| Douglas Martin’s Dirty Shoes: The Thawing Dawn of Andrew Savage | October 22, 2017 |
Dirty Shoes returns with a look at A. Savage's solo debut, 'Thawing Dawn.'
Douglas Martin takes a look at the unlikely collaboration between Parquet Courts and Bun B.
Will Schube takes a look at "Berlin Got Blurry," the excellent first single from Parquet Courts' equally great Human Performance.
| Douglas Martin’s Dirty Shoes: Parquet Courts’ Monastic Living | December 2, 2015 |
Why the new Parquet Courts EP fails to live up to the band's high standards.
| Douglas Martin’s Dirty Shoes: The Dirty 30 of 2014 | December 23, 2014 |
Douglas Martin chose thirty great songs for 2014. THIRTY! (c) Danny Brown
| The Top 50 Albums of 2014 (All) | December 12, 2014 |
The Passion of the Weiss staff break down the top albums of 2014 and learn the dangers of teenage steroid abuse.
| Douglas Martin’s Dirty Shoes: The Civil War of Parquet Courts and “Content Nausea” | November 19, 2014 |
Douglas Martin examines the band with more aliases than Method Man, Parquet Courts, and their new album as their pseudonym Parkay Quarts
Will Schube’s grit and determination will start Game 7 for the Kansas City Royals Having seemingly exhausted the pervasive Velvet Underground influence, Parquet Courts have re-invented themselves as Parkay Quarts and are now intent on exploring the sonic multitudes of Bob Dylan. Well, it’s not quite so simple, but the band has never been […]
| Douglas Martin’s Dirty Shoes: Yuppies, Parquet Courts, and the Return of Smarty, Arty (Indie-)Rock | October 14, 2013 |
I. WHATEVER HAPPENED TO INDIE-ROCK? It’s telling that Parquet Courts are routinely described as a “punk” or “punk-influenced” band instead of an indie-rock group, because we’ve rendered the term absolutely useless. We’ve left it for the mainstream types to use the term on groups as disparate as Grizzly Bear and Beach House. Instead, the more […]
| Douglas Martin’s Dirty Shoes: Smoking Sage With Parquet Courts | January 24, 2013 |
Douglas Martin deletes stress like Motrin. Sometimes being young and perpetually stoned offers an edge on writing about life. Sometimes it’s a lot more fun to be older and perpetually stoned (shout out to George Christopher). Being in your twenties and struggling to carve out a satisfying artistic existence between day jobs and blunts is […]
