Parquet Courts - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

[@violoncello42]

Can’t believe this came out 10 years ago. Incredible energy. Still the best live video I’ve ever seen. I think about it on a weekly basis.

[@donnaarmstrong8390]

Agree. Wish I had of been there.

[@pdhow]

This video lives rent free in my head

[@AdamSeanHughes]

Me too.

[@TVplanetclaire]

They filmed in a Bicycle shop. And they made 'Stoned and Starving'. I'm 61 years old, love my rock and this tagged me from a jukebox halfway across a crowded pub in North Wales. Brilliant stuff.

[@cdchalmers]

Rob Crossland Yeah, Bob. Don't forget to crank Sleaford Mods!

[@thehiddenapex]

Here in South Wales at 17 rocking along to these bangers myself too!!

[@tonypizza8571]

Here in Cardiff doing the same!

[@ryanreza9173]

... AND here at a motorcycle repair shop in Los Angeles and
same, cheers!

[@gibbo1968]

where in north wales? its usually a musical wasteland!!!

[@depresionendogena9923]

didn't want to scroll down
00:05 - She's Rolling
05:00 - Master of My Craft
08:13 - Borrowed Time
10:42 - Donuts Only
12:00 - Yr No Stoner
15:42 - Yonder is Closer to the Heart
18:35 - Light Up Gold
20:00 - N. Dakota
23:00 - Stoned & Starving

[@mclovin9165]

Thanks my man 🙏

[@wdamian]

That tight-as-fuck-transition from Master Of My Craft to Borrowed Time. Well done lads.

[@danishpigeon1079]

exactly! also the one at 9:08

[@cassmoore4719]

Holy fuck I love this band. They're young enough to be my kids and they do the most damn exciting live show I've seen since forever. Haven't danced so hard in a mosh pit in decades.

[@kamikazelombardo]

I really love the change from Master of My Craft to Borrowed Time, it's Genious and furious, I love it!!!!

[@amyhaggath1754]

Absolutely amazing isn't it, every time I listen to the transition between master of my craft to borrowed time it always blows my mind. Absolutely iconic.

[@faulsname8869]

This is one of the best live performances I’ve ever seen. Starting with “she’s rolling” was an excellent decision

[@LLOGICC]

Kevin Suggs is one of the best audio engineers on this planet

[@knotwilg3596]

This concert turned me into a PC fan. It's only after a couple of views that I realized how great the shooting and mixing is here. KEXP sets a new standard for live recordings.

[@ryanlindborg3634]

seeing them tomorrow can't wait for the space between master of my craft and borrowed time.

[@alexs5394]

how was the show

[@michaelcore5143]

you know a band's good when ppl say, "you know a band's good when..."

[@KyleCowan4]

This is the best live footage I've ever seen for a show, I feel like I'm watching a scene from a movie

[@ssntf7]

00:05 - She's Rolling
05:00 - Master of My Craft
08:13 - Borrowed Time
10:42 - Donuts Only
12:00 - Yr No Stoner
15:42 - Yonder is Closer to the Heart
18:35 - Light Up Gold
20:00 - N. Dakota
23:00 - Stoned & Starving

[@BIgBass255]

Rock and Roll will never die, awesome set.

[@hippiecheezburger5457]

This has so much essence of what rock and roll is right, like I just wanna blast this so loud

[@BIgBass255]

@@hippiecheezburger5457 I do.....

[@OmisoXX]

That energy is enduring. Solid and potent. Pure rock and roll.

[@rocknroll7412]

Absolutely clean and so punk at the same time. Clean stratocaster, telecaster and mustang bass for a true punk music.

[@toddmcdonald5365]

Been watching this since it was posted... 10-years ago(!?!?!) The energy still gives me chills.

[@billypilgrim1]

same

[@KyleMW321]

Me too

[@TheActiveAssault]

The instant transition from Master My Craft to Borrowed Time is brilliant on the album and live. I suggest everyone hear it.

[@charlottebouyer5288]

even though i love most of every parquet courts' album, i really think this is one of the best Parquet ciurts live

[@kafifa]

The perfect drummer. Just keeps a low profile but is always in the pocket.

[@williamstoloski44]

he is on a separate plane than the other three guys.

[@farneybuster]

I don't even really know what that means, but yeah, i totally agree.

[@jj-eg5up]

It amazing that he can fit his kit in it.

[@reddingofish]

He makes it all work. Without him, they would just be clever.

[@isurvivedy3k]

His tone is just fantastic too

[@EMPOWA]

in love with this band

[@pau8248]

💖💖💖💖💖

[@666benhicks]

And this is why they had one of the best albums of the year....

[@vidarjobb7857]

All their songs are so unique. No other band sounds like them.

[@hippiecheezburger5457]

They’re like the strokes somewhat like a real simplistic garage rock sound butttt with smart lyrics and viewpoints

[@jonobrow]

@@hippiecheezburger5457 Lol, I guess they are a bit like Strokes but I dunno what you drank before writing the rest of that...

[@arch_dornan6066]

@@hippiecheezburger5457 They're a lot smarter than the Strokes, the only thing they have in common is garage-rock and even then they still sound different

[@i.j.p.]

Velvet underground, Can, Faust, Television, Pavement, Modern Lovers

[@alexanderwood3465]

Sand In My Joints by Wire is pretty much Parquet Courts decades before they came onto the scene, there's definitely bits in that song that sound similar to what they can come up with - that being said though I love PC so that's not a bad thing :)

[@hazuinf]

I really like the mixing on this, you can hear at any point any individual instrument but they blend perfectly at the same time.

[@Sound_And_Color]

Props to the 2 guitarists rocking cheapo squier Guitar’s!

[@slayerattack3751]

yeah it’s a total myth that expensive equipment is needed to make good music, squiers are legit

[@trey4857]

@@slayerattack3751 for sure. I have a tele squire and I used to have a Stratocaster before I sold it at a low point in life:( Sure you can tell the difference when playing each one but you can make the same great music with either, as proved by parquet courts here.

[@Skibz]

Whatever it takes

[@lukastaylor9544]

do you know the model of either of their's

[@zacharynewman4852]

@@lukastaylor9544 Affinty Tele for A., Squier Bullet from the 1980s for Austin (which have gone up in price, probably bc of this video)

[@hippiecheezburger5457]

As the years have gone by I’ve just realized how good Parquet Courts really are I mean even when they first started, they have some real rock and roll stuff in them

[@agarcia8881]

Saw these guys in LA this summer and it was the best show I've been to this year!

[@kcatsnave]

this was the performance video that truly enveloped me into this band and every song they wrote from this point onwards

[@scottbartlett4853]

Such an incredible performance. Love their transitions. Fan!

[@EvanWilson502]

They definitely remind me of the band Television. love these guys

[@oakbox12345]

their tones are awesome

[@billypilgrim1]

"I work as a bike delivery boy back in NYC..." The hard truth of being in an indie rock band nowadays.

[@jonnybeag887]

BillyPilgrim lol trust me my bands just finished going round the uk while but still worrying that I’m not gonna make my shift at wlrn

[@emanuelbellanti4308]

yeah, In fact, he distributed drugs in a bicycle

[@lanewhite2025]

The feedback and dueling guitars is flat out top shelf !!

[@jakeharris2038]

Just discovered these guys, they are unbelievable

[@MikeDuttera]

Love the awesome guitar jam at the end!!!

[@ryanlaurence569]

Seeing these guys tonight for the first time. This video brings back great memories. Can't believe it's been this long since Light Up Gold.

[@JoeyJoeJoe1970]

Slays me how good these guys are.

[@vincentribeil3832]

I love this live soooooo much! Can't get enough of these songs.

[@micmac1121]

This band is taking my soul!

[@forestmagic]

saw them live last night and they killed! One of the best shows i've seen. Go see them live if you get the chance you will not regret!

[@andreasregin2249]

Masterpiece 9 Years ago.
And PC's getting better and better.
The sky is the limit

[@jeffjones2021]

Honestly, all the transitions are fantastic; it’s just that the Master of my Craft to Borrowed Time is supremely sublime. Like you are breathing in one song and breathing out the next.

[@jasonwsands1118]

The bass sounds greatttt

[@dedorsey1106]

Spoon-length songs, but even shorter. The shorter the better. My favorite band now after about fifty listenings. Seeing them in Buffalo in June. Haven't looked forward to a concert this much since I saw the Ramones.

[@DoughnutBearings]

SOCRATES DIED IN THA FUCKING GUTTER

[@elliotbell959]

Can I just say, insane "break-up" music, thanks guys you've been top notch for me and my old man for quite sometime now. If only we had, had standing tickets at the roundhouse!
Second hey, he mastered his craft not the videogame.
And the third one they go straight into some of the finest pop punk ever heard.
Peace out dawgs

[@zumasurf682]

This band is giving me flashbacks of 1980, nice!!

[@justinlehr8183]

Saw em last night in Davis CA and it was a damn good show. One of the best indie rock bands out right now!

[@adrianrudd3943]

Uplifting. Been listening to PC on Spotify for a couple of years and found a few minutes to fire up UA-cam on my big TV with the beefy sound bar... Amazing sound & presence of this band. Great location & production. It really feels like you're there... wish I had been and wish I could play guitar too ;)

[@YorkShabby]

Not sure if the crowd is clapping during borrowed time after each stop because it's cool as fuck or if they just don't know the sing.

[@kol2402]

love this band!

[@billymcilvian]

Great job UA-cam, at putting an ad right in the middle of a song.

[@kpeecee]

there isn't anything more annoying than that, I say put it at the end of the song and make us watch the ad, I would sooner put up with that.

[@TexasMist]

For all the haters and jerk-off reviewers slamming this band, please list rock and raw bands that you think are worth listening to

[@creaturefiend3517]

Clickbeetle Fucking truth right here

[@briancox9357]

I love these guys and also Protomartyr

[@junglecats]

This reminds me of Eddy Current Suppression Ring :)

[@fabriccouch]

It is good that you know who Eddy Current is. One of the greatest bands ever to come out of Australia.

[@harryefellows]

One of the coolest rock bands around today? I'd say so.

[@sosurreptitious]

Pretty timeless, best rock band operating today IMO!!!

[@pnoplyr14]

I remember reading about this band, though I could not remember its name. Luckily, I am subscribed to KEXP, the best thing ever.

[@mikemarsten]

Saw these guys in Boston. They were AWESOME.

[@arnaudc7836]

I've never seen such a good band ! More expressive than Black Sabbath, Guns ans Roses, Slipknot...with Squier Guitars !

[@junglesoldier12]

This is amazing

[@gamelanes]

23:00 Stoned And Starving

[@clownnookie]

KEXP and WMMR are two of the best radio station in the world.

[@viniciuslbar]

Damn! Savage is playing a Squier Affinity Tele, that's cool!

[@bsiegel75]

Finally a great band with a big pavement influence,

[@thecursedone6004]

The crowd cheering during the pause in borrowed time lmao

[@EricBergified]

That blend into Borrowed Time is so dope.

[@jt0308]

so many comments from people who have clearly only listened to the first song and base their opinions on that solely.

[@jt0308]

Truman Lee me either, i find it pretty annoying

[@renatomorales7318]

GREAT

[@carterfischer3001]

Lovin the Sonic Youth style chaotic guitars/feedback. These guys are bringin back the real bash-the-fuck-out-of-everything sound…Along with bands like The Oh Sees and Wavves, among others

[@miroporvos]

Good shit. Haven't heard anyone do this in quite a long time.

[@SuspectCorner]

Lotta Texas representing in Parquet Courts... great job, boys!

[@irishgirl81498]

yes, their new music is AMAZING, more polished and on point. but this is just the best.

[@CraigMcDerm0tt]

This band is so ahead of the game right now. Don't sleep on their lyrics either, i.e. "Donuts Only" and "Yonder is Closer to the Heart."

[@Kubooxooki]

That's exactly what I've been marvelling at!!! As soon as I'm done listening, I'm calling my old high school buddies to tell them, "Fuck it, guys. Let's do this. Cheap and hard!"

[@johnnydeutschemark3620]

Who knew a bicycle shop would have decent sound?

[@kamikazelombardo]

+Johnny Deutschemark KEXP enginieers never got the love they deserve.

[@PokeySoggybottom]

Best thing I've heard in some time.

[@DeadWhiteButterflies]

Lead singer looks like a stupidly young Thurston Moore, and that's before hearing the playing. This is like the band I've been waiting for, for years. It's like picking up where Television left off, and I for one wlecome it. There will always be something timeless about trashing a guitar around the place, howling songs about streets, slackers, skinny knees and chubby girlfriends :D

[@johnarcher2844]

they're so arrogant; nobody can master minecraft.

[@carlrs15]

very punny of you

[@bananasandpeaches]

I was thinking the same thing!

[@airanipour]

i hate you

[@enzogarcia1028]

I heard the same thing lol

[@joelmcdonald3658]

damn it, now I can't not hear that

[@_hallblade_]

What a great set, in a bike shop no less.

[@johnnyq1992]

The stops in Borrowed Time had everyone jumping the gun

[@scottpilgrim8164]

reminds me of pavement
cool gaiz luv `em

[@williamjackson1408]

Wait, old man Sidspike, maybe all those are reasons why we like the band! I have listened to that song "Master of my Craft" about 20 times now and I'm not bored yet, haven't even gotten to the lyrics. Generic, non-existent, non-sensical? I'll take it! And what's this about "marketed"?? I had to dig pretty deep to find this band myself. Oh well, maybe they just didn't make this music for you.

[@robertwolfe8327]

There's not a song on Light Up Gold that doesn't hit you in the face with meaning, provided you can wrap your head around the way the songwriting interlaces the lyrics with the music. They draw so many Pavement comparisons because of that (and lazy fucking music journalists), but musically they're a much tighter, punchier group.
All these people throwing out "non-sensical" as a descriptor for these guys, it's just lazy listening. That, and the band is frankly too smart for the average crowd these days. People don't even have the attention span to listen to a two and a half minute song. How many texts do you think were sent in this half-hour by that crowd alone? How many utterly worthless videos were people recording on their phone, never mind that no one will ever watch it, not even themselves? The SXSW crowd is perfectly emblematic of that. They can't even intuit the false-stops on Borrowed Time.
Now look up the lyrics to N Dakota, for instance, and tell me that's not a great song for the mood of these times, especially for the younger folks who are going to have clean up this mess or get swallowed by it. "Train death paintings / anti-meth murals / color the ghettos / of N Dakota." This song is a lament for what once was, and the playful cynic's way of processing what actually is, and somewhere in there is the acknowledgement that none of it was ever any good at all anyways. "Cigarette ad / vertisement country / wild and perfect / but lacking something." That's a subtle jab at the way our culture totally manipulates how we see the most basic and essential of things, nature. The whole song's just about how dirty and shameful and egregiously shitty everything has become, and how we're just fine with it. "Serf population too high to tally" is about our sad reality; haves and have-nots. If you're in debt, or if you're working some shit job you can't care less about just to have a place to sleep, guess what, you're just a modern day serf.
I don't know, really. But I think the notion that these guys are just mad-libbing this shit is kind of ridiculous. Borrowed Time is about waking up from whatever daze you're in - drugs, booze, love, laziness, whatever - and realizing you need to do something. But you still haven't done it. I could go on but I've already made enough of a fool of myself already.
It's silly to me that people are halfway dismissing these guys with labels like "slacker" or "non-sensical" - who the fuck are these people? Whoever manages to put together the heaping pile of shit that is a music journalist's portfolio. At this point it's a blog and some record reviews in your college newspaper. Parquet Courts are too smart for their audience so the audience associates its own laziness with the band. Hopefully they keep on chooglin', because the music is good enough to stand on its own, and the writing, well, the writing's important.

[@bennyshambles]

Robert Wolfe I completely agree with you and everything you wrote. The Pavement comparisons make no sense whatsoever. Pavement relied alternate tunings, sarcasm, sloppiness, irony, non-sequitors, and healthy appreciation of The Fall to make their music; on the other hand, Parquet Courts use minimal and standard instrumentation, thoughtful and frustrated lyrics, repetition, and sincerity to make theirs. If anything, they seem more akin to Tyvek and older bands like The Feelies, Urinals/100 Flowers, Modern Lovers, The Velvet Underground, etc. Yes, there's may be an appreciation of The Fall in the music and vocals, but the lyrics/vocals are also Minutemen-like in a workingman's art kind of way. I know most music nerds can play spot the band influence and it is lazy music criticism. Ultimately, Parquet Courts have a pretty unique and straightforward brew that is far from being lazy.

[@robertwolfe8327]

Benjamin White
Holy shit! The Feelies... Yeah, they're definitely keeping to a certain NY tradition. Which is refreshing in a way, there's been so much genrefication in the Brooklyn scene (is every band's songs written by Beach Fossils?), it's nice to see some real back-to-basics if the basics are executed well and originally. I think the backlash to these guys is only coming now that they are kind of being hyped by the machine (I heard about them from Pitchfork to be honest, but where else was I going to hear about 'em? I live in the southwest...). Fair enough, but at least give them a listen. I think it was a newer track that they reviewed. Usually I just check for stuff I know, but something in me clicked that link to Instant Disassembly and I realized this was something genuine.
I think they're a real punk band in a time where a real punk band gets called "hipster" or "marketed garbage." And these are people who jam out to shit like Mumford and Sons nine out of ten times. The times we live in...

[@Thndrstrike]

+Robert Wolfe You should type in all those meaning on Genius (a lyrics website where you can click on lyrics to see meanings/interpretations of lyrics). The Parquet Courts lyrics are severely lacking in meaning because they aren't popular :-(

[@tomtrevaskis9505]

Damn right. Quality is insane.

[@viafirenze]

Super Banda!! Congratulations from Mexiko!!

[@adrian14752]

Very very good set wow

[@guitaroplayer]

Amazing

[@letoatreide5739]

unbelievable !

[@sonicpierre]

Great band!!!!

[@Suitedup1111]

This is really well shot. I mean like really good. I feel like I'm there and something more.

[@cruelrecords7045]

One of the best bands around... that sound, i can hear influences from Fugazi and some BJM maybe... Hope you'll play in Italy soon !

[@svenolley]

contageous! love it.

[@zardrobot]

Oh fuck yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. first time ive heard these fellows. Now I need more..............

[@Jammess95]

so so so soooo gooood

[@hazuinf]

That Yr No Stoner intro is great

[@Wrguitar941]

melodic treble chaos all seems to work we salute you allways been a fan of cheap guitars i have real ones too

[@WheresPoochie]

The bassist is tight.

[@Ciaran101able]

Banging... Seen them play as support a couple months ago in London ( the 2 solo gigs had sold out ), I felt like the only person in the gig who knew their songs. Great stuff , yes like everything else today , they are derivative , but are a couple steps sideways from their influences and I'm really digging it. That said the first track (unreleased) reminds me of Blur circa 1990 way too much.

[@yasudagong]

カッコいい！！！ありがとう～

[@shayanmehri5690]

man, these guys are so fucking cool

[@Samodrei]

haha i love when audiences get tripped up by false stops

[@derpizzaman1050]

after all these years i still come back to this video, sometimes just to laugh at them clapping in between pauses

[@Samodrei]

@@derpizzaman1050 fuckin goofs