APtBS on the road; Reviews & Links for 2010-04-03
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Akermann’s Stage performance is really compelling to watch, and it’s not a put-on. He rips into his guitar, spitting bitter lyrics and reverb-drenched guitar hooks, and exploring effects pedals while convening a penetrating sense of dread and isolation without the least bit of self-awareness or even acknowledgement of the audience that’s witnessing this sonorous copulation.
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“If you can’t exactly tell what it is that’s creating these sounds, it just sort of turns into this pure feeling and emotion,†he says.
“It becomes kind of ambiguous and beautiful.†-
“”Last night we saw the “loudest band in NYC”-A Place To Bury Strangers. One of my favorites” – Chris Buzelli”
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“that it is beautiful to experience the result of the human desire to create and to beautify”
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“The band did, however, begin to live up to its hype during the second half of the set when it extended its songs and focused more on texture and noise.”
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“APTBS lived up to their noisy rep, generating tremendous breaking waves of reverb-drenched feedback. “
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Some probably had no idea what they’d just witnessed and the rest were in total awe of how their eardrums were just brutalized – whatever the case may be, A Place To Bury Strangers totally blew the Metro into oblivion.
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“Ackermann’s trio always kills onstage, and Wednesday night at the Theatre of Living Arts was no different; it has so perfected its post-punk My Bloody Valentine assault that it can toy with it now, mixing in cleaner pop-styled tunes like “Exploding Head” (ironically one of the softer ones) and straight three-note surfabilly (“Deadbeat”) among the excruciating (in a good way) noise jams.”
Political cartoons – Health Care Reform
Some political cartoons in wake of recently passed legislation.
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