Kevin Bronson on January 20th, 2014

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In a little over a year, Brooklyn indie-rockers Parquet Courts have gone from unknowns to headliners at the Fonda Theatre without any of the social-media chest-beating that dominates the music universe. They aren’t on Facebook, or Twitter, but the music cognoscenti has done plenty to elevate their profile, comparing the taut rockers on their album “Light Up Gold” to the indie guitar greats of decades past. (Stephen Malkmus even said they sound like Pavement.) Anyway, had they looked at Twitter and Facebook after Friday’s show at the Fonda, the band probably would have read a little vitriol from fans who were denied “Stoned and Starving,” the best song from the album and one which they did not play Friday. Maybe they figured everybody saw them play it on late-night TV a few nights earlier. Nonetheless, Parquet Courts played loud and proud Friday, with L.A.’s Tim Presley, fronting White Fence, setting the table in equally raucous manner. Here’s how it looked.

Photos by David Benjamin