photo: liz seru art brut - good weekend lots of interesting stuff going on this weekend - i'm not sure how much i'll be able to make it to due to my bum leg, but we'll see... friday begins this weekend's dominance of new venue studio b , which will hopefully bring some fresh blood to the north williamsburg / greenpoint area that i call home. and i don't want to hear anymore shit from you manhattanites - you pack [...]
This week is a really busy week of concert going, littered with expensive must see (if you have the cash) shows and free shows that you would be foolish to miss out on. Of course some of the days have so many choices it will be tough to single out just one, and some days will allow you to go to several shows with the scattering of show times. Anyway here's what's on tab for the week! Monday: Two weeks several of us bloggers, as well as a couple thousand other people got to see Oppenheimer open for [...]
Happy New Year is yet another in a string of excellent albums by one of the most innovative, criminally underappreciated American bands out there.
I am in no fit state to show my face in polite society. Maybe not even some impolite ones. Unkempt. Dishelleved and rather unsteady on my feet is how you may describe me today. I have a vodka induced hangover. Think I might just write today off. Scratch it from memory. Erase the very thought of it. But if I wasn't in such a 'delicate' state, I may very well be bouncing off the walls to this killer track. A dark, malevolent beast, it's insistant beat will grind the dancefloor into dust. A little bit [...]
I was drunk at this show. Profoundly drunk. Now, I'd like to be able to claim a metaphorical device, like, "I was drunk on the majesty of Oneida's blistering psych assault!" or some such shit, but I'm sort of a grown up and I can sort of claim responsibility. The muddled rememberances and shoddy photography contained within are ultimately my fault. But Oneida did not help. I mean, at one point, synth nerd-cum frontman Bobby Matador took center stage and declared that the title of their newly released record, Happy New Year , meant [...]
I am glad for band like Oneida . This is the kind of band that I can make a genre up and people would still nod in agreement. Examples: Oneida is electro avant-pop punk, Jerky synth rock, plastic acid kraut-rock psychedelia. MC5 meets techno, Devo , New York Dolls, Captain Beefheart ... you get the point. Oneida is one of those hard to define band, not only because they shift style widely between album to album, but also the styles are all non-conventional. They are excessive, loud, hedonistic and eclectic. Only in Brooklyn. [...]
Jul 17, 2006, 10:49am
33/45
Oneida, Happy New Year (Jagjaguwar 2006) "Up With People" seems to be most ppl's fave on the new longplayer from Brooklyn's Oneida but I'm feeling the August morning haze of "The Misfit" and some of the album's quieter numbers. Happy New Year doesn't feel as huge as The Wedding (there's no "Did I Die") but it's another log on the fire for one of the more shape-shifting and inventive rock bands out there. Out on Jagjaguwar / Brah Records . Oneida [...]
Yeah, you may have heard, but that new Oneida album, Happy New Year , is really good. It reminds me a little more of Secret Wars than it does The Wedding (and it's definitely not in the vein of "Sheets Of Easter"). It's that Oneida-y krautrockipscychadrone-ica. The opener, "Distress," to my ears, sounds like an acid-infused, satanic ritual version of "Scarborough Fair," and I can honestly say that I've never said that about any other song in my life. My current favorite, though, is this one, track 3: [...]
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The problem with trying to listen to stacks of promos is you only have so much time, and quite honestly I'd rather just give Destroyer's Rubies a few more spins than sit through several hours of what's often overwhelmingly mediocre material. However, every once in a while there's a really great song on an otherwise marginally interesting album. Goldspot 's "Rewind" is one of those songs, 3 minutes and 34 seconds (it would be even better without the outro) of gripping earnestness and undeniable melody. The rest of Tally of the Yes Men [...]
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