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Live from The Avalon Lounge: Oneida, Sky Furrows, Spreaders

Mar 08, 2024: 8pm - 11:59 pm

From a live webstream at The Avalon Lounge.

Oneida, Sky Furrows, and Spreaders perform at the Avalon Lounge in Catskill with a live webstream of the entire show from 8 p.m. to midnight at wgxc.org/listen, and a live broadcast on 90.7-FM from 8 to midnight.

Oneida has been a cornerstone of the Brooklyn underground for nearly two decades. Always evolving, the group has been a beacon of musical exploration and enthralling unpredictability, gaining legendary status among heads that know and expanding the limits of what it means to be a rock band. With a discography spanning over a dozen full-lengths, plus live releases, EPs, singles, and limited one-offs, Oneida has demonstrated a mastery of collective improvisation, off-kilter songwriting, complex composition, and everything in between.

Oneida has long straddled gray-area boundaries between the NYC punk/psych/rock world and the art/experimental world, playing at gritty rock clubs and elevated cultural institutions, including the Guggenheim, MoMA PS1, ICA London, MassMOCA and the Knoxville Museum of Art. The band has been known for extended live improvisational performances, collaborating onstage with Mike Watt, members of Flaming Lips, Portishead, Boredoms, Yo La Tengo, Dead C, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and many others. Oneida’s members juggle a wide variety of other music projects. Drummer Kid Millions has played with Spiritualized, Royal Trux and Boredoms and releases solo compositions under his own name and as Man Forever. Shahin Motia founded noise-punk’s Ex Models and currently plays in Knyfe Hyts. Kid and Fat Bobby perform and release music as People of the North, and Bobby has a band called New Pope.

Fronted by poet Karen Schoemer, Albany NY’s Sky Furrows combine influences from krautrock, NZ bands the Clean and theVerlaines, the Minutemen, Sylvia Plath and early Sonic Youth. Schoemer collaborates with bassist Mike Watt in Jaded Azurites, and with Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby. Eric Hardiman, Mike Griffin and Phil Donnelly are members of psych rock unit Burnt Hills.

Live performances from The Avalon Lounge in Catskill, New York. Usually DJs perform, often with live band performances, and other experiments. See theavalonlounge.com for more information.

Playlist:
  • Dis Is Da Wasteland / $'Edout
  • One at a Time / Garcia Peoples
  • Le Petit Prince / Lady Moon & the Eclipse
  • Diazepam (Edit) / Buke & Gase
  • Angel / Lex Grey and the Urban Pioneers
  • Bye Bye Butterfly / Pauline Oliveros
  • 99 Cops / BRIAN DEWAN
  • A Song Of Summer / Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
  • Animal Magnetism / Arnold Dreyblatt & The Orchestra of Excited Strings
  • Side Band / Arnold Dreyblatt