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” […]
Events:
A Changing Reflection
This exhibition demonstrates Silver, Metalwork, and Jewelry in the 19th–21st Centuries.
February 4, 2022 - September 30, 2023Social Fabric: Textiles and Contemporary Issues
Featured artists include: Jim Arendt, Elizabeth Duffy, Brooke Erin Goldstein, Sabrina Gschwandtner, Letitia Huckaby, Tamara Kostianovsky, Dinh Q. Lê, Aubrey Longley-Cook, Veronica Mays, Alison Saar, Emma Welty, Nafis M. White,
December 3, 2022 @ 8:00 am - June 11, 2023 @ 5:00 pmPaintings by Gregory Ricci
December 9, 2022 - April 13, 2023Superimposed
January 25 - June 4Outsider Art: Harnessing Color
This exhibition joins six art spaces from the East Coast that support artists with disabilities: Artists’ Exchange, Center for Creative Works, Downtown Designs Gallery, Spindleworks, Out of the Box Studio
January 27 - April 1Grateful Dead
The Vintage Posters, 1966-1995.
January 27 - March 31Whodunit? An Improvised Murder Mystery
This time, it’s the French Revolution and the nobility are stabbing each other in the back…literally. Every week is different, so you – and the cast – never know what
February 4 - April 1Elisabeth Subrin’s The Listening Takes
February 9 - June 4Nancy Elizabeth Prophet: I will not bend an inch
February 17 - August 4Red Series
by Jade Sisti
March 1 - March 31Annual Open Show
March 31Anvil/ Midnite Hellion
Heavy metal music
March 31 @ 7:00 pm - April 1 @ 12:30 amPaul Virzi
New York-born comedian is a Comedy Central regular with not one but two podcasts of his own.
March 31 @ 7:30 pm - 10:30 pmForeigners Journey
Foreigner & Journey tribute
March 31 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmAndrew Spatz
Acoustic
March 31 @ 9:00 pm - April 1 @ 12:00 amPaul Virzi
New York-born comedian is a Comedy Central regular with not one but two podcasts of his own.
March 31 @ 9:30 pm - 11:30 pmPaul Virzi
New York-born comedian is a Comedy Central regular with not one but two podcasts of his own.
April 1 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmThe English Beat
2-tone, ska, reggae and new wave
April 1 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmPopa Chubby
The king of NYC blues
April 1 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmJohn Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band
An American rock band from RI
April 1 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
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 […]
Still Spinning: Twin Foxes and Gnarnia
Twin Foxes – Broken Bell Broken Bell is the new full-length from Providence rock band Twin Foxes. The album features Andrew Fortin on bass and Mann solidly performing almost every […]
Listening for the Depths of Winter: And a hot debate enters the House floor
Austin Bullock — Don’t Wake Me Up At the end of 2020, Providence-based multi-instrumentalist Austin Bullock dropped Don’t Wake Me Up, a satisfying collection of eight songs with wide-ranging influences. […]
Ahoy to the Humble Sea Shanty: Sharks Come Cruisin’ elevate the genre with a punk background
As the new year rolls along, still chock full of anxiety and loneliness, a seafaring music genre that peaked in the 19th century has become an unlikely star on TikTok. […]
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’ […]
RI Repository: Taking the Wayback Machine to Six Finger Satellite’s improbable history
To kick off a hopefully brighter 2021, here’s another edition of RI Repository, where we revisit notable releases from RI’s past. This year, we examine 1995’s Severe Exposure from noise […]
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 […]
Christmas in Quarantine: Crock of Gold – a few rounds with Shane MacGowan
This Julien Temple directed, Johnny Depp produced documentary shines a spotlight on Pogues singer, Shane MacGowan. Crock of Gold starts with MacGowan talking about growing up in Ireland living in […]
The Weary World Trudges Through: Support local with these holiday albums that don’t suck
Many of us are cancelling Thanksgiving plans and looking ahead to an equally weird Christmas, and with the holiday season comes the inevitable buying spree. It was recently reported that […]
