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

Ora Cogan with Bong Wish and Luci Dead Limb

Friday, September 25, 2026

8:00 pm

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$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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Ora Cogan with Bong Wish and Luci Dead Limb

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

8:00 pm

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$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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LITURGY with House Red, Bicentennial Memorial Accordion Choir + Harry Gould Harvey IV

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

8:00 pm

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$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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Leila Abdul-Rauf with Vaelastrasz, RECTRIX and The Oracle

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.
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DITZ

Sunday, November 8, 2026

8:00 pm

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$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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DITZ

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.
More Info + RSVP

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Event Archive

1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: Messy Boys
July 10, 2016
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1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: Messy Boys

July 10, 2016
8:00 pm
1/4 Volume Noise Lounge!8-11pm, free. Out of this world vibes. Great drinks. Friends.July 10 2016 - MESSY BOYS!Tim and Bridget's dad rock basement jam band.
Swamp Ass: A Celebration of Filth
July 8, 2016
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Swamp Ass: A Celebration of Filth

July 8, 2016
9:30 pm
Fxxmale, Frankie Symonds, Birdlady, Gyna Bootleg, The Vomit Arsonist
Dia (LA), Favourite, Krista Baroni
July 7, 2016
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Dia (LA), Favourite, Krista Baroni

July 7, 2016
8:00 pm
DIA FavouriteKrista BaroniDIA (LA)Dia is the project of Danielle Birrittella, a performer-composer whose ethereal compositions teeter between bright-eyed and sparse, haunting folk. Her upcoming EP, Tiny Ocean, opts to feature a baroque pop sound informed by her classical training, incorporating vocals pedals to modulate her voice alongside an opulent array of serpentine layers.
V. Sinclair - Metamorphosis [Listening Event]
July 2, 2016
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V. Sinclair - Metamorphosis [Listening Event]

July 2, 2016
7:00 pm
*This is a special event and will start at 7pm sharp!* -Listening Event- "Contour of the vase, of the rose a silhouette offers the same profile The practice may fade but remains in tact "An empty apartment" life is life - nothing more, nothing less. Patient and committed Valentine Sinclair's newest release walks the listener through meditations on the abstract, concrete, and esoteric themes of transformation. Employing recurrent sounds to emphasize this idea, each nuanced piece seamlessly lends to the former & vice verse accumulating to form a well rounded structure. This extensive effort of a body of work realized over the course of eight months - three seasons "Metamorphosis" is a deep immersive listen that aptly exhibits the growth and maturing nature of the project. Recorded in Providence, RI 2015-2016." Clandestine Compositions 11
1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: Ren Schofield
June 27, 2016
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1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: Ren Schofield

June 27, 2016
8:00 pm
1/4 Volume Noise Lounge. Every Sunday night, free! Ren Schofield of Container.
Dyr Faser, Insect Factory, Minibeast
June 27, 2016
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Dyr Faser, Insect Factory, Minibeast

June 27, 2016
8:00 pm
Our friends Eric Boomhower and Thalia Zadek, aka Dyr Faser, are doing an East Coast tour with Insect Factory. You can see them Monday, June 27th in Pawtucket at MACHINES WITH MAGNETS. Minibeast barged our way onto the bill because tehre will be no better place to be on a sultry summer eve and we wanted to welcome them to our fair city. Well, close to our fair city. Please JOIN US. You won't be sorry. About joining us, that is. You may be sorry about something else. We can't really control that. Sorry about that...
Richard Album, Russel The Leaf, Bryan Reynolds, Dan Talbot
June 24, 2016
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Richard Album, Russel The Leaf, Bryan Reynolds, Dan Talbot

June 24, 2016
8:00 pm
Richard Album (Chicago) and Russel The Leaf with kocal heroes Bryan Reynolds and DAN TALBOT!
Church and Main: Pawtucket Networks!
June 22, 2016
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Church and Main: Pawtucket Networks!

June 22, 2016
5:30 pm
Join the conversation as we discuss Pawtucket's creative economy with local artists and gallery owners -- then we will have Eric J. Auger Visual Artist and co-founder of TEN31 Productions, share a little about his amazing creative work! Eric's presentation will start around 6-6:15pm, followed by networking, drinks and discussion until about 7:30pm. About the speaker: Eric J. Auger (ō zhāy) is a mixed media artist and costume designer living and working in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. He was born in 1969, to artistic parents who provided him and his siblings with a nurturing and creative childhood. He graduated from Rhode Island College in 1992 with a B.F.A. in Photography with minors in Graphic Design and Mass Communications. He expresses his unique style in a variety of media including acrylic paint on canvas, pastel, colored pencil, photography and digital images.
1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: Dan Putnam
June 19, 2016
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1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: Dan Putnam

June 19, 2016
7:00 pm
1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: Ed Osborn
June 12, 2016
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1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: Ed Osborn

June 12, 2016
7:00 pm
Ed Osborn returns to bring us sounds and visions of field recordings from the Arctic and from the back yard for Quarter Volume Noise Lounge, Sunday June 12, 2016.
HARD NIPS w/ Flinstones and more
June 11, 2016
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HARD NIPS w/ Flinstones and more

June 11, 2016
9:00 pm
1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: Lingua Ignota
June 5, 2016
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1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: Lingua Ignota

June 5, 2016
10:00 pm
In April 1905 a group of fashionable Parisian women arrive at an abattoir to drink the blood of an ox as a way to cure anemia. Free, starting at 7pm Noise at 1/4 Volume by Lingua Ignota It's Katy Mongeau's birthday and she'll be screening Fascination (1979) by Jean Rollin. Come, grab a drink and get fascinated.
1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: Retribution Body
May 29, 2016
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1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: Retribution Body

May 29, 2016
7:00 pm
SPECIAL TIKI COCKTAIL NIGHT mixed and mastered by Catherine Mary Hood. Boomkat described RETRIBUTION BODY's recent Type LP release Aokigahara as "revealing a rarified grasp of low end frequency manipulation on a par with the likes of Earth, Sunn 0))) or Phill Niblock", and Brainwashed.com said "Matthew Azevedo's singular drone performance/bass tone study has already drawn favorable comparisons to artists like Sunn O))) and Earth, but I actually see it much more in line with more formal electronic composers like Eliane Radigue, as it has a chiseled purity to it that feels very different than amplifier-worship (at times, anyway). That said, Aokigahara is still quite heavy."
Sandworm / Lingua Ignota / Muslin / The Body
May 28, 2016
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Sandworm / Lingua Ignota / Muslin / The Body

May 28, 2016
9:30 pm
"The grossest pop album of all time"
Blood And Sun / Scout Paré-Phillips / Nighttime / Valise / Last Family On Earth
May 27, 2016
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Blood And Sun / Scout Paré-Phillips / Nighttime / Valise / Last Family On Earth

May 27, 2016
8:00 pm
Blood And Sun (NYC) - triumphant and powerful, American neofolk. essential. Scout Paré-Phillips (NYC) - unique country comprised mostly of autoharp and beautiful, operatic vocals. masterful songwriting! Nighttime (Montreal, QC) - ethereal, haunted neofolk from Canada. With local support... Valise: Maralie of Humanbeast. rich and engaging multimedia performance. always stunning and emotional. "i make men cry." Last Family On Earth Ben Eberle of Sandworm. the voice of an angel.
Beast Nest, Daisy World, Syzygy, Bridget Feral, Asha Tamirisa
May 24, 2016
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Beast Nest, Daisy World, Syzygy, Bridget Feral, Asha Tamirisa

May 24, 2016
8:00 pm
Delighted to be hosting BEAST NEST and DAISY WORLD along with Locals: Syzygy, Bridget Feral, and Asha Tamirisa ♥ +Free cryogenic makeovers.
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