Joshua Bright

Kid Millions is juggling a shitload of action. The drummer extraordinaire just played another epic gig this past weekend with Oneida, the psych-rock jamming savants he's anchored since 1997. Man Forever, the bohemian collective of shape shifters he's united to realize his percussive-based spiritual vision, releases Pansophical Cataract (Thrill Jockey) this week; the group is also making killer videos and even throwing a hilarious, but dead serious, contest where you can actually be a member, at least for one performance.

Sound of the City caught up with a glorious bevy of Kid Millions' Man Forever collabbers and friends in honor of the new record, and tomorrow night's gig at (Le) Poisson Rouge). (Kid himself is absent; on the day the Voice and he were supposed to spiel, he experienced the misfortune of dropping his phone in the toilet at WFMU. Read our June 2011 interview with him here.)

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Infinite Loop Opening Reception, with music by Man Forever and People of the North
Secret Project Robot
Saturday, January 14

Better than: Any venue without free pinball.

Infinite Loop, the month-long art show by Val Britton and John Colpitts that opened at Secret Project Robot's new location in Bushwick on Saturday, comes with the eternal promise of combining image and music. It also comes with fresh accoutrements for the venerable art space, in the slow process of rebuilding since its autumn relocation. They now have a stage, for starters. They have white-painted walls. Perhaps soon to grow thick with layer, for now they represent something like a flag-planting: the symbolic arrival of virgin gallery surfaces to Melrose Street. They also have a pinball machine (Bally's Medusa, 1981) with a bowl of quarters, a cool cut-away bar that opens into the gallery, a rocking chair, and set-break music provided by a single turntable.

Britton's map-evoking art, hung on the walls and in a light jungle from the ceiling, recalls ghost-coasts, ambiently dotted topographical details, and off-chart-pointing paper-slits. Colpitts, the Oneida drummer who usually flies under the name Kid Millions, anchored two bands and three sets of perfect accompaniment to Britton's abstractions. There was wine and cheese and cupcakes, but Colpitts's two bands, Man Forever and People of the North, almost overwhelmed Britton's delicate dream-maps. At least at first. While Oneida continues to set up their new recording studio in Secret Project Robot's new rear, Millions has plugged on with his numerous projects; People of the North's Steep Formations comes out on Brah in February, while Man Forever's Thrill Jockey debut is scheduled for a May release.

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This just in from the Twitter of Greg Fox: There'll be a benefit for Occupy Wall Street this next Sunday (October 23) at Shea Stadium starring his psych project Guardian Alien, Oneida drummer Kid Millions' outfit Man Forever, Notekillers, and Mountains member Koen Holtkamp. The show starts at 8 p.m. and the money collected will go to the Occupy Wall Street kitchen; the flyer (from which the Bloomberg photochop at left is taken) below.

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Apparently it got a little sweaty. Pics by Jesse Hlebo.

Man Forever
Issue Project Room
Friday, June 25

Say "drummer's solo project" and conflicting sounds come to mind--Foo Fighters, "Sussudio," Peter Criss, Charlie Watts' Charlie Parker project--with few of them ever meditating exclusively on the drum itself. Conversely, when Oneida's indefatigable Kid Millions (a/k/a John Colpitts) dropped his self-titled debut as Man Forever on the Secretly Canadian vinyl-only St. Ives label this month, its two side-long tracks provided drums aplenty.

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