Upcoming events.
Slyne & The Family Stoned with Shirese & Mountain Movers
We’re throwin a banger for Mike Slyne’s birthday! The Fam is back with New Haven’s Mountain Movers and they’re bringing the incredible Shirese, a band that we’ve been eyeing for a while now!
SLYNE & THE FAMILY STONED
slyne leads a group of punks and freaks and lovers and misfits
they try and make a glorious racket
SHIRESE
Shirese is the brainchild of Matt Paolillo and Jack Gumkowski. The band has undergone a few changes over the years but has truly meshed in recent times with Bill Davidge, Nicholas Serrambana, Logan Carr and Seany Nuelle in the lineup.
Shirese takes cues from their New Haven contemporaries, but their brand of psychedelia is more directly inspired by the late 60s garage bands who moved into unchartered waters. Far more dedicated to the song than, say, Headroom, but with plenty of eerie and swirling lysergic moments nonetheless. The band doesn’t shy away from the spoken word either, with word-salad-stream-of-conscious poetics given as much real estate as catchy melodies.
Shirese also allow their most experimental tendencies to roam free while never losing sight of what they are; a rock band. Out of phase tape manipulation and harsh noise find their places on the record, and why wouldn’t they, given Paolillo and Nuelle’s heavy roots in that arena. But somehow they always find their way back to the true core of Shirese - hard rocking on their own goddamn terms.
MOUNTAIN MOVERS
Watching the Mountain Movers' progression over the course of the past decade has truly been a treat. Their earliest beginnings saw the band documenting Dan Greene’s vast catalog of songs, while displaying a rotating cast of New Haven musicians’ unique skills. The band produced three albums and several singles of polished indie rock in this incarnation.
However, their fourth album, 2010’s Apple Mountain, saw the band transition to stranger territory; home-recorded and employing an arsenal of miscellaneous instruments, the record bore a folk-psychedelic element not displayed on their previous work. Shortly after Apple Mountain, constant members Greene and Rick Omonte were joined by lead guitarist Kryssi Battalene and drummer Ross Menze to form, what is now, the band's longest running lineup. The band has since produced a series of singles, lathe-cuts, cassettes, 2015’s Death Magic; an album that melded Greene’s song writing with the bands ability to stretch out and improvise.
In 2016, they previewed the "Sunday Drive / No Plans" cassingle (recorded at former drummer John Miller’s home studio), giving us - the listener - the first glimpse into the Movers’ newest modes. Two instrumental improvisations clocking in at just under 20 minutes that bring to mind names like Neu! and Ash Ra Tempel, as much as they do any number of American psychedelic acts of the 1960’s.
The band's sixth, eponymous album, Mountain Movers (released May 2017 on Chicago's Trouble In Mind), is bookended by two long-form jams with three perfect, crystalline pop songs sandwiched in between, mirroring both aspects of the band & representing the most fully realized recorded representation of the band's live show to date.
St. Patrick's Parade Day!
Join us for an all day St. Patrick’s Day Party and the New London St. Patrick’s Day Parade!
We’ll have drink specials, irish stouts, jello shots and much more! We’re right on the parade route, so grab a drink during and after the parade!
Parade starts at noon.
We’re open at noon and go til 1am.
Xénos with Adapter Adapter
Are you ready to get a little heavy? Two outstanding live acts with shades of psych, doom and heavy blues will perform here at the O!
XÉNOS
Xénos is an experimental Cretan folk group that merges the traditional songs & modern sounds of Crete. If you haven’t experienced this band yet, do yourself a favor and see them live!
ADAPTER ADAPTER
Adapter Adapter is a stoner/doom/blues band based in Providence, RI and we’re excited for their return to the Oasis!
Doors: 8pm
Show: 9pm
Cover: $10 at the door (cash + credit accepted)
March Sadness: Live Band Emo Karaoke
CAN YOU PREDICT THE FINAL FOUR???
Tell All Your Friends is back at THE OASIS PUB for the second round of MARCH SADNESS! Get ready for another epic night of LIVE pop punk and emo karaoke where YOU get to be our lead singer!!
Keep your eyes and ears open for the pre-show signup list, and snag your fav song before someone else gets it!
8:00pm doors / 9:00pm start
If you’d like to sing, we have released song selection tickets for $10 (plus service fees). Just select the “I Want To Sing!” ticket when you click the link below.
Tickets:
$10 advanced general admission
$10 song selection tickets (plus service fees)
$15 at the door
Fleet w/ Christopher Listorti Project
FLEET
Fleet is an Indie rock band with elements of blues and funk from Southeastern CT. Established in 2016, the band’s unique, funky sound has attracted lovers of music from all walks of life across New England. In 2019 Fleet beat out 15 other bands over the course of a five-week battle to win Mohegan Sun’s Locals Live contest. The band is currently finishing up their 3rd record.
CHRISTOPHER LISTORTI PROJECT
The Chris Listorti Project is a group comprised of friends Glen Metcalfe (Oberon Rose, Airlooms, Book II) on drums, Hollis Dunlap (Twin Laughter, Good God) on guitar, Mike Pace on bass, and Christopher Listorti (Oberon Rose, Twin Laughter, Call it Arson) on guitar and vocals. The band's sound is reminiscent of bands like Pavement, Wilco, Lou Reed, and Elliott Smith.
9pm start. $10 cover. 21+
Pocket Vinyl w/ Kingston Kane
Come see Pocket Vinyl perform their fantastic piano/painting show, followed by a reading from their book and discussion on how they did their world record tour, followed by a Q&A and signing.
POCKET VINYL
Elizabeth Jancewicz and Eric Stevenson are Pocket Vinyl, a duo consisting of piano slamming (Eric) and live painting (Elizabeth). A new painting is made on stage during each show, and auctioned off afterwards to the audience. They've played over 1000 shows, released over a hundred songs, made the documentary film Drive. Play. Sleep., and created the popular webcomic “The Touring Test”.
In their new graphic novel “How To Completely Lose Your Mind”, they detail a 2019 tour where they attempted to break the world record for “Fastest to Play a Concert in Each of the 50 States.” It's an amazing adventure that portrays the highs and lows of touring as an unknown indie band, and gives insightful advice on how to start an indie band and destroy your own mental health as well.
KINGSTON KANE
Kingston Kane is a 4-piece rock group from the New Windsor, NY area. They sport an ever changing sound, most recently landing in the hard rock, grunge and psych genres.
9pm start. $10 cover. 21+
Bassment 13th Anniversary Party
The Bassment reunion show was so wild, the boys want to run it back!
New London's longest-running EDM night returns to the Oasis for their 13th Anniversary Party!
DJ A-Bomb kicks off the party!
8pm. $10 cover. 21+
Oasis New Year's Eve 2024
It's a New Year's Eve party, with a mystical twist.
Yes, Chumzilla will be spinning. There will be drink specials. But this year, we have Pixie here to give you your own personalized 2024 forecast! And, there's no extra charge!
Open at 7pm. Early drink specials from 7-10pm. $7 cover. 21+ obvi.
Sea Shanty Night!
It’s a night full of sea shanties with Rogue March and The Jovial Crew!
Rogue March is a band that sings rebel songs of Ireland and the sea.
The Jovial Crew is best known as the band behind the popular Sea Shanty night at The Griswold Inn.
This is going to be a blast!
9:00pm start • $10 cover (cash or credit)
SCARYOKE V: Live Band Emo Karaoke
Come one, come all, to New London's most sinister ritual hall. Tell All Your Friends shall spawn once again to resurrect the annual un-dead L I V E ! EMO and POP PUNK karaoke gathering!
+get there early to reserve your r e q u i e m request
+imbibe c r e e p y cocktails and potent potions
+sing your J E T b l a c k hearts out ALL DAMN NIGHT
+dress to D E P R E S S
+celebrate life, cause you can sleep when you're D E A D
*PRESHOW signups are predicted to appear at the bewitching hour on the fourteenth*
8:00pm signups / 9:00pm start
Presale: Song selection tickets available for $10 plus service fees
Door: $10 with RSVP, $15 without RSVP
DJ Mark Little
Describing himself as a “sonic storyteller,” music producer and DJ Mark Little has his distinctive sound, staying true to his preferred genre of sampling and working with old school hip-hop and low-fi beats.
Mark considers skateboarding to be a big part of his life, and some of the music he enjoys today came from watching skate videos. As a child, he also loved listening to the Tony Hawk Pro Skater soundtracks.
In the 7th grade, he realized he wanted to make music when he first started listening to rap. He discovered his favorite artists, whose music he describes as being "mind-blowing" such as J Dilla, Madlib, MF DOOM, to name a few. Mark says Madlib is his biggest inspiration and loves how he collaborates with other artists such as MF DOOM, Freddie Gibbs, and Lootpack.
9:30pm start / $5 cover
Oasis Silent Disco!
The Oasis tradition returns!
A Chumzilla dance party that pumps through the speakers early and then transfers to your headphones in the middle of the night! The only way to keep the party going is reserving your own pair of headphones.
You can purchase tickets with your credit card online or stop in to the Oasis if you want to use cash.
Each ticket covers one person's entry fee and reserves one set of headphones. You can buy multiple tickets to reserve multiple headphones. There's a limited amount of headphones, so reserve them early!
9:00pm start / $12 includes cover and headphone reservation
Terror Pigeon! with Slyne & The Fam Stoned
Costumes. Pillow fights. Parachute games. Stuffed animals. Black lights. Dance parties in the street.
No, this isn’t the best sleepover ever. This is Terror Pigeon, the indie dance project of Nashville, TN’s Neil Fridd. Terror Pigeon has put on some of the most memorable shows in the history of the Oasis. Picture it, dance songs about friendship in front of a DIY stage set (inflatables sometimes included), with costumes for everyone to dress up in, strobing light rigs that are actually attached to the audience, a parachute game that ends in a dance party under said parachute… it’s a moment in time to let everything go and just fucking party.
Come to think of it, this is basically the best sleepover ever. You just won’t want to sleep.
Slyne & The Fam Stoned open the show. They’re not doing a super long set, so get here by 9pm to see them!
“The Nashville weirdo party collective (formerly known as Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt!) sent us their forthcoming album Live It Up Before You Die It Up! We listened to their song “Girl” and instantly replayed it 1,400 times in a row. It is so goddamn catchy and anthemic, but with absolutely no song structure whatsoever. It sounds like they snipped out pieces of eight different half-finished songs and mashed them all together until they kinda fit (but not really). So prepare to go through a wide range of emotions on “Girl,” all of which wind down to one ultimate conclusion: party.” -Noisey/Vice Magazine
$10 cover. 21+. Starts at 9pm on the dot. People got work in the morning.
A Former Friend
With a sound that was born in Arizona and raised in Kentucky, A Former Friend uses the grand tradition of American songwriting to speak truth to power in the age of the apocalypse.
Garcia Peoples with Slyne & The Family Stoned
The Oasis & The Telegraph are proud to present a huge show with cosmic indie jam band Garcia Peoples (as seen at Bonnaroo and on tour with Dinosaur Jr., Meat Puppets & Tinariwen) & New London's own psychedelic folk-punk outfit Slyne & The Family Stoned!
Doors @ 8pm. Show @ 9pm. $10 presale / $15 door
GARCIA PEOPLES
Though the "Garcia" in the name of New Jersey cosmic indie jam band Garcia Peoples isn't an implicit reference, it's clear that the band has spent some time listening to Jerry & co.'s deeper catalog. Starting in the late 2010s, the band took notes from a canon of classic acid-washed searchers, including pillars like the Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers and Canned Heat, but also wove the influence of less-championed acts like NRBQ into their unique update on psychedelic sprawl. Prone to frequent collaboration and a rapid-fire approach to recording new material, the band releases both live documents and studio albums like 2022's Dodging Dues at a prolific clip.
Garcia Peoples formed in Rutherford, New Jersey and originally consisted of guitarist/vocalists Tom Malach and Danny Arakaki, drummer Cesar Arakaki, and bassist Derek Spaldo. The band quickly developed a style informed by '60s and '70s jam bands both renowned and obscure. They played often in the Brooklyn club scene, connecting with like-minded bands and gaining a reputation for their electric live show, which often stretched out into ambling psychedelic improvisations. In 2017, they expanded to include keyboardist P.G. Six (also a member of similarly jammy Wet Tuna) and began work on a proper debut album, which arrived in the form of Cosmic Cash, released in the summer of 2018 on the Beyond Beyond Is Beyond label. They returned less than a year later in March 2019 with their follow-up LP, Natural Facts.
Never slowing, the band toured and performed constantly and continued their prolific streak of album releases with third album One Step Behind in October of 2019, featuring a guest performance from Malach's father Bob, a studio saxophonist who'd played with everyone from Miles Davis to Madonna. One Step Behind was also the first release from the band to feature two new members, bassist Andy Cush and keyboardist Pat Gubler, with Spaldo shifting his duties to a more multi-instrumental role. This new six-piece lineup cruised into 2020 with several live releases, including the cassette-only 10-10-19 Live at Nublu NYC, and Peoples Motel Band, a document of a concert where Garcia Peoples joined Philadelphia guitar journeyman Chris Forsyth for a collaborative on-stage exploration.
In October of 2020, the band offered up a new studio recording with their fourth proper album, Nightcap at Wit's End. The album showed a shift in approach yet again, moving from the extended jamming of their live shows and One Step Behind toward more detailed compositions with 12 relatively compact songs. Fifth studio set Dodging Dues arrived in January of 2022. The album was produced by Matt Sweeney and saw the band expanding their range with songwriting and lead vocal contributions from newer members Cush and Gubler.
SLYNE & THE FAMILY STONED
A ramble of rousers. A pack of pickled peons. A band of beautiful bums.
Slyne & The Family Stoned has always been a rock in the river: steadfast as the water cuts over and around it, not an obstacle but a welcome change of pace.
Community with individual identity, the embrace of rock n roll with bright squeals of stringed cacophony, videos steeped in nostalgia as the band plays on in front of the screen almost melding together as one.
The experience is the medium. The medium is compassion.
The Fam Stoned is ~groovy groovy yeehaw~
Pocket Vinyl w/ The Eighty Six Seas
Piano slam pop & paint plus a little orchestral folk pop for your mid-winter listening pleasure. come check out Connecticut's Pocket Vinyl and Brooklyn's The Eighty Six Seas at Oasis.
POCKET VINYL
The Basics about Pocket Vinyl:
-Eric Stevenson slams on the piano and sings while Elizabeth Jancewicz paints on stage (Jay & Tim complete the full band)
-The songs are mainly about death, sexuality, silence, uncertainty, and defiant hope.
-They've made many comics, records, and a film, and played over 1000 shows, and they have no plans to stop
Enjoy whatever you may find.
THE EIGHTY SIX SEAS
The Eighty Six Seas is the moniker of Brooklyn-based Nick Stevens who crafts sharp thematic folk pop in the vein of Belle and Sebastian, The Magnetic Fields and David Gray.
Stevens was studying at the University of Connecticut when he first started crafting songs, finding his footing as a solo folk artist and later cutting his teeth with indie rock collective The Condescending Foxes. After seven years living in Boston, he moved to Brooklyn - a location that exposed him to a smörgåsbord of musical sounds and styles including baroque pop and electronica.
Famous New London Drop w/ DJ Frank Lo
Frank Lo is on the 1s and 2s and dropping some new Famous New London gear.
Number One Babe w/ Brian Gore & The Tender Fritters
Number One Babe are back with a killer new collection of tunes under the belt from the recently self-released 'ecstatic function'. They are joined by New London's own Brian Gore and The Tender Fritters.
Llama Tsunami w/ TimeVan
Dark Ska Rising....or, yeah, something a whole lot more fun that that. Come get your horny groove on with Llama Tsunami! Special guests TimeVan to kick things off!
LLAMA TSUNAMI
Mixing rock instruments with a full horn section and delivering an enthusiastic live performance, Llama Tsunami is proud to be a ska band. Fans of Reel Big Fish, Streetlight Manifesto, and Save Ferris will delight in this CT band’s catchy horn riffs and danceable, rocking energy. Inspiring sing-alongs since 2008, Llama Tsunami has developed a strong fan base and encouraged a revitalization of ska music in their area.
With no intention of fading away, Llama Tsunami is looking forward to an eventful year. On May 12, they released their newest EP, "Don't Judge a Band by its Cover." Immediately thereafter, production began on their first full-length release since their debut album. While the lighthearted approach to songwriting featured on Get Serious endures in the spirit of the new material, the upcoming album will reflect the growth that the band has experienced through the years.
The title of the 2010 debut album Get Serious expresses the necessity for dedication, but also pokes fun at those who take themselves too seriously. It was this dedication tempered by a upbeat attitude and strong sense of humor that propelled Llama Tsunami to first place in the 2011 Shure Give It Voice contest, earning them a RedGorilla Fest performance in Austin, TX during SXSW. After that initial success, the band was recognized at other events, taking second place in the 2012 Mohegan Sun Rooftop Rockoff and the WXIN Rock Hunt.
Through various trials, line up changes, and other challenges, Llama Tsunami has emerged stronger and turns its attention to the future. With new material in the works and plans for travel, the band will continue to carve out its niche as a driving force in the ska scene today. As the band says:
“We play ska. Some people don’t like that because apparently ska isn’t fun anymore. We beg to differ.”
TIMEVAN
A power-house, alt-rock band that is making waves in the Eastern CT area. TimeVan has become known for music that is both infectiously catchy and hard hitting.
The members of TimeVan continue to navigate haphazardly through life and review the aftermath through their music. With as much angst as they can muster, they carry with them that 90's and early 2000's sound into the modern day.
Nova One w/ Number One Babe (full band)
NOVA ONE
Providence-based artist Roz Raskin records and performs as NOVA ONE, examining queerness, femininity, and gender with utter grace through a gorgeously moody ‘60s-inspired pop lens. The 2018 debut EP secret princess introduced Raskin’s musical project as a creative reimagining of both ‘60s girl groups and the lush, effects-heavy haze of dream pop. The follow-up, 2020’s bold and impeccably produced lovable, sparkles with introspective lyricism and tender balladry. Live shows feature Roz and their band in elaborate and iconic drag costuming in an homage to the strength of femininity displayed by girl groups past and present.
NUMBER ONE BABE
Number One Babe is the recording project of Zachary Alexander Cholewa, known professionally as Alex Cholewa. Alex is a singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist with a long history in the New England music scene under the Westerly, Rhode Island hailed band Sydney's Armour. Number One Babe sinks its roots into folk, indie rock, and psychedelia. This time around Number One Babe brings a full band experience!
Tell All Your Friends: Live Emo/Pop-Punk Karaoke
Come one, come all, to New London's most sinister ritual hall. Tell All Your Friends shall spawn once again at THE OASIS PUB to resurrect the annual un-dead L I V E ! EMO and POP PUNK karaoke gathering!
+get there early to reserve your r e q u i e m request
+imbibe c r e e p y cocktails and potent potions
+sing your J E T b l a c k hearts out ALL DAMN NIGHT
+dress to D E P R E S S
+celebrate life, cause you can sleep when you're D E A D
*PRESHOW signups are predicted to appear at the bewitching hour on the fifteenth*
The Huntress And Holder Of Hands with Wildflower & Pete Bernhard (of The Devil Makes Three)
The Huntress And Holder Of Hands
The Huntress and Holder of Hands is the project of Brown Bird’s MorganEve Swain. It is a 5-musician entity, employing cello, bowed string bass, electric bass and drums with MorganEve primarily on five-string viola and guitar. As a band, The Huntress and Holder of Hands builds harmony, strings and bass-driven pieces influenced by Post-Metal, Blues and Americana and offers an intense musical and lyrical experience that explores love, loss, power and strength.
Wildflower
Made up of five close friends, Wildflower performs the songs with a simple and powerful collective warmth. Having honed their sound and deepened their friendship playing up and down the coast of Maine and across the country, every instrument and melody is given space and love. Recorded by Seth Manchester at Machines with Magnets in the Summer of 2020, “The Ocean Rose” recalls the early 70’s fragility of Neil Young with its focus on openness and live performances. Kacey Johansing and Michael Nau provide beautiful backing vocals to complete the sound.
Pete Bernhard
Pete Bernhard is the main singer and songwriter for the band The Devil Makes Three. After Covid 19 put a hold on the bands touring schedule Pete started exploring playing solo and released a record on Kahn Records, the label owned and operated by The Devil Makes Three.
The Problem With Kids Today with Peäsänt
We’re so excited to bring you two new CT rock’n’roll bands to feast on this Thanksgiving weekend! Do yourself a favor and check out these two new amazing bands and catch them live here at the Oasis!
Doors at 8:30pm / Show at 9:00pm / $8 cover / 21+
THE PROBLEM WITH KIDS TODAY
Rock n Roll delinquents. Hot shit rising from a tool shed in Branford.
The Problem with Kids Today is an up-and-coming Connecticut trio with Tate Brooks leading the charge on guitar/vox/mic head-butting, Stone-Cold-Silas Lourenco-Lang on low end bass/vox, and Reena Yu pounding on drums. TPWKT’s fun, wild shows and feverish, fashionable following evoke the Mercer Center Arts era of the New York Dolls. Fast, combustible, lewd and spontaneous – they have all the gems of a fantastic live act. With a debut album recorded at Sans Serif Studio in New Haven on the way this winter, teaser tracks like “You’re in Love With Junk” and “Fly Boy” can be found on the band’s Bandcamp site as well as major streaming platforms.
PEÄSÄNT
“Frederic Kaiser — vocalist and guitarist of Peasant… Paul de la Reza on guitar, Tony Mascolo on bass and vocals, and Kyle Austin on drums, kept the music hard and incited even more dancing, jumping, and screaming along, with Kaiser wandering out into the audience a couple of times as well to get further into the action.
“I love everybody in this room,” Kaiser said at one point, and the love was returned again and again during the set. Songs like “Sam’s Sheriff” and “People Kill Me” — which Mascolo said was his favorite — smacked every alt-rock punk-pop button repeatedly. By the time the set was over, everyone had one more favorite new band to follow.” - New Haven Independent
Thanksgiving Night Pie-A-Palooza
A Thanksgiving night tradition! Being open 365 days a year means we’re also open on Thanksgiving night! After dealing with the family this Thanksgiving, come to the Oasis, bring some leftover pie, have some drinks and eat other pies that people bring! There’s no cover and bringing pie is not required.
DJ Frank Lo Post-Disco Party
Join us on Thanksgiving Eve for sounds by DJ Frank Lo, who is playing a set of classic and underground post-disco records.
In the aftermath of the late 70s backlash against disco music, an underground movement of disco music, which was simultaneously "stripped-down" and featured "radically different sounds, took place on the east coast that "was neither disco and neither R&B.” This scene, known as post-disco, catering to New York’s metropolitan area, was initially led by urban contemporary artists partially in response to the over-commercialization and artistic downfall of disco culture.