New Yorker PARQUET COURTS is a punk band. Hard to say anything else. OK, compared to Total Punk Records style punk bands they rather play pop music. Their influnces come from Velvet Underground, Ramones and Talking Heads, but I also hear The Fall and even Country Teasers in their music. I remember their first album was a big revelation for me. There the sound was more punk than on the next ones. Fortunately, unlike many others they don’t write the same record year by year. And now with the new album WIDE AWAKE we arrived to New Orelans:

Brand new releases of great little record label
WHARF CAT RECORDS (US, NY, Brooklyn)

PALBERTA is Ani, Nina, and Lily. I strongly agree with they say about their music: „You wanna wabbada? Wap wap wap dabbada? You see that mabada? ding ding dack dabbada?” New album Bye Bye Berta.

HOLY MOTORS from Estonia. When I listened to them first I thought this song could be in a David Lynch film. But Jim Jarmusch was who lent their music for his film Mystery Train. 7″ single.

CARSON COX, SAM YORK & AUSTIN BROWN: Cox from new wave pop band Merchandise, York from raw rock band WALL and Brown from indie punk band Parquet Courts make disco music. 7″ single.

TROPICAL SKIN BYRDS, no wave punk trio with ZZ Ramirez (Ukiah Drag, Destruction Unit), Sean Halpin (CRAOW) and artist Nina Hartmann. EP.

SNAKEHOLE, noise rock hc-punk duo under the influences of w33d & $A+aN. Debut album Interludes of Insanity.

UROCHROMES, a duo with drum machine. Influences: Chrome, Butthole Surfers, Scratch Acid, Flipper, Flesh Eaters, Stick Men With Ray Guns. EP with a fine new wave disco remix.

NY punk band PARQUET COURTS with Texan rapper BUN B (ex-UGK), who one time planned a book „Hip Hop Survival Guide” with journalist and illustrator Shea Serrano, but finally they rather made a rap coloring book. So maybe Bun B has been drawn by his mate:

Captive Of The Sun ft. BUN B out now on limited edition 12” via Rough Trade.

The original track is on PARQUET COURTS’ latest album Human Performance.

In the lyrics there is a phrase: misophonia. It means literally „hatred of sound.” It is a condition in which negative emotions, thoughts, and physical reactions are triggered by specific sounds. One study found that around 80% of the sounds were related to the mouth as eating, chewving, yawning and etc.

Singer Andy Savage said

As I see it, humanity is something that’s partly performed and party instinctual. Like puppets, we sometimes are controlled by parts of ourselves that we never really become acquainted with, but are always there. This song is me confronting that shadow

BRAND NEW VIDEO by PARQUET COURTS. Directed by Phil Collins

ALBUM HUMAN PERFORMANCE OUT ON ROUGH TRADE

LISTEN TO 2nd ALBUM ON BANDCAMP

TOUR AUG IN US / OCT IN EUROPE

Rock? Yes. Indie? Absolutely. Punk? Of course. Parquet Courts is a punk band, but an Exploited fan spits on it. The music of Content Nausea album is a mix of Velvet Underground and Fall under pseudonym of Parkay Quarts. It’s a Parquet Courts’ side project.

on What’s Your Rupture Records? (US). In Europe it’s available on Rough Trade (UK)

Parkay Quarts Euro Tour in Nov

New Yorker punks Parquet Courts is coming back under a little different name with a little different style: Parkay Quarts

„Content Nausea” album with Nancy Sinatra and 12th Floor Elevator covers
on What’s Your Rupture (US) on Nov 11th Digitally and Dec 2nd on CD/LP

Parquet Courts on RNR666

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At 12 he found a camera and started taking photographs. 17: bought a synthesizer in order to make music for his images. 23: Laurent Garnier bought a car from Mr. Oizo‘s father, and there was a cassette…  Do you remember him? Yes or no, this was his first hit in 1999.

The Church album on Brainfeeder Records (US)

Mr. Oizo (Quentin Dupieux) also is a film director. In his first movie (Rubber) a tire comes to life and kills people, and so on…

Among the best new punk bands:

Parquet Courts – Sunbathing Animals

taken from the album on the same name on What’s Your Rupture?/Mom+Pop (US), Rough Trade (UK/EU) in June. Order here      Euro Tour June-July

Parquet Courts Soundcloud

PARQUET COURTS

“’90s slacker heroes”
“punk vigor and slacker looseness”
“these boys are old-school slackers”
“typical laid-back NY-slacker manner”

Sunbathing Animal

from the new album „Sunbathing Animal” on What’s Your Rupture?/Mom+Pop (US), Rough Trade (UK/EU) in June. Order here      Euro Tour June-July     Parquet Courts Soundcloud

The Parquet Courts are among the most interesting garage punk bands. You Got Me Wonderin’ Now

from Tally All The Things That You Broke EP by What’s Your Rupture?

2006. Two Japanese meet in London and form the Bo Ningen. Give only one show where the audience to force them to cease music. 2007. One of them meets another Japanese. Big happiness. They play music for 10 hours per day. Finally the drummer is coming towards them. Psychedelic hard rock and roll, or Zeni Geva light:

 Line The Wall LP by Stolen Recordings

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Parquet Courts have been making great garage punk rock music since 2010. Their first LP was a big surprise. This EP is sometimes Fall- and Country Teaser-like folky punk rock’n’roll, and hip hop:

EP by What’s Your Rupture?

European Dates Oct 14-31
Ireland, Holland, Danmark, Germany, Belgium, Italy, France, UK

The singer/guitarist Andrew Savage is member of Fergus and Geronimo. It is the first recorded musical manifestation of space funk paranoia. He is Fergus. Geronimo’s other band is the minimal electro new wave Future Punx