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Thursday, December 10, 2020

McMenamins Crystal Ballroom Presents

Parquet Courts

7 pm | 48 Hour Rebroadcast

$12 Early Bird / $15

All ages welcome

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Parquet Courts

Parquet Courts

Parquet Courts have been praised as one of the decade's essential bands. Over the years, they've released five acclaimed studio albums, countless EPs and singles, and played over a thousand shows. Their influence reverberates not only through New York City's music scene, but far beyond our shores. Lyrically, their songs have revealed a desperately prescient quality, as narratives of isolation, climate catastrophe, technological dependence, and police brutality pepper their body of work and have materialized years later in some of this decade's darker moments. Yet through this all, the band's positive calls to action continue to invigorate audiences to fight through their malaise and to find it within themselves to move. It's this polarity of cause and response, inventive action spurred by repulsed reaction, that led writer Lindsay Zoladz to call them "one of the most vital rock bands working today" in her Slate column at the end of 2018.

Today, the band announces "On Time," a concert livestream and retrospective in celebration of the 10th anniversary of their first show. The show, filmed live at Brooklyn's Pioneer Works, will air on December 10th, commemorating their first show ever, which took place at Monster Island on December 17th, 2010. It will feature rare archival footage, new interviews, exclusive merch available only to ticket buyers, and much more. The band adds: "Ten years ago our adventure began by playing our first show to virtually no one, and to celebrate we've decided to play a show to everyone, virtually." Purchase advance tickets here.

In conjunction, Parquet Courts unveil the classically jittery "Hey Bug," a previously unreleased track that came from "Sunbathing Animal" LP session.

"If I remember correctly, it would have been recorded at Seaside Lounge in Brooklyn, during the fall of 2013. We were working there with our pal Jonathan Schenke, who had recorded Light Up Gold, but this time in a studio rather than a practice space," says A. Savage. "We'd have been recording material for "Tally All the Things That You Broke" and Sunbathing Animal. Editing the sequence for a record is often a tough process, and when it's over it's typically such a relief that I'll purge it from my memory entirely. And now I'm listening to ‘Hey Bug' these seven years later and thinking what a cool song it is. That period was a frenzy of writing and I know it's not the only unreleased song from that session. So here you are, our lone musical contribution in the year 2020: ‘Hey Bug' (recorded 2013)."

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