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May 14, 2012Kid Millions is juggling a shitload of action. The drummer extraordinaire just played another epic gig this past weekend with Oneida, the psych-rock jamming savants he's anchored since 1997. Man Forever, the bohemian collective of shape shifters he's united to realize his percussive-based spiritual ... More >>
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April 4, 2012Musicians and writers share their best stories
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March 16, 2012Even via Skype, Rhys Chatham remains profoundly, permanently enthused. The giddy 100-guitar maximalist/minimalist yin to Glenn Branca's foreboding 100-guitar maximalist/minimalist yang, Chatham's '70s/'80s innovations—rounded up by Table of the Elements on 2002's An Angel Moves Too Fast To See ... More >>
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March 15, 2012The Round of 64 for Sound of the City's own version of March Madness—in which you, the Sound of the City voting public, help determine the quintessential New York musician—is a little jam-packed today, with six matches on the docket. (The schedule and results so far are here; the full ... More >>
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February 22, 2012Parts & Labor go out in style at 285 Kent
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January 17, 2012Infinite Loop Opening Reception, with music by Man Forever and People of the North
Secret Project Robot
Saturday, January 14
Better than: Any venue without free pinball.
Infinite Loop, the month-long art show by Val Britton and John Colpitts that opened at Secret Project Robot's new location in ... More >>
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December 7, 2011Blogs
October 21, 2011Knyfe Hyts
(The New) Secret Project Robot
Thursday, October 20
Better than: Buzz.
Coming through the nearly unmarked door on Melrose Street in Bushwick, one could be forgiven for thinking that the dozen bedraggled people sitting around in the dark on thrift store couches, surrounded by e ... More >>
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October 10, 2011... and even if you were present for all of the Ocropolis III, Oneida's extended improvisation at last weekend's All Tomorrow's Parties Presents I'll Be Your Mirror festival down in Asbury Park, it's worth revisiting the day via NPR's archive of the whole shebang, which is split into three parts sho ... More >>
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October 6, 2011In the mid-'90s, before getting saddled with the term became a dirty word, Trans Am was one of the core members of the post-rock scene. While their label and scenemates in Tortoise meticulously concocted easy-listening fake jazz tailored for indie brainiacs, Trans Am played the part of the prog-obse ... More >>
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September 28, 2011Music
September 7, 2011Throwing a final block party before closing its doors
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July 27, 2011Rob HarvillaBehind Oneida as they played the 2010 installment of the Block Party.The Williamsburg multi-headed hydra that is Monster Island—home to, as they note, "Live With Animals, Secret Project Robot Art Space, Kayrock Screenprinting, Todd P. Practice Spaces, Mollusk Surf Shop, Onei ... More >>
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June 17, 2011Lisa Corson
Brooklyn stalwarts Oneida have been mowing down the NYC music strip for years with their scrapheap of trippy psychedelia, acoustic pluckin' and pickin', organ-splattered rock histrionics and apeshit improvisational forays. In 2006, they capped off their monumental LP Happy New Yea ... More >>
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June 6, 2011
In Waste Of Paint, our writer/artist team of Jamie Peck and Debbie Allen will review goings-on about town in words and images.
This past weekend was a glorious cultural swan dive for Debbie and me that started uptown in the hallowed halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, sailed down throu ... More >>
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February 10, 2011Note the presence in the crowd of actual women. Pic by Mike.Soldiers of Fortune/Water Fai
Zebulon
Wednesday, February 10
Better than: Real-life mercenary work.
No one wants an opening band that can upstage the headliner, but Water Fai tried a little too hard not to rock the boat. The quarte ... More >>
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October 29, 2010What more can be said about the indefatigable Kid Millions and the mighty Oneida? Hell, it's not even news that they throw a killer and sloppy Halloween party, Brahloween, since the band's annual throwdown is now in its sixth year and has become an end of October staple. So instead, on the ev ... More >>
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October 13, 2010All hail A Thousands Suns, the finest dystopian fusion a major label can buy
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September 7, 2010Get as close to the drummer as you possibly canOneida/Golden Triangle/Etc.
Monster Island Block Party
Saturday, September 4
Better than: Whatever other show I was actually trying to go to.
It was ludicrously beautiful in Brooklyn on Saturday (some hurricane), and thus the perfect time to, i ... More >>
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May 4, 2010Trip out to the Joshua Light Show
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March 24, 2010Blogs
March 19, 2010If there's any chance your reckless behavior will be rewarded with a shiner this weekend, it's gotta be tonight. Oneida (to your left), with (thoughtfully) abrasive rock and destructive, amped-up guitars, will make all gentle souls within a 100-foot radius of the Knitting Factory shake in th ... More >>
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March 16, 2010Blogs
December 31, 2009You know, we actually have other shots of Chris, he just won't let us use them. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.As a guy who plausibly could claim he listened to more music than anyone in the last year short of Robert Christgau, 1000TimesYes's Christopher R. Weingarten seemed like the ideal guy to as ... More >>
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November 10, 2009Blogs
November 3, 2009
The psych/garbage/space rock trio White Hills fall into that Brooklyn corner where the songs are long and aliases abide--like their close affiliates Oneida, White Hills' Dave W. and Ego Sensation underpin oozy post-psych moans with busy, virtuosic rhythmic scaffolding. "Dead" was recorded at Oneid ... More >>
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August 25, 2009Blogs
July 30, 2009Santiago Felipe
Perhaps you might be interested in hearing the audio to last Friday's Oneida show Rob Harvilla describes so ably in this week's Voice? Did 2009 jam-of-the-moment "Ghost in the Room" in fact induce "a sort of fist-pumping nirvana in which everyone is too mesmerized to actually ... More >>
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July 29, 2009Lionel DeluyMore like an interpreter of hitmaking: Fabolous
In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla hops the trans-Brooklyn express with Oneida, New York's finest purveyor of impromptu noise-punk trilogies.
Sean Fennessey on Fabolous's new Loso's Way: "A classic mixtape rapper with no cl ... More >>
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July 28, 2009Catching up with our finest purveyor of impromptu noise-punk trilogies
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July 28, 2009School's Out! But the Voice Educational Supplement is in session.
When cops made a bogus bust on 32 teens from Bushwick Community High, the kids kept their cool -- and won their case against the NYPD. Why? Because they'd been trained how to respond to police overreach and entrapment by their ... More >>
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July 4, 2006More confounding innovation from Brooklyn's weirdest and finest
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May 9, 2006Oakley Hall's reverent, raucous country leaves bandmates and severed digits in its wake
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October 25, 2005Music
October 11, 2005Brooklyn's utopian power trio veers off the highway to hell
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April 6, 2004News
October 28, 2003Uploader Supreme Joly MacFie Puts Indie-Rock New York on Cable and the Web
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December 24, 2002Recombinant Rock in the Valley of Dub
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September 12, 2000Burritos, Burgers, Chili Dogs, and Vienna Sausages
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