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City: Portland
State: Oregon
Country: US
Signup Date: 12/22/2006

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Tuesday, December 01, 2009 

Category: Music
 

So it's come to this: one more Christmas. Let it be known that no one was more disappointed with last year's conspicuous absence of a Parenthetical Girls Christmas release than Parenthetical Girls themselves—if only because we were alone in noticing. Allow us to quietly atone with this year's entry in the Parenthetical Girls Christmas Archives: The Christmas Creep single. Our Double-A-Side Christmas Gift To You: 

 "Thank God It's Not Christmas"—Inspired by two discreet stone classics from the Mael's bloated back catalogue, our rendition of Kimono My House's resolutely anti-holiday anthem attempts to shoehorn the song into the style latter-day Sparks records—specifically, 1983's In Outer Space. We didn't say it was a good idea. 

"Flowers For Albion"—A cheery original about the Christmas Blitz of 1940. 

Furthermore, we're pressing an extremely limited run of 7"s for the occasion this year, primarily as Christmas gifts for our friends and family (surprise, everyone!)—but we've decided to release a scant number of them publicly (150, specifically) to help defray some of the production costs. You're more than welcome to just download the tracks above for free of course, but in the event that you might want to own a little piece of the magic, here's the deal: The record will be housed in a fancy, letter-pressed sleeve handprinted by Zac, and will shipped just as soon as we get the vinyl back from the plant—on approximately December 15th... (hopefully) just in time for Christmas. Pre-order below to ensure that you get a copy before they inevitably sell out. Because Christmas is nothing without commerce.


Territories


Happiest of Holidays, (((GRRRLS)))
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009 

 


Please do visit our newly renovated website www.parentheticalgirls.com for a first taste of two imminent releases—our Morrissey split with Xiu Xiu, and The Scottish Play, our tribute to the genius of Ivor Cutler.

Thank you, Parenthetical Girls.
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Saturday, August 08, 2009 
On the evening of Sunday, August 2, four members of Rachael's immediate family were involved in a fatal car accident while traveling home from their annual family reunion. Her father and two brothers were rushed to an intensive care facility, and are now in the early stages of their recovery. Tragically, Rachael's mother Kris Jensen, passed away. Rose-hued and grief-sick hyperbole aside, Kris Jensen was without hesitation one of the most impossibly kind, thoughtful, beautiful, faithful, and self-less people I have ever had the privilege to know. The joy and exuberance with which Kris Jensen greeted her life and those whom it touched was something that I could almost scarcely imagine, and something that will be sorely missed by the countless people Kris had an immediate impact upon. This is the worst thing imaginable. Beyond grief however, there are some practical matters to attend to--and I'm happy to distract myself with the illusion that there is some progress to be made in a situation like this. The accident and its medical aftermath will leave the Jensen family with a tremendous financial burden--one that we hope to help relieve. With the help of the folks in YACHT and AU, I'm presently organizing what I hope proves to be a series of benefit concerts to assist the Jensen family with their financial strain. The first of these concerts will take place in Portland on August 25th at Holocene (thank you so much, Holocene!), and will feature Yacht, Au, Copy, and May Ling ($5-$15, sliding scale). The show will also feature an Art and Service Auction as organized by the extremely talent Sarah Meadows. There is also a plan for a benefit at the Flying M in the Jensen clan's hometown of Nampa, ID--set to feature AU and Boise indie pop linchpin (and Rachael's brother's band) The Very Most--on the 29th of August. More benefits to come, I'm assured. All proceeds from the shows and auction will benefit the Kris Jensen Memorial Fund, a trust organized to assist the surviving members of the Jensen family with the mounting financial strain of their medical care. For those unable to attend, contributions to the fund can also be made via Paypal by clicking on the following link:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=7478451

All contributions are gratefully appreciated. Thanks also to our good friends in Los Campesinos!--Kris' favorite band-- who have graciously offered to turn their August 21st performance at the El Rey Theater in Los Angeles into a benefit for the family. On behalf of the Jensen family, thank you all so much for your assistance and support during this difficult time. It really means a lot to them. gratefully yours, Zac Pennington Parenthetical Girls
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Monday, April 20, 2009 

Current mood:  confused


The good folks at Daytrotter have seen fit to bestow us with the honor of their 4/20 session for 2009. I can't think of a more deserving group than ours. Wait, no... what? Truth be told, this session was recorded a little over six months ago--on my birthday, to be exact--and features some of the "rock band" arrangements of the Entanglements songs we've been limping around on for the past year or so. We hope you enjoy them.

Downloadable Yonder.

yours in spirit and body,
Zac.
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Friday, March 06, 2009 

Current mood:ill-prepared.
Our website has a crack in it, and won't allow me to update. Bad timing.

I have a difficult time accounting for myself of late. I know that I've been working on things lately, but they're all in seemingly unquantifiable states. I blame the promise of escape. I blame this tour:



PARENTHETICAL GIRLS/NO KIDS WEST COAST TOURING DEBACLE, SPRING 2009.*

MARCH

12 Seattle - Sunset Tavern

13 Portland - Backspace (ALL AGES)

14 Boise - Record Exchange (In Store, ALL AGES)

14 Boise - Neurolux

15 Salt Lake City - Kilby Court (ALL AGES)

16 Denver - Hi Dive w/Starfucker (16+)

18 Austin - SXSW: Tomlab/K/Asthmatic Kitty SXSW Showcase @ Beauty Bar w/Casiotone, Jeremy Jay, etc.

19 Austin - SXSW: twosyllable/I Guess I'm Floating Party @ Scholz Garden w/Women, Bell, Evangelicals, etc.

20 Austin - SXSW: Onion A/V Party @ Radio Room w/Trail Of Dead, Ra Ra Riot, The Thermals, Future Of The Left, etc (4 pm)

20 Austin - SXSW: After The Jump Unofficial House Party @ 1204 Salina St. w/Superdrag, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Nite Jewel, etc (8 pm)

21 Austin - SXSW

22 Austin - SXSW

23 Phoenix - Stinkweeds (ALL AGES

24 San Diego - Bar Pink

25 Los Angeles - Spaceland

26 Irvine - UC Irvine (ALL AGES)

27 San Francisco - Cafe du Nord


* All shows with No Kids, with the notable exception of (most) SXSW shows.

Let's get ready to GLAD HAND!

(((GRRRLS)))
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Sunday, January 25, 2009 
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Hey All:

Our friends in Au drafted a cover of "Here's To Forgetting" for Philogyny,, the narcissistic/commercially cynical covers project we were working on back in the now ancient Fall of 2008. Due to unfortunate record label bureaucracy, we weren't able to include Au's cover--which is, incidentally, vastly superior to the original (big surprise). The song is featured on the fancy Japanese edition of their stellar record VERBS (available via Inpartmaint), and can be listened to over at Au's Myspace Page, because I can't figure out how to embed it here.


Currently listening:
Verbs
By Au
Release date: 2008-11-04
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Monday, January 19, 2009 
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Taking some time off in Vienna during our recent two-day jag in that fine city, Parenthetical Girls spent a brief hour in the lobby of Haus der Musik, learning to play our songs without the benefit of expensive electronic hoodoo--yet still manage to make the whole business significantly more cumbersome. The fine folks at They Shoot Music, Don't They? were kind enough to join us. Click the above picture to see what they thought you should.

Thanks so much, TSMDT--you did a fine job of making us look semi-professional.
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Saturday, January 03, 2009 


This is a touch out past its due date, but assuming that you've yet to find any practical reason to place your own Google Alert on "Parenthetical Girls", it's very probably news to you. Perhaps it should have stayed that way.

Either way, here are some MP3s of a radio session we did for a radio show in Bologna called "MAPS". There are some telling (endearing?) flubs and fuck-ups (all Zac's doing, I believe) throughout--and please, for everyone's sake, just ignore the interview bits.

Parenthetical Girls On MAPS
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Friday, December 12, 2008 
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Monday, September 22, 2008 
Parenthetical Girls keyboardist/sound manipulator/arranger Matt Carlson is offering up a free download of his latest LP, entitled American Standard. Matt's description:

"American Standard is an album I worked on (and off) for about 8 months, recording whenever I wasn't working or doing Parenthetical Girls stuff. The music was an attempt to bring together disparate musical interests of mine into a cohesive whole. "Vortex" is basically drone meets EAI with a pop melody on top. "Let's Move (into the store)" is Krautrock-pop using additive processes. The only real unifying aesthetic I guess is minimalist techniques put into song form, making use of an extended time scale. Really it's an EP with songs that are so long that it becomes a full-length."

Check out the hit single "Let's Move (into the store)", and then download the rest right over here:



AMERICAN STANDARD
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