On a recent session the NPR show World Cafe, the excellently twitchy New York-via-Texas indie band Parquet Courts started things off with "Light Up Gold," the title track from their late-2012 debut…   Read Story »

Primavera Sound Festival took place over multiple days in Barcelona last week, hosting acts including Blur, My Bloody Valentine, the Knife, Phoenix, the Postal Service, the Breeders, and many more.…   Read Story »

Last year, Brooklyn-via-Texas post-punk 4-piece Parquet Courts released an excellent record, Light Up Gold, via Dull Tools. (We were big fans.) Earlier this year, the band did some touring through…   Read Story »

Our SXSW 2013 coverage continues below, with Rhye, Autre Ne Veut, Savages, Pissed Jeans, Solange, Parquet Courts, and so many other bands you may or may not care about. Only one way to know for sure!…   Read Story »

Last fall we shared Parquet Courts' "Borrowed Time" and the title track from their album Light Up Gold. Now the band is releasing "Borrowed Time" as a 7" with two brand new b-sides. Check out one of…   Read Story »

Parquet Courts brought Light Up Gold to life with a short but solid set at Portland's Bunk Bar Friday night. "Stoned And Starving" turned into a long jam, with dueling, sloppy solos; other highlights…   Read Story »

Late last year, the Brooklyn-via-Texas band Parquet Courts released Light Up Gold, a ridiculously fun debut album of energetically spidery jitter-punk. Today, that album gets a wider release. So…   Read Story »

Parquet Courts are a breath of fresh air, and their Light Up Gold was one of the best, most relatively slept-on records of 2012. (It did claw its way onto our Top 50 list, thankfully.) In posting the…   Read Story »

Guys, it's Friday, and there are used plates with smeared cake-frosting laying around, with empty booze bottles accumulating on our desks and a general pall of whiskey fumes hanging over the office.…   Read Story »

In a move atypical for blog culture, we are defying content-farm expiration dates in order to premiere an MP3 from an album that's already released. CAN YOU BELIEVE IT. This is the way it always…   Read Story »