Oneida / Kinski / BCMC

Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+A song is a song until it isnt, until its pushed to its limits and beyond to become harder, faster and more dissonant. The music on Oneidas 17th full-length album, Expensive Air, all started as tightly structured, melodic rock songsvery much in line with the non-stop bangers of Success from 2022but along the way, they changed.Bobby Matador sketched the structures of these songs from his home base in Boston, then sent the demos to Oneidas New York contingent: Kid Millions, Hanoi Jane, Shahin Motia and Barry London. We were working out the songs in New York without Bobby. We would start out riding the riffs, and then Shahin and Jane would add wild, out-of-tune licks, said Kid Millions. It seemed so perfect.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. Oneidas 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-punks Ex Models and currently plays in Knyfe Hits. Kid and Fat Bobby perform and release music as People of the North, and Bobbys outside projects New Pope and Nurse & Soldier each released new albums in 2023.Oneidas previous album, Success, came after a four-year hiatus, unleashing the bands pent up creative energy in a set of catchy, accessible, nearly poppy songs. Song structure remained important in the run up towards Expensive Air, but so was the instinctual, improvisatory interplay that has always been a part of On