On Tuesday, March 18th at 12:30pm, Excuse My French speaks with John Colpitts (aka Kid Millions) from NYC band, Oneida, before they play the Kilowatt in SF on March 20th.
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 Hits. Kid and Fat Bobby perform and release music as People of the North, and Bobby’s outside projects New Pope and Nurse & Soldier each released new albums in 2023.
Latest album, Expensive Air, expands on what Oneida achieved with previous album, Success, but also pushes past it, laying down irresistible song structures then blowing them to psychedelic bits.
