Garage rock veterans Parquet Courts will look to celebrate their 10th anniversary as a band next month with a virtual performance dubbed On Time at Brooklyn, NY’s Pioneer Works scheduled to air live on Thursday, December 10th. Additionally, the band has shared a previously-unreleased single, “Hey Bug”, from their 2013 recording session for Sunbathing Animal Session.
The band, which usually rings in the holiday season with a performance in New York City, will also treat viewers to archive concert footage, new interviews, and exclusive merch available only to ticket buyers. The event will begin at 10 p.m. ET, and will remain available to rewatch for up to 48 hours following the performance. This concert will commemorate Parquet Court’s first-ever concert, held at Monster Island on December 17th, 2010.
The band added with this week’s announcement, “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.”
Along with the announcement came a “new” song, “Hey Bug”. The tune, which came from the sessions for their sophomore album, features the classically-jittery side of the band’s sound. As frontman Andrew Savage (stylized as A. Savage) delivers lyrics at a breakneck pace, the instrumentation tries its best to keep up. After about 90-seconds, the song winds down with heavily distorted guitar solo that ramps things up to a frenzy just before closing out the tune.
Savage said of the song in a press release,
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. 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).
Click here for virtual ticket info along with a showcase of the exclusive merch that will be available as part of the event. Watch a trailer for On Time below, and listen to “Hey Bug”.
Parquet Courts – “Hey Bug”
Parquet Courts – On Time (Trailer)
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