Alt-Nation: Boston Calling
Boston Calling takes over as the hub of the music world in the northeast every Memorial Day Weekend. At The Motif, we obviously specialize in covering events in Rhode Island […]
Events:
A Shared Journey
September 13, 2025 - March 5, 2026This Is a Thing, Recent Gifts to Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, 2020–2025
September 14, 2025 - March 1, 2026The Court: Art in Play
September 24, 2025 - April 26, 2026The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
Alt-Nation: New Biscuits and Shows That Don’t Blow
It is a challenge when you start a column late and it’s your brother’s birthday, your best friend may have bought a bar and your very good friend Mario, who […]
Alt-Nation: Salt Dolls, Tequila and Zombie Girlfriends
The Low Anthem – The Salt Doll Went To Measure The Depth Of The Sea After 2016’s wildly experimental Eyeland, The Low Anthem return with a stripped-down collection of short songs on The Salt […]
Alt-Nation: Cretins, Kilgore, & Travel Light
This column, we are going to throw it back to the first column I ever wrote about Kilgore Smudge, for Providence College’s newspaper, The Cowl, in 1994. They published it […]
Alt-Nation: An Interview with Deer Tick
After four years spent mostly on hiatus, Deer Tick are back with two new albums, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, and a US tour that will bring them to Rhode […]
Alt-Nation: Getting in the Halloween Spirit
Tall Teenagers – All in a Day’s Waste The sophomore album from Tall Teenagers opens with a mess of fuzz and slashing hooks on “Ground Floor” that cut deeper than […]
Alt-Nation: Fresh Biscuits
If one had to guess where in Rhode Island The Beach Boys Way was located, Pawtucket is probably not the first place that comes to mind. Nevertheless the City of […]
Alt-Nation: Fall Rocks ‘n’ Rolls
Of Montreal Of Montreal is a progressive pop band from just beyond the border of Athens, Georgia. Over the years, Kevin Barnes and Co have made some impressive records and […]
Alt-Nation: Vampires, Sayonara WBRU, and Fresh Biscuits
The past few days have been a blur, and it isn’t even alcohol-related this time. There is uneasiness in the air as questions have poured in from all over. Questions […]
Alt-Nation: Newport Folk and Arc Iris
Newport Folk Fest July is the best month to live in Rhode Island for so many reasons — the annual Newport Folk Fest is just one more big one. The festival […]