In the dreary dregs of the first week of the year, on the Monday night when the reality of a full work week has sunken in (along with your eyes), an early contender for concert of the year will transpire at Cafe Bourbon Street.
Frankly, an all-local lineup starring the lo-fi “pop” triad of Connections, Psychedelic Horseshit and WVWhite would be sufficient grounds for excitement, but none of those bands is even headlining. So what’s got them gathering on a school night?
That’d be Parquet Courts, a Brooklyn-based, Texas-bred post-punk combo that taps common record nerd sweet spots — Mission of Burma, Devo, Sonic Youth, any band with a motorik pulse — with uncommon grace. 2012 LP Light Up Gold crams 15 songs and endless ideas into 33 minutes, breezing through a nimble, roughshod, melodious half-hour with breakneck momentum.
It’s a party the way Necropolis shows used to be a party; Monday will be too if we all show up to wild out.
