Vot's this? It's Video Vriday! Here's the thrilling conclusion to Parenthetical Girls ' four-part video series, shot by Into the Woods. (See Parts 1 , 2 , and 3 .) Each clip takes the band to an off-the-beaten-path location in the Portland area, and this one sees them roving the (impressively huge) catacombs at Archery Summit winery in Dayton, Oregon. I'd dismiss this as a transparent attempt for Parenthetical Girls to try to score some free wine, but the remarkable setting speaks for itself. I'd go see a band perform there in [...]

Parenthetical Girls: Privilege - When venturing into the realm of experimental music, things can go really right or terribly wrong very fast. Luckily, the latest album from Parenthetical Girls , Privilege , is the perfect example of an experiment gone right. Every element of the album comes together to spawn something that is guaranteed to be unlike anything you've heard before. It is unique, skillfully crafted, and compelling. This is the fourth album from the group which now calls Portland home. Privilege is the end result of a continuous project in which the band released [...]

Tipps für eine Woche voller besserer Musik. Diese Woche mit einem Blues-Beau und Freunden in Genf. Montag, 6. Mai 2013 Barn Owl's sphärische Klanggewebe wären perfekt für den Soundtrack eines langsamen Psycho-Thriller. Jon Porras und Evan Caminiti wissen mit ihrem «Doom Dub» die richtigen Texturen zu spinnen und laden am Montag im Fri-Son zu ihrem Drone-Set. Dienstag, 7. Mai 2013 Schöftland wirbt mit dem Slogan "Auch die Schweiz [...]

photos by Kyle Johnson and Dave Lichterman Minneapolis band Poliça released their single "Tiff" from their upcoming album, and the song features Bon Iver's Justin Vernon . The track a synth pop dream - darkly lit by the echos of Vernon's voice in the background. [ Pitchfork ] When James Blake isn't working at James Blake, he does remixes as Harmonix - and he dropped a beautiful echo [...]
It wouldn't be Vriday without some vrideos! First up is a video for the opening track of Novosti 's excellent new record Love & Lashes , which will see its release tomorrow night at the Doug Fir, when the band opens for Just People and Violet Isle as part of the Soul'd Out Music Festival. You can read a little bit more about Novosti in this week's paper, but this clip for "Drown" was assembled from 8mm footage that family friends of Jov Novosti compiled over several years. [...]

i Parenthetical Girls saranno in Italia tra una settimana, per sei date da non perdere - il loro nuovo album Privilege è uscito a Febbraio per Slender Means Society oltreoceano, e per Splendour in Europa a Marzo: 18 Osimo (An) @ Loop 19 Roma @ Circolo degli Artisti (+ The Courteneers) 20 Vasto (Ch) @ Beat Café 21 Carpi (Mo) @ Mattatoio 24 Pistoia @ Teatro Manzoni 27 Padova @ Macello

Their set featured: Curtains Entitlements Evelyn McHale Sympathy For Spastics Enjoy the full playback here. Follow Parenthetical Girls on Twitter. Purchase Parenthetical Girls items via Insound. MP3: Parenthetical Girls - Rejoice! Rejoice!

The Empty Bottle hosted a night of art pop gems on Saturday March 30th, featuring two local one-man acts, Jimmy Whispers and Advance Base , and touring band Parenthetical Girls as headliners. It was a show made up of charming frontmen, couples hand-holding, and dark songs that made smiles. Up first was Chicago’s Jimmy Whispers , main man of Light Pollution , performing as a solo project. Insistent upon enlivening the sparse crowd, Whispers started his set with some pushups and a gap-toothed grin. A [...]

The Antlers are the sort of band that find themeslves being remixed quite reguarly, but today they've decided to sit in the production chair in an attempt to rearrange 'Curtains' by Parenthetical Girls . The industrial quality of the original has been replaced with a dreamy edge, which is in part due to the prominence placed on the female vocal, but mainly the time reversal backbone, which adds a lucid quality to the track. Listen below. [via Stereogum ]

Nick Cave returns to Seattle with The Bad Seeds... but without the mustache photo by Kyle Johnson What a fantastic time of the year for shows in Seattle! As the weather heats up, so does the frequency of shows it seems. With just about something for everyone this week, we start off on Monday night with yet another great evening with Mudhoney , this time at Easy Street Records. Jamie Lidell, Empress Of, and Ludwig Persik are at Neumos and Talib Kweli and The Physics are performing at [...]
Last year the skewed-pop group Parenthetical Girls released the airy single Curtains, registering as what the Cars' "Who's Gonna Take You Home" was produced by Brian Eno. Fellow off-kilter beauty merchants the Antlers got their hands on it for a remix, and their slightly more populist streak shines in this version, which wrangles the female vocal from the original's final minute and builds it into the track's lead. It's pretty either way you slice it, and thanks to this blog post, you do not have to choose. Parenthetical Girls, Antlers, anon: Read More...
Last year the skewed-pop group Parenthetical Girls released the airy single Curtains, registering as what the Cars' "Who's Gonna Take You Home" was produced by Brian Eno. Fellow off-kilter beauty merchants the Antlers got their hands on it for a remix, and their slightly more populist streak shines in this version, which wrangles the female vocal from the original's final minute and builds it into the track's lead. It's pretty either way you slice it, and thanks to this blog post, you do not have to choose. Parenthetical Girls, Antlers, anon: Read More... [...]
Pacific Northwestern experimental group Parenthetical Girls have garnered quite the attention since the release of Privilege (Slender Means Society/Marriage) in mid-February. The band recently made a video for album track "A Note To Self," and it's a contemporary take on '60s and '70s performance art. Get wrapped up in lipstick kisses and candle-hats by watching the [...]

Che il talento dei Parenthetical Girls fosse di per sé evidente, ne aveva già ampiamente dato prova il riuscitissimo Entanglements nel 2008. Già allora, infatti, il femmineo Zac Pennington era riuscito ad eliminare, con sufficiente manleva, quella idiosincrasia che l’indie-rock contrappone spesso al folk procace, mescolandovi tra l’altro, ora le strane architetture dell’epos-wave, ancora un certo pop spurio di facile presa. Sulla scia di quell’amena, quanto caparbia, produzione, le “ ragazze parentetiche ” danno così alla luce The Privilege , quarto disco “ abridged ” della serie di 5 mini ep rilasciati [...]

photos by Amanda Hatfield ; words by Bill Pearis While Parenthetical Girls make some good records -- like this year's Privilege -- it almost seems incidental to the live show where main Girl Zac Pennington holds court in fine, foppish form. Glasslands on Monday (3/25) was the first of two NYC shows for the Portland art rockers, part of their tour that included a stay in Austin for SXSW (including one [...]

Despite technical difficulties, which led to Yohsuke Araki canning his acoustic guitar, The Interest Group put on an electrifying psych-pop set. May Cote gave the quintet's performance a delicate branding with her fluttery vox, while PhilaMOCA projected tie-dye backdrops to visualize the band's dreamlike presence. Following The Interest Group were The So So Glos, who had the whole crowd pogoing to their punk rock-inspired anthems. (BTW: There is no need to tell us again that the members of the band run Brooklyn DIY space Shea Stadium - we know! ;o) Portland, Oregon's Parenthetical Girls closed the evening with [...]

The Interest Group has gone through a bit of a lineup change since they first took the stage last year with May Cote taking over vocal duties from Marissa Lessnick. However, frontman Yohsuke Araki continues to keep the psych-pop train on its rails as they pull into PhilaMOCA tonight. The Interest Group will be opening for Portland, Oregon experimental pop quartet Parenthetical Girls, who are on tour in support of their new release Privilege (Abridged) , and Brooklyn indie rock outfit The So So Glos, who are on their way back home from SXSW. Don't miss out on [...]
The internet is a crazy place. You can find anything through a search. You can find an abandoned riverboat with a decaying dining room, or an Oregon winery that's also part volcano. At least that was the Parenthetical Girls' experience. The avant-pop group teamed up with Pacific Northwest production company Into The Woods to film ... Continue reading
Finally, it's over. After over a 100 bands, 100 beers, a few tacos, we're back to the daily grind. The beast that is SXSW is officially behind us now, so we'll be spending a bit of time highlighting our own individual thoughts on the festival. We're not trying to inundate you with the next big thing, we just want to recap what we caught. I'm on first! Best Bands: Wax Idols dominated their set at Red 7 for the ForceField PR Party. Sure, the bassist [...]
SXSW is officially and unofficially over. Right now, I am sitt ing in a corner of Starbucks trying to have a mental recap of everything that has happened in the past few days--yes, still in Austin. I figured why not write about this during my last hours here, but also because as a homeless roamer in Texas, my friends left for the airport and I don''t have another place to go until my flight at 5pm. Looking outside the glass window, 6th street and Congress seems pretty clean the day after St. Patrick's and the locals walking [...]