Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher Parenthetical Girls at Glasslands on 12.1.11 (via Jonathan Graves) Parenthetical Girls recently kicked off an east coast tour which brought the band to the NYC-area three times so far, for a Glasslands show (pictured above), an early... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Jherek Bischoff As mentioned, the Ecstatic Music Festival kicks off on February 4 at Merkin Concert Hall with Jherek Bischoff, who plays with Parenthetical Girls and The Dead Science. He's teaming up with Wordless Music Orchestra and an incredible li... more info

Impose Magazine — Kate Bush just released her tenth studio album, 50 Words For Snow, and there are few people outside of the 1980s UK that love Kate Bush more than Parenthetical Girls' Zac Pennington. The Portland group began recording in 2003 and have three album... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher Parenthetical Girls at Cake Shop in 2008 (more by Kyle Dean Reinford) Parenthetical Girls released the fourth installment of their 5-part Privilege EP series, Privilege, pt. IV: Sympathy For Spastics on November 1. Like the other EPs... more info

Said the Gramophone — Parenthetical Girls - "Sympathy For Spastics" You need to hang up your rain coat after you get home from walking in the rain. If you don't, it will develop an odourous thin slime in the folds and places where... more info

Said the Gramophone — Parenthetical Girls - "Don't Give Up" (Kate Bush/Peter Gabriel cover) "They're killing us," he said, tears in his eyes. Out the window, smoke rose in plumes like the earth were a leaking balloon. Pictures rattled off the wall, in... more info

Music For Ants — The “lyrics video” is one of the most popular and oldest forms of music videos, going as far back as Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues”, widely considered to be one of the first music videos ever. Since it’s been done so many times... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Extra Life Extra Life and Parenthetical Girls are releasing a tour-only split 12" in support of an upcoming West Coast run together. The run is part of Extra Life's tour with Sam Mickens (The Dead Science, Xiu Xiu) that ends... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Fans of Portland, Ore., chamber-pop experimentalists Parenthetical Girls know that the band has a flair for the theatrical. The quintet’s 2008 “Entanglements” full-length was a wildly ambitious swirl of hyper-literacy, orchestral grandeur and i... more info

Impose Magazine — It's sort of hard to argue with anything that sounds like Jeff Lynne and/or Marc Bolan, but this handclapping anthem by Brooklyn's Lavalier is pretty damned infectious because it has the proper balance of pop sensibility and weird. Maybe lik... more info