Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Armageddon Shop Presents: Tuesday June 29th BASTARD NOISE @ AS220



Armageddon Shop Presents:

Bastard Noise (CA)
www.bastardnoise.com

The Body (RI)
www.myspace.com/thevisionshallcometopass

Denimvenom (RI)
www.myspace.com/dnmvnm

The Vomit Arsonist
www.myspace.com/thevomitarsonist

9pm sharp

Tuesday June 29th

all ages/drink w/ID
@ AS220
115 Empire St
Providence, RI 02903
www.as220.org

AN­DREW W.K./Peter Glantz/Gunsho

New video directed, drawn and animated by Providence folk:


Thursday, June 24, 2010

Dog Days of Summer with AS220




Well team, you asked for it. The dog days of summer are early and upon us, and don't show any sign of letting up. While all winter long in huddled masses we pined for these damp and scorching environs, we find ourselves now wilting across our beloved downcity, planning our days around bubble tea and air conditioning. Oh man, but Boba House closes at 10! Where could I possibly find air conditioning after.... Whats that? Ohhhhh.....

This very night we've but one spot left in our "very special" darkroom class featuring Denny Moers, and Blossom. Denny's unique practices lend themselves to surreal and somewhat unpredictable results. To snag the last remaining spot, run on over to as220.org/darkroom. Now git! Friday night features an acoustic spectacular via the musical memoir of Andy Shernoff. Yes, of the Dictators and the Ramones. Too bizarre to be true, you say? Try and prove me wrong! Saturday brings a jam-tacular lineup of hip-hop all stars including Big Rush, Dread Mighty, Manni Headphonez, and Hidden Agenda. What did ESG tell us to do? No, not "flush you like a toilet." Dance! This Sunday will be your last chance to check out the literary phenomenon thats been sweeping the city: Bar Plays will take over our humble pub at starting at 7pm. (You might even get to throw the word "thespian" into a conversation. Who else can offer you that?) They'll get the boot at 9 when Stalemate, Roz Raskin & The Ricecakes, and Tonic Thief take the stage. I'm gonna spend the next couple of days sleeping it off, and you should too, readers. Tuesday night marks the kind of epic descent into madness I know you've all been waiting for. It pains me even to trivialize this bill by typing it; the internet could never do it justice. Bastard Noise, The Body, and Denimvenom are here to ensure that you lose your hearing completely, get canned from your job as a waitress for no longer being able to decipher orders, drop off of society completely, and rejoin the cycle of life I like to think of as Rock n Roll. Hey guys, are we a band yet? After that there's something about a cyborg army, an awesome-as-ever curation by B Sharp, and a long overdue visit from your creepy uncles you never thought you'd see again. More on that later.

Alright readers. I've got alot of doom in my future, and that doesn't come without work. I'm off to make it happen. For a full rundown of our happs, get thee to our online calendar. Until the rock show, away!

Friday, June 18, 2010

Gunsho Show


Happening NOW! Grant Building, downtown Pawtucket.

GO


Thursday, June 17, 2010

AS220: Do It For Dad




Hello hello, readers! Welcome to a very special Father's Day edition of Your Weekly Events Email. In this issue we will be discussing Great Gifts for Dad, as well as featuring two short editorials, Guess What About Technology and I Cannot Believe My Father Still Asks Me This. I know that some of these topics have been weighing on your mind, readers, and I'm here to offer some relief. Without further ado: Fathers day is June 20, or so the internet tells me, and many of us still have yet to wrastle up an appropriate gift for the paterfamilias. Try these on for size: Get dad out of the house for a fun outing to Beyond The Lighted Stage, the new documentary about Ontario's most legendary progressive rock sensation. Everybody loves Rush, even if they don't know it yet. If material luxuries are your dad's bag, consider a pair of custom designed cowboy boots. Rugged! Utilitarian! Man Town! If all else fails, go with my old standby, pickled herring. Moving on: Hey guys, guess what about technology? Did you know that BMI owns the technology called Shazam? The one where you hold your cell phone up to some musics, and it tells you what song it is? What on earth could they have wanted that capability for? Oooooh, do you think that when you Shazam something, BMI knows? I'm only leaving the house wrapped in aluminum foil from now on. In other news, I went to visit the fam last week, and I Cannot Believe My Father Still Asks Me if I've considered paying for health insurance, or if I'm planning on getting married any time soon. Ok ok, to be fair, that last one was my mother, but still. Get it together, Mitchells. Its the 90's.

Friday night promises a host of hackers and noisemakers so esoteric you'll find yourself in some kind of kaleidoscopic underwater transcendental hypnotic state. Area C provides loops and drones, Myo hacks into contact mics, Jeff Carey real-time multi-channels electro instrumental tunes, and Blevin Blectum casts some sort of Siren/muse/immersive trance curse. Dreamy! Saturday proves to be equally avante, with Screwed Anthologies, Aster, (R)octopus, and ^. Think spandex, improv, audio-visuals, and performance art. Where have you been all my life?! Sunday we'll be drinking as per the usual, but this time to the soothing literary stylings of Bar Plays: Plays Set In Bars Done In Bars. If you haven't seen these yet, you're probably not a raging alcoholic. Keep up the good work! Part deux will happen Monday night, right before my favorite event of the year, Not About the Buildings 4th Annual Spelling Bee. Free to watch! Cheap to compete! Glory can still be yours! Time's a wasting. Start scrabbling right now to be in top form for the smack-down. I'll be heckling. After that, we've got a whole slew of hacker/wizard/noise classes, a free tour with Bert, and a musical memoir with Andy Shernoff of the Dictators and the Ramones. True story! He'll be here next Friday, acoustic style. Oy!

There's the D, team. I'll leave off there. Probably you're tied up buying neckties and cologne. For a full rundown, get thee to our calendar. Until the rock show, away!

Help kickstart the Providence Juice Truck!

The embedded link here will take you to Josie and Jay's kickstarter.com page, where you can donate money to the funding of their proposed organic juice truck project. Basically, kickstarter lets funders promise money, but it is pulled from the funder ONLY the entire project gets funded. If they come up short, you keep your cash. Hopefully these guys do get totally funded though. PVD could use more food trucks... do it.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Ming Toro CD out

Another local release: Ming Toro has a new CD out (or available on Itunes). The self-titled, 7-song EP is out on their own label, Bucket Republic Records. The EP was recorded in January 2010 with Rick Pelletier from Six Finger Satellite.

Friday, June 11, 2010

Tonight Friday June 11th @ AS220




Armageddon Shop Presents:
Friday, June 11th

Slang(Japan)
http://www.slang1988.com/
World Burns To Death (TX)
http://www.myspace.com/worldburnstodeathofficial
Elder(MA)
http://www.myspace.com/beholdtheelder
Cough(VA)
http://www.myspace.com/cough666
Neon Bitches(PVD)
http://www.myspace.com/neonbitcheshc

9pm sharp
$8
all ages/drink w/ID
@ AS220
115 Empire St
Providence, RI 02903
www.as220.org

AS220 Happs and Memorial




Dark days, team. First Ronnie James Dio, then Gary Coleman, and now, of all your Auntie Reba's mentors and heroes, Rue McClanahan. Lets take a moment for a "Very Special Segment" I like to call True About Rue:
1) Eddi-Rue MacClanahan was born in Oklahoma, the very home of your favorite events informer.
2) Rue was God Dang Vegan, if you can believe it, because she was gentle and loving to all things, unlike her morally-swayable-in-the-face-of-lust character on the Golden Girls.
3) Rue was married 6 times, which lent itself to, as far as I'm concerned, the best named memoir of all time, "My First Five Husbands, and The One That Got Away," in this case, referring to a separation rather than divorce, or some other unforeseeable and disastrous fate.
I've found a reason to be good, readers. If the good Lord's got her and Tammy Faye together up in the Penthouse for Jesus, then I'm leaving selfishness and sin behind. But first... perhaps some kind of last hurrah? What kind of fleeting debauchery could our Savior forgive? I've got a couple of ideas:

Friday night marks the moment we've all been waiting for: Armageddon Night! Not an eternal hereafter full of flames, people, but an expertly curated shred fest: Cough (VA), Neon Bitches, Elder, and Worlds Burn To Death (TX) set the stage for Slang, in all the way from Japan. Give 'em a warm welcome. The following eve promises a black metal/thrash/crust hybrid so disgusting its sure to condemn, with Grave Reviews, Black Vendetta, P.S.S., and Reign of Abaddon sharing the stage. Now, Mondays we usually take the night off and go to the bingo hall, but just this week we're opening our doors and our whiskey bottles for Bar Plays, plays set in bars done in bars. You know you were wishing for a drink the whole time anyway, sooo..... Wednesday ain't the Lord's day yet, so I'm coming down for Methuselah, ORCumentary, and Lobotomizer. Its stoner! Its doom! Its everything you ever wanted. I'm cleaning up my act, and this show is my bachelor party. I can't be held accountable for what happens; by Saturday morning I'll have washed it all away.

Thats all she wrote, readers. I'm going back to the heartland, where every beauty parlor and BBQ joint is adorned with the signed portrait of a Golden Girl. For the total happs, peep our calendar. Until the rock show, Pussycats, away!

Saturday, June 05, 2010

Two Awesome Armageddon Shop Shows this Week! Thurs & Fri!!!



Armageddon Shop Presents
Thursday June 10th

DEAD MEADOW (CA)
http://www.myspace.com/deadmeadow
MEGASUS (RI)
http://www.flightofthemegasus.com

VILLAINER (formerly HOLLOWS)(RI)
http://www.myspace.com/villainer

9pm Sharp
$8
21+ (sorry!)

@ The 201
201 Westminster St
Providence RI 02903
http://www.the201providence.com






Armageddon Shop Presents:
Friday, June 11th

Slang(Japan)
http://www.slang1988.com/
World Burns To Death (TX)
http://www.myspace.com/worldburnstodeathofficial
Elder(MA)
http://www.myspace.com/beholdtheelder
Cough(VA)
http://www.myspace.com/cough666
Neon Bitches(PVD)
http://www.myspace.com/neonbitcheshc

9pm sharp
$8
all ages/drink w/ID
@ AS220
115 Empire St
Providence, RI 02903
www.as220.org

Friday, June 04, 2010

The Good Word @ AS220


Rise n shine it, readers. The sun is out, the times are good, and the game is on. How could I find an ounce of dissatisfaction amongst a group of subscribers so palpably filled with vim and vigor? For what more could so high a concentration of ever-contented individuals possibly ask? I haven't heard any complaints yet. If I did, I'd just shush them up with a little mud and a few hairballs, the old fashioned way. Tried and true, works every time. If it ain't broke... you know what they say. Now where were we?

This Friday night promises one of our favorite noisy neighbors, B Sharp Music, presenting for your auditory enjoyment both You Scream I Scream and Eolune. Saturday, as per the staggeringly awesome yet usual, kicks off with an Irish Music Session in the bar. Later that night, Vudu Bevy, The Denver Boot, and November Calling provide the banjo-noodling soundtrack to your otherwise Rock n Roll lifestyle. Spice of Life! Count me in. Sundays got me quaking in my boots, people. I don't know that I can handle this much excitement; I've never tried. The day kicks off at 1 pm with an absolutely free of charge open house of our brand new Mercantile Block. Now, not all is up and running just yet, but the fabulous residential studios, soon-to-be Printshop and Labs, and plush practice spaces are starting to take shape. Plus, The Stable is open downstairs. Try and resist! I dare you! Starting at 4, our June gallery exhibitions will be unveiled. I'm no connoisseur, but one Serena JVE has spent the past three days logging in the Project Space, threatening something about a "room within a room," and throwing up hyper-insulated electric orange tarps. If this doesn't result in art, I don't know what will. Don't leave downtown just yet, art-goers. Its the first of the month, and you know what that means. The Empire Review, at sharply 8pm, will remind us what it was like to accidentally stumble across some steamy scene on cable TV while lounging in the den with your parents, age 8. Uncomfortable, yet somehow foreshadowing of the quasi-appropriate humorist your inner self will someday admit that you are. I'm going for the articles.

I'll not bore you with the details, readers. You can see for yourself the melange of happenings this week at your favorite non for profit arts establishment. I'll leave you to it. Until the rock show, away!

Thursday, June 03, 2010

Local stuff that you can git.



While sitting on the train today, listening to Journey Escape and looking through my Google Reader's Armageddon Shop mailer...I was struck by how much really sick local stuff you can get right now. I was inclined to post it here. There is a lot of really great stuff here including one of my favorite local albums ever...Astoveboat's New Bedford. You can pretty much go to Armageddon and buy anything on this list and be psyched.

LOCAL CD ASTOVEBOAT New Bedford Load 9.99 new 2
LOCAL CD DAUGHTERS s/t Hydrahead 14.99 new 3
LOCAL CD HARRY PUSSY You'll Never Play This Town Again Load 9.99 new 3
LOCAL CD KITES Superior Moon Mountain 6.99 new 3inch CD 1
LOCAL CD LANDED How Little Will It Take Load 9.99 new 2CD 3
LOCAL CD MING TORO s/t Bucket Republic 6.99 new Providence Indie debut release 5
LOCAL CD NOXAGT s/t Load 9.99 new 1
LOCAL CD NOXAGT Turning It Down Since 2001 Load 9.99 new 1
LOCAL CD SIGHTINGS Absolutes Load 9.99 new 2
LOCAL CD SIX FINGER SATELLITE Half Control Load 9.99 new 5
LOCAL CD YELLOW SWANS At Both Ends Load 9.99 new 2
LOCAL DVD LIGHTNING BOLT Power Of Salad Load 13.99 new 2
LOCAL DVD PAPER RAD Trash Talking Load 13.99 new 2
LOCAL DVD PICK A WINNER Various Artists Load 13.99 new 2
LOCAL LP BODY, THE All The Waters Of the Earth Turn To Blood Aum War 16.99 new 2lp 5
LOCAL LP DAUGHTERS Hell Songs Hydrahead 16.99 new plum wax 1
LOCAL LP HOSPITALS, THE Land Of Jocks And Jazz Load 9.99 new 2
LOCAL LP HOWL Full Of Hell Relapse 17.99 new 180gram gatefold w/download 4
LOCAL LP KHANATE No Joy Load 9.99 new 2
LOCAL LP KITES Hallucination Guillotine / Final Worship Load 9.99 new 2
LOCAL LP MENS RECOVERY PROJECT The Very best Of Load 12.99 new 2LP 2
LOCAL LP NOXAGT S/T Load 9.99 new 1
LOCAL LP OLNEYVILLE SOUND SYSTEM What Is True What Is False Load 9.99 new screenprinted cover, orange wax 2
LOCAL LP PRURIENT Black Vase Load 12.99 new 2LP 2
LOCAL LP PRURIENT / KITES Split Load 9.99 new 2
LOCAL LP REPOPULATION PROGRAM Various Artists Load 12.99 new 2LP, Arab On Radar, Lightning Bolt, Dropdead, Les Savy Fav, Forcefield plus much more 3
LOCAL LP RUSTED SHUT Dead Load 9.99 new 2
LOCAL LP SIGHTINGS S/T Load 9.99 new 2
LOCAL LP SWORD HEAVEN Entrance Load 9.99 new 1
LOCAL LP TINSEL TEETH Trash As The Trophy Load 9.99 new 5
LOCAL LP WHAT CHEER? BRIGADE We Blow You Suck Anchor Brain 11.99 new on VINYL finally with screenprinted cover & download 10
LOCAL LP WHITE MICE, THE Assphixxxeatateshun Load 9.99 new 1
LOCAL LP WHITE MICE, THE Blassstphlegmeice Load 9.99 new 1
LOCAL SHIRT BODY, THE I Believe In Jim Jones / Violence Solves Everything Devil's Rainbow 11 new Small, gray on black shirt 2 sided 2
LOCAL SHIRT BODY, THE I Believe In Jim Jones / Violence Solves Everything Devil's Rainbow 11 new Medium, gray on black shirt 2 sided 2
LOCAL SHIRT BODY, THE I Believe In Jim Jones / Violence Solves Everything Devil's Rainbow 11 new Large, gray on black shirt 2 sided 1
LOCAL SHIRT BODY, THE I Believe In Jim Jones / Violence Solves Everything Devil's Rainbow 11 new X Large, gray on black shirt 2 sided 1
LOCAL SHIRT BODY, THE Jesus Head Devil's Rainbow 11 new Small, black on dark gray shirt 1
LOCAL SHIRT BODY, THE Jesus Head Devil's Rainbow 11 new Medium, black on light gray shirt 2
LOCAL SHIRT BODY, THE Jesus Head Devil's Rainbow 11 new Large, black on light gray shirt 1
LOCAL SHIRT BODY, THE Jesus Head Devil's Rainbow 11 new X Large, black on light gray shirt 1