PARQUET COURTS
Though no one worries about it much in an era when indie rock bands routinely jump to major labels and continue on with their integrity intact, there was a time not too terribly long ago when a band’s decision to sign to a label with deeper pockets was greeted with trepidation. Give a band more time, money, and comfort, the theory goes, and you risk fundamentally changing the context in which those artists created their art. For Parquet Courts, that risk came when they left the tiny What’s Your Rupture? label and
