Wednesday at MWM

MALAIKAT DAN SINGA
Indonesian pop jam of Old Time Relijun's Arrington de Dionyso

OLNEYVILE SOUND SYSTEM
Disgusting Providence assault courtesy of Load Records

ALEC K REDFERN & ORION DOMMISSE
Keeping it real

JEALOUS FUCK
Shredmaster Panzarella gets nasty on banjo

With musical interludes by DJ MOSAED
Exotic world dance jams curated by one Seth Manchester.

Can you even put a price on a show like this?! Ok, ok. $8.
Rock o'clock in Pawtucket at Machines with Magnets.
Wednesday September 29
Git it!

Rocktucket and Print Show happened

I had to split my time between both of these things, seeing only Ming Toro and OSS in the Bucket and then running to the AS220 Print Lottery. Both were really fun. The sound at Rocktucket was really good, as was the food (Taco truck...Cupcake truck...Vegan ice cream truck).

At AS220, my lottery ticket produced a dragon silkscreen print which was quickly scooped up in a trade where I wound up walking away with a Black Pus/Greenlee poster. Go Figure :)

Here is a clip of OSS...watch in HD if you dare.

Friday Sept 24th: Dropdead, The Body & more @ AS220!!

Armageddon Shop Presents:

DROPDEAD
(old guys being loud and yelling at the shit system)
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dropdead/42169923260
www.myspace.com/dropdead

THE BODY
(two awesome dudes steamroller homecoming show...)
www.myspace.com/thevisionshallcometopass

SOUL CONTROL
(awesome local HC fueled by Nice Slice)
www.myspace.com/soulcontrolhc
www.facebook.com/soulcontrolmusic

WORK/DEATH
(one man in depth noise. damaged better than black flag)
http://www.corleonerecords.com/banddetail.asp?bandid=35
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Work%2FDeath


and ADDED TO THE SHOW, good touring folks...

BURNING LOVE (Canada - Ex members of CURSED, THE SWARM, ACRID)
http://www.myspace.com/burninglovers

Friday September 24th
9pm
$7
All Ages / Drink w/ID
@ AS220
115 Empire St
Providence, RI 02903
www.as220.org

GIANT PRINT SHOW

Main Gallery at AS220, 115 Empire Street, Providence, RI 02903

On exhibit at AS220's Main Gallery at 115 Empire Street throughout September, 200 prints and works on paper hang in a massive, exuberant, salon-style showcase of work from a exceptionally diverse spectrum of artists. 200 tickets are available for the chance to draw a number at random and take home the correlating piece from 200 works on display.This is the second of the Shop's biennial fundraiser; the first Print Lottery in 2008 was highly successful, attracting donations from artists and printmakers from all over the country and drawing over three hundred people to Empire Street for the culminating lottery event.

A $100 donation to AS220's Printshop is rewarded with a lottery ticket putting supporters in the running for a number of valuable works of original art, including pieces by Providence print pioneers Brian Chippendale, Xander Marro, Dan Wood, Meredith Stern, Jung Il Hong and Pippi Zornoza or one of the two sold out limited edition Shepard Fairey Providence Industrial prints that were commissioned to commemorate AS220's 25th anniversary and launch of the Free Culture Award. The fundraising exhibition also includes a print published by Rhode Island School of Designs printmaking department by artist Michael Krueger, Professor of Art at the University of Kansas, a piece from Philadelphia artist, printmaker and 2010 Guggenheim Fellow, Daniel Heyman and work by Rhode Island School of Design printmaking faculty Brain Shure and Cornelia McSheehy. As you might expect from this always unjuried organization, creations from well-known artists hang side by side with contributions from local students and members of AS220's own Youth Studio. In the same egalitarian spirit, all of the 200 artworks are sold by way of a lottery drawing.

The culminating event on Saturday, September 25th at AS220's Gallery & Performance Space is part of a month long celebration of Printmaking organized by the Community Printshop, which included lectures by prominent artists and free public printmaking workshops. 2010 program guests included Curator Lauren Hinkson from the Guggenhiem and local creators Dan Wood, Alec Thibodeau, Pippi Zornoza and the founders of Tiny Showcase as well as special events including a formal open house for the Shop and a free workshop on printmaking basics.
Three years ago, a dedicated core of about 20 members began the AS220 Community Print Shop as an effort to develop a shared, accessible resource for printmaking in Providence. The shop built worktables, installed sinks, crafted light safe cabinets, stacked type cases and welcomed presses that may have otherwise been left to rust or gather dust to AS220's historic Dreyfus building. Since September 2007, the Printshop functioned as an incredible incubator as systems for offering affordable classes, reserving press time, training monitors, publishing print editions and hosting artists in residence quickly began to take shape. AS220's Printshop has introduced over 800 people to printmaking through a strong roster of small monthly workshops; the facilities have seen more than 9,000 active hours by over 200 Shop members. In Autumn 2010 the Community Printshop will relocate to the newly renovated Mercantile block where it will quadruple its size and unveil its new centerpiece: a massive, never-before-used Takach intaglio etching press with a 4.5’ x 12’ press bed donated to the organization by the Rhode Island School of Design. In the expanded space, the Printshop will provide access to traditional stone lithography and expand screen-printing, letterpress, and offset printing facilities.
People directly support the Printshop's continued success by purchasing a Lottery Ticket for $100; proceeds help to maintain and purchase equipment, support a full-time manager, replenish shop supplies and facilitate free and inexpensive programming during this year and the next.

For more details visit the Print Lottery web site: http://as220.org/printlottery/

Print Lottery tickets are still available for purchase at: http://www.as220.org/printlottery/ticket.html

For More Information Contact:

Morgan Calderini

AS220 Community Printshop Manager

morgan@as220.org / 401-831-9327 x112

Or

Cheryl Kaminsky

AS220 Communications Director

cheryl@as220.org / 401-831-9327 x116

Armageddon Shop Presents: Today Is The Day, Sweet Apple, Ocean, A Storm Of Light @ AS220 Sat Sept 4th

Armageddon Shop Presents:

SWEET APPLE
www.myspace.com/sweetapplesongs
(members of DINOSAUR JR, WITCH etc playing Rock)

TODAY IS THE DAY
www.relapse.com/artist/artist.aspx?ArtistID=10097
(Relapse Records/Amphetamine Reptile... Noise Rock/grind/metal)

A STORM OF LIGHT
www.myspace.com/astormoflight
(Neurot records Post-Metal/Doom rock...)

OCEAN
www.myspace.com/ocean
(Doom drone metal from Portland Maine...)

Saturday September 4th
9pm
$8
All Ages / Drink w/ID

AS220
115 Empire St
Providence RI 02903
www.as220.org

COMEX OR BECAMUS

Art/Text/Book/Show/Opening this Saturday at MWM. The press release:

Please join us SATURDAY August 28th between 7pm and 12am at Machines With Magnets 400 Main Street, Pawtucket, RI, 02860 to celebrate the opening and book release of:

COMEX OR BECAMUS by:
ALEXANDER BARTON & ADAM ANAGNOSTIS

Alexander Barton and Adam Anagnostis join forces in a genre-bending artistic collaboration.

COMEX OR BECAMUS will be debuting at Machines With Magnets on Saturday, August 28th 2010. Barton, a RISD graduate, and Anagnostis, a URI graduate, have spent the last year and a half constructing COMEX OR BECAMUS, a large-scale multimedia art installation and literary publication. This collaboration represents the Providence artists’ ambition, criticism, and overwhelming search for truth.

Barton’s meticulously constructed installation consisting of eleven oil paintings and fundamental geometric elements melds with Anagnostis’ aphoristic written landscapes in a 13-square-foot, 40-page arc of hypnotic aggression, conflict, and beauty. Coupling the visual with the written, the artists offer a complementary dialogue that intends to challenge and antagonize the audience. Having lived and studied together in Providence as undergraduates, Barton and Anagnostis elaborated upon their shared musical, philosophical, and cultural constellations in this collaborative effort.

Presenting the work at Machines With Magnets in Pawtucket (Rhode Island’s City of the Future), and with the book being published locally, Barton and Anagnostis have proudly produced a cultural artifact representative of these places. Through the use of icons and wit, COMEX OR BECAMUS pays homage to a culture that has been integral to the artists’ experience and the projects’ formation. The artists seek to posit COMEX OR BECAMUS as a refreshingly destructive force, inspiring a chagrined attraction.

The opening reception will be further complemented by the uniquely inspired sounds of Geoff Mullen and Steven Vallot and others, along with stimulating beverages.

“Good Souls Ride Together!”

www.alexanderbarton.com
www.adamanagnostis.com
www.machineswithmagnets.com

The Happs at As220

Rise and shine, gang! The weekend is upon us, and you know what that means: tamales! I mean, beaches! I mean, good times! I don't know if anybody else is still riding the ESG/Dropdead/Megasus/nachos from Julian's high from last weekend, but if I don't find a way to keep chasing that dragon, there's going to be hell to pay, stat. Where to begin:

Saturday=surprise lineup. I can't 100% promise anyone jumping out of a cake, but I can promise Zulu Lulu, Infinite Children, Octopus Triangle, and AcoustiYah. Acoustic Middle Eastern Indie Rock! Prog Trios! Git it! Sunday hosts my all time favorite genre: technically proficient avante-electro ambient spin-off jazz house. Yes! Put your hands together for Mongo, Egg Brains, The Bygones, and Dan Liparini. Hey, did you guys know that there's life drawing every Tuesday? True story. 6-8:30. Bring your own supplies and six little dollars, and stick around afterward this week for Glowkid, S.O.S, and Callus Black. This Thursday Providence Poetry Slam is also hosting a writers workshop upstairs at 7, and, ok get this, later that night, a show close to my heart: Like a terrifying bird of prey hardwired to kill then inexplicably adopted as the symbol of a theoretically benevolent nation, Purple Rhinestone Eagle swoops in, talons resplendent in the myriad rays of a mirror ball, like so many feather embellished, jewel encrusted classic rock revivals. Party! Hot on their tails are Bellows, Whore Paint, and Providence's newest redefinition of lo-fi with style, Cave Girls. Count me in.

There it is, readers. For a full list of the happs, get thee to our calendar! Until the rock show, away!

AS220: Let's Foo This Thing.

READERS! THE TIME IS UPON US! Cast aside your grief and woes. Turn your back on the seductive ties of apathy and isolation. Rise above the consuming vice of sloth and indifference. Party time starts now, team, and time's a-wastin'. Saddle up:

This very night, as I'm sure I don't need to remind, we've got Shepard Fairey and Lawrence Lessig in the house, alongside our very own Brandon Edens and Umberto Crenca. Join us for a Very Special Action Speaks to get their take on what Free Culture is all about. Stick around after for Vio/Mire, Andrew Graham & Swarming Branch, MV EE, and The Devil My Pocket, then slide effortlessly into the absolute all time most fantastical of your favorite annual block long spiral into madness, Foo Fest. Thats right gang, the time is nigh. Where to begin? Old Timey photo booth? Sound activated light instillation? Dropdead? Megasus? Kintaan? Arcing? Javelin? ESG?!?!?! You get the picture. 1 p.m. to 1 a.m., people. $5 little dollars to make your Rock n Roll dreams come true. Don't forget, we've got fun for the proto-rockers early on, with Bill Harley and Joe's Backyard Band. Plus, MC Keith has promised not to start swearing till sundown. I've got money on 5 o'clock, Munslow! In order to allow maximum quality time with our newly autographed ESG records, we're closing down for siesta for a few days after Foo. Be sure to mosey on back next Thursday to catch Adam Reich reading from "Hidden Truth: Young Men Navigating Lives In and Out of Juvenile Prison." 6 p.m, totally free. What's holding you back?!

Alright readers. I'm off to stake out a killer seat for Action Speaks. BRANDON I LOVE YOUUUUUU!!!!! For a full rundown of schedules, etc, get thee to our calendar. Until the rock show, away!

The Body in the NY Times online:

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Richard Rankin

The Body, a two-man band from Providence, R.I., has released a new record.

The Body

The Body is a two-man, highly conceptual, sort of extreme metal, sort of noise band from Providence, R.I. It has made one of the best introductions for an album I’ve heard in years. The album is “All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood,” recently released on the label At a Loss. The first track, “A Body,” begins with seven minutes of choral music, sung by the Assembly of Light Women’s Choir. Then a short, disturbing whistling noise signals a change, and whump: a grind of jaw-rattling guitar and drums throw in for the last two minutes. As the record continues, the beating just doesn’t stop. The choral voices, returning here and there, are the only ray of hope: the Body’s own singing amounts to weedy, apocalyptic howls, barely clearing the din of their processional stomps. It’s an experience, this record, written in big riffs and celestial choirs and digital static. It puts you in a very strange space, spiritual and dirty and wary.

What Could Possibly Go Wrong? This Week at AS220

Oh dear lord. Its T-minus Foo O'clock, readers, and you know what that means: pinatas in the office, party-metal on the mega-mix, hand-stand contests by the water cooler, and girl-talk style "which member of ESG am I" fortune cookie origami games preceding every show. My life is a Cathy meets Dilbert meets Metalocalypse cartoon. Thank god this is going to culminate into its apex soon- the madness has to end sometime. OR DOES IT?!

Saddle up tonight for an ever-festive B Sharp situation: MOGA will be celebrating their cd release, and we're rolling out the red carpet. Sunday night gets metalcore, but ain't too cool to dance, with Divets, No One and The Somebodies, Turbosleaze, and Private Public. What does that even mean?!?! Daniel Chase is going to cool things out mellow groove style on Tuesday alongside The Tower & The Fool and The Rachels. I'll be real, readers. If the tsunami-like spiral out of madness has already begun, Wednesday night is giving me cause for concern: Ceremony is coming though town, and I heard a rumor about mesh tops being involved. Is that punk? Soul Control, Vaccine, and a little outfit called Wet Friend have personally assured me that this will be one of the most disgusting nights of my life. (You've obviously forgotten Freedom Winter 99!) Ok, and here's where it really gets wild: Friday evening we are basking in the warm glow of Shepard Fairey, who will be here at 5 screening his short-but-not-too-short Andre The Giant Has A Posse, as well as sitting on a panel for a very special Action Speaks alongside Bert Crenca, pioneer of free culture activism and scholarship Lawrence Lessig, and our very own resident super genius/wizard of computer engineering/conceiver and fabricator of magic/all around cool guy Brandon Edens. It's free of charge, and might actually change your life. Who loves open source software? This guy!

Okok. Enough about me. I'm off to get my rain slicker dry cleaned for the 11th. For a full rundown of our happs, get thee to our calendar. Until the rock show, away!