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
Leila Abdul-Rauf, Vaelastrasz, House Red + 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.
Leila Abdul-Rauf, Vaelastrasz, House Red + 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.
‘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.
‘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.
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
