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

Alina Simonova, Westeryear, Leiko
February 12, 2016
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Alina Simonova, Westeryear, Leiko

February 12, 2016
8:00 pm
1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: TIME BASE CORRECTOR
February 7, 2016
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1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: TIME BASE CORRECTOR

February 7, 2016
6:00 pm
This guy is nuts. Utterly freaking nuts. With both hands on both joysticks. Audio / Visual experimentation abound... expect serious flittering visual stimulation behind an assembly of sensuous sound. Matthew Underwood everybody, aight?
Champagne Mirrors, Thorn, Apathy and Steel, Drekalo, PPG, DJ Shawn O'Sullivan
February 5, 2016
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Champagne Mirrors, Thorn, Apathy and Steel, Drekalo, PPG, DJ Shawn O'Sullivan

February 5, 2016
9:00 pm
Touring from Chicago -Champagne Mirrors: Alex Barnett - drum machine, synthesizer, tapes, vocal, c30 on the Scrapes label. Touring from NYC- P.P.G. Rose E. Kross + 51717 // Gynoid Exotica (members of further reductions, 51717). With local support: Apathy and Steel (Mark Cetilia), Drekalo (Kristin Hayter), Thorn (Tay la), and V Special Guest: Shawn O'Sullivan (DJ sets between acts).
1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: HOUSEBOY!
January 31, 2016
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1/4 Volume Noise Lounge: HOUSEBOY!

January 31, 2016
6:00 pm
The SECOND of the revived edition 1/4 Vol. Noise Lounge. A true class act, HOUSEBOY's Rebecca Mitchell (House Red, Whore Paint) and Dylan Going fashionably bring SWANK and ELEGANCE to the room while you sip ultra cool martinis and slowly fill your cheeks with sexy olives. We will be hosting GALLERY HOURS during the noise lounge, so you can check out the real artwork in there.
L.O.T.I.O.N (NYC), V Sinclair, Ligature, Savage Blind God
December 11, 2015
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L.O.T.I.O.N (NYC), V Sinclair, Ligature, Savage Blind God

December 11, 2015
8:00 pm
The NEW SHIT with The Quahogs and Convergence
December 10, 2015
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The NEW SHIT with The Quahogs and Convergence

December 10, 2015
8:00 pm
THEY'VE GONE ELECTRIC. THE NEW SHIT. That's right, The Sugar Honey Iced Tea returns to us in a new, electrified form. Playing along are our swamp-yank rock heroes The Quahogs and Convergence (Florence+James Falzone duo!) A truly magnificent event.
TIGUE, JPA Falzone, Martim Galvão + Todd Anderson
December 2, 2015
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TIGUE, JPA Falzone, Martim Galvão + Todd Anderson

December 2, 2015
8:00 pm
!!¡¡!¡¡¡¡!¡ TIGUE !¡¡!¡¡¡!!¡!¡¡¡ EXPERIMENTAL POWERHOUSE PERCUSSION TRIO TIGUE, FROM BROOKLYN, READY TO MASSAGE YOUR MIND. THEIR NEW ALBUM, PEAKS, DEBUTED NOV 13 ON NEW AMSTERDAM RECORDS. CHECK OUT THEIR SINGLE "MOUTH" FEATURING Ira Kaplan and James McNew OF Yo La Tengo. The "bubbling and hovering" track is featured on stereogum. With local spectacles JPA Falzone + Martim Galvão & Todd Anderson https://martimgalvao.wordpress.com/ 8pm, $8
John Faraone, INFJ, Haunt the House, and Ian Fitzgerald
November 20, 2015
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John Faraone, INFJ, Haunt the House, and Ian Fitzgerald

November 20, 2015
7:00 pm
This is an early(ish) show! Doors are at 7pm, music starts at 8pm SHARP!!
PechaKucha Night Providence #80: Canned Presentations
November 18, 2015
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PechaKucha Night Providence #80: Canned Presentations

November 18, 2015
7:20 pm
Announcing the 80th consecutive PechaKucha Providence (er... the Greater Providence area)! This month we return to Machines With Magnets, the cool performance space/recording studio/art gallery in downtown Pawtucket. During this month of giving thanks and eating too much, we will be doing a special canned goods drive for the Rhode Island Community Food Bank. Please bring a canned good or other nonperishable food item to donate. In keeping with that spirit, our theme will be "canned." Presenters should feel free to interpret the theme literally, loosely, or not at all. If you haven't heard of this global yet unpronounceable phenomenon, PechaKucha is a monthly format for sharing ideas in which presenters are allotted 20 slides and 20 seconds per slide. Simply put: it's 6 minutes and 40 seconds of show and tell for grown-ups. It began in Tokyo in 2003, has since spread to over 780 cities worldwide, and first landed in Providence in March of 2009.
Coke Weed . Pixels . String Builder
November 6, 2015
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Coke Weed . Pixels . String Builder

November 6, 2015
8:00 pm
Wash yourself away in the November surf. We're turning the heat up for this one, so don your suits and shades. Coke Weed: Uncontrolled substances swelling out of Bar Harbor, ME. Pixels: Providence home-schooled garage rock. String Builder: The ever-resonant and uplifting Thibodeau Brothers.
Cloud Becomes Your Hand /// Omnivore /// Minibeast /// Host
November 5, 2015
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Cloud Becomes Your Hand /// Omnivore /// Minibeast /// Host

November 5, 2015
8:00 pm
Coming in for landing: //// Cloud Becomes Your Hand Coming in from Brooklyn, psych-rock quintet Cloud Becomes Your Hand's magical sound will take you safely over the crests of the sea's most impressive swells. //// Minibeast Minibeast is the musical creation of Peter Prescott (Mission Of Burma, Volcano Suns, Kustomized, Peer Group). Minibeast combines surf, psych, punk, easy listening, 60's children's music, and soundtrack influences to create instrumental soundscapes. Providence homies: //// OMNIVORE Providence's own Glenna Van Nostrand eats all. Riding a border between experimental electronic music and vocal performance, Omivore has been known to repurpose corded phones and electronic bits to piece together an ethereal and overwhelming sound. //// HOST Recent Providence transplant from Savannah, GA, Host, (Alex Maddalena) creates melodic, repeating compositions that build tick, wet astmospheres using a guitar and table of electronics.
All Boy / All Girl ~ Secret Lover ~ Silverteeth ~ Leiko
October 29, 2015
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All Boy / All Girl ~ Secret Lover ~ Silverteeth ~ Leiko

October 29, 2015
8:30 pm
All Boy / All Girl [[NEWYORKCITY]], Secret Lover [[WORCESTER]], Silverteeth [[NEWYORKCITY]], & Leiko [[PROVIDENCEHOMIES]]
The Quahogs . Tapestries . Pyramid . Ian O'neil and Dennis Ryan
October 24, 2015
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The Quahogs . Tapestries . Pyramid . Ian O'neil and Dennis Ryan

October 24, 2015
8:00 pm
Tour Come Back Show!! The Quahogs, Tapestries, Pyramid, & Ian O'neil and Dennis Ryan (of Deer Tick). We wish Rafay Rashid continued superhuman strength in his beastly recovery.
Ctrl + Alt + Repeat: experimental music series featuring: KONUS QUARTETT, JÜRG FREY, TOMAS KORBER
October 22, 2015
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Ctrl + Alt + Repeat: experimental music series featuring: KONUS QUARTETT, JÜRG FREY, TOMAS KORBER

October 22, 2015
8:00 pm
CTRL+ALT+REPEAT is an experimental music series that was founded in 2004 by Mark + Laura Cetilia out of an interest in exploring the intersections of electronic music, improvisation, contemporary classical music, and sound art. KONUS QUARTETT: As a chamber music ensemble whose instrumentation changes frequently, the Konus Quartet engages its audience with highly expressive and idiosyncratic sounds. Contemporary original compositions are interpreted predominantly by the quartet, but these are also contrasted with pieces from past centuries and arrangements for saxophone instrumentation. TOMAS KORBER: Born in 1979 in Zurich, Swiss-Spanish composer/improviser Tomas Korber has written numerous compositions and played improvised music since the early 90’s. He has worked solo and collaboratively. and composes music for theater- and film-productions.
Cosmic Optimism || Nadia // My Body // Crystal Ghost // TBD j
October 17, 2015
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Cosmic Optimism || Nadia // My Body // Crystal Ghost // TBD j

October 17, 2015
9:00 pm
BLACK PUS X TIMEGHOST X TIGER HATCHERY X JOEY MOLINARO X SHAMBLING MOUND
October 17, 2015
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BLACK PUS X TIMEGHOST X TIGER HATCHERY X JOEY MOLINARO X SHAMBLING MOUND

October 17, 2015
9:00 pm
An evening of cybernetic constitution. Touring Creatures: X Tiger Hatchery X welcome to the feline aviary. Free-rage-jazz birthing beasts. Accompanied by Mr Paul Flaherty. X Joey Molinaro X Bow wielding, note shaker. This guy really tears. with Local Behemoths: X Black Pus X ooozing, dripping, rattling, vibrational heartquake machine. X Timeghost X android protoplasm brewing wave motion interference. signature socket grid. bulb shock. X ...Shambling mound... X A mass of tangled vines and dripping slime rises on two trunk-like legs, reeking of rot and freshly turned earth.
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