Back to All Events RPM Fest Friday, August 29, 2025 12:00 PM Sunday, August 31, 2025 1:00 PM Fort Adams 80 Fort Adams Drive Newport, RI, 02840 United States (map) Google Calendar ICS Info and tickets. Hump Nights Apr 19 Intricate Mouse Work | Late Night Idle | The Roland High Life | Past Life Crisis Apr 26 Slo-Anne | Victor Jones | Statue | Salem June May 3 Foxtails / Andro Queen / Tysk Tysk Task May 7 TIFFY / TYSK TYSK TASK / BAD AT DRAWING May 10 Upnow! / Warmachine / Moss Boy May 14 The Zombies: Hung Up On A Dream May 19 HOUND HANDLER / SWEET PETUNIA / NEMARCA / KEEGAN JAMES May 20 BIMBO (MI) / Slo-Anne / Thought Partner May 24 Neighborhood Shit | The Promised End | Fracture Type | Knock Over City May 31 Eniam | Trip Sitter | Weatherless | Rick Berlin & The Nickel and Dime Band Latest Music Yuvees: “Field Mouse” A noisy, banging buffet of rock n roll brouhaha. Sharon Van Etten: “Idiot Box” A collab joint creates an alt folk popper. Horsegirl: “Julie” What’s up with this Julie? Five Nights At The Tree House Music meets mass protest in the streets of Istanbul. Ultra Deluxe: “Housed In The Arctic” Everyone gets to sing! Some of them scream too! Good Vibrations Natalie Dietrich gets down with her bad self at Lilypad. Mamalarky: “Feels So Wrong” Ornate. Baroque. I’d call it “rococo” too but… What The Fust?! Fust uncorks the (alt) country at Deep Cuts. Shane Pendergast: “Music Man” A gentle acoustic picker. Sunday Junkie: “Fever Dream” At some point you just gotta release the album, right? Send In The Clines Rebecca Cline Quartet doesn’t need a definite article at Mad Monkfish. Space Camp: “Inciting Incident” Some kind of glass bottle percussion keeps this train rolling. Preston Lydotes: “5 to 9” Oof, I feel the message at the heart of this song. Matt Hagen: “Christmas Bath” We’re taking a steamy soak with a Burlington songsmith. Trophy Lungs: “Bathroom Graffiti” We’ve got a little 10-year anniversary on our hands. SoLaRfIvE: “Right Mind Went Left” Medium-tempo hip hop trotter. Blanket Approval: “Heartbreak City” Rock with a little funk, a little groove. Emily Robb: “Live At Jerry’s” One 23:59 live take. Rick Rude: “Winded Whale” Rock n roll riffery. All the ‘R’s! Lily Seabird: “How far away” A powerful piano-driven sparkler. The Backyard Holiday Shores: Columbus’d the Whim Archives: Album Review // Holiday Shores’ Columbus’d The Whim. Drug Rug: LIVE Archives: LIVE at Middle East (8/8/2009). Letter from the Editor Free Rumeysa Ozturk. Mobius Band: LIVE Archives: LIVE at Middle East (12/2007). Weather Pending: And How! Archives: Album // Weather Pending: And How! Letter from the Editor To everything, a season — except fascism. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah From the Archives, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah at Middle East (11/2007). Middle Distance Runner: The Sun & Earth From the Archives, Middle Distance Runner : The Sun & Earth Letter from the Editor Becoming Anti-Social: a Six Point “Plan.” Drug Rug: Paint the Fence Invisible From the Archives, Drug Rug paints fences on its second album. Drug Rug: LIVE From the Archives, Drug Rug live at Milky Way (11/2007). Letter from the Editor New Year, New Meh? MMOSS: i From the Archives, New Hampshire psych also rises. Interview: Middle Distance Runner A chat with Middle Distance Runner from the Archives. Letter from the Editor Less is more. Bent Shapes: Feels Weird From the Archives, Feels Weird doesn’t feel weird at all.
RPM Fest Friday, August 29, 2025 12:00 PM Sunday, August 31, 2025 1:00 PM Fort Adams 80 Fort Adams Drive Newport, RI, 02840 United States (map) Google Calendar ICS Info and tickets. Hump Nights Apr 19 Intricate Mouse Work | Late Night Idle | The Roland High Life | Past Life Crisis Apr 26 Slo-Anne | Victor Jones | Statue | Salem June May 3 Foxtails / Andro Queen / Tysk Tysk Task May 7 TIFFY / TYSK TYSK TASK / BAD AT DRAWING May 10 Upnow! / Warmachine / Moss Boy May 14 The Zombies: Hung Up On A Dream May 19 HOUND HANDLER / SWEET PETUNIA / NEMARCA / KEEGAN JAMES May 20 BIMBO (MI) / Slo-Anne / Thought Partner May 24 Neighborhood Shit | The Promised End | Fracture Type | Knock Over City May 31 Eniam | Trip Sitter | Weatherless | Rick Berlin & The Nickel and Dime Band Latest Music Yuvees: “Field Mouse” A noisy, banging buffet of rock n roll brouhaha. Sharon Van Etten: “Idiot Box” A collab joint creates an alt folk popper. Horsegirl: “Julie” What’s up with this Julie? Five Nights At The Tree House Music meets mass protest in the streets of Istanbul. Ultra Deluxe: “Housed In The Arctic” Everyone gets to sing! Some of them scream too! Good Vibrations Natalie Dietrich gets down with her bad self at Lilypad. Mamalarky: “Feels So Wrong” Ornate. Baroque. I’d call it “rococo” too but… What The Fust?! Fust uncorks the (alt) country at Deep Cuts. Shane Pendergast: “Music Man” A gentle acoustic picker. Sunday Junkie: “Fever Dream” At some point you just gotta release the album, right? Send In The Clines Rebecca Cline Quartet doesn’t need a definite article at Mad Monkfish. Space Camp: “Inciting Incident” Some kind of glass bottle percussion keeps this train rolling. Preston Lydotes: “5 to 9” Oof, I feel the message at the heart of this song. Matt Hagen: “Christmas Bath” We’re taking a steamy soak with a Burlington songsmith. Trophy Lungs: “Bathroom Graffiti” We’ve got a little 10-year anniversary on our hands. SoLaRfIvE: “Right Mind Went Left” Medium-tempo hip hop trotter. Blanket Approval: “Heartbreak City” Rock with a little funk, a little groove. Emily Robb: “Live At Jerry’s” One 23:59 live take. Rick Rude: “Winded Whale” Rock n roll riffery. All the ‘R’s! Lily Seabird: “How far away” A powerful piano-driven sparkler. The Backyard Holiday Shores: Columbus’d the Whim Archives: Album Review // Holiday Shores’ Columbus’d The Whim. Drug Rug: LIVE Archives: LIVE at Middle East (8/8/2009). Letter from the Editor Free Rumeysa Ozturk. Mobius Band: LIVE Archives: LIVE at Middle East (12/2007). Weather Pending: And How! Archives: Album // Weather Pending: And How! Letter from the Editor To everything, a season — except fascism. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah From the Archives, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah at Middle East (11/2007). Middle Distance Runner: The Sun & Earth From the Archives, Middle Distance Runner : The Sun & Earth Letter from the Editor Becoming Anti-Social: a Six Point “Plan.” Drug Rug: Paint the Fence Invisible From the Archives, Drug Rug paints fences on its second album. Drug Rug: LIVE From the Archives, Drug Rug live at Milky Way (11/2007). Letter from the Editor New Year, New Meh? MMOSS: i From the Archives, New Hampshire psych also rises. Interview: Middle Distance Runner A chat with Middle Distance Runner from the Archives. Letter from the Editor Less is more. Bent Shapes: Feels Weird From the Archives, Feels Weird doesn’t feel weird at all.
A noisy, banging buffet of rock n roll brouhaha.