The Washington Redskins have an offensive nickname. It's one of those things we'll look back on 20 years from now and find absurd. For now, however, there is debate, there is publicity, there is a radio ad campaign. The Oneida Indian Nation, which is based in Verona, New York, has bought thousands ... More >>
Kid 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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Even 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 innovationsrounded up by Table of the Elements on 2002's An Angel Moves Too Fast To See ... More >>
The Round of 64 for Sound of the City's own version of March Madnessin which you, the Sound of the City voting public, help determine the quintessential New York musicianis a little jam-packed today, with six matches on the docket. (The schedule and results so far are here; the full ... More >>
Parts & Labor go out in style at 285 Kent
Infinite 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 >>
Knyfe 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 >>
... 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 >>
Throwing a final block party before closing its doors
Rob HarvillaBehind Oneida as they played the 2010 installment of the Block Party.The Williamsburg multi-headed hydra that is Monster Islandhome to, as they note, "Live With Animals, Secret Project Robot Art Space, Kayrock Screenprinting, Todd P. Practice Spaces, Mollusk Surf Shop, Onei ... More >>
Lisa 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 >>
Note 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 >>
What 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 >>
All hail A Thousands Suns, the finest dystopian fusion a major label can buy
Get 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 >>
Trip out to the Joshua Light Show
If 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 >>
You 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 >>
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 >>
Santiago 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 >>
Catching up with our finest purveyor of impromptu noise-punk trilogies
School'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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