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 Aug 2 Robopumpkin | Cat Crash | Lions & Lavender | Cricket Aug 7 Somergloom: Night 1 Aug 8 Somergloom: Night 2 Aug 8 Headband / Brandolino / TBA Aug 9 Somergloom: Night 3 Aug 14 Johnnie & the Foodmasters / K.O. Queen / Electric Street Queens Aug 25 Disasterpiece Theatre Aug 30 Dear Maryanne | Blame it on Whitman | Pink Slip | Jerrys Got Jokes Sep 12 Hack the Planet: Hackers celebrates 30 Years Latest Music Model/Actriz: “Poppy” New pathways between rock and industrial. Pixel Grip: “Stamina” A club banger with a roving synth bass line. Billy Woods: “Misery” Blaring horn sample sings over snares out of New York, New York. Colleen Green: “I Believe In Santa Claus” But does Santa Claus believe in you? Tournament Arc: “Limitless” Video game-inspired hair metal chicanery. Little Brother: “Glory Glory” “Three in the morning-type shit.” Rid Of Me: “Cut” Heavy music, heavy themes. Neptune: “#40” Homemade instruments sending up a cloud of experimental noise. Ariel Zetina: “Smooch Track (DANNN VIP)” Revisiting Cyclorama with remix love. Your Friends In Hell: “Dive Bar” “When you haunt the dive bar, it haunts you back.” Florry: “Hey Baby” A good piece of rockin’ Americana. Mohini Dey: “In-N-Out” It’s all about the bass. Allegra Krieger: “Came” Folk rock poetry. Abort The ‘Port John Borders IV lets it flow at Grace By Nia. Salem 66: “Widow’s Walk” From out of the early 80s Boston underground. All Chaps Are Assless the frenzy of tongs rock lowercase at Cantab Underground. Mary Halvorson: “Polyhedral” An effervescent jazz driver. Friends to the End Friendship sets sail at Deep Cuts. Fire-Toolz: “I Am A Cloud” A crazy lit gas heap of a video. Kira McSpice The Somergloom veteran talks fest highlights, Ashen Veil, and migraines. The Backyard Monotalk: Fix Me Up Some sort of cheap Israeli Radiohead knockoff. Caspian: Tertia Straight outta Beverly with no vocals. Letter from the Editor Even as the bombs fall, art matters. Shany Kedar: Bloodlines Israel’s Hope Sandoval? Great Waves: Blue Blood From Sammamish with love. Letter from the Editor Election coverage returns to Hump Day News. Badboss: Fun Under The Sun Album review from the Archives. The Seedy Seeds: Count The Days Album review from the Archives. Letter from the Editor Phil has empathy issues. Who is this guy? 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).
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 Aug 2 Robopumpkin | Cat Crash | Lions & Lavender | Cricket Aug 7 Somergloom: Night 1 Aug 8 Somergloom: Night 2 Aug 8 Headband / Brandolino / TBA Aug 9 Somergloom: Night 3 Aug 14 Johnnie & the Foodmasters / K.O. Queen / Electric Street Queens Aug 25 Disasterpiece Theatre Aug 30 Dear Maryanne | Blame it on Whitman | Pink Slip | Jerrys Got Jokes Sep 12 Hack the Planet: Hackers celebrates 30 Years Latest Music Model/Actriz: “Poppy” New pathways between rock and industrial. Pixel Grip: “Stamina” A club banger with a roving synth bass line. Billy Woods: “Misery” Blaring horn sample sings over snares out of New York, New York. Colleen Green: “I Believe In Santa Claus” But does Santa Claus believe in you? Tournament Arc: “Limitless” Video game-inspired hair metal chicanery. Little Brother: “Glory Glory” “Three in the morning-type shit.” Rid Of Me: “Cut” Heavy music, heavy themes. Neptune: “#40” Homemade instruments sending up a cloud of experimental noise. Ariel Zetina: “Smooch Track (DANNN VIP)” Revisiting Cyclorama with remix love. Your Friends In Hell: “Dive Bar” “When you haunt the dive bar, it haunts you back.” Florry: “Hey Baby” A good piece of rockin’ Americana. Mohini Dey: “In-N-Out” It’s all about the bass. Allegra Krieger: “Came” Folk rock poetry. Abort The ‘Port John Borders IV lets it flow at Grace By Nia. Salem 66: “Widow’s Walk” From out of the early 80s Boston underground. All Chaps Are Assless the frenzy of tongs rock lowercase at Cantab Underground. Mary Halvorson: “Polyhedral” An effervescent jazz driver. Friends to the End Friendship sets sail at Deep Cuts. Fire-Toolz: “I Am A Cloud” A crazy lit gas heap of a video. Kira McSpice The Somergloom veteran talks fest highlights, Ashen Veil, and migraines. The Backyard Monotalk: Fix Me Up Some sort of cheap Israeli Radiohead knockoff. Caspian: Tertia Straight outta Beverly with no vocals. Letter from the Editor Even as the bombs fall, art matters. Shany Kedar: Bloodlines Israel’s Hope Sandoval? Great Waves: Blue Blood From Sammamish with love. Letter from the Editor Election coverage returns to Hump Day News. Badboss: Fun Under The Sun Album review from the Archives. The Seedy Seeds: Count The Days Album review from the Archives. Letter from the Editor Phil has empathy issues. Who is this guy? 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).
New pathways between rock and industrial.