Let’s Get Weird: Rad times with Richie Ramone
Sadly the original lineup of the Ramones is deceased. Despite that, there are a couple of Ramones still rocking and building up the legend. Two are coming to town this […]
Events:
A Christmas Carol
Everyone’s favorite curmudgeon, Ebenezer Scrooge, is back! The humbug’s wrenching, covetous, and cares more for money than all else. When the clock strikes midnight one fateful Christmas Eve, the ghost
November 23 - December 29Sons of Skynyrd
Lynyrd Skynyrd experience… Whoa man.
December 28 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pmSugar Ray and The Bluetones
There’s a halo hanging on the corner of my girlfriend’s four post bed.
December 28 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmPitbull
There is so much I want to say. If you were in middle school from 2012 onward, you know the hold this man had on the world.
December 29 @ 7:30 pm - 10:30 pmTight Crew: Dance Dance New Year’s Rave-O-Lution!
Web site: tightcrew.net/events/intotheunknown-nye-8glmp Facebook: facebook.com/events/s/tight-crews-dance-dance-new-ye/2005096696609034/ Tight Crew’s Dance Dance New Year’s Rave-O-Lution! Date: Saturday, December 31st 2024 Location: Platforms Dance Club Address: 165 Poe St, Providence...
December 31, 2024 @ 6:00 pm - January 1, 2025 @ 2:00 amNeal & The Vipers
9th Annual New Years Eve party – see you in the new year with these blues-rock RI legends.
December 31 @ 9:00 pm - 11:00 pmAndrew Victor
Folk music for the new year.
January 1, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pmThree Stooges Festival
Annual Three Stooges Film Festival featuring Larry, Moe, and Curly at their comical best in classic episodes from the 1930s and 1940s. Nyek, nyek, nyek.
January 3, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pmFunky White Honkies
Big party band.
January 3, 2025 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmMarie Claude
Listen to some music and drink your coffee.
January 4, 2025 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pmSaints in the City
Bruce Springsteen tribute band.
January 4, 2025 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pmPearly Baker
This band plays Grateful Dead music their way, with some Stones, Beatles, Allman Bros, and JJ Cale pearls thrown in for good measure.
January 4, 2025 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmRoger Ceresi’s All Starz
Paying tribute to the great music legends of the ‘50s & ‘60s.
January 8, 2025 @ 7:30 pm - 10:30 pmMoxie
’90s & 2000s rock, with some old-fashioned attitude.
January 10, 2025 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm1964 The Tribute
Beatles tribute.
January 10, 2025 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmDancing With The Stars
I didn’t even know this show was still happening.
January 10, 2025 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmBlizzard of Ozz
Ozzy and Rhoads tribute.
January 11, 2025 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm1964 The Tribute
Beatles tribute.
January 11, 2025 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmDancing With The Stars
I didn’t even know this show was still happening.
January 11, 2025 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Rock Your Holiday Socks Off: December Music News & Shows
Corinne Southern & The Constellations – Celestial Body EP On Celestial Body, Corinne Southern & The Celestials mix it up stylistically across three tracks. The cheeky opener, “Polaroid Picture (Of […]
Let’s Get Weird: Keep On Moving
Finally… there’s a month with a full calendar of upcoming dates listed in advance to preview. Anyways just a quick heads up to those sending me your shows and releases, […]
Happy Days Are Here Again: The return of the Newport Folk Festival
After a year off for something obscure called COVID, the Newport Folk Festival returned to Fort Adams to rage again. The festival started inauspiciously Friday, as I could see lightning flashing […]
Keep on Moving: Blunt Narratives: Rock photographer makes it look like child’s play
Richard’s Rock & Roll Alphabet Like most good and bad ideas, the genesis of the new book Richard’s Rock & Roll Alphabet happened in a bar — Patrick’s Pub to […]
Back To Life, Back To Reality: Clubs are booking? Shut up and take my money!
As social distancing restrictions ease up, concert announcements for national acts have started to trickle in, just really not here. Outside of Tiffany in June and Electric Six in July, I […]
Rock ‘n’ Roll Dreams Come Through: R.I.P. Jim Steinman
As a kid I hated music like Meat Loaf. I thought it was pompous and overdone, and I never liked having to hear that stupid “Paradise By The Dashboard Light” […]
Season Two of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Apocalypse: The light in the darkness
As spring rolls around in the underground, glimmers of hope abound with vaccines, warmer weather and the gradual return of live music! On the negative is the return of mass […]
Just Released
I wanted to start with a few words on the passing of legendary New York Dolls guitarist, Sylvain Sylvain. Although I am trying not to write a monthly rock ‘n’ […]
Long Live the Legend: Big Jon Tierney and the best in the worst of 2020
Welp, the ball finally dropped in 2020, minus the usual glitter and confetti, to the thud of a collective sigh of relief. We made it, right? Well here we are, not […]