OASIS Fan Blog

Opening Friday

Absecon , 6 to 9 p.m. Aug. 4 at Pitney Road Sports Complex. Call 609-641-0667, ext. 213. Egg Harbor Township, 6 to 9 p.m. Aug. 4. Volunteers needed, call 609-926-4097.

What you oughta know about Oneida, Brooklyn’s finest (and most robustly prolific, extravagantly aliased, and relentlessly propulsive) art-rock band, is that they just put out Rated O , the second in a long-threatened “triptych” of releases, spaced out by a year or so and collectively, infor…

In which we extract ourselves from the city and be sent along a path lined with bottles, vomit, sunshine, beautiful people, shrieking riff-raff, Bluejuice to Bloc Party and (most) everyone in between.

To convince his fellow McDonald’s brethren to keep their drive-through windows open 24 hours, Randy Conn was something of an apostle. The owner of eight McDonald’s outlets, including five in the Southland, the Homewood resident has been doing the all-night thing since spring of 2006. At the time, about 75 of the roughly 500 McDonald’s in the Chicago area were doing likewise. “They deemed me …

If the ‘Reverend’ Jon McClure is to be believed, then A French Kiss In The Chaos , Reverend And The Makers ‘ second album, will also serve as their swansong.

Pictureplane [Mohawk; 8:15 p.m.] Pictureplane reminds me of that time in high school in the mid-1990s when all the punks I knew suddenly turned into ravers.

World fusion is entering the next stage in the jazz idiom—one in which the geographical scope expands, both in the music and on the bandstand.

“Rock and roll is commitment. Rock and roll is passion and spirit,” said Mick Fleetwood in 1995 in the History of Rock and Roll. Commitment, passion and spirit filled the basement of Currier’s Music World on Sunday afternoon as two young rock bands, Parental Advisory and Separate, electrified the air while rehearsing for an upcoming show.Led by Currier’s employees, Samuel Kruer and Jeremy …

Oasis brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher have been warring on popular social networking site Twitter.