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A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-10-30

The Mangy Goat: reviews, rants and conversation: A Place To Bury Strangers It’s rare that the hyperbole of an album’s press release is outdone by the plaudits of reviewers, but the fevered accolades cawing from such luminaries as Pitchfork for this debut from Brooklyners A Place To Bury Strangers makes their own PR seem almost […]

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Political Cartoons – five days to the election

Here is a selection of some that caught my eye

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A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-10-29

Warren Ellis – A Place To Bury Strangers I’m hearing a lot of fuzzed-out takes on proto-shoegaze come out of there these days. “I Know I’ll See You” by A Place To Bury Strangers does, in a lot of ways, take me back to shithole venues from the era — particularly the bass sound, which […]

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A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-10-28

A Place To Bury Strangers Demolish Ears | NYU Local True to form, guitarist/vocalist Oliver Ackerman performed his signature de-stringing and swinging of his guitar at the end of the set. What makes the band particularly unique, though, is drummer Jay Spruce’s ability to accompany the other instruments’ feedback. For the guitar and bass throughout […]

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A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-10-27

CMJ: Saturday [Amy Phillips] | Pitchfork After witnessing the My Bloody Valentine reunion at ATP NY last month, I can’t watch a band like A Place to Bury Strangers the same way ever again. Through no fault of their own, nothing that they do could possibly live up to the gale force of MBV (tags: […]

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A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-10-26

A Place To Bury Strangers/ Crystal Antlers – Bowery Ballroom – New York, NY Events | Metromix New York 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 […]

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Windows Capture Software & Review of A Place to Bury Strangers in DC links for 2008-10-25

PERFORMING ARTS – washingtonpost.com 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 […]

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A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-10-24

Merry Swankster: A Place To Bury Strangers @ Larimer Lounge, Denver 10.08.2008 A Place To Bury Strangers took the stage at midnight, which is a more likely reason than any on why this write up took so damn long. Hump day at midnight is a terrible time for information retention. My most vivid recollection was […]

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BNF & A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-10-22

BNF links  BNF and EBNF: What are they and how do they work? This is a short article that attempts to explain what BNF is, based on message <wkwwagbizn.fsf@ifi.uio.no> posted to comp.text.sgml on 16.Jun.98. Because of this it is a little rough, so if it leaves you with any unanswered questions, email me and I’ll […]

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A Place to Bury Strangers in DCist

DCist: Weekly Music Agenda It was just over a year ago that we interviewed A Place To Bury Strangers, Brooklyn master guitar pedal manipulator Oliver Ackermann’s ear numbing tribute to the louder inclinations of shoegaze. (tags: aptbs dc)

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