Oneida

Since 1997, this bizarre, Brooklyn-born trio has been exploring rock music’s unlimited possibilities, and the band’s new album, The Wedding, just may be its most ambitious undertaking to date. Apparently, Oneida built a large music box out of plywood, marine pilings, and saw blades in an effort to channel the obscure 1960s pop band the Left Banke. “We wondered what the Left Banke would sound like if it were a machine,” Kid Millions explains on the band’s Web site. Such enigmatic questions have served Oneida well over the past eight years. From the hazy drone of the Velvet Underground to the unearthly grandeur heard on Pink Floyd’s Ummagumma, the band is well aware of what its ancestors were up to, and it rightfully steals from them. An Oneida show is a maelstrom of lush string arrangements, haunted organs, hemorrhaging guitars, and — if fans get lucky — Fat Bobby’s musings on his idea for an all-day sausage.