Don’t forget — AS220 from noon to 5PM — Pounds of Sounds! Stacks of Wax!
Lots of vendors will be selling posters, T-shirts, vintage vinyl, jewelry, ephemera, things, and stuff.    Jen and Chris Daltry of What Cheer Antiques will have several pounds of albums as well as the latest and totally awesome ‘mericans cd (recently nominated in two categories in the Phoenix music poll).

AS220/115 Empire Street/12 - 5

This coming Sunday — spend your tax return and stimulate the economy!

AS220/115 Empire Street

Tonight is the monthly variety show Empire Revue at AS220.  Music, burlesque, performance art, nouveau-vaudeville… and did I mention burlesque?

8:00PM/AS220/115 Empire Street/$8.

Sooth your synapses with some decidedly non-traditional music of the electronic/experimental/just plain weird variety tonight at AS220. Joseph Grimm (aka Wind-Up Bird) creates lengthy sonic landscapes of blips and droning pulses, imagine a strobe light as the slowly setting sun. On the beautiful “Voice And Sine Wave” the meditative, resonant frequencies seem to exist in your inner ear only, like glorious, harmonic tinnitus.  Meanwhile, Rainbro exists at the slighty buzzier, bonkier end of the experimental spectrum, sounding at times like the crazier bits of Nintendo game soundtracks stuck forever in their degraded 8-bit loops. Rainbro, Joe Grimm, Young Male @AS220 10pm, $5

Joel Thibodeau was a Providence person but now he’s out in the Pacific Northwest somewhere, making cool music though. His thing, Death Vessel, with its twisting and turning eclectic prog-folk, features various assorted guest musicians of the local and non-local variety. DV have put out stuff on Sub Pop and Kill Rock Stars, so you know, legit. Callers are dark, dreamy, and beautiful. Small, intimate acoustic noir and stormy vocals, I’d classify it as wine-drinking music. Gardening-at-night music. Micah Blue Smaldone and Quaky Blue share the bill. AS220, 9pm $7

Well! Classes for February filled up so fast I didn’t really have time to post the schedule, but March is well on it’s way and there’s still room in most of the classes!! I’m only going to post the classes that have space left, but you can see what you’re missing out on in the calendar. Also, there is now a $10 general shop materials fee included in the cost of the classes. Regardless of the fee, some outside supplies may be required. Our official site is here. Myspace here.

Are you ready? Onward, friends! (more…)

Primitive, brutal, and relentless, Providence’s Black Clouds bring their grinding stomp-blues to AS220 tonight. They exist somewhere between an adolescent Jon Spencer in a wind tunnel and Nirvana’s Bleach, what with the screaminess and all. Absolutely glorious in their sheer volume alone, and after the jump some live footage that pretty much sums it up. As for the rest of the bill, that’s somewhat less clear. Over at Lots Of Noise they’re saying Boston’s Hospital Rats, White Load and New Haven’s Estrogen Highs while at AS220 they’re claiming Brooklyn’s Live Fast Die and Jersey’s Home Blitz with White Load. My money’s on LON. AS220 Black Clouds, others, 9pm $5 (more…)

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.

join us TODAY january 26th, from 5pm-9pm at the AS220 Community Print Shop for our POST HOLIDAY CRAFT PARTY PARTY REDUX (a wholesome crafty get-together).

Make some post-holiday presents and cards or tigers or whatever using pom-poms and glitter and pipe cleaner ’cause you haven’t since shortly after you were a fetus!!! “F” ART LETS GET CRAFTY!!!!!!!!!!! BYOB and BYOS (bring your own supplies!). We will provide AWESOME food and drink! AND we have an IPOD!!! Also, it ENDS AT NINE so you can enjoy your regularly scheduled presumably less-than wholesome Saturday night!

FYI, AS220 Community Print Shop is located at 95 Mathewson St. #210 in sunny downtown Providence, Rhode Island! Buzz #210 and come up to the 2nd fl, first star on your right and straight on til morning! For more info on the print shop, call Morgan (401.831.9327 x 112), email Morgan (morgan@as220.org), visit the myspace or the official website, or stop by for a quick peek!

Daily Dose reader Fern Kay sent us some awesome pics from last months Space Rock show at AS220. Do you have some cool photos to share with our readers? Send them in.

A very special holiday Geek Night at AS220:

Please join us at the last get together of Providence Geeks in 2007 and celebrate Rhode Island’s future Geeks!

In the spirit of the holiday season and giving back to the community, Providence Geeks is a proud sponsor of Rhode Island’s 2008 FIRST FTC Robotics Challenge. The program provides high school students the opportunity to build working robots and test their creations in head-to-head competition.

And friends-of-blog Matt and Jason spinning at 121:

People:

Tomorrow Jason and Tim O’Keefe and I will all be DJing at Local 121. It will be festive and fun, and last night I went to the last Macy’s one-day sale before Christmas and stood in line for like an hour to buy some totally gay apparel just for the purpose.

Hope to see you there,

Matthew

This week’s highlights:

Geek Dinner
Rhode Island’s digital innovators connect, collaborate, swap stories and spit in this casual monthly forum. Infoprenuers are the future, kid - get with it.
Wednesday, 12/19 5:30-9pm FREE

12-Hour 2007 Winter Solstice Celebration featuring The United Space Rock Coalition
The all-local-all-star band that recently backed up Damo Suzuki rings in the winter with a 12-hour space rock jam. Oh yes - TWELVE CONTINUOUS HOURS OF MUSIC !!
Friday, 12/21 12pm-12am only$3

Presented by B Sharp, the greatest music gear shop in the universe, tonight Boston’s Major Stars release their 6th (!) album, Mirror/Messenger ( Drag City). Also on the bill, Brooklyn’s Sightings, whose newest Through The Panama ( Load) was produced by Andrew WK. And that’s some cred, people. Hear a stream of the awesome track “Perforated” here. The Body, who’ve been making some stellar noise for a few years now are also on this gig, along with Xerxes, who get the ass end of the set so get there early.
AS220, Major Stars, Sightings, The Body, Xerxes, 9pm $7

Providence Wintertime Farmers Market Opening This Saturday!
AS220 - 115 Empire Street
Every Saturday 12-3 pm

As the winter months begin, Farm Fresh Rhode Island is thrilled to announce the opening of a new indoor farmer’s market, happening every Saturday from 12 pm to 3 pm at AS220. This weekly market will begin this Saturday and run throughout the winter and early spring. Market-goers can expect apples, greens like bok choi, kale, swiss chard and collards, potatoes and sweet potatoes, lettuce, fresh herbs, leeks, onions, squash, oysters, beef, pork, cheese, chocolate, coffee and much more. Yum!

More information is on the Farm Fresh RI website.

You should come to AS220 Community Print Shop’s FIRST annual HOLIDAY CRAFT PRINT AFTERNOON WEEKEND PARTY PARTY!!!!!!!

It’s this SATURDAY November 17th, 1-5pm at the DREYFUS Building (95 Mathewson St. #210, Providence, RI 02903). There’s a $5 cover/donation (baby, we’re a non-profit), but it’s WICKED well worth it ’cause you MIGHT JUST LEARN SOMETHING! Like, simple silkscreen and linoleum techniques!!! Not to mention, HELLO, making friends (which is the print shop’s SECOND favorite thing to do) while making ridiculous holiday presents and cards using pom poms and glitter and elmer’s glue so you won’t have to deal with doing it later (glitter can be a last-minute disaster)!!!

C’mon, people!!! “F” ART LETS GET CRAFTY!!!!!!!!!!! BYOS (bring your own supplies!) . We will provide AWESOME food and drink and MAYBE STEAM SOME CIDER!!! ALSO we have an IPOD!!! AND we refuse to play holiday music!!!! WHAT COULD BE BETTER????

P.S. don’t miss it! cause you’ll feel REALLY SAD when you see the party photos on our flickr and you’re not in ANY of them!