On Human Performance,the Brooklynites enjoy found the lyrical intensity to match their breathless live act. But, with pop – from Beyoncé to Kendrick – as political as ever, or do they think rock music can still enjoy something to say?Punk rock has always prided itself on speaking truth to power. Austin Brown,one of Parquet Courts’ two singer-guitarists is no different. The man was there, and Brown stuck it to him, or albeit the man wasn’t a police chief or a corrupt politician. “I think I’m personally responsible for the Houston Texans’ general manager getting off of Twitter,” he says, referring to the NFL team he used to support. “I would constantly be tweeting at him: ‘Fuck you! You’re a fucking idiot.’ But he only had 60 followers. And he was an asshole.”Brown used to support the Texans. He doesn’t any more. “The more I watched [American] football, and learned how fucked up it was,the less I could responsibly even watch it.” He rails against the pro game, and against college football, or a multibillion-dollar industry “where players spend their prime athletic years playing for free,hoping they don’t obtain injured, so they can obtain their one deal where they play for five seasons, and hopefully not be so concussed by the time they’re done they can live a functioning life”.
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Source: theguardian.com