June 12, 2010 – CASA – 9PM – ONEIDA + U.S.A Out Of Vietnam
ONEIDA
Oneida is a rock band from Brooklyn, New York. Their influences include psychedelic rock, krautrock, and hard rock, but the overall structure and intent of their music cannot be easily traced to any of these styles, or the myriad other styles they have drawn upon in recordings.
The most striking and consistent aspect of Oneida’s music is their use of and fascination with repetition. Their 2002 LP, Each One Teach One, for instance, begins with two especially long tracks, Sheets of Easter and Antiobiotics, the former over fourteen minutes long, the latter more than sixteen. Both of these songs are composed of one repeated riff (with a few short interludes on Antiobiotics).
In addition to the use of repetition that easily outstrips the patience of most casual listeners, Oneida’s music can be distinguished by the band member’s extensive use of and enthusiasm for antique keyboards and analog electric pianos. Repetition in Oneida’s music greatly complements the strengths and uniqueness of the fuzzy or cheesy-sounding keyboard elements.
The band also runs Brah Records, an imprint of Jagjaguwar. The label has released records by Parts & Labor, Oakley Hall, Home, Company, and an Oneida/Plastic Crimewave Sound split 12″.
In September 2007 the group celebrated 10 years of existence with a concert at the P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in NYC.
In June 2008, it was announced that the band would be releasing a triptych of new records, referred to as the “Thank Your Parents” series. The first of these is Preteen Weaponry, which was released in August 2008, and the second is a triple album, Rated O, released in July 2009.
For the reductivist in you, consider Oneida the bastard offspring of a Can/Suicide marriage, a band who is not afraid to pluck, tap, bend, synth or crash their way to the various extremes of rock, pop, folk and the avant-garde, and who brilliantly do so without alienating the respective fans of any of these so-called “genres”.
www.myspace.com/oneidarocks
http://enemyhogs.com/site/
http://www.jagjaguwar.com/press/oneida/oneidapress.php
U.S.A OUT OF VIETNAM
U.S.A. Out of Viet Nam is made up of three disparate Toronto/Montreal musicians. One of the guys was in a pretty popular band that made videos and stuff and one guy was in a popular band who also made videos that inspired some of the worst bands you are likely to hear. After the second guy quit the popular band he formed another band that nobody liked, who also made videos but nobody bothered to watch them. I suppose it should be noted he also hated the other guy’s popular band where as the initial guy who only played in a popular band had never even heard of the other guy’s popular and unpopular band.
The third member, drummer Eric Cohen though was never in a band anybody really liked but his other band Balboa should soon change all of that. Balboa only performs selections that originally appeared in the first four Rocky pictures – which, as anybody with a functioning pair of ears on their noggin would justly proclaim as “pretty fuckin’ rad, Jack”. Balboa also features current and former members of Coney Hatch, Talas (who featured a young Billy Sheehan from Mr. Big!) and former Kiss drummer Peter Criss’ Jump Blues Band Revue, needless to say with this impressive pedigree Balboa are indeed the fuckin’ tits. Wake the neighbors, Balboa are here!
Uh, U.S.A, Out of Viet Nam don’t play any soundtracks from movies and are very loud, this is also their first show so don’t get your hopes up. They also do not feature any members of Peter Criss’ Jump Blues Revue, but the one member who once played in a popular band and later an unpopular band did get the famous feline Kiss trapsman’s autograph at an in store signing once. Balboa!
