Iggy Pop, Descendents and Parquet Courts top the bill for the first Destination Chaos festival, which will take place Jan. 28-Feb. 4 at the Senator Resort on Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic. Tickets for what’s described as “all-inclusive week of music, comedy, booze, culinary madness and tropical debauchery” go on sale Saturday (Aug. 20). […]
A pair of rappers pulling off the best Tom Tom Club sample since Mariah Carey’s “Fantasy” (G Perico & Rucci), an iconic New Wave band trafficking in tongue-in-cheek nostalgia (Duran Duran), a blackgaze act embracing their love of vocal harmony (Deafheaven), and psych-rockers using the shopping mall as a metaphor for capitalist greed (My Morning […]
Parquet Courts channel the Animals as a punk band on their new song “Homo Sapien.” [embedded content][embedded content] Off their upcoming Sympathy for Life, out October 22, “Homo Sapien” shoots off like a bullet, as lead singer Andrew Savage gives a near monotone, humor-filled rant on human evolution. “The spice we died to trade / […]
After teasing some new material earlier this year, Parquet Courts are officially back. The group announced their first album in three years, Sympathy for Life, which they say is inspired by New York clubs, Primal Scream and Pink Floyd. “Most of the songs were created by taking long improvisations and moulding them through our own editing,” […]
The New York post-punk outfit Parquet Courts have announced a line of new tour dates in an upcoming North American tour starting Aug. 14 at White Eagle Hall in Jersey City, NJ and concluding next March at the Agora Theatre in Cleveland. Tickets go on sale this Wednesday at 9 am EST here. All tour […]
The Woodsist Festival returns to Arrowood Farms in Accord, New York Sept. 25 and 26 and will be filled with rock bands from all over. Headliners include new additions Yo La Tengo and Parquet Courts alongside mainstays Kurt Vile, Kevin Morby and Woods. Tickets are available now here. Options vary for general admission (GA) two-day tickets, GA […]