Upcoming events calendar, ticket information, studio, gallery, and venue news, special offers, and more. We don't send too many; we promise!
Thank you! We'll be in touch!
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.
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
Jayden Barber, Don Nothing, Excavator + Angel Louis
Over the course of their thirty trips around the sun, Earth has remained diligent in their commitment to monolithic minimalism. The sonic vocabulary may have changed—from their early years churning out seismic drone metal on albums like Earth 2 (1993) to the dusty Morricone-tinged comeback album Hex; Or Printing in the Infernal Method (2005) to the meditative rock approach of Primitive and Deadly (2014)—but the underlying principle of austerity and restraint remains a constant. With their latest album Full Upon Her Burning Lips, Earth purges the layers of auxiliary instrumentation that embellished some of their previous records and deconstructed their dynamic to the core duo of Dylan Carlson on guitar and bass and Adrienne Davies on drums and percussion. In the process, they tapped into the Platonic ideal of Earth—an incarnation of the long running band bolstered by the authority of purpose, where every note and every strike on the drum kit carries the weight of the world.
Over the course of their thirty trips around the sun, Earth has remained diligent in their commitment to monolithic minimalism. The sonic vocabulary may have changed—from their early years churning out seismic drone metal on albums like Earth 2 (1993) to the dusty Morricone-tinged comeback album Hex; Or Printing in the Infernal Method (2005) to the meditative rock approach of Primitive and Deadly (2014)—but the underlying principle of austerity and restraint remains a constant. With their latest album Full Upon Her Burning Lips, Earth purges the layers of auxiliary instrumentation that embellished some of their previous records and deconstructed their dynamic to the core duo of Dylan Carlson on guitar and bass and Adrienne Davies on drums and percussion. In the process, they tapped into the Platonic ideal of Earth—an incarnation of the long running band bolstered by the authority of purpose, where every note and every strike on the drum kit carries the weight of the world.
SO THRILLD
To be hosting Koolmorf Widesen in from Firenze, ITALY and our own PVD live pa jammers Xerome and Reverse Engineering. LIVE ELECTRONIC. ACID // TECH // HARD/WET/WARE. KOOLMORF WIDESEN
Project of seasoned Italian electronic music producer and acid maestro Leonardo Barbadoro. He's shared stages with the likes of Apparat, Fuck Buttons, Luke Vibert, The Bug. He's even got a computer controlled robot orchestra. We'll show you when we see you there. XEROME
Back in Providence for the summer this live hardware techno maniac is ready to rip. SO hard.
REVERSE ENGINEERING
New project of the underworldy/sensual Kurt Snell - Pieces gently torn apart and put back together backwords. Oh yeah, he's a werewolf.
Mouser / Unhinged freaks from W.Mass/Baltimore, Drums, Guitar, Laptop, and a yeller + DAN TALBOT / Insane one man pop band + ELEVATED COUCH / Completely bizarred International Band/World Music featuring Ren Schofield (of Container) and a man named Johann + DAVEY HARMS / Slightly weird techno
Downtown Boys: (new record out May 4 on Don Giovanni) + Fleabite (Boston + NYC) + Secret Lover (Worcester) + Lovesick: Manny, Josh, JP of New Urban Arts and a collective of Providence Youth creating the future of art and music.
INTERRUPT III SATELLITE READINGS + PERFORMANCES by RRLEW
MATT UNDERWOOD, V MANUSCRIPT, WILLA VAN NOSTRAND, AKIKO HATAKEYAMA, REED GAINES, VISZK (n carolina), LAURA WARMAN (w mass) w live video/soundscaping all night by MARALIE (VALISE). MACHINES W MAGNETS in collaboration w Interrupt3: A Discussion Forum and Studio for New Forms of Language Art Highlighting text and/or/as image, art and/or/as language and with a particular investment in digitally mediated language art, Interrupt3 will take place, chiefly, in the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Brown University, March 12-15, 2015.
The Pawtucket Commission on Arts & Culture, Machines with Magnets, and Pawtucket Foundation invite you to PAWTUCKET NETWORKS, "Church & Main - cocktails and conversation at Machines W. Magnets on February 18th, 2015
from 6pm – 8:00pm. Join the conversation as we discuss the challenges that local artists and galleries face, ways that we can overcome these challenges and how we can pool our talents to strengthen this already thriving community. This will be a guided forum discussion for all who are interested in the advancement of arts in Pawtucket. The event will kick-off at 6pm on Wednesday, February 18th @ Machines With Magnets , 400 Main St., Pawtucket, RI. The bar will be open and hors d’oeuvres will be served. The guided forum discussion begins at 6:00pm, followed by a meet & greet from 7:00pm until 8:00pm. Have a drink, enjoy the gallery, drop a business card and make some new connections!
Rhode Island Rocks! Music Town & Evo Audio Group presents: The Pawtucket New Music Festival with The Skinny Millionaires + Straw Man Standing + Chronovore + Cluster Flux
