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There’s bad news from A Place to Bury Strangers today — their tour’s gone up in smoke, literally.
Archive for October, 2008
A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-10-08
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008Uplands Cheese & A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-10-06
Monday, October 6th, 2008
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pasture cheese
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I grew up listening to The Jesus and Mary Chain, Slowdive, and My Bloody Valentine. That is what really inspired me to play guitar. All of their sounds and textures made their songs so mysterious. There was this beautiful feeling of not knowing exactly what was going on. You were just hanging on to a song with no instruments. It left everything up to the imagination.
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How did you get into making pedals?
Just trying to create sounds that I couldn’t get in other places. I failed miserably for years and then kindda figured out how to make things work. And then I started the company because I wanted to go to Europe for a month as a vacation, but I didn’t really have any money, and I had this idea for a pedal that no one else had ever come out with before, and I just kind of marketed that real quick and I made enough money to go. Total Sonic Annihilation. The flagship of Death by Audio. -
Suddenly the “loudest band in NYC”, were the most wanted band in London, with features in Kerrang! and NME.
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If A Place to Bury Strangers were one of the presidential candidates, the hypnotic trio would be John McCain. Politics and a namesake hinting at the Maverick’s imminent resting place aside, like the Straight Talk Express, this Brooklynite band tends to noisily echo the past more than strut into the future.
A Place to Bury Strangers
The Sarah Palin Debate FlowChart
Saturday, October 4th, 2008The ‘debate’ is past, and it convinced me of two things. Joe Biden is a mature, sincere person who will be a good vice-president. Sarah Palin is a person who does well reading cards, but has almost no level of understanding of the issues facing our country or the reuirements to be vice president. She seems self-centered, and concerned with only her and Jon McCain’s narrow self-serving agenda.
Adam Nek posted a great flowchart to accompany his blog entry, MooseHunter, for the night/morning after the debate. Here is yet another copy of the image:
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U.S. Confirmed Deaths
Reported Deaths: 4177
Confirmed Deaths: 4176
Pending Confirmation: 1
DoD Confirmation List
Source: Iraq Coalition Caualty List
A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-10-04
Saturday, October 4th, 2008
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A Place to Bury Strangers, Triple Rock. A sensual experience in the most aggressive of ways, the band filled the room with sound you could feel, and that’s the point: stuttering guitars, fuzzy bass, machine-gun drums and rumbling vocals.
A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-10-03
Friday, October 3rd, 2008
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We caught up recently with Strangers frontman Oliver Ackermann, who brings his band back to Colorado on Wednesday with a show at the Larimer Lounge after a visionary performance at the Monolith Festival last mont
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Missing You, the first track, is an example of everything good about ATPBS: it’s got good, solid drumming and bass that can quickly explode under psychedelic synths, or feedback and distortion-laden guitars.
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I’m probably skipping the big fests and hitting up A Place to Bury Strangers at The Troubadour Saturday night. Why? Because my ears need more ringing and abuse. The “loudest band in New York” is currently touring with The Dandy Warhols
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“I think it’s just really beautiful,” he says. “There’s kind of this chaos with the noise that brings out different interesting elements or things that you could never explain.”
A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-10-02
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
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The quote on the MySpace page for A Place to Bury Strangers is “Total Sonic Annihilation,” which seems apt for a group that’s been dubbed “the loudest band in New York.”
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“It’s only inevitable that we would sound like the bands we grew up listening to,” Ackermann said. “That was when we were listening to a lot My Bloody Valentine and Jesus and Mary Chain and all that. But when we were growing up and becoming musical, I was also falling in love with the electric guitar and all the possibilities for making sound with it, as well as loving music of the 1950s and ’60s, from bubblegum to girl groups. I think all that stuff is influential when it comes to creating our aesthetic.”
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They are so loud, so intense, but do so with plenty of hooks in their music. The more I listen to their self-titled disc released last year, the more I am a fan of this band.
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When those aforementioned strobes kick on is when the crazy guitar work really begins. It’s up and over and around Oliver as he presses it here and there and eventually it lands on the ground as he glides some strings over it to make indescribable noises.
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PLAN B: The Dandy Warhols, A Place to Bury Strangers, The Upsidedown @ Belly Up Tavern. If you get to the Belly Up at the perfect moment (est. time: 10:37 p.m.), you’ll be able to see one abrasive band (A Place to Bury Strangers) and won’t have to waste any time with boring pseudo-psychedelic bullshit.
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U.S. Confirmed Deaths
Reported Deaths: 4176
Confirmed Deaths: 4175
Pending Confirmation: 1
DoD Confirmation List
Source: Iraq Coalition Caualty List
Defensible Cheating & A Place to Bury Strangers link for 2008-10-01
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
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I was disturbed by Golub’s article because the emphasis was on cheating by students and possible counteractive measures. Never did he ask the more fundamental questions: What is the purpose of an examination; Why do students cheat? Instead, he proposed that faculty become police enforcers, trying to weed out dishonest behavior. I would prefer to turn faculty into educators and mentors, guiding students to use all the resources at their disposal to solve important problems.
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There are two things you should know about A Place to Bury Strangers: they are very loud and very good. They’re not loud like most rock bands are loud; they’re loud like a band that has its own line of custom effects pedals and once destroyed a rare record press just by running a tape of its recording through it is loud.
Calling McCain a Liar
Monday, October 6th, 2008Again, we can hear McCain whining. He said Obama has called me a liar, in a speech today. Why not? McCain’s lies are nothign new, see my post “McCain’s Lies“, and read the article in the NY Times that addresses McCain’s fabrications, “http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/drilling-down-on-the-facts-in-mccains-speech/.” Both McCain and Palinn fill the air with their lies. What a bad choice it would be to vote for them. Obama and Biden are excellent choices and will get my vote.
One of the best political cartoons of this campaign is
Tags: lies, lying, mccain, political
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