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

SUN FOOT / ICE BALLOONS / CONTAINER / DUNGEON BROADS / BLACK PUS
July 21, 2015
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SUN FOOT / ICE BALLOONS / CONTAINER / DUNGEON BROADS / BLACK PUS

July 21, 2015
8:00 pm
SUN FOOT http://sunfoot.neocities.org/ ICE BALLOONS https://iceballoons.bandcamp.com/ CONTAINER https://soundcloud.com/gentledefect DUNGEON BROADS http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dungeon_Broads BLACK PUS.
Brother Dege & The Brethren / Mark Milloff / Peter Von Toy
July 16, 2015
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Brother Dege & The Brethren / Mark Milloff / Peter Von Toy

July 16, 2015
8:00 pm
FILTHY BLUES GUITAR, BRING IT HOME. featuring Brother Dege Legg of DJANGO UNCHAINED. Brother Dege Legg, A nationally recognized slide guitarist and featured artist on the Django Unchained soundtrack. Brother Dege Legg will be playing with his full band, the Brethren. Mark Milloff Classic, dirty slide, harpoon guitar from Providence's filthy Cannibal Ramblers. Mark always brings it home, too far home. Peter Von Toy Rock drenched, Blues tinted Folk songs.
ZOMES // AIR LOOM \\ HOUSE RED
July 9, 2015
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ZOMES // AIR LOOM \\ HOUSE RED

July 9, 2015
8:00 pm
A visceral, immersive sound. ZOMES: Enchanting sonic holograms abduct, enveloping every moment. AIR LOOM: You guessed it. JP Falzone and Brendan Glasson delivering the news magic freaking carpet style. House Red The deepest you can get without having to hold your breath. HOUSE RED: will equip you with gills so you, too, can breathe in the entrancing depths as the reddest of surfs washes overhead.
MARTYRS / YOUTH WORSHIP / KITTY FISTS
June 24, 2015
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MARTYRS / YOUTH WORSHIP / KITTY FISTS

June 24, 2015
9:00 pm
W00DY // SOLID STATE ENTITY // GRUTCH // CAROLINE PARK // SITTING ADULT ++MSHR!
June 22, 2015
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W00DY // SOLID STATE ENTITY // GRUTCH // CAROLINE PARK // SITTING ADULT ++MSHR!

June 22, 2015
8:00 pm
TRANSMUTING, SUPPLE, SNAKY ELECTRONIC, SPLIT PERSONALITY, TECHNO NIGHT. W00dy, SOLID STATE ENTITY, Grutch, Sitting Adult, Caroline Park, MSHR. (MSHR is a collaborative project by Birch Cooper and Brenna Murphy based in Portland, Oregon. The duo produces sculptural synthesizers, ritualistic performances and installations that place the human body into a dynamic relationship with sound and light, generating expanded sensory experiences.)
Tashi Dorji / Keith Fullerton Whitman / Dunums / Luke Moldof + Ren Schofield / Mem1
June 21, 2015
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Tashi Dorji / Keith Fullerton Whitman / Dunums / Luke Moldof + Ren Schofield / Mem1

June 21, 2015
9:00 pm
TASHI DORJI grew up in Bhutan, on the eastern side of the Himalayas. Dorji developed a playing style unbound by tradition, yet with a direct line to intuitive artistry. His recordings feature improvisations that spasmodically grow along tangential, surprising paths. DUNUMS is a collaborative project founded by Sijal Nasralla. Based in NC, shifting players and contributors to the project have recorded, performed, and created in direct response to, albeit humbly in transmission, of events commonly known as "summer in Gaza" or "revolution in Syria." KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN Starting in the mid-1990's, Keith began exploring electronic music's many facets, eventually yielding dozens of full length albums, singles, remixes, and compilation appearances for influential labels. MEM1 seamlessly blends the sounds of cello and electronics to create a limitless palette of sonic possibilities. LUKE MOLDOF + REN SCHOFIELD Modular synthesis, forced feedback, beats on beats, on beets on beats. get it.
Bella's Bartok // AdapterAdapter // Ghost Town Revival
June 19, 2015
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Bella's Bartok // AdapterAdapter // Ghost Town Revival

June 19, 2015
9:00 pm
Bella's Bartok: Maybe you had a bad day, and you thought it was unredeemable. Maybe you have a cold and you don’t feel like moving around. Maybe you fancy yourself someone who watches a concert quietly from the back, attentively listening. In a few seconds, it’s not going to matter who you are. When the Balkan-inspired, circusy sound of Bella’s Bartok hits your ears, you are no longer in control. You are out of your seat bouncing up and down, and soon your arms are flailing and you’re smiling and screaming. Your bad day, your cold, your fatigue have all vanished, and it’s not even the end of the first song. Bella’s Bartok makes everyone dance, regardless. From living rooms to concert halls the band’s energy makes getting up and moving irresistible. Without fail, someone from the audience comes up after every single show and says the same thing: “I couldn’t help it.” Plus AdapterAdapter and GHOST TOWN REVIVAL (Members of SASQUATCH AND THE SICK-A-BILLYS).
Ctrl+Alt+Repeat
June 18, 2015
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Ctrl+Alt+Repeat

June 18, 2015
9:00 pm
WILL GUTHRIE (mego / erstwhile / ipecac) + TITANS OF JAZZ andré cormier’s “hic et nunc” + EMILY DIX-THOMAS (cello) + and LAURA CETILIA (cello) philip glass’ “strung out” + CHASE SPRUILL (violin)
DEATH VESSEL / MIRAH / KID IN THE ATTIC / NICK JAINA
June 14, 2015
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DEATH VESSEL / MIRAH / KID IN THE ATTIC / NICK JAINA

June 14, 2015
8:00 pm
THIS SHOW WILL ACTUALLY BLOW YOU AWAY SO BRING AN ANCHOR. Come at 8pm. It's interdisciplinary. Death Vessel (PVD) //\\ the whole band this time. f yeah. Mirah (BROOKLYN) \\// from "DIY mini-masterpieces that express a punk sensibility through broken drum machines, reverb-drenched guitars and ukulele" to "mature, complex and immaculately-produced" -(Wikipedia, fo sho) KID IN THE ATTIC (BROOKLYN) //\\ FAHKING GEORGEOUS (period) Nick Jaina (Portland, OR) \\// READING & SONG > Nick is traveling to promote his new book, "Get it while you can." Whole Grain, baby.
KOOLMORF WIDESEN / XEROME \ REVERSE ENGINEERING
May 28, 2015
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KOOLMORF WIDESEN / XEROME \ REVERSE ENGINEERING

May 28, 2015
8:00 pm
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 / DAN TALBOT / ELEVATED COUCH / DAVEY HARMS
May 24, 2015
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MOUSER / DAN TALBOT / ELEVATED COUCH / DAVEY HARMS

May 24, 2015
8:00 pm
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
TAIGA // ANIMAL HOSPITAL // HIGH AURA'D
May 23, 2015
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TAIGA // ANIMAL HOSPITAL // HIGH AURA'D

May 23, 2015
9:00 pm
DOWNTOWN BOYS RECORD RELEASE PARTY + Fleabite + Secret Lover + Lovesick
May 8, 2015
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DOWNTOWN BOYS RECORD RELEASE PARTY + Fleabite + Secret Lover + Lovesick

May 8, 2015
8:00 pm
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
March 15, 2015
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INTERRUPT III Satellite

March 15, 2015
8:00 pm
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.
"Church & Main" PAWTUCKET NETWORKS: cocktails & conversation
February 18, 2015
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"Church & Main" PAWTUCKET NETWORKS: cocktails & conversation

February 18, 2015
6:00 pm
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!
Prostitutes / Unicorn Hard-on / Soft Target / Lucy Lewis
November 9, 2014
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Prostitutes / Unicorn Hard-on / Soft Target / Lucy Lewis

November 9, 2014
9:00 pm
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