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Friday, January 2nd, 2009A Place to Bury Strangers review 2008-12-25
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.
Review of A Place to Bury Strangers’ show in Cardiff, Wales
Thursday, December 18th, 2008
- The Joy Collective - An online resource for everything musical in and around Newport, Cardiff & Bristol
A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-12-03
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
A Place to Bury Strangers Review in the London Sunday Times
Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
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APTBS raid the Factory Records effects-box archives and the MBV and Jesus and Mary Chain back catalogues, emerging with a 10-song set that simultaneously kicks you in the face and makes you feel you’re slipping into a coma. Annihilation, indeed. Good stuff.
A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-10-26
Sunday, October 26th, 2008
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One things you need to know about A Place To Bury Strangers: they’re incredibly loud. Even with industrial-strength earplugs in, this Brooklyn trio has blown every band out of the water with a new twist on shoegazy rock—delightfully as melodic as noisy. After opening for the Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Jesus And Mary Chain, as well as releasing the critically acclaimed self-title album last year, this band is worthy of the spotlight for this show on the last night of their headlining spring tour. With All the Saints, Little Jakie, Marnie Stern, Vivian Girls, and Lord T & Elois
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The loudest band in New York is coming back to Philly for a show at Johnny Brenda’s. Bring your earplugs as A Place to Bury Strangers takes the stage. Joining them is Philly’s own psychedelic garage rock artists The Cobbs. Take the pop sensibilties of The Kinks and throw in Brian Jonestown Massacre with some psyche guitar and viola, The Cobbs. And a new album is in the works, so expect some fresh material.
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Oh, but there’s more to life than books, you know, but not much more, not much more: A Place To Bury Strangers, this generation’s living answer to the Jesus & Mary Chain AND drugs, are gonna make your ears bleed ecstacy at Johnny Brenda’s. It’s just going to happen.
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Dubbed “New York’s loudest band”, their debut UK shows this May were some of the most thrilling showcases of paranoia-seething guitar abuse these shores have seen since the heyday of their obvious heroes the Reid brothers. While much of the American nu-gaze school is starting to sound tired, APTBS lift themselves above the herd of Spacemen 3 worshippers by virtue of the rancorous ferocity of their sound – less dream pop than nightmare rock.
Windows Capture Software & Review of A Place to Bury Strangers in DC links for 2008-10-25
Saturday, October 25th, 2008
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Ackermann took a pull off a beer and scanned the crowd with large, whoa-dude eyes. And then the freakout began: With the band strobe-lit from below, the song exploded into astonishingly invigorating and still palatable noise as Ackermann went nuts with his guitar, flinging it and himself around until the instrument finally ended up on the floor, still squealing.
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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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Dinner in Brooklyn - August 17, 2006
Thursday, August 17th, 2006
Our son Karl took us to Ki Sushi for dinner tonight. The meal was wonderful. We started with a seared tuna salad, a grilled eggplant appetizer, and a green salad. This was followed by a plate of fresh sushi flown in from Japan daily and a grilled black cod entree. We ended the meal with a creme brulee flavored with lime juice and ginger, and red bean ice cream.
A wonderful place. Go there.
Ki Sushi
192 Smith St.
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718.935.0575
A Shortcut Through Time
Monday, July 14th, 2003
I found the book “A Shortcut Through Time” By George Johnson, published by Alfred A Knopf, 2003, ISBN 0-375-41193-3 on the recent additions shelf of the Central Rappahannock Regional Library.
It was the subtitle, “The Path to the Quantum Computer” , that really got me interested. I teach computer science at Mary Washington College and I didn’t know the first thing about quantum computing before reading this book. Now I feel like I know something! Johnson’s explanations are clear and to the point. They really made sense to me given my back ground in mathematics and the fact that I’ve been teaching computer science for lots of years. I’d recommend this book to anyone with an interest in science and with the ability to follow a technical discussion in general terms. He does an excellent job of exposition of a subtle and difficult subject. He states in the preface that “science writing involves spinning an illusion.” The illusion is that the material came to be understood in a straight forward manner, and so it is easy for the reader to grasp and comprehend. It’s not very easy to do that when discussing quantum mechanics and quantum computing, but George Johnson does a very good job at it. Read this book!
“A Quantum Leap in Cryptography” appeared in on July 15, 2003 in Business Week Online.
