I received an email on Parts and Labor yesterday and spent the next hour or so looking for everything I could find by this Brooklyn group. They remind me of a cross between The Minutemen, Mars Volta, and Thunderbirds Are Now! and come highly recommended by Veritas Lux Mea.
Parts & Labor is Brooklyn's latest brilliant noise band. Having returned from thoroughly melting the minds of most of Europe, Parts & Labor now have their sonic assault trained squarely on a new set of domestic live dates. They have already taken out New York with a blistering set to close out Brahloween at CMJ this past weekend, and will soon be visiting a venue near you. Their album "Stay Afraid" was released jointly on Jagjaguwar and Brah Records earlier this year and the band currently has a second album in the works slotted for release in the first half of 2007.
11/10/06 Middletown, CT - Eclectic Society at Phi Nu Theta
11/28/06 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's
11/29/06 Asheville, NC - Static Age Records
12/01/06 New Orleans, LA - One Eyed Jacks
12/02/06 Houston, TX - Proletariat w/ Ume + Skullening
12/03/06 Austin, TX - Emo's w/ Ume + Camp X-Ray
12/04/06 Denton, TX - Rubber Gloves
12/05/06 Lawrence, KS - Bottleneck w/ Legendary Terrordactyls + So Many Dynamos
12/06/06 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
12/07/06 Cleveland, OH - The Church w/ Clan of the Cave Bear
12/08/06 Pittsburgh, PA - Gooski's
Parts and Labor - "A Great Divide"
Parts and Labor - "Voltage"
Parts and Labor - "The Endless Air Show"
Parts and Labor - "Parts and Labor"