Friday — @Firehouse 13, Plow United, the Down and Outs, the McGunks, Sourpunch @the Met, Max Creek @AS220, Von Donovan, Faber, Dan Mills @Fête Lounge, Trails, Consuelo’s Revenge, Great Big Circles, Dylan Sevey and the Gentlemen

Saturday — @the Parlour, Mark Cutler and Men of Great Courage, the Bob Kendall Band @AS220, Tovarish, Sea of Bones, Traces of Empire, Vomit Arsonist @Firehouse 13, Hope Anchor, Atlantic Thrills, the Legendary Rockin’ Prophets, Billy Bouchard

Sunday — @AS220, Doble Filo, Medusah Black, Pappyk @Machines With Magnets, The Body, Sandworm, Funeral Cone, Songs, Night Mode

(Photo of Atlantic Thrills)

Tuesday — @AS220, April’s Fury, Hollow Turtle, Driftwood

Wednesday — @Machines With Magnets, Manzanita, Lori Goldston, Vio/Mire @AS220, Fucking Invincible, Tinsel Teeth, Curmudgeon, Holy Night @Dusk, metal night

Thursday — @the Parlour, the ‘Mericans, Detroit Rebellion, Daniel Chase @95 Empire Black Box, Fielded, Gel Set, Virusse, Yeri

(Photo of Tinsel Teeth)

Friday — @AS220, Snow Plows, Local Lights, Boom Said Thunder, Hombres del Mar @the Met, Danny Brown, Kitty @Lupo’s, Badfish, Spring Heeled Jack, Bad Larry, Audio Revival @Firehouse 13, Malyssa and the Liberators, VulGarrity, the Evil Streaks, Pixels @Local 121, Bloodpheasant, VaVa Blume, Ted James @Dusk, Daddie Long Legs, Party Pigs, Thee Itchies

Saturday — @Fête Lounge, Sienna, Trophy Wives, Carousel Kings, Animal Empire, Spelling Out Disaster, Colin Burke @the Met, Ghostface Killah, Adrian Younges Venice Dawn @the Spot, Daddie Long Legs, Trails, Resin ED @AS220, Jaz, Buck Nasty, Tone, and more @the Parlour, Dirty Fences, Neon Bitches, the Revilers, Nothing but Enemies

Sunday — @Lupo’s, Curren$y, Styles P, M3, Cesar Luciano, Zumo Kollie @AS220, Vudu Sister, Bird Courage, Dan Blakeslee, Bill Bartholomew @Machines With Magnets, Blevin Blectum, Gravies, Hntrhntr, Infra-men

(Photo of the Evil Streaks)

Tuesday — @Machines With Magnets, Screaming Females, Black Wine, Gertrude Atherton, Whore Paint @AS220, Bill Bondsmen, Rampant Decay, Spinach, Crucidix

Wednesday — @the Met, Foals, Surfer Blood, Blondfire @Dusk, metal night

Thursday — @Lupo’s, Silversun Pickups, Bad Books @AS220, Joshua Gannon-Salomon, Denise Moffat with Kerry Callery, Survivors of the Kraken @Nick-A-Nee’s, Dennis McCarthy Band @the Met, Zomboy @Machines With Magnets, Verse, Sabertooth Zombie, Power, Sweet Jesus

(Photo of Surfer Blood)

(5.7) Marissa Paternoster marches to her own drummer and wears very sensible shoes while doing it. New Jersey trio Screaming Females hurtles along, always on the verge of jumping the tracks completely, but then they all end up in the same place somehow. And the girl can play the guitar. Tuesday night at Machines With Magnets with openers Whore Paint, Gertrude Atherton, and Black Wine.

Tuesday, May 7, Machines With Magnets, 400 Main Street, Pawtucket

Friday — @AS220, Criss Cross Orchestra, Double Decker Band @Speakeasy Local 121, Arc Isis, Laura Cortese, Sweater Set @Nick-A-Nee’s, Mark Cutler and Men of Great Courage @the Spot, the Alchemystics, Sophistifunk, Cosmic Dust Bunnies @Lupo’s, Rebelution, J. Boog, Hot Rain @Machines With Magnets, Moonface and Azita

Saturday — @Firehouse 13, Ben Walsh album release, Local Lights, Kayla Ringelheim @the Met, Itchy Fish, Mad Poet @AS220, Thrillhouse, Best Practices, Maritime Pilot @the Spot, the Indobox, Jimkata, Bujak @Nick-A-Nee’s, Ten-foot Polecats, Cannibal Ramblers, Dead Ex’s @Dusk, Atlantic Thrills, Liquor Store, Pixels

Sunday — @the Roots (Rock Girls Robots benefit), Roz Raskin and the Rice Cakes, Malyssa BellaRosa and the Liberators, Jenn Kitten, Nymphidels, Gertrude Atherton, For the Love of Sloane, Castle, Chrissy Gavin, Royal Ram, Gabby Rizzle @the Parlour, Thr33 Piece Suit, CR the Beast, Big Jon Tierney and Kris Hansen @Lupo’s, Fungus Amungus, Santa Mamba, Daddie Long Legs

Photo of Nymphidels

(5.2) Head over to Studio One in the Granoff Center tonight for something completely different — the students of Blevin Blectum will present the MEME Electroacoustic Ensemble Concert.

Alessia Arregui, Abraham Arevalo, Ben Barsky, Soumya Ghosh, Catherine Luo, Alex Meehan, Carl Romines, Johnny Snelgrove

Free and open to the public, 8:30pm, Thursday, May 2, MEME concert, Granoff Center, 154 Angell Street

Tuesday — @AS220, CousCous @the Met, Kris Allen, Jillette Johnson

Wednesday — @Lupo’s, MGMT, Kuroma @AS220, Jason Anderson and the Rhode Island Players, Math the Band @Dusk, metal night @Firehouse 13, Dreamer, Knight in Shining Armor, Almost Therapy, Your Best Mistake

Thursday — @the Columbus Theatre, Tallahassee (cd release party), Smith and Weeden, Coyote Kolb @the Met, Steve Forbert, Mark Cutler @the Parlour, Jason Anderson @Fête Lounge, My Brother She’s My Sister, Jeffrey Lewis and the Rain, Beach Day

(Photo of Math the Band)

(4.27) The Rhode Island Film Collaborative presents the inaugural Rock & Reel music and video show at the Columbus Theatre Saturday night.

Nine teams of filmmakers were each paired with a local band to create a music video for one of their songs in one weekend. Come see their work and listen to live performances from the winning bands on Saturday, April 27th, at 9:30 in The Columbus Theatre, Providence, RI.

The evening will begin with performances by the winning bands, performances by local artists and the night will conclude with a showing of all nine music videos and awards.

The bands playing include Eric Barao whose new cd received a highly favorable review from me. I may not be completely unbiased, but I’m also not wrong. Don’t take my word for it, Power Popaholic loves these tunes, as does this guy. Also performing are Phil Ayoub and Jennifer Tefft.

(Photo by Frank C. Grace)

$12 door, 9:30pm, Saturday, April 27, Columbus Theatre, 270 Broadway

(4.27) Jump into the closet with R. Kelly Saturday night at the Cable Car Cinema.

Over the years, some audiences have hailed TRAPPED as the “Plan 9 From Outer Space of music videos,” while others have recognized it as the masterpiece from our generation’s greatest living R&B legend. But whichever camp you fall into, one thing is certain – there will be no better cinematic event this year than singing and dancing and playing with props in a theater full of other R. Kelly fans at the fully interactive R. Kelly’s Trapped in the Closet Sing-Along.

Props? What could possibly go wrong? But singing and dancing is good. (Someday someone should run this movie as a double-feature with “The Sing-Along Sound of Music” — Von Trapped in the Closet.)

9pm, Saturday, April 27, Cable Car Cinema, 204 South Main Street, 272.3970

Friday — @Fête Lounge, Sara Azriel, the Silks, Herrick Bain @the Met, Fairhaven, Satellites Fall, Last One Out, Collington, Full Void @Dusk, Ehnahre, Kintaan, Godstopper, Power Masters @Firehouse 13, Lucid, Brainfruit, the If @AS220, Weak Teeth, Olneyville Sound System, Songs, Gertrude Atherton @Machines With Magnets, Lolita Black, Ex Reverie

Saturday — @the Parlour, Six Star General, Sweet Love, Deadlands @the Met, the Neighborhoods, Neutral Nation, Hope Anchor @AS220, Lovely Little Girls, Tinsel Teeth, Unicorn Hard-on, Ed, Eric and Steve @Nick-A-Nee’s, Paul Geremia @Machines With Magnets, Ramming Speed, Thrillhouse, Crucidix, Thronehunter @Fête Lounge, Matt Pryor, James Dewees, the Tower and the Fool @Firehouse 13, the Viennagram, Tapestries, Consuelo’s Revenge, Littlefoot, Huge Face

Sunday — @Machines With Magnets, Assembly of Light, Spires that in the Sunset Rise, Gertrude Atherton, Work/Death @AS220, Glowkind, Pink Eye, Improper Dosage @the Met (RI Music Hall of Fame), the Cowsills, Paul Geremia, Steve Smith and the Nakeds

(Photo of Weak Teeth)

Tuesday — @Dusk (benefit for Girls Rock! RI and the RI Music Educators Association), the Universes, Volcano Kings, Pixels, Transit Street Collective @Firehouse 13, Apathy Cycle, Penalty Kill, Drunk Robb and the Shots, the Pity Whores @Fête Lounge, Slow Magic, Magic Man, Ravi Shavi @Machines With Magnets, Deleted Arrows, Vultures of Cult, KYOTY, Good Lord @AS220, Groove Axiom, the Wall Banger, Bring Me Giants

Wednesday — @Machines With Magnets (benefit for Girls Rock! RI and the RI Music Educators Association), Torn Shorts, the Skinny Millionaires, the Can’t Nots, Divey @Dusk, HammerFight, Psychosomatic @AS220, Over, Novus 2, Lord Giovanni, Power Masters @Lupo’s, Fabolous @Firehouse 13, Lowlife with Foxfires, Get a Grip, Boxed In

Thursday — @the Parlour (benefit for Girls Rock! RI and the RI Music Educators Association), Northern Lands, Shotgun, the Denver Boot, Nymphidels @Nick-A-Nee’s, Dennis McCarthy Band @Fête Lounge, Holly Williams, Anderson East

(Girls Rock! RI is now registering for the Fourth Annual Girls Rock Camp in July. The above named benefits are part of the Artistic Explosion Music Festival, see below.)

The Fifth Annual SENE Film, Arts and Music Festival runs all week at various venues around town and in Warwick. (Go to the website for details and schedule, also Facebook.)

On Wednesday, the Brooklyn Tea and Coffee House will feature live music and a music video event.

The Columbus Theatre on Broadway has screenings on Friday starting at 2pm with the last one starting at 8:30pm, and again on Saturday starting at 11am.

Then at 9:30pm on Saturday night, in the main auditorium of the Columbus Theatre, the Rhode Island Film Collaborative presents the Rock & Reel “Local Music Video Screenings & Awards Presentation” featuring live performances by the featured musicians: Phil Ayoub, Jennifer Tefft, and Eric Barao.

Then head to the Cable Car Cinema on Sunday; screenings start at noon with the last starting at 5pm.  Filmmakers will be in attendance.

The Providence Athenaeum presents “Volumes of Forgotten Lore” a musical program inspired by poet Sarah Helen Whitman, written by Anna Ghublikian.

Inspired by the life and work of Sarah Helen Whitman, a literary legend of Providence and one-time fianceé of Edgar Allan Poe, Volumes of Forgotten Lore is a libretto born in the archives of the John Hay Library at Brown University. A mix of Whitman’s and Ghublikian’s words, Volumes of Forgotten Lore is an imaginative narrative that transcends time and space by engaging the spirits of yesterday with the bodies of today. It does not resolve any questions or reveal any truths, but rather reminds us that we will be haunted by these ghosts “evermore.”

Singing and musicians; there are two vocalists plus guitar, bass, cello, violin and keyboard.

7pm, Monday, April 22, Providence Athenaeum, 251 Benefit Street

A moveable feast of live music takes place this week in venues all around town. The Providence Phoenix reports,

Local music man-about-town Rob Duguay is the mastermind behind the Artistic Explosion Music Festival, featuring more than two dozen of Rhode Island’s best musical acts, with proceeds benefiting Girls Rock! RI and the Rhode Island Music Educators Association.

Duguay has lined up a doozy of a festival spanning six nights at six different venues with budget-friendly cover charges, so don’t gimme that “there ain’t shit to do” nonsense. Get out there and catch a show (or all six) for some great causes!

Chris Conti has the details and complete schedule at The Phoenix — “Bring all the noise.”

Monday, April 22 through Saturday, April 27, the Spot/Dusk/Machines with Magnets/the Parlour/AS220/FH 13, (Facebook)

Friday — @the Met, Fitz and the Tantrums, Hunter Hunted @the Apartment, Joe Marson @the Spot, Spiritual Rez, Rapplesauce, Secret Weapon @Firehouse 13, Graph Rabbit, Transit Street Collective, Volcano Kings @Speakeasy Local 121, the Dorr Rebellion, Reindeer, Harvey Mathcase @AS220, Snowplows, Left and Right, Bloodpheasant, Broadcaster @Fête Lounge, Sic Vita, Tony Jones and the Cretin 3, Llama Tsunami, Evil Animals @Lupo’s, James Murphy (Sold Out)

Saturday — @the Apartment, Three Points of Madness, Justin Marra @the Parlour, Viking Jesus, Jacob Augustine @Nick-A-Nee’s, Becky Chace Band @AS220, the Down and Outs, Short Handed Goal, A Minor Revolution, the Bitchin’ Aardvarks @the Spot, the Fungus Amungus, the Primate Fiasco, Resin Ed @Firehouse 13, Meek is Murder, LazerWulf, Heavy Breath, DxCx @the Met, the Feelies

Sunday — @the Narrows, Bettye LaVette @AS220, Kyle Davis, PradaMane

(Photo of Meek is Murder)