Best New Bands » Parquet Courts https://www.bestnewbands.com News, Reviews and Interviews Wed, 07 Feb 2018 02:08:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 Parquet Courts Brings The Heat https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/parquet-courts-brings-heat/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/parquet-courts-brings-heat/#comments Mon, 15 Aug 2016 22:21:14 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=32440 Brooklyn – Let’s talk about the heat. And no, that’s not in reference to the fiery passion Parquet Courts brought to the stage at Market Hotel on Saturday, August 13th (though there was that). No, that’s about the literal heat, made even warmer by the packed crowd who showed up at the sold out show to see the

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]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/parquet-courts-brings-heat/feed/ 0 Parquet Courts’ ‘Human Performance’ Tells It Like It Is https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/parquet-courts-human-performance/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/parquet-courts-human-performance/#comments Thu, 14 Apr 2016 06:58:47 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=30067 San Francisco – Success is a double-edged sword, as are many of the aspects that seem to fuel it. When it comes to music, there are several struggles an artist or band must face to decide their next move: analog vs. digital, consistency vs. reinvention, accessibility vs. experimentation, genre vs. post-genre… these are just a few examples of

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]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/new-bands-lollapalooza/feed/ 4 Album Review: Parquet Courts – Sunbathing Animals https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-parquet-courts-sunbathing-animals/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-parquet-courts-sunbathing-animals/#comments Tue, 03 Jun 2014 02:11:56 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/wp_bnb/?p=17273 Portland – Last March Parquet Courts cheekily posted a list on their blog that catalogued the myriad references to them as “slackers” in the press. Fifty-two entries in all, the quotes range from endearing (“the sort of bed-headed slackers you’d meet at a 90’s college party”) to paradoxical (“Brown and Savage might be slackers by

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  3. Kurt Vile, The Men and Parquet Courts Highlight The 4Knots Festival Such a perfect day, I’m glad I spent it at 4Knots Music Festival. The weather was gorgeous, as was the backdrop, the music was ace, the people were congenial, and there was never a dull moment. There were two stages,...
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