Aesop Rock Comes to The Met
You can find the best hip-hop coming up from the underground. Through his unique vocal delivery and pristine rapping skills, Aesop Rock has been on a higher plane since his […]
Events:
The Court: Art in Play
September 24, 2025 - April 26, 2026The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
The Dean Ween Group Rocks The Met On January 18
During alternative rock’s heyday during the late ‘80s and ‘90s, Ween was getting weird and pushing their own artistic abilities while their contemporaries were competing with each other to see […]
Album Of The Week: The Flaming Lips’ Oczy Mlody
There are bands that do unique and weird things, and then there’s The Flaming Lips. Things have changed a lot since the band started out as “the punks on acid” […]
Phantogram Rains Down The Beat At Lupo’s
Electro rock act Phantogram rose to prominence in 2016 in upstate New York. The duo of Sarah Barthel and Josh Carter released their stellar follow-up to their 2014 gem Voices […]
Album Of The Week: Hard Proof’s Stinger
Vibrant music is more than just an assortment of sounds abiding by rhythm and structure. It’s an antidote for life’s redundancy; it makes the knees buckle and the hips gyrate. The […]
Motif Interviews Lee Ranaldo
The influence of ex-Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo knows no bounds. Countless noise, punk and avant-garde musicians hail his unique style of playing an electric six-string. As a solo artist, […]
Album Of The Week: Heat’s Overnight
What makes music “cool”? Is it a catchy chorus? Is it a badass guitar riff? Maybe it’s the swagger. Maybe it’s one of these factors or maybe it’s none of them; […]
Top 20 Albums Of 2016 (Because 10 Wasn’t Enough)
Let’s face it, 2016 was a hard year to be a music fan with so many of our heroes passing on. David Bowie, Sir George Martin, Phife Dawg, Merle Haggard, […]
Rob’s Top 10 Providence Shows of 2016
The Providence music scene evolved a whole lot in 2016 and experienced immense growth. A couple new venues opened and a few spots started having original live music with both […]
Madcap Presents: “What Madders Most” at Firehouse 13 on December 22
While most of us are full of cheer and good tidings during the holiday season, the less fortunate often are left behind. It’s a time of year where the […]