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Providence Monthly & 75orLess: The 2015 Providence Playlist
[abridged version below]
The music scene in Providence – and throughout Rhode Island – is insane. We’ve got more badass, super talented and hardworking musicians per capita than any other city in the world (don’t look that up, just go with it). But what’s more is we’ve got everything covered. Folk, rock, hip hop, punk; name a genre, cross pollinate it with another, hell just start making things up (Death-funk surf-rap!) and there’s almost definitely someone in RI doing it.
So where to start? We’ve assembled a crack team of musicians, promoters and supporters all plugged in to the local scene to give you your official 2015 local playlist and to tell you who you should be keeping an eye on. We’ve also got our five favorite records of the year, plus a look back at some shows that we felt best represent the eclectic nature of music in Providence.
Mark MacDougall, founder of 75orLess Records
1. “Stay” by Bob Kendall – Longtime Newport legend Bob Kendall is an indie pop magician, with echoes of REM, The db’s, and George Harrison.
2. “Double Nickels on the Dime” by Groundhawgs
3. “Huge Bruise (Live at Dusk)” by Black Oil Incinerator – Crusty gentlemen blowing out your eardrums with catchy hooks buried beneath an avalanche of amps and pedals.
4. “Credit Score” by Jodie Treloar
5. “Damn Unicorn” by Suicide Bill and the Liquors – A short, heartbreaking ballad; it’s the undiscovered anthem for all the schmucks you know still getting up at 5am every day for a job they hate.
Feng Shui Police
A trio of Brown University too-young-to-care weirdos from Newton, MA who have managed to successfully channel the influences of Half Japanese and Pavement with the charm of Jonathan Richmond. The local champions of Spazzy doo-wop and Elephant 6-influenced pop hooks. They are currently recording the follow-up to their 75orLess EP Thank You. –Mark MacDougall, founder of Providence indie music label 75orLess Records
2x CD Release Show with The Lincoln Tunnel, Karma Rocket, Jet’s Can’t Land and FWF!
due to injury, the Groundhawgs had to cancel. Filling in for them is the future of rock and roll, Fowl Weather Friend.
CD Release Show for “Today 2.0” by The Lincoln Tunnel and Karma Rocket’s “Parts to Pieces”
The Parlour
No. Main Street
Providence, RI
9pm
Groundhawgs – Lets Get Dark
75OL-211 Groundhawgs – Lets Get Dark CD
$8.00 S&H Included
Digital download is available here
Track Listing
1 Mr Walks On Water
2 Dogs of El Agustino
3 Lets Get Dark
4 Double Nickels On The Dime
5 Floored
6 Mercury and Mass
7 Apartment Down The Hall
8 Oblivious
9 Out Of It
10 Darkwaters
The Hawgs are back with a deftly crafted batch of NUMBERS that will quench your thirst for TIGHT, HARD ROCKING, POST PUNK FARE. From the get go to the final bell, LET”S GET DARK will scratch your rock itch!
Gavage and Groundhawgs at The Parlour
with Bros and MDMA
The Parlour
No Main Street
Providence, RI
9pm
Gladhouse – goldencloud
75OL-197 Gladhouse – goldencloud CD
$7.00 S&H Included
Digital download is available here
Track Listing
1 Broken Bed
2 School Bus
3 Ain’t Got the Gas
4 Follow You Down
5 Believe
6 Start Again
7 Sing No Blues
8 I Could Get Used to This
9 Cobwebs
10 Winding Path
After the Pats shit the bed last year Paul and Ray started to write and record some music in Ray’s basement on Tuesday nights. We call ourselves Gladhouse. A largely acoustic affair, goldencloud was pretty much one song per night. We use Lazyboy harps and Terrapin pint glasses exclusively. Our influences include Chuck Yeager and Gunga Din. Come in to eat or we’ll both starve!
Groundhawgs at Sully’s
with Super Scenics
Hartford, Conn
Groundhawgs at Sully’s Pub
with Super Scenics
Sully’s Pub
Hartford, Conn
The Blood Moons, Groundhawgs, Six Star General at Billy Goodes
Billy Goodes
Newport, RI
Groundhawgs – Warbirds
75OL-148 Groundhawgs – Warbirds
[sold out]
Digital download is available here
Track Listing:
- Tops
- Annie
- Warbirds
- Birthday
- Whore
- Chosen One
- Eastern Year
- Box of Rats
- Heaven
- Strike the Bell
- Pontiac/Cheers
Nostradamus foretold of it in his quatrains…. The Mayan Calendar predicted it… and so it has come to pass… THE GROUNDHAWGS! The long dormant rock outfit who made such a defiant and jubilant noise in the late 80’s and 90’s, have returned to this island Earth with a new full length LP titled WARBIRDS. It’s massive riffs, surgical strike hooks, and melodious choruses threaten to shatter the North American continental shelf, and or change the face of ROCK as we know it. DROP, COVER, and ROLL KIDS… GROUNDHAWGS WARBIRDS IS HERE! TOPS!!!
von Doom – The Descender
75OL-059 von Doom – The Descender CD
$7.00 S&H Included
Track Listing
- Black Light
- Maybe You Are
- Minerva
- Get Away
- The Descender
- Restless
- Hopeless Motherfuckers
- What to do?
- Freedom of Choice
- Red Pens
Ideal barroom rock and indie-soaked pop, influenced by The Replacements, Dinosaur Jr, The Smithereens, and Pavement. Teetering between just too hip and just plain odd, von Doom, is the retro-hyper-active quartet.