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With The Edge and Trent Reznor plugging into his Death by Audio effect pedals, and fans clamoring for his hot new band, A Place to Bury Strangers, guitarist/pedal designer Oliver Ackermann has become a force to be reckoned with.

New Tales to Tell: A Tribute to Love and Rockets features covers from Black Francis, the Flaming Lips, A Place to Bury Strangers, the Dandy Warhols, Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan’s Puscifer, and others. Sometime agent of change Shepherd Fairey designed the cover.

The Flaming Lips, Black Francis (a.k.a. Frank Black), Maynard James Keenan’s Puscifer project, A Place To Bury Strangers and The Dandy Warhols are among those who will appear on New Tales To Tell: A Tribute To Love And Rockets when it’s released this summer.

I’m also interested in hearing the contributions by Snowden and A Place To Bury Strangers.

We asked Ackermann a few questions about the new album, how he deals (or doesn’t deal) with the residual effects of noisemaking and how it felt for the Fredericksburg native to play the 9:30 Club back in October.

Crystal Stilts, Deerhunter, A Place To Bury Strangers, Forest Fire and Gang Gang Dance have all been added to the event which takes place from August 14th – 16th.