Archive for the ‘A Place to Bury Strangers’ Category
Saturday, December 13th, 2008
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The images on the screen at the back of the stage switch between scenes of the open road and flowers, but they do little to soften the blows of aggressive anthem To Fix The Gash In Your Head which is blowing chunks out of the crowd’s heads as Oliver’s guitar (one of many played tonight) roars aggressively to the back of the room while Jay Space drums beats as heavy as thunder. As the trio tear through a monstrous set, there’s little interaction between band and crowd, and it’s not needed as it’s clear everyone’s immersed in the music, even a stage invader goes unnoticed by Oliver!
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This juxtaposition is beautifully realised by A Place To Bury Strangers’ visual backdrop. A series of pleasant scenes - rolling countryside, the beauty of flowers in spring - are subverted though a series of briefly flashing subliminal images depicting scenes of outright stark terror and discomfort before giving way to the void of black suns and black holes. Plugging into an electric mainline, this head-on collision of sound and vision makes for a thrillingly visceral experience from a band that has the sheer balls to pick up the baton that’s been passed on by forebears My Bloody Valentine and run with it at full pelt not just at a brick wall but right through it.
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Friday, December 12th, 2008
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These guys really know how to put on a show. For the majority of the gig, the room is barely lit except for fairy lights and the bar, and so much smoke is pumped into the room to the point that the band is barely visable (and made it hell to get any decent photos) but for the final song, we’re faced with 10 minutes of strobe lights, just as our eyes have adjusted to the dark. Guitarist Oliver Ackerman picks up his guitar and swings it by the strings and leads, and the whole front row step back to avoid being skewered.
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“I personally love them,” says Oliver Ackermann of New York noise-rock outfit A Place to Bury Strangers, which recently issued a volley of seven-inches on Important Records. “When you create a seven-inch, it’s an opportunity to do something unique that doesn’t fit for an album. The tracks are also immediate; there is no filler. A single is a glimpse of a moment and an experience and an idea.”
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Research Advice
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A collection of advice about how to do research and how to communicate effectively (primarily for computer scientists).
A Place to Bury Strangers
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Discovered a short time ago, “I Know I will see You” group “A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS”, shown below is the song that touched me most this year because of its references to New Order, The Cure or Jesus & Mary Chain. You can play it:
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I’d like to tour with a new band, that would be exciting, I mean today we just dropped by the MGMT show (Shepherds Bush Empire) and watched the opening band (me – a place to bury strangers), yeah! We went to go see A Place to Bury Strangers and they were really cool, we’re actually - they’re staying at our place, this week, so I’ll get the chance to talk to them and hang out with them I guess, but yeah they’re really cool and I really like their music so I guess realistically I’d like to tour with them.
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Oliver Ackermann’s sideline building hand-wired guitar pedals. Oliver himself is quite humble about the rise and rise of the band. “We’re incredibly grateful that all of this is going on. We went from putting out a compilation of our demos to playing arenas with Nine Inch Nails in less than a year. It’s been like a chainsaw caught in a whirlwind getting hit by a bus.”
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Well, they’re the real deal. Call them what you will, genrenize them how you will, but there’s no denying they’re one of the more intriguing noise acts emerging from the New York scene.
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Monday, December 8th, 2008
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The band opt to close the show with a cover of Jesus & Mary Chain’s “Teenage Lust”, with the aid of members of support band A Place To Bury Strangers, who, it should be noted, outshone their hosts earlier in the evening with the sheer ferocity of their noise and impassioned stage show.
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While we’re waiting for the new economic stimulus plan to be unveiled on change.gov, or while we’re waiting for it to kick-in, how about developing a backup plan at sparechange.gov?
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Sunday, December 7th, 2008
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But this episode in Ollie Ackermann’s continuing quest for a guitar sound like no other was the most amazing of the lot so far, largely I guess because the band had the sound mixed to their specification as headliners.
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As for APTBS they were superb as usual, insanely loud as usual, Oliver is still one hell of an awesome guitarist, quite possibly my ‘band’ discovery of the year.
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20. Sonic Youth; I.C.P.; the Ex: In the Fishtank (Konkurrent LP)
21. A Place to Bury Strangers: A Place to Bury Strangers (CD)
22. Ratatat: LP3 (XL LP)
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recycled products
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In Cardiff, Clwb Ifor Bach hosts a night of bleepy electro goodness from Alex Metric (tonight) and some brutal New York feedback (with a bassist from Barry) courtesy of from A Place To Bury Strangers (tomorrow).
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Dirty on Purpose’s last official duty as a band will be opening for “best friends and practice space sharers of many years” A Place to Bury Strangers at their New Year’s Eve gig at New York’s Mercury Lounge.
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Reported Deaths: 4209
Confirmed Deaths: 4206
Pending Confirmation: 3
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Source: Iraqi Coalition Casualty Count
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Friday, December 5th, 2008
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Fajardo: Car Rental
A Place to Bury Strangers
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On New Year’s Eve, Dirty on Purpose will play their farewell show with close friends, A Place To Bury Strangers, at Mercury Lounge in New York City. The Strangers have been their friends and fellow Death By Audio dwellers for years now and Mercury Lounge is where the band played their first big sold out show back in 2003 with the Decemberists.
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Our best friends and practice space sharers of many years, A Place To Bury Strangers, offered us the opening slot on their New Year’s Eve gig at Mercury Lounge.
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New York four piece, Dirty on Purpose, have decided to call it quits. After spending an “unusual and unhealthy” amount of time together over the years, the band will play their farewell show at Mercury Lounge on New Years Eve with close friends, A Place To Bury Strangers. This show is sure to sell out, so get your tickets now! As for the future, the guys will continue playing music in other projects, so keep your eyes peeled.
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Make sure you check out Screen VInyl Image. One of the latest Electro / Psychadelic / Experimental bands from the Big Apple that have been caught up in the influence of perfect noise that only Death By Audio pedals can create.
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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
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Throughout this album, the notion of chaos recorded rears its head time and time again. When you learn Ackmann founded an effects pedal company used by bands such as U2 and Wilco, this begins to make more sense. Every single element, every sound made and contained within this album is done so by extraordinarily talented musicians. A Place to Bury Strangers are the sound of chaos that is only just kept in line by the bands ability with their instruments. The precision with which the songs are driven forward, of every minute change in key, of every additional drum loop or guitar line added means this is a record to savour. This is an album that needs to be repeatedly listened to.
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Best Live Shows of 2008
A Place To Bury Strangers + Sian Alice Group @ The Waiting Room
Black Lips + Quintron & Miss Pussycat @ The Waiting Room
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
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We start with the idea of a decision problem, a problem for which an algorithm can always answer “yes” or “no.” We also need the idea of two models of computer (Turing machine, really): deterministic and non-deterministic. A deterministic computer is the regular computer we always thinking of; a non-deterministic computer is one that is just like we’re used to except that is has unlimited parallelism, so that any time you come to a branch, you spawn a new “process” and examine both sides. Like Yogi Berra said, when you come to a fork in the road, you should take it.
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p vs NP problem description
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The main sources of TheFreeDictionary’s Medical dictionary are The American Heritage® Stedman’s Medical Dictionary, Second Edition and Dorland’s Medical Dictionary for Health Care Consumers, which provide authoritative descriptions of medical conditions, medications, anatomical terms, noted medical personalities and much more.
A Place to Bury Strangers
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A Place To Bury Strangers have been highly touted for being loud, which may be true but what people fail to mention is the sheer brilliance this album is. There is not one weak track on this ten song album which sees an array of rock, psychedelic, experimental and shoegaze music with plenty of distortion and killer tunes to blow your mind and in my mind this is one of the albums of the year by a long way.
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The multitude of mechanical, cold, industrial atmospheres created by A Place to Bury Strangers via reverb, high gain, spacey programming, technical drumming, and lots of echo makes their debut album an astonishing feat in an era where shoegaze and noise rock is all but a distant memory. The modern programming and production keeps the album in the current era, but the noise and style is clearly a bit of a throwback. The band does not venture very far away from the core of noise and their trusty wall-of-sound (which they create amazingly well live, by the way), which may keep the album in neutral for many people, but the variety of rhythms, riffs, and small little tricks makes this debut album worth listening.
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Monday, December 1st, 2008
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APTBS are obviously influenced by My Bloody Valentine and The Jesus Mary Chain, and like these bands they are more than just noise merchants. Underneath the wall of sound there are lush pop songs, as evident on I Know I’ll See You which has the crowd singing and dancing along with glee.
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Tenure in the Digital Age, Zotero, & A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-12-11
Thursday, December 11th, 2008A Place to Bury Strangers
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