Live-music venues worth the trip in Pawtucket, Rhode Island

A recording studio, bar and gallery on Pawtucket’s Main Street, established in 2006, whose experimental performance room has hosted Lightning Bolt, Dan Deacon, The Body and Mdou Moctar.

A Pawtucket club that books rock, folk, punk, blues and comedians inside Hope Artiste Village, opened anew in 2010 by Rich and Sarah Lupo as the 1975-born sister venue of Lupo’s, whose Providence rooms hosted James Brown, the Ramones and Stevie Ray Vaughan.