OXES are an instrumental rock band from Baltimore, Maryland. Its music has been called math rock or post-punk, though it does not subscribe to any genre.
Its members are part of what is known as "The Baltimore Rowdy Collective" which stages practical jokes, usually involving a confrontational and outlandish racket in public places. In all of the band's early performances, guitarists Marc Miller and Natalio Fowler both stood on large black boxes (or pedestals) towering over the audiences, a nod to the superiority complexes of rock bands.