Posts Tagged ‘A Place to Bury Strangers’
Friday, January 2nd, 2009
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“Once Upon A Time” pulls its viewers back into the awe and wonder we experienced while captivated by Cinderella, Momotaro, or any fantastical folk-tales. Like kids with flashlights under the covers, curled up with the Brothers Grimm, we have always been tantalized by the unbounded worlds fairy tales bring to life.
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Films include: – HISTORY OF THE MEAT PACKING DISTRICT, UNNATURAL HISTORY OF WALL STREET and BOWERY from Gary Leib.
– THE ROYAL NIGHTMARE from Alex Budovsky
– ELEPHANT GIRL and MOTHER’S DAY from David Lobser
– HUNGER LIKE THE WOLF from Eun-Ha Paek
A Place to Bury Strangers
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Imagine My Bloody Valentine distortion with the raw sound and monotone vocals of Joy Division, and you might have some insight as to what to expect from these up-and-coming rockers. Armed with guitarist Oliver Akerman’s self made effects pedals (through his company Death By Audio) and a talent for voluminous melodics, A Place to Bury Strangers have been attacking eardrums all over the country for nearly three years since their first EP in 2006.
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Top 50 Singles of 2008 Idle hands - THE GUTTER TWINS
The step and the walk - THE DUKE SPIRIT To fix the gash in your head - A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS
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And headliners A Place to Bury Strangers are widely known as New York’s loudest band; those of you who missed My Bloody Valentine last fall may get to experience an equivalent sonic assault. Nothing soothes the anxiety of unemployment better than 130 decibel soundwaves. Bring earplugs, but go.
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Holy Fuck: It was HF’s second show here within six months (shortly after they appeared on SEE’s cover, they were among the shortlist for the Polaris Prize), but the highlight this time around was Brooklyn’s A Place To Bury Strangers, who are now looking like one of the hottest emerging noise-rock outfits in North America.
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Thursday, December 25th, 2008
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This band has true potential to become a giant in the genre way after the peak of shoegaze-A Place to Bury Strangers echo that gravity that captured the era damn well, eschewing lots of noise, atmospheric, techno-laden drums, and an altogether manufactured sound. It’s nothing revolutionary, creative, and in fact it’s all been done before.
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Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
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Not since Loop’s penultimate visit to the city when its Trent University was a polytechnic, or even My Bloody Valentine and the Boo Radleys carving up the Loveless tour in 1992 have I witnessed anything so incredible in its execution as this. As brutal as it is mesmerising, A Place To Bury Strangers are one of those bands whose sheer ferocity leaves no holds barred, whether it be the deafening combination of feedback, guitar and bass that make ‘Don’t Think Lover’ sound like an entire city collapsing, or the intermittent spurts of pedal-infused din that punctuate every break in the set, almost like an introduction piece for the next slab of incessant noise.
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USA FOR AFFLUENCE: ALL-STAR BENEFIT. The lyrics and who-sang-what
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Friday, December 19th, 2008
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This year we kicked off Wired Campus TV, our tech-video series. We used the same free or low-cost video tools that some professors are trying in their courses to produce these short Web features.
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A Place to Bury Strangers - ‘A Place to Bury Strangers’
“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. 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!” Neil Richardson
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Sunday, December 14th, 2008
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We’re just gonna put it out there: value-wise, this is one of the best money-to-band lineups we’ve seen in a while. Let the fools drop pointless hundreds on an average dinner and champagne they pretend to like. You’ll drop $25 and rock out to A Place To Bury Strangers, the Brooklyn trio that fuses shoegaze, industrial hard rock and dark post-punk. Frontman Oliver Ackermann, the founder of effects pedal company Death by Audio, employs many of them to great use in his band’s own set, constantly tweaking and warping the sound while never devolving into pointless noise. It’s loud. Hard. Noisy. Perfect for (ears) ringing in the New Year. Brooklyn’s Dirty on Purpose also perform in what will be their last show ever. With The Vandelles
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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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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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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
DoD Confirmation List
Source: Iraqi Coalition Casualty Count
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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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