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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1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: WORK/DEATH
April 3, 2016
x1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: WORK/DEATH
April 3, 2016
6:00 pm
1/4 Volume Noise Lounge, April 3, 2016 hosted by WORK/DEATH. A long time staple of the providence noise scene, work/death (scøtt reber) doesn't have any easy explanations for anyone. The perception of air vibrating in a room, the investment of meaning into formal constructions and abstract procedures. Organized sound, orchestrated noise, disintegrated music regenerated again.
Sponge Bath & Patrick Gallagher w/ Davey Harms
April 1, 2016
xSponge Bath & Patrick Gallagher w/ Davey Harms
April 1, 2016
9:00 pm
Two v nice North Carolina sonic experimenters arrive @ Machines. Come one, Come all. Sponge Bath:
Hardware produced techno music made by Nathan Taylor of Chapel Hill, NC. With Patrick Gallagher:
Prepared guitar experimentation and light flirting with beats. Also hailing from NCs Triangle area. Local Support:
Davey Harms & ONE MORE tba.
Geist & the Sacred Ensemble / Corum / Wex / Mystery Red Inferno / Universal Cell Unlock / Laurie Amat
March 28, 2016
xGeist & the Sacred Ensemble / Corum / Wex / Mystery Red Inferno / Universal Cell Unlock / Laurie Amat
March 28, 2016
7:00 pm
Corum presents MAGIC MIRROR (Portland, OR / Maine): “Magic Mirror is the creative audio/video project of Corum whose outsider vinyl Trilogy under the monikers of Beguiling Isles and Effigy Mounds has sought to explore a metaphysical relationship with a micro to macrocosmic world. Corum has recorded with an array of artists these last few years.. and like these artists, he too brings a psychedelic atmosphere, one not culled from a traditional sense, but of a deeply inmate ability to transform a space sonically creating a more spiritual, or visceral affair. ” - Chris Webb. GEIST & THE SACRED ENSEMBLE (Seattle): Geist & the Sacred Ensemble performs dark, sinister, trembling earth ballads that have echoes of country evenings and haunted memories. Almost reminiscent of the earliest, best freak folk sounds or more recently, a Swans style of brooding heavy stomp. And our neighbors: Universal Cell Unlock, Wex, Mystery Red Inferno (project of Alec K. Redfearn), & Laure Amat.
1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: CHRISTOPHER SADLERS
March 13, 2016
x1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: CHRISTOPHER SADLERS
March 13, 2016
6:00 pm
This week's host: Christopher Sadlers Chamber noise, minimalist improvisations, and maximalist compositions on solo string bass. Member (past and present) of: The Eyesores, Death Vessel, Barnacled, Denimvenom, Shamanic, Shambing Mound. also, cookies and board games!
It Stays With You Closing, Cyst, Lvmmvx, Sugar Pie, Fall Risk, Rita Repulsa
March 11, 2016
xIt Stays With You Closing, Cyst, Lvmmvx, Sugar Pie, Fall Risk, Rita Repulsa
March 11, 2016
9:00 pm
Closing Night for IT STAYS WITH YOU: new work by Johnny Ray, Gyna Bootleg and Joseph Mauro. CYST, LVMMVX, SUGAR PIE, JOhnny Ray and the Vomit Arsonist (self flagellation, purging, going to the shrink), FALL RISK (collaborative performance by Gyna Bootleg and Joseph Mauro), RITA REPULSA (two homies performing the world's 1st auditory rendition of crab dreams). 1st show. provoking work. stiff drinks. hellion tunes.
1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: AKIKO HATAKEYAMA
March 6, 2016
x1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: AKIKO HATAKEYAMA
March 6, 2016
6:00 pm
Akiko is a composer, singer, and audio-visual performer / artist who is a native of Yokohama, Japan. She is interested in crossing boundaries between traditionally written music, improvisation, electronics, computer based live interactivity, and visual components. Storytelling, memories, and nature often play an important role in Akiko's work, and she most often finds beauty in simplicity. Designing and building instruments/controllers is a part of her current study as well. Akiko obtained her BA in music from Mills College and MA in Experimental Music/Composition at Wesleyan University. Since September 2011, Akiko has been engaged in PhD study in the MEME program at Brown University. Her instructors include Alvin Lucier, Anthony Braxton, Ronald Kuivila, Maggi Payne, Chris Brown, Jim Moses, Todd Winkler, and Butch Rovan. Akiko is a founding member of OPENSIGNAL, a collective of artists concerned with the state of gender and race in experimental electronic-based sound and art practices.
GOSH PITH with Illsnafu, JJAAZZ, Favourite
March 5, 2016
xGOSH PITH with Illsnafu, JJAAZZ, Favourite
March 5, 2016
9:00 pm
Jungle labelmate GOSH PITH comes to Machines with Magnets with tour bud Illsnafu and local crooners Favourite and JJAAZZ. GOSH PITH (B3SCI Recs, Detroit). ::Gold Chain Tour::
Future R'n'B / Cosmic Trap duo bringing heat from motor city. With locals JJAAZZ
mems of Math the Band, The Kolour Kult, & Favourite.
1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: ANIMAL HOSPITAL
February 28, 2016
x1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: ANIMAL HOSPITAL
February 28, 2016
6:00 pm
1/4 Volume Noise Lounge hosted by
ANIMAL HOSPITAL. Animal Hospital is a project created by Kevin Emil Micka :: A live performance of Animal Hospital consists of Kevin alone and is based on the idea of building a piece of music up from scratch into a completely fleshed out arrangement often containing enough parts to employ many musicians. The music often references many familiar aspects of contemporary rock and pop music but is open to venture out into much more experimental territory. You might remember his work directing Animal Hospital Ensemble performances - like the 30-Guitar-Strong performance under the bridge for the first DOT AIR.
1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: DIAL PAINTERS
February 21, 2016
x1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: DIAL PAINTERS
February 21, 2016
6:00 pm
Okay, so contrary to printed posters and calendars, Dave Public isn't playing this noise lounge. We wish him the best on his trip to a memorial in NJ and look forward to his RETURN. In his stead we've got another act with the initials "DP." 6-9pm | NOISE LOUNGE | 1/4 Volume | FREE | not a show, come play checkers and mind games | Gallery Hours DIAL PAINTERS (Steven W. Greco and Marcel McVay) will rip three hours of lounge noise, recalling the tragedy of the Radium Girls aka Watch Dial Painters who painted ever-glowing Radium paint on the numbers of watch dials in and around 1917. Pointing their brushes with quick lashes of their tongues and nimble lips, these teenage wage workers rapidly poisoned themselves - their buried bodies still cranking gieger counter clicks to this day. Also apparent will be a Tralfamadorian sense of timelessness, time warping and the simultaneous experience of birth, death and the passion inherent between them.
1/4 Vol. Noise Lounge 4: WILTED WOMAN <3
February 14, 2016
x1/4 Vol. Noise Lounge 4: WILTED WOMAN <3
February 14, 2016
6:00 pm
1/4 NOISE LOUNGE! 6-9pm and free!!
It's VALENTINES DAY!
Come and hang, talk, play cool games, kiss in public. This is not a show, so feel free to take a seat and have some fun with your friends.
