Posts Tagged ‘aptbs’
Saturday, January 3rd, 2009
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But one thing Oliver Ackermann is always pleasantly surprised by is the increasing number of kids at their shows - those cranium-perforating, pant-shitting, epilepsy-inducing live sets which have the intention of “totally overcoming the senses of anyone who is listening or watching as well as ourselves on stage, we want to envelope this whole environment of sound and light.”
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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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Sunday, December 21st, 2008
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Featuring Andrew W.K., Fred Armisen (Trenchmouth), Moby, Nancy Whang of LCD Soundsystem, the New Pornographers’ Carl Newman, Ian Svenonius (Nation of Ulysses, The Make Up, Weird War), Amy Carlson (Third Watch/Law & Order) Okkervil River’s Will Sheff, Oliver Ackermann of A Place to Bury Strangers, Ryan Schreiber (Pitchfork founder/president), Gavin McInnes (Street Carnage/ex-VICE),
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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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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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