Bands
Awesome Brothers - dance, monkey, dance! You cannot resist the awesomeness!
Barn Burning - Providences finest, the underdogs of melancholy
Sharks Come Cruisin’ - sea shanties, as if those old whalers were piloted by punks
Six Star General are something like Rhode Island’s version of The Minutemen crossed with Guided By Voices. Prolific, swift and awesome!
Sweetthieves - smart, angular post-punk in all the best ways. They’ve played their last show, but they were great.
Out Out - high-grade electro/industrial insanity… from Western MA of all places. |
Groups/Events
AS220 - Providence’s art hotbed
Machines With Magnets - RI’s best recording studio / art gallery / live space, and in Pawtucket to boot
Flywheel - art & music, Easthampton, MA - great stuff |
Equipment
B-Sharp Music - the best place to buy equipment in Providence. Not only do they stock great stuff, they build their own awesome efects pedals to boot!
Devi Ever - new-school, face-melting effects. Bow down before the Queen of Fuzz.
Electro Harmonix - old-school, face-melting effects. If you don’t know, now you know.
Fuzzhugger - finally, a nice little place to buy kickass effects online.
Malekko Heavy Industry - distortion and delay, done right. Endorsed by Paul Barker, formerly of Ministry. Oh, and by us. |
Online Destinations
Music Thing - blogging about the modern tools of musicmaking. Sadly defunct, but there’s tons of archives to sift through.
Guitarz - great guitar blog from the UK
Beavis Audio Research - yes, technically this is another effects-pedal centric page, but this one is much more about the crazy DIY projects that Dano puts together. Table-top modular fuzz? Sure, why not! |
