(8.12) Start planning — the AS220 Foo Fest runs all day Saturday from 1pm to 1am. Empire Street will be closed off between Washington and Westminster Streets for twelve hours of music, art, performance, kid and family-friendly activities, hands-on interactive art experiences from local artists, makers, DIY technology, and food and drink. Kids 10 and …
(8.13) Great lineup this year. Headliner Dan Deacon is famous for his high-level of crowd participation and getting even the too-cool-for-school hipster types dancing around and going crazy. Perfect choice for Foo Fest. Also highly anticipated are local headliners Arc Iris. Seen here are Zach Tenorio-Miller and Jocie Adams (drummer Ray Belli had to be …
(8.8) This is a special year for local Scrabble-playing arts and anarchy lovers: The three-letter word FOO has finally been added to the Official Tournament and Club Word List by the North American Scrabble Players of America! (Def: n pl. FOOS, a name for temporary computer variables or files.) Around these parts? Foo means fun. …
(8.9) Empire Street between Washington and Westminster will be closed to traffic Saturday so that AS220 can throw its annual Foo Fest with live music indoors and outdoors, food trucks, vendors, and an Anarchist Book Fair. The Providence Phoenix has a comprehensive writeup. This year’s Fest will feature a indie/punk/post-hardcore band called Ask the Dead, …
Foo Fest organizers still need volunteers. Meet new interesting people and get in free. Go here for the Foo Fest 2014 Volunteer form. (Particular need for shifts after 7pm.) The music lineup as it stands now includes: Headliners Psychic TV, Alec K. Redfearn and the Eyesores, Big Scythe, Doomsday Student, Fluct, Guerilla Toss, In Heat, …
If there’s something Rhode Island always gets right, it’s music in the summertime. You can practically set your watch to it. WBRU gets the party started with their Summer Concert Series, Newport responds with the Folk Fest, comes back next weekend with the Jazz Fest, but August is defined by AS220’s Foo Fest.
Friday — @Machines With Magnets, Jacob and the Terribles, Idiot Vehicle, OKFY Radio, Mike Taylor @the 201, She Rides, Jesuscentric, Thrillhouse @AS220, The Devil My Pocket, MV EE, Andrew Graham and Swarming Branch Vio/Mire @Club Hell, the McGunks, Hope Anchor, Galvanize, PHI @the Colosseum, Sexcoffee, Pistol Shot Gypsy, For the Love of Sloane Saturday — …
You know the drill. Empire Street gets closed off, bands play loud, there’s performance art and people with bicycles, there’s T-shirt vendors and bubbles and beer and food trucks (the Providence Juice Company’s maiden voyage!) and Megasus and Brown Bird and the What Cheer? Brigade and many many more, and did I mention the beer?! …
July 16th is the 5th annual Cruise Night at the Steel Yard, part of the Works in Progress 2010 fundraising event series. Cruise Night will bring over 70 custom and classic vehicles to the newly renovated site for an evening of polished chrome, greasy grooves, raffle prizes, studio tours and food sold by the famous …
Friday — @Firehouse 13, Loud Night with Doomriders, Night Horse, Javelina, Howl @The Blackstone, Tiffany Shea, Patrice Pike, Jeff Byrd Dirty Finch, Johnny Lingo @Lupo’s/BoA City Center, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Catch-22, Ida Maria @Jerky’s, Pistol Shot Gypsy, blind Assumption, Frequency Control, Fear of State @AS220, Frank Difficult, Thollem McDonas, Martha Collburn @Club Hell, The Glass …
Get your shots — AS220 has just announced on its website that the special surprise guest stars for Saturday night are none other than Deer Tick! Foo Fest has returned this year with a new wrinkle — a $5 entrance fee. Apparently Empire Street will be cordoned off somehow and this will help keep the …