Here at VICE, we love logrolling. If you work here, and you're in a band, your project is virtually guaranteed to be incubated in our hot, sticky embrace and transformed into the next BoDeans.Case in point: Parquet Courts. This group of young rabble rousers features Motherboard editor Sean Yeaton on the bass guitar. He asked if we'd spotlight his band, and we said yes. We asked if he'd sent us some words to go along with it, so he sent us a snappy little graf about milk. Listen to this band.The older you are, the weirder you seem if you're still drinking milk. When you're a kid, it's all about milk and growing those bones but by the time you're a grown up, you're drinking milk alone in the dark, unsure as to why; maybe feeling some shame. I work in the office, where the servers providing room for an mp3 on this website exist; I'm friends with some of the people who manipulate the hypothetical knobs -- the invisible levers -- that shoot lightning through the endless umbilicus of the Internet to bring you the tiny words you're reading now. I've asked them in real life if they'd play music by my band on their website and they've said yes to me. Does that make me spoiled? Does that enlist me in some kind of absurd Machiavellian campaign to draw more attention to my work than to someone else's? It does. It absolutely does. It's all for rock and roll though. Which I know you all can appreciate.Anyway, this song is called "Stoned and Starving;" my band is called Parquet Courts; our new record is called Light Up Gold; It's coming out on the label, Dull Tools; we're playing a record release show on Saturday, August 18th at Death By Audio in Brooklyn. Please come!
You can pick up Parquet Court's new record right here.