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.

The show starts at 8pm.

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).

Oh, there’s more… more »

A ‘lil birdie told me:

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

The Low Anthem AND The Slip? In FALL RIVER?! Awesome. Top secret post-tour show info after the jump. more »

Honeychildren,

Local 121.  Tonight.  Jason and me, spinning tunes.
Like maybe this one.

Kissies,
Matthew Lawrence

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctcsYpYfLOY]

Music Friday
5:30-8:30 pm
DJ Nick DeParis returns to the Museum. Attendees must be 21 years or older. Members: $5, nonmembers: $8. Music Fridays are supported by the Providence Tourism Council. Media sponsor: The Providence Phoenix

Spring Weekend Cometh.

The first ever 2008 Spring Weekend Battle of the Bands (also, the kick-off concert event) held Thursday April 10 from approx. 8-10:30 inside Sayles Hall. With performances by:
-The Bruce Band
-Jose Hernandez
-Mister Tamel
-IQ Ballers
-The Trolleys
-Metropolis
-Potential Pillows
-and To The Sun ft. The Poler Bears

In that order.

First, news out of yesterday’s Texas County conventions that, with 83 percent of the delegates in, Obama is leading 56-44%. When all is said and done, Obama’s caucus margin will thus overwhelm Clinton’s thin primary margin, and He will carry the state by five delegates. Should be a nice news peg for him if nothing else. BurntOrangeReport is counting the numbers as they roll in.

Next, Gallup’’s new tracking poll has Obama up 52-42%. That is a) Obama’s largest lead of the campaign, b) the third day in a row in which Obama has lead outside the margin of error in Gallup’s tracker and c) Obama’s first lead above 50% of the campaign. As Emeril would say, “Bam!”

To celebrate his growing lead and the Texas win, Obama fed some young dairy cows in Pennsylvania.

“How are you doing buddy?” Obama said as he patted the head of a cow.

As walked further down the line of cows, he remarked to the booty-clad pool: “You guys look really good.”

Asked why he was exempted from wearing the shoes, Obama said: “I bought some new shoes, baby.”
…..
Obama walked to the pen and put the bottle to the calf’s mouth.

“Common on, buddy,” he said. (And upon making contact) “Oh there you go, that is what I’m talking about. Is she going to drink this whole thing? … That is a lot of milk.”

more »

LIVE / WHIRLED – Perishable Theatre, Rhode Island’s Research & Development theatre, is pleased to announce the final concert in this year’s Live/Whirled Series.

“Girl-Whirled” on Sunday March 9 @ 3:00 PM.

Featured performers are two fabulous singers with very personal styles, Ellen Santaniello and Michelle Cruz. more »

Jeff of the Low Anthem (pictured) was wearing an ear-to-ear grin while promoting this show at Providence is Burning last Saturday. We’ll try to remember to remind you again, next week:

The Low Anthem is pleased to welcome three of the best new folk songwriters to Providence, RI to join them for a concert at Firehouse 13. Jesse Harris is the Grammy winning songwriter of “Don’t Know Why,” by Norah Jones, as well as the author of the soundtrack to Ethan Hawke’s new movie, “The Hottest State,” which features performances of Jesse’s songs by Bright Eyes, M Ward, Willie Nelson, Feist, Cat Power, Emmylou Harris, The Black Keys, and Brad Mehldau. Anais Mitchell is an artist on Righteous Babe Records and is currently on tour with Ani DiFranco. Antje Duvekot is a superstar of the Boston Folk scene, and sells out Club Passim regularly.

Doors open at 7 PM and tickets are $10 adv/$12 at the door.

A special night at  at Poly-Phonics
featuring…

Tem Blessed & Busted Fro
Chachi Carvahlo, Riders Against the Storm,
Durdie Furby, First Be, Peter Arteaga and more…

March 3rd, 2008
Providence Black Rep
276 Westminister Street
9 pm, $7.00

On Tuesday at 9pm Obama supporters from around the state will be at Lupo’s to watch the results. Should be a bunch of bands and DJs playing. We’ll post details as we get them.

I know that the posts are gonna be flying pretty fast and furiously this week cuz super Tuesday dos is just around the corner. So here is the first of a couple Providence Is Burning reminders. Its Certified Max, Micah Jackson and special guest DJ Dr. Isaac P Gertman DDS! Its only $5 or RSVP for free entry before 11pm to providenceisburning@gmail.com

Before Black Rep’s weekly open mic and genre-friendly artist showcase, Polyphonic hosted by Chachi, the second of three seasonal staged readings will be going down. This installment, written by Brown MFA in playwriting Christine Evans and directed by Black Rep affiliate artist and educator Nadia Mahdi, is an adaptation of Euripides’ classic tragedy Trojan Women. Evans’ piece, entitled Trojan Barbie takes a look at the state of women during wartime while cutting a broad swath across time and space. Should be pretty political and poetic. 7PM, The Black Rep (276 Westminster), All Ages and $5

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-Cf37Lc43c]

Jambase got dat.

[Diplo on MySpace]

Providence Geeks are meeting tonight at AS220. 5:30-9pm+

Andrew Schiller, founder of Woonsocket-based Location Inc./NeighborhoodScout.com, a nationwide neighborhood search engine for home buyers and movers with 1.8 million unique visitors last year, will be talking about their patented search technology that answers the first question most home buyers have: “Where should I focus my house hunt?”

The audience will try the algorithm by ‘building their ideal neighborhood’ on the site, and finding the local neighborhood that best matches the ideal imaginary one. A sneak peek at NeighborhoodScout v2 will reveal flash-based maps, data mining that has produced new levels of granularity for neighborhood crime, appreciation rate, and school ratings, and ‘smart search’ taken to a new level. Andrew will be joined by Andy Couture, VP of Business Development for the company.