Parts & Labor noisenik Dan Friel is following up last year's worthy "Valedictorian"/"Exoskeleton" 12" with the forthcoming full-length Total Folklore. For this record, we're told Friel's taken his…   Read Story »

Parts & Labor frontman and BTW Dan Friel makes solo music under his given name -- ecstatic, noisy keyboard-based stuff that, as on "Valedictorian," is full of technicolor chirp, sugar-rush whoosh,…   Read Story »

As the Times recently noted, bloggers are throwing shows and stuff! Ludlow Street during daylight hours on Tuesday was particularly rife with the Wordpressers and Movable Typers, courtesy of Pop…   Read Story »

NYC online music institution East Village Radio turns five this year, and after a day's delay due to tropical storm Hanna, a party was had yesterday at the Seaport to celebrate. The fest went from…   Read Story »

Dan Friel is the guy with red hair in anthemic psychedelic Brooklyn noiseniks Parts & Labor. He's also the mind and burnt keyboards behind this interesting eponymous solo project. Stepping outside…   Read Story »