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While the band retained its use of the large black boxes and [[Shure|wireless guitars]], its later shows were marked by less showmanship. However they still maintain their audacious and silly stage presence. |
While the band retained its use of the large black boxes and [[Shure|wireless guitars]], its later shows were marked by less showmanship. However they still maintain their audacious and silly stage presence. |
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== The 'Oxes/Arab on Radar split' 10" == |
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Prior to the release of their eight-track album "Oxxxes" in [[2002]], the band put out a [[10"]] [[record]], billed as a split-EP between Oxes and [[Arab on Radar]]. The A-side of the record was performed by Oxes. The B side was, again, Oxes - this time impersonating (fairly convincingly) [[Arab on Radar]], acquaintances of former. The unusual idea alledgely came about during practice sessions for the record, whereupon Oxes happened to write some songs bearing aural-similarity to [[Arab on Radar]], subsequently recording and releasing the [[record]] as an Oxes/Arab on Radar [[Split record|split]], unbeknownst to the latter band. |
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== The Old Navy T-Shirt == |
== The Old Navy T-Shirt == |
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Revision as of 14:09, 20 June 2006
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| Background information | |
| Years active | 1999 – Present |
| Members | Marc Miller Natalio Fowler Christopher Freeland |
OXES are a Baltimore instrumental rock band. It's members are part of what's known as "the Baltimore Rowdy Collective" who stage practical jokes usually involving a confrontational and outlandish racket in public places. These happenings are comparable to the Lettrist Scandals.
Their music has been called math rock or post punk but they havent been known to subscribe to any genre. However all of their recordings and shows are instrumental.
In all of the bands early performances Marc Miller (guitar), Natalio Fowler (guitar) both stood on large black boxes (or pedestals) towering over the audiences (a nod to the superiority complexes of rock bands). The guitarists would occasionally step down from the boxes to walk into the audience and stand in front of individuals in the crowd (while still playing) attempting to make the them feel uncomfortable. This was later aided by the much self-publicised acquisition of wireless guitars. Christopher Freeland (drums) would intermittenly get up from his set and barge around the stage, mumbling incoherent babble, only to sit back down and lunge into another song.
While the band retained its use of the large black boxes and wireless guitars, its later shows were marked by less showmanship. However they still maintain their audacious and silly stage presence.
The 'Oxes/Arab on Radar split' 10"
Prior to the release of their eight-track album "Oxxxes" in 2002, the band put out a 10" record, billed as a split-EP between Oxes and Arab on Radar. The A-side of the record was performed by Oxes. The B side was, again, Oxes - this time impersonating (fairly convincingly) Arab on Radar, acquaintances of former. The unusual idea alledgely came about during practice sessions for the record, whereupon Oxes happened to write some songs bearing aural-similarity to Arab on Radar, subsequently recording and releasing the record as an Oxes/Arab on Radar split, unbeknownst to the latter band.
The Old Navy T-Shirt
In Spring of 2006 the clothing company Old Navy released a T-shirt baring the image of a flier for one of the bands previous shows. There was no official word on wether or not the band or Monitor records endorsed this, however as of May 2006, both OXES and Monitor's Myspace pages, bore an anti-Old Navy picture.
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