDE starting at 9:00pm.
