Thursday May 26th @ AS220: Doom (UK), Dropdead, Teargas (Australia)

DOOM
(UK, 1st time in the USA only area show!)
http://www.facebook.com/pages/DOOM/139457376093024

DROPDEAD
(RI, celebrating 20 years of anti-bastard anti-war anti-asshole thrash)
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dropdead/42169923260

TEARGAS
(Australia, 1st time in the USA)
http://www.myspace.com/teargashc

Thursday May 26th
9pm
$15
All Ages / Drink with ID
AS220
115 Empire St
Providence RI 02903
www.as220.org

THERE WILL BE NO PRE-SALE TICKETS ON THIS.
ADMISSION AT THE DOOR UNTIL CAPACITY IS MET.

DEAD RIDER TONIGHT

The magic starts now, gang. Thursday May 12, this very night, D Rider gets up in it at Machines With Magnets. For those unfamiliar, this is the newest project from Todd Rittman of US Maple and Singer. Zing! I'm having a melt-down already. Rumor on the street is that it's some of the freakiest shit rock and roll fans have seen in a minute. Fanning the flames are Kokomo and OSS (will they bring a "very special guest"?). In summation:

Dead Rider
Olneyville Sound System
Kokomo
@MWM May 12/Now
$8 +positive vibes on the house

Madonnarama

Madonnarama Saturday May 7th at MWM.

Pointy bras abound! Songs by the queen of pop, performed by your favorite bands.

All proceeds from this event go to support Girls Rock! Rhode Island, whose mission is to help girls and women empower themselves through music!

9-1 with lots more bands than what is listed on the lovely poster that Meredith Stern made.


Cave of Colors (ex- the Ram, the Butcherings, Tastic) w/ the Assembly of Light Choir
http://www.myspace.com/therammusic
http://www.myspace.com/thebutcherings/music
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Assembly-of-Light-Choir/135274039844744
Roz Raskin & the Ricecakes
http://www.facebook.com/thericecakes
the 'Mericans
http://myspace.com/themerican
Sister Ray of Light (mems. Death Vessel, Quakey Gum, the Eyesores)
http://myspace.com/deathvessel
http://www.inkape.com/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Alec-K-Redfearn-the-Eyesores/262778843207
Me Jane (mems. Maria Monk)
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Maria-Monk/134899346542562
Tanya Power (ex-Drab)
http://www.myspace.com/drab
The Invisible Hours
http://www.facebook.com/pages/the-invisible-hours/17482264762
Jamie & Kelly Burke (mems. Benedictions)
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Benedictions/107554789627
Whore Paint (mems. Made in Mexico, Arcing, Teenage Waistband)
http://facebook.com/wppvd
The Intelevisions
Ann O'Dam
EGGE
John K. & the Resentments

+DJ Merry Def kicking out the jamz between sets!

SATURDAY, MAY 7th at Machines With Magnets (400 Main St., Pawtucket, RI)!

$5-10 sliding scale donation

See you there!

On Record Store Day, I picked up this EARTH LP from Armageddon Shop. If you liked The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull record from 2008 then this is for you. It barely resembles older EARTH records though...just to warn those who have not heard their recent stuff.

Anyway, I really like it.

Preview here:

And now for something completely different

While browsing the Electro Harmonix website to see if they had any new crazy guitar effects coming out, I found this link on their page. It is this band Pomplamoose. Actually, the original link was just the dude (Jack Conte), but then I found more links for his "band" on youtube.

These two are adorable.

The basic deal is that he plays every instrument himself and videotapes everything. Then, he edits the video in a way that you can basically see him creating the song. The music is super sweet stuff ...kinda New Pornographers/Aisler Set/Moldy Peaches. Even if you hate the sound of that, you should watch just one of these.

-- EDIT: In some of the vids, the lady friend also plays instruments. I didnt see that in some of these until now. The ones I saw at first were all just him. --

Here is the first click I watched, which is more Elliot Smithy

And another with both of them:

and here they are covering Michael Jackson's Beat It:

TODAY : April 16th Record Store Day

TODAY AT NOON: Record Store Day: Our Way. We'll have some of the special RSD titles, but more importantly we put out a ton of new USED vinyl in both shops, as well as LTD COLOR VINYL VERSIONS of some records we released, some OOP releases we ordered in, and some killer new releases.

Providence folks: We got in a chunk of random old Out Of Print local EP's and LP's, and some Test Pressings of a few local releases.

ARMAGEDDON SHOP
436 Broadway
Providence, RI 02909
401 521-6667
armageddonshop.com

BONEDUST: Fruit of the Ash

One of my favorite local bands, Bonedust, is having a grant-funded show coming up...I am psyched. What does a band need a grant for you ask? I dunno...but I will be there to find out! Here is the info:

Bonedust : Fruit of the Ash
2 performances
Saturday April 16th
with Haxen and Taboo
10 pm Donate
and
Sunday April 17th
7:30-8:30pm free
at Machines with Magnets
400 Main street, Pawtucket

This performance was funded in part by a a grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts

Agalloch at Middle East

I love the new album. Head up if you wanna check them out:

Wed 3/23

Agalloch
Worm Ouroboros
Vindensang
Musk Ox

18+ $15 Advance / $18 Day Of Show

LOTSOFNOISE benefit this Saturday!

As you may already know, I am having a LOTSOFNOISE benefit on 2-26 at Machines With Magnets to raise funds to make a major upgrade to the site. My goal is to hire a programmer/developer to do some serious integration of social networking, allow for ease of use for users, create a better calendar and build ways for LON to email/text/etc people when shit is going down that they want to see/hear.

I could really use your help. I am having a raffle at the show and could use some prizes. If you are interested in donating Records, CDs, Posters/Prints, Shirts, etc I would be so thankful. The only other benefit that I ever did was about 5 years ago and the raffle went over really well.

If you would like to donate, please drop donations at Armageddon Providence. They are kind enough to be letting me use the shop as a hub for local folks.

If you know anyone that might be interested in helping in this way, please forward this along.

Oh... and COME TO THE SHOW!

DOMINGO GIGANTE

In a long awaited excuse to grace Providence with another "I'll top my own Evil best" Lee Buford poster, Machines With Magnets is blowing it up this Sunday with a Best Friends From Near and Far original dude-stravaganza. Git it in for The Body kind-of tour kickoff, second debut of still pretty new Deleted Arrows line-up, I-still-haven't-seen-these-guys-but-thanks-Rich-for-making-my-band-look-awesome Mouth of Flowers, "Worcester Knows How To Party" bros Mountain Man, "In it for life" Soul Control, and the source of all things melodious/dark and immersive/corn-syrup fueled in MWM studios for the past week, Braveyoung. These dudes have been in The Bucket working on a Body collab, and we can't say enough good things about them. Technical proficiency! Hardcore ideals! Southern charm! Sorry ladies- they're taken! Real Live Early o'clock. No more bitching about how it's too cold to get out there. See you in hell!