Lightning Bolt at Firehouse 13

Lighting Bolt played an incredible show at Firehouse 13 this past Thursday. The benefit show for Dan Tanner featured five bands – Talk Normal, Russian Tsarlag, Human Beast, Tinsel Teeth, and, of course, Lightning Bolt – with Midnight Mongo Sound System DJing some awesome mixes between the sets. As Lightning Bolt took the stage (or, [...]

Concert Review: Monty Are I at Lupo’s

Friday night, I made it down to our 40th Birthday Bash show at Lupo’s just in time to see The Coming Weak perform.  Dressed all in black, they showed what makes them one of the more popular local acts: catchy relatable music, a lively familiar relationship with the crowd, and a high-energy performance that left [...]

Concert Review: Lupo’s Summer Block Party 7/10

Providence’s local music talents were on full display at last night’s Lupo’s Summer Block Party. It was quite an affair: two stages, one dunk tank, eight bands, and nearly nine hours of local music.

Providence Sound Session Preview – 2009

WBRU is proud to announce its involvement with and support of this year’s Sound Session, which will be July 5-11 at various venues throughout Providence. Here are some shows by both local and national acts that you can definitely catch us at during that week.

Four Local Bands Rock the Providence Arts Festival

In between the overcast and rainy days, the sun finally shone on Providence this past Saturday for the Providence Arts Festival. Nearly eighty vendors lined Westminster Street selling food, jewelry, clothing, art, and more. The BRU Crew and several local bands from Providence provided the music for the day. In case you [...]

A Night of Champions: Fairhaven & The Johnny Lingo Band to play Firehouse 13

Just in case you needed yet another reason to wish that summer would just GET HERE ALREADY…here’s something else to add/circle/highlight/underline fifty times on your calendars. WBRU’s 2009 Rock Hunt and Venue Hunt winners will meet face to face (or face to…stage?) to remind us all why they’re the champions that they truly are.

Rock Hunt Semi-Finals #4 Recap: Fairhaven, Sean P. Rogan, and Far Off Place

Saturday’s Rock Hunt Semi-Finals will not be soon forgotten—at least not by me or any of the other BRU Crew people present at the Wheel House in Narragansett. Not only did we get to see a band that hinted of Incubus and Coldplay, the solo project of a member of Big D and the Kids Table, and an act that rocked so hard they made more than half the room form a mosh pit, but we literally got booed out of the place. More on that to come later.

Rock Hunt Profile #2: The [Viennagram:], You Scream I Scream & The Coming Weak

Here are the second group of semifinalists, who will be rockin’ Jerky’s this coming Saturday. Details Below.
The [Viennagram:]

The [Viennagram:] hails from New Bedford, Mass. They describe themselves as post-apocolyptic pop and experimental/showtunes, and it’s definitely hard to disagree with those descriptions. Their songs are noise-rock at its most hardcore, and their show [...]