01.01.10: The East Bay Express suggests that Oakland Minor is "a nearly perfect rock album." Read it for yourself here.
And we're still working on new material in private. Trust us - it's better this way. More shows likely in March or so.
09.10.09: The tour was great fun. Generalissimo is incredible. More on all of this in the Story So Far section. Video of the whole event will be forthcoming.
There probably won't be any shows for a while. We're busy working on the next record.
06.06.09: Review of Oakland Minor in The Big Take-Over #64. Read on...
06.06.09: New site up.
Ovipositor is an ongoing experiment in groove versus disonance. Colin Frangos plays the guitar and does most of the singing. Mark Pino plays the drums and does some of the singing. Max Sidman plays the bass.
We’ve been compared to Pere Ubu, The Fall, MX-80, and Mission of Burma, amongst others. We’ve been called punk, although who really knows what that means anymore? And anyway I don't remember the summer of punk because I was too busy playing with my GI Joe.
We are not pretty, we are not young, we are not sexy, we are not charismatic, we are not hip, we are not your friends. Please enjoy the music.
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