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

A Side Joint

Thursday, August 27, 2026

7:00 pm

to

12:00 am

Free

By way of Barrio Saint Malo. Come together, break bread. Everybody gotta eat.

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A Side Joint

Special Event
Thursday, August 27, 2026
7:00 pm
12:00 am
Free
By way of Barrio Saint Malo. Come together, break bread. Everybody gotta eat.
More Info + RSVP

A Side Joint

Friday, August 28, 2026

7:00 pm

to

12:00 am

Free

By way of Barrio Saint Malo. Come together, break bread. Everybody gotta eat.

Barrio Saint MaloTickets
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A Side Joint

Special Event
Friday, August 28, 2026
7:00 pm
12:00 am
Free
By way of Barrio Saint Malo. Come together, break bread. Everybody gotta eat.
More Info + RSVP

Ora Cogan with Bong Wish and Luci Dead Limb

Friday, September 25, 2026

8:00 pm

to

$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

to

$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

to

$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.
More Info + RSVP

DITZ

Sunday, November 8, 2026

8:00 pm

to

$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

Cold Flame, an audiovisual haunting with Unfeeling, Bittersweet + Kristina Warren
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Cold Flame, an audiovisual haunting with Unfeeling, Bittersweet + Kristina Warren

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8:00 pm
The Body with Peace Test + Ben Eberle
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The Body with Peace Test + Ben Eberle

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Slow Bloom Ceramics Dinner with Chef Julia Menendez

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RISD Sound presents Charmaine Lee, Aliya Ultan + WGS Johnson
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RISD Sound presents Charmaine Lee, Aliya Ultan + WGS Johnson

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8:00 pm
Earth + Stebmo
November 5, 2025
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Earth + Stebmo

November 5, 2025
8:00 pm
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.
World Peace + Water Torture, Mountain Man, Dull Care
October 12, 2025
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World Peace + Water Torture, Mountain Man, Dull Care

October 12, 2025
8:00 pm
Risks, Rituals, & Ruptures Opening Reception
October 9, 2025
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Risks, Rituals, & Ruptures Opening Reception

October 9, 2025
6:00 pm
Risks, Rituals, & Ruptures opens October 9 with works by Jane Hesser, Catherine LeComte Lecce, Ellen Shattuck Pierce, and Ellen Wetmore. Join us at 6 pm for viewing, cocktails, and conversation followed by performances at 7 from LIGHTS OUT, Glenna Van Nostrand, Host Ensemble, and House Red. Tickets available at the door, sliding $10-20 suggested donation. All proceeds go to Sojourner House, who envisions a world where everyone lives their life free from domestic and sexual abuse. ‘Risks, Rituals, & Ruptures’ brings together four artists who map reproduction and care—its risks, rituals, and ruptures—and the charged pause between what was and what will be. Across drawing, pattern, and photography, the works ask how we carry loss and continue to live inside the no-longer and the not-yet.
Jayden Barber, Don Nothing, Excavator + Angel Louis
September 30, 2025
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Jayden Barber, Don Nothing, Excavator + Angel Louis

September 30, 2025
8:00 pm
ecoRI's 16th Zero-Trash Birthday Bash
September 18, 2025
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ecoRI's 16th Zero-Trash Birthday Bash

September 18, 2025
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Have a blast without the trash — while raising funds for ecoRI News' environmental reporting and watchdog journalism.
Otherworld closing reception with performances by Lou Mace, SB + Marcie
August 27, 2025
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Otherworld closing reception with performances by Lou Mace, SB + Marcie

August 27, 2025
8:00 pm
Wrekmeister Harmonies, Space Camp + VOSP
July 30, 2025
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Wrekmeister Harmonies, Space Camp + VOSP

July 30, 2025
8:00 pm
Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp with DakouDakou
July 1, 2025
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Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp with DakouDakou

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8:00 pm
Founded in 2006 in Geneva, 90 years after Dada, by Vincent Bertholet (Hyperculte), the 12- piece Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp has released 5 albums on the highly influential Bongo Joe Records and played the European festival circuit for years. This will be their second attempt to conquer America – following the release of the latest album, Ventre Unique. The band’s name is an homage to some of the classic Congolese groups (Orchestre Tout Puissant Konono n°1, Orchestre Tout Puissant Polyrytmo, TPOK Jazz etc...) and to one of the greatest provocateurs of 20th century art. Their music mixes echoes of The Ex, Moondog, kraut rock, minimalism, high life, symphonic touches and punk outbursts - and yet, none of it is terribly relevant: OTPMD has managed to invent its own reality – or, if you prefer, a simulation. Their live performances are mesmerizing affairs with an almost ritualistic slant and arrangements so tight they seem to re-organize chaos itself.
Cel Genesis, The Body + Cyberbully
June 19, 2025
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Cel Genesis, The Body + Cyberbully

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8:00 pm
Play it Cool Vol. 3: Pre-Pride Party (21+)
June 17, 2025
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Play it Cool Vol. 3: Pre-Pride Party (21+)

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Virgo Rising, Sag Moon Closing Reception
June 13, 2025
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Virgo Rising, Sag Moon Closing Reception

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6:00 pm
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