Flee the cubicle and head to the RISD Museum on FRIDAY (the 12th) for the next Music Friday show featuring GIRL HOWDY (5:30 pm, 21+ and $8, with cash bar, visit risdmuseum.org for details). Then head over to AS220 for a great cause (and the show o' the weekend), featuring THE RICE CAKES, BO-PEEP (Japan), INVISIBLE HOURS, and the revamped LOLITA BLACK (Scarlett, Kayleigh, and the boys killed at Machines With Magnets last week — holy shit); proceeds benefit Girls Rock! Rhode Island. Call 401.831.9327.
SATURDAY (the 13th) features MARK CUTLER and his MEN OF GREAT COURAGE at the Box on North Main Street (can't beat their $5 beer-and-shot special, call 401.641.4589), and for our South Coast friends, check out quality 75orLess Records reps SIX STAR GENERAL with THE BLOOD MOONS at the Black Watch Pub in New Bedford (508.997.0023). We lost count of the DEER TICK sightings here in RI this year, and this weekend MacCauley and Co. head to the Newport Blues Cafe (401.846.5510) on Friday and Saturday (doors at 8 pm) and are likely to sell out in advance; tix are $15 each (hearing "Piece by Piece and Frame by Frame" live is worth the $8 bridge toll), call for availability.
Looking ahead, let Chip and Lee decimate your midweek blues when acclaimed PVD duo THE BODY headline at AS220 with guests HIGH AURA'D and BARN OWL on WEDNESDAY (the 17th), all for only $6 at the door. And next THURSDAY (the 18th), Cutler and the TINY STRING BAND will perform at the Greenwich Hotel on Main Street in E.G; 21+ and no cover, call 401.884.4200.
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- AS220 at 25
You might say it all began with a thumbs-down review of an art exhibit by Umberto Crenca. To Bert and his friends, it was just one more example of how they were excluded by the art establishment.
- Photos: Foo Fest 2010 at AS220
Foo Fest's slam poetry, music, and exhibits come to AS220 on August 14, 2010.
- Serious lunacy
Hank Sinatra Jr. is workin' the circuit
- Dropdead's unfinished business
It’s 20 years and counting for iconic hardcore-punk quartet Dropdead.
- Fall, out; plus, the Met is all that
A busy FRIDAY (the 17th) begins in the boonies with LYIN’ BITCH & THE RESTRAINING ORDERS at Dan’s Place in West Greenwich (401.392.3092), while acclaimed pianist SHANNON COREY returns to the Speakeasy at Local 121 (401.454.4581).
- Tight but loose
I had never come across the adjective "jangular" until I visited the Glowkid website.
- Straight outta Tallahassee
Tallahassee transplant (via Toronto) Kylewilliam Campol absolutely loves to call Rhode Island home, having moved here last May to further his career as a musician and establish the world headquarters for his post-punk outfit Imadethismistake — a move some homegrown cynics may consider ass-backwards.
- Rocktober! Lolita Black is back in action! And more!!
Last call for BIG RUSH and CHRIS DA GREAT headlining a rap bill at AS220 on THURSDAY (the 30th), followed by the highly-anticipated return of LOLITA BLACK (welcome new vocalist Scarlett Delgado) with Sweden’s SUMA , NYC’s UNEARTHLY TRANCE , and SIN OF ANGELS on FRIDAY (the 1st ).
- Thrice as nice: A busy weekend for Six Star General
The weekend starts early on THURSDAY (the 21st) with a busy SIX STAR GENERAL (three shows in three days) performing an early (7 pm) opening set opening for TWO COW GARAGE at Club Hell (401.709.3923).
- Scarlett is the new Black
Olneyville's finest post-punk/goth/sludge metal outfit went missing for the better part of 2010, but we're ecstatic to report that Lolita Black has returned with a new lead singer in Ms. Scarlett Delgado.
- Review: New work by C.W. Roelle and Nick Hollibaugh
C.W. Roelle of Providence twists black wire into dazzling optical illusion magic tricks resembling pen drawings whose lines have wandered off pages and into the air. His show "Lamp Lit" at Craftland (235 Westminster Street, Providence, through November 13) is more evidence that he's one of our most exciting artists.
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