Providence’s only outdoor movie screen continues through September! This week we’re screening AMERICAN GRAFFITI. Every Thursday movies will be screened at dusk on the corner of Westminster St. and Union St. Pop hits, local shorts, even some music performances.
As always, introducing the show are International shorts presented by the Rhode Island International Film Festival. Bring your friends and family down for a drink, some eats, and a free film. Movies start at Dusk, blankets welcome!!!
Providence-based burlesque troupe BellaMinx Burly-Q presents Rock the Boat!, a full-scale variety show chock full of performers from all around Southern New England. BellaMinx is quickly making a name for themselves across Rhode Island with their high-quality displays of quick-witted satire and seduction – don’t miss out on the fun!
Join Providence’s Classiest Chassis on a burly-q cruise as they bid a fond farewell to summer with a full bill of burlesque, music, and comedy! Rock the Boat! will be held on Saturday, August 23rd at the Perishable Theatre (95 Empire Street) in Providence. There will be two shows: one at 7:30pm and a second at 10:00pm.
This eclectic live show, in the tradition of the variety shows of Vaudeville, will feature a myriad of performances: the Bob Fosse-inspired and titillating choreography of Briana ‘Miss B’ Masterson, burlesque performances by Providence’s own BellaMinx Burly-Q, comedic-musical duo the Steamy Bohemians, sideshow feats by the Human Floor, and world-fusion dance by Ximon. Rock the Boat! promises quality live entertainment unlike anything in the Providence area!
Tickets for this event are $20, and available at the door. Cash bar will be provided by Artini’s Café & Lounge. Partial proceeds from the show will benefit the Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council. This is an 18+ event.
The Obama team stunned us all with their decision to
move his nomination acceptance speech from the 19,000–seat Pepsi Center to the 76,000–seat Invesco Field, home of the Denver Broncos. Today, the Dems’ Convention Committee announced another exciting twist, in the form of three special performances: Kanye West, Wyclef Jean, and N.E.R.D.
This year’s Democratic National Convention Committee revealed that a trio of hip-hop artists —
Kanye West,
Wyclef Jean and
N.E.R.D. — will
perform when the party gets together in Denver. A native of Barack Obama’s Chicago, West was likely included to keep all those politicians’ egos in check. Let’s just hope Obama’s speech doesn’t run long, otherwise Democrats
might be in for a long night. Wyclef is becoming as well known for his
humanitarian work with Haiti as his music, so his appearance at the convention makes sense. The most left-field pick is N.E.R.D., though the Democrats obviously view the band’s single “Everybody Nose” — with its chorus of “All the girls standing in the line for the bathroom” — as a shocking indictment of the current administration’s futile War on Drugs.
Other celebrities slated for attendance include Scarlett Johansson, Ben Affleck, Warren Beatty and Annette Bening, but let’s pray that
Scarlett isn’t performing.
Micah already hit up the Dose with the schedje for
this weekend’s Providence Sound Session events, but I couldn’t resist posting one of my fave hits by tonights
PPAC headliner 112.
If you missed the great shows at The Blackstone, Tazza, Firehouse 13 and Black Rep last night, it is not too late to start partying. Bachanal has only just begun!
Tonight’s official
Sound Session lineup at Black Rep includes local Reggae selectors Red Beard, Mardon Famous and Paul Michael along with Boston-based emcee (DJ if you’re savvy)
Mighty Mystic and Brooklyn-based genre-smasher
77Klash. This party will be wild so if you like Dancehall at all, or just like to shake your butt, come on down to Black Rep. ($15)
AS220 presents several left-of-center folk artists who will surprise you with their uncommon cultural referents and non-standard instrumentation. It starts at 10pm:
The Blue Hit,
Christopher Moon and
Michelle Lewis. ($6)
The Blackstone hits it again with Mike Tanaka and Friends (FREE)
Firehouse 13 is presenting an assortment of talented poets from near and far. The night is hosted by Chris Johnson and Prismatic Dreams and features far too many artists to name here, so check
this link for the full deets. ($7)
Okay everybody, so there is a lot going on tonight that discerning listeners will want to take part in.
Of course there is the
official SS’08 fare at Black Rep. Soul/R&B/House/Funk singer and songwriter
Eric Roberson headlines a night of the Funky (local artists
Grow), the sparse and political (multifaceted NYC poet
Oveous Maximus) and the Boom Bap (DJ Therion on the ones and twos). Chachi hosts in his weekly stomping ground with a beefed up lineup ($15)
Members of
AUREA Ensemble headline tonight at
Firehouse 13. AUREA’s concerts combine poetry, drama, epistles, classical and folk music, puppetry, and movement into performances that sweep from intimate chamber settings to major theatrical venues. ($10 at 8pm)
At TazzaThe Basement Bros will be playing live Jazzy, organic House and
Tevallus will be playing something shimmery and sitar-based. ($3)
Local 121 is featuring Soul Psychedelicide in the speakeasy. Its the live project of genius Monday resident, and Prince aficionado,
Abstract Soul. (FREE)
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Jazz is one of those idioms that doesn’t come easily to everyone. I’m not a Jazz head by any means, but I’ve certainly come around to a little bit of equanimity in my appreciation for Jazz. Where once the ambling solos, indirect melodic focus, rambling uneven tonal patterns and blue note syncopation, drove me up the wall, I’ve found a certain satisfaction with the music through learning its vocabulary and history. One of the things that can be said unequivocally for Jazz vocalists is that she must have an unflinching command of her instrument; its timbre, its range and its pitch must be mastered. Otherwise audiences are unable to transcend the lyrics. When I pump Ella, Sarah Vaughan or Jon Hendricks on my stereo, I try and train myself to hear the voice as if it were just another horn stepping out from the big band. This could be why José James is such a joy for me to listen to - he plays his voice like a horn. New York City, and the history of Jazz born there, shape James’ first release for world-acclaimed DJ Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood label.
The Dreamer is the title track and easily my favorite. Another standout from James’ album is Spirits Up Above, reworked
here by Simbad. José James performs for FREE at 5PM on Tuesday, July 8th at The Providence Black Repertory Company as part of Sound Session 08. Tickets for all performances on sale now at
Arttixri.com
You can peep the schedule for New England’s 2nd largest pride celebration in full
here. As
Matthew noted previously, the Saturday headliner is 80’s teen pop sensation and current mid-lifer Tiffany. Woot woot!
There is something burbling up in Brooklyn. Its one part straight island Rasta, one part BK brand Nubia and one part UK hoody culture. On Brooklyn Anthem,
Team Shadetek managed to harness some of the Burrough’s most cantankerous beas and vocals for an explosive celebration of hybrid Black music. Featured on the tune is none other than Gize Burrows, aka
77Klash. Most famous for penning the unstoppable Skallawa riddim -
Turbulence’s “Notorious” was the nearly ubiquitous hit of a couple summer’s ago that made the infectious, bass heavy backing track famous - 77Klash (pronounced Double-Seven Klash) is known for his unwillingness to play by Dancehall’s genre conventions. On
Brooklyn Anthem, Klash and Noble Society’s Jahdan tear through a heavy, badman riddim replete with squelchy acid bass and spooky synthetic strings. 77Klash performs with
Mighty Mystic, Paul Michael, Mardon Famous and Redbeard at Black Rep on Tuesday, July 8th as part of Providence Sound Session 2008. For ticketing and more information go to
Arttixri.com or
providencesoundsession.com
Well, folks, it’s Pride Month, which means it’s time for all sorts of events and happenings around the city. Unfortunately, the events are actually pretty few and far-between if you’re not a raging alcoholic. Which, apparently, isn’t a problem with the homosexuals in this town.
Highlights from this week, ripped from the Pride calendar’s magical inclusion in this month’s Get Magazine, after the jump:
Butter Days will play one of their final shows of the year at the Living Room tonight. The friend rockers will make great things happen with glockenspiel and strength in numbers.
Also, Boston bands This Is How Rumors Get Started and Devil and a Penny will make their Providence debut.
Metropolis, aka Providence’s singular “Psycho-Electro-Acoustic-Islamo-Judaic-Hindu-Afro-Dance-Surf-FreeJazz-Metal-Groove Music” superstars, are playing their final performance EVER tonight at Tazza on Westminster St. Some of the band will be departing for the summer so if the concept lives on, it will at least have to be constituted from a different lineup. This is can’t miss shit.
Michaela Zacchilli is an amazing graphic artist and sender of insane missives like the one below. If I were you I’d be scared not to go to this, she’d probably show up at your house and start drawing on your face.
hello hello hello, dear friends!
plz join us @ narwhal arms (mathewson/washington–above blake’s) this SATURDAY may 3rd 11am-3pm for DIRTY/CHEAP PRINT-BRUNCH (a tiny
fundraising event for as220 community printshop!), which involves FREE
brunchy-type food items (like, HELLO, vegan LENTIL SOUP not brunchy
more lunchy but whatevs, free COFFEE i’m gonna drink it all so watch
out BAGELS which are hard to come by i hear and really brutal PANCAKES
personally flipped by yours truly that may or may not be gluten free
just to keep it alt-lyfe u know; anyway) and besides all the free
food, bring your dolla$$$$ ‘cuz we going to have a wicked cheap print
sale (some nice prints&posters from $3-$15!!!!!!!!!!!) AND a RAFFLE
(raffle is the new keg party) for a print and a fish pillow (which
bleeds authentic fire). it’s going to be really special (friends). p.s. ALL $$ from prints sold goes to p-shop (aka as220 community
printshop).
The Narrows show with Surprise Me Mr. Davis is tomorrow (the 22nd). Surprise Me Mr. Davis is The Slip in collaboration with songwriter Nathan Moore. It’ll be the last and best OFFICIAL show of the tour.
The Low Anthem (opening)
Surprise Me Mr. Davis
April 22 - 8pm
The Narrows
16 Anawan St.
Fall River, MA
(15 mins out of Providence) http://www.ncfta.org
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Providence’s only outdoor movie screen continues through September! This week we’re screening AMERICAN GRAFFITI. Every Thursday movies will be screened at dusk on the corner of Westminster St. and Union St. Pop hits, local shorts, even some music performances.
Providence-based burlesque troupe BellaMinx Burly-Q presents Rock the Boat!, a full-scale variety show chock full of performers from all around Southern New England. BellaMinx is quickly making a name for themselves across Rhode Island with their high-quality displays of quick-witted satire and seduction – don’t miss out on the fun!
Tonight’s official
Members of
The Blackstone
There is something burbling up in Brooklyn. Its one part straight island Rasta, one part BK brand Nubia and one part UK hoody culture. On Brooklyn Anthem,
