Baby's Presents: Oneida with Guests Weak Signal at The Broadway
7:00PM Doors // 8:00PM Show
21+
Oneida
Brooklyn's genre-defying Oneida take their primary cues from '60s garage and punk bands (especially MC5), but throw in plenty of heavy, bluesy '70s stoner rock (think Blue Cheer, Foghat, etc.) plus dashes of jerky synth pop, avant-garde jazz, and Krautrock. The group made a name for itself in the New York area by virtue of its raucous live performances, which were frequently conducted in lofts and warehouses. Mixing distorted organ freakouts with meaty guitar riffs, the band got progressively tighter and more energetic following their 1997 debut, and released highly creative material at a rapid pace during the 2000s, with highlights including 2002's Each One Teach One and 2005's The Wedding. Following the ambitious 2009 triple-album Rated O, the band's members focused on more experimental side projects, and Oneida releases such as 2011's Absolute II and the 2016 Rhys Chatham collaboration What's Your Sign? owed more to drone, noise, and post-minimalism than rock music. They returned to song-driven music with 2018's Romance and the more garage punk-sounding Success (2022).