- Erica Fletcher
- Oneida
This is the week leading into Lollapalooza, so preparty shows are popping up like crazy. On Wed 7/30, there’s Courtney Barnett at Schubas, Twin Shadow at Metro, and Interpol at House of Blues. If Lolla bands aren’t your thing, there are bunch of other great shows to catch during the first half of the week.
Long-running New York experimental act Oneida comes to Empty Bottle on Wednesday. “Longtime Oneida drummer Jon Colpitts (aka Kid Millions) was just in town as Man Forever, leading extended polyrhythmic excursions with New York new-music heavies So Percussion,” writes Peter Margasak. “His drive to find new challenges and approaches in his music has a counterpart in Oneida’s aesthetic restlessness: over its previous few albums, it’s backed away from the blistering art-rock of yore to demonstrate a sort of volatile delicacy. The 2011 release Absolute II is meditative, droney, and touched by improv, with beats hardly figuring into the end result. On the group’s most recent album, 2012’s A List of Burning Mountains, Colpitts’s drums are a key presence once more; snare bombs puncture rumbling kick-drum volleys over a lacerating field of distorted keyboards and guitar noise.”
