Thursday, November 6th, 2008
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ASK GOOGLE TO PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY
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A story has a beginning, a middle, and a cleanly wrapped-up ending. Whether told around a campfire, read from a book, or played on a DVD, a story goes from point A to B and then C. It follows a trajectory, a Freytag Pyramid—perhaps the line of a human life or the stages of the hero’s journey. A story is told by one person or by a creative team to an audience that is usually quiet, even receptive. Or at least that’s what a story used to be, and that’s how a story used to be told. Today, with digital networks and social media, this pattern is changing. Stories now are open-ended, branching, hyperlinked, cross-media, participatory, exploratory, and unpredictable. And they are told in new ways: Web 2.0 storytelling picks up these new types of stories and runs with them, accelerating the pace of creation and participation while revealing new directions for narratives to flow.
A Place to Bury Strangers
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There were some really loud performances during KEXP’s live broadcast from Gibson Showroom during the 2008 CMJ Music Marathon — from bands like All The Saints, Johnny Foreigner, and Freshkills — but undoubtedly the loudest of all came from A Place to Bury Strangers, a group whose extreme decibel level had even caused the NYC police to shut down a CMJ club show earlier in the week!
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Eschewing any notions of revolution in favour of evolution, A Place To Bury Strangers have moved the scuzzed-up possibilities of 21st century rock’n’roll to where it should be – louder, brasher and with the ability to upset firmly in place. The album largely succeeds because of its honesty.
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“Screaming out of New York City at a million decibels an hour, A Place To Bury Strangers trade in unrelenting bursts of feedback, elliptical basslines and clinically brutal drum fills.” That’s how Rock Sound describes APTBS latest opus (which has finally been given a UK release through Rocket Girl) in this month’s issue and gives them 9/10 for it. Not bad, eh
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
This bibliography presents selected English-language articles and other works that are useful in understanding Google Book Search. It primarily focuses on the evolution of Google Book Search and the legal, library, and social issues associated with it.
A Place to Bury Stangers
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Trent Reznor has decided to give a little promotional boost to the bands that will be opening for him on his summer tour, including A Place to Bury Strangers, Does it Offend You, Yeah?, Crystal Castles, and Deerhunter. Via the NIN website:
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I truly believe A Place to Bury Strangers deserves the great amount of recognition that appearing on this EP will hopefully garner them. They’re already gaining ground everywhere, so this will merely accelerate a process that the same result otherwise.
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PS: A tribute to guitarist, adept at districarsi in the maze of effects, despite being the only guitar proves to be an impeccable sound bomb
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A Place To Bury Strangers – they may be ear-bleedingly loud but beneath the distorted chaos they’ve also got the tunes. The next New Yorkers to keep your eye on.
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this debut UK EP from the band is something really special,
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I know I said there wasn’t much happening in NYC but I lied–sort of. A Place to Bury Strangers are from Brooklyn. I haven’t heard this kind of fuzz-guitar noise since the Jesus and Mary Chain came through.
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A Place to Bury Strangers’ self-titled album has an undeniable underground retro post-punk feel of late-’70s Manchester. It’s a movement that dates back to when Joy Division and This Heat pioneered the cold, droning sounds that defined a genre.
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