Links that discuss A Place to Bury Strangers at SXSW 2008
- South by Southwest, Austin, Texas - the Sunday Times review live reviews | Music | Arts & Entertainment - Times Online
Best discoveries? Three: … A Place to Bury Strangers, also from Brooklyn, who meld the Jesus and Mary Chain and New Order to explosive and thrilling effect; … (tags: aptbs sxsw) - SXSW Day 4: A Place to Bury Strangers x2, Tokyo Police Club, British Sea Power - Backstage - GW Hatchet Blog
There I saw one of greatest moments of the festival (in my humble opinion). Having broken a string, guitarist Oliver Ackermann started slinging his guitar to the floor. (tags: aptbs sxsw) - Did you hear?: SXSW can kill you, but it’s a wonderful way to go!
Matt and I head on down to Mohawk to catch a band he’s interested in, A Place To Bury Strangers. I dig ‘em and so does the crowd as they keep dancing even though the roof is leaking over their heads. (tags: aptbs sxsw) - 10 top new finds at SXSW - The Denver Post
Regardless that it’s borderline-noise, the melodies stick in your head for days. It helps that the band members often close live shows by ripping the strings from the guitars and bass and yanking them around the stage like wounded kites. (tags: aptbs sxsw) - A Place to Bury Strangers SXSW 2008
It was an amazing distortion barrage in the tiny cramped room of the Mohawk which was fittingly decorated with dripping toilet pipes in the ceiling. (tags: aptbs sxsw) - TheStar.com | Music | Ben Rayner’s reasons to live . . .
Now, after a couple of thorough rattlings at the hands of Oliver Ackermann et al. at SXSW with an album that properly captures Strangers’ full-bore sonic misanthropy still months away, I have no way to properly exorcise the song through home listening. (tags: aptbs sxsw)