Thee Hydrogen Terrors :: Terror, Diplomacy and Public Relations
The best band to ever come out of this town by far. High caliber, eccentric, sometimes brooding, always energetic garage punk with a singer who was legitimately a little crazy. That's what Providence is all about. •

Lightning Bolt :: Ride The Skies
Watching the Bolt play is a physical spectacle that just can't captured on a recording. It's like trying to lasso an 800lb. gorilla with a piece of yarn... Or something. I went to RISD with these guys so I had the opportunity to see them early and often. They've been completely unrelenting from day one. Brian C. is one of the sickest drummers imaginable. •

Fall River Overdrive :: demo
F.R.O.D. were an enigma. They made a lasting if brief indentation on the scene here. It was a total onslaught of vicious grinding hardcore with surf and almost country-western undertones. Nothing before or after them comes close to the sheer, raw power they put forth. (Note: No link at the moment. I'm going to make the four songs available for download here as soon as I can get them into mp3 format.) •

The Laurels :: self titled
These guys were the Prov's premiere noisy rock power trio. I have a soft spot for this band since my brother-in-law played drums for them for a while and my first date with the wife was a Laurels show at the Met Cafe (RIP *sniffle*). •

Six Finger Satellite :: The Pigeon is the Most Popular Bird
Before the emergence of Lightning Bolt, these Devo-gone-evil guys were this town's number one sons. Their blend of powerful rock with total weirdness and willingness to go in a completely different direction, only to come back again, embodied the attitude of the Providence crowd of the nineties. •