Archive for August, 2008
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
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If you haven’t yet, buy the record and come to the show on Sunday August 17th, you won’t be disappointed. Oliver was kind enough take some time off to indulge us with an interview on the phone on a Friday afternoon.
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A Place to Bury Strangers finally took the stage. I really like their music and their set was pretty good minus the lights pulsing at the end.
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My Bloody Valentine is revered for penning what is widely considered an influential alt-rock album - 1991’s Loveless. So Ackermann was honored when the band bought every effect pedal crafted by Death by Audio.
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By The Way: Brooklyn’s A Place to Bury Strangers opened the show impressively with a quick eight songs of doomy post-punk that recalled The Jesus and Mary Chain along with Echo and the Bunnym
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Travel Tools
A Place to Bury Strangers
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Oliver Ackerman is an absolute genius, by the way. If they come to your town go see them, and don’t sit somewhere with a beer: stand up, put in your earplugs and watch him nurse what will probably be the most diverse group of tones out of his instruments you’ll hear in quite some time.
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Lead singer Oliver Ackermann’s stand-in-place shoegazing was in stark contrast to the breathless stage-traveling Reznor would later exhibit.
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Ackerman took a few minutes before the set on Sunday night, to answer 7 questions, for my continuing series Get to Know In 7.
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Though A Place to Bury Strangers’ albums receive much praise, the best way to experience them is live. Guitarist and vocalist Oliver Ackerman is a tremendous performer; urging an unbelievable range of tones from his instrument, sometimes using nothing but feedback and broken strings against pickups.
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Is pain-punk a genre? If not, APTBS may have just created it. Frontman/guitarist Oliver Ackermann concluded with an exclamation point: ripping the strings out of his guitar and slinging it around before exiting the stage.
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I really digged the whole flashing lights thing toward the end of the set and Oliver taking the strings out of his guitar. (It looked like was what he was doing. I may be wrong.)
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Anyways the lead guitarist was manic on his guitar and combined with the flashing lights made the whole performance awesome. The guitarist and drummer were nice enough to sign a shirt one of their only fan’s in the crowd threw to them.
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008
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I decided to take a vacation to see a couple of Nine Inch Nails shows as they are playing a few dates with A Place To Bury Strangers. I don’t expect my hearing to recover for quite sometime.
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Still hidden from the mainstream media is a band that completely redefines the way electronica elements and rock can be blended. A Place to Bury Strangers takes psychedelic rock to a whole new level with their first LP.
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It’s not even September yet and the early part of the week is starting to fill up with major shows. Tonight it’s noisy, melodic, brooding, mechanical A Place to Bury Strangers making their Columbus debut.
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The new version - scheduled for release on November 2, 2008 - will feature remastered versions of all the tracks from the U.S version. (released back in 2007) It will also see the addition of some - as yet unconfirmed - new material. The Rocket Girl record label will be doing the honours.
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Part of Trent Reznor’s reinvention from industrial-pop starlet to the major-label bucking tastemaker has been his choice of opening acts for Nine Inch Nails tours. Nobody expected Reznor, who is more closely associated with Marilyn Manson than the Jesus Lizard, to become hip, but New York’s A Place to Bury Strangers aren’t doing much speculating. The trio will open for Nine Inch Nails on a string of dates later this month, and they are “psyched” about the opportunity.
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
George Dyson
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Historian George Dyson tells stories from the birth of the modern computer — from its 16th-century origins to the hilarious notebooks of some early computer engineers.
A Place to Bury Strangers
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Then I had perhaps the biggest revelation of the festival; New York trio A Place to Bury Strangers. Noisy but melodic music in the vein of Jesus & Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine, they blew me away completely at skull crunching volume. Great songs, great performance.
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Brooklyn noise-rockers A Place To Bury Strangers have announced that they will release their debut, self-titled album in the UK on November 2 on the Rocket Girl label.
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Big Surprise
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008Tags: Politics
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