{"id":2688,"date":"2010-03-30T06:07:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T11:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/?p=2688"},"modified":"2010-04-10T04:32:02","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T09:32:02","slug":"links-for-2010-03-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/a-place-to-bury-strangers\/links-for-2010-03-30","title":{"rendered":"APtBS on the road; Reviews &#038; Links  for 2010-03-31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/webliminal.com\/images\/sidepics\/aptbs41.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px;\" src=\"http:\/\/webliminal.com\/images\/sidepics\/cwdata\/aptbs41.jpg\" alt=\"Poster from US Tour with Big Pink \" hspace=\"25\" align=\"left\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/loudlooppress.com\/photos\/a-place-to-bury-strangers-at-metro\/\">A Place To Bury Strangers at Metro | loudlooppress.com | Amplifying Chicago&#8217;s Music Scene<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">images from show in Chicago, March 2010<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/aptbs\">aptbs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/photos\">photos<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/chicago\">chicago<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/illinois\">illinois<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.loveshackbaby.net\/2010\/03\/29\/gig-review-aptbs-metro-march-20-they-never-knew-what-hit-them\/\">Gig review: APTBS @ Metro, March 20 \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 they never knew what hit them | love shack, baby<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;I felt like they got on stage and flipped a switch and poured it out onto us, and that is just what I love about music at times. It is the total clearing of my head that occurs when someone else\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s emotional density streams through it.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/aptbs\">aptbs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/review\">review<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/chicago\">chicago<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/illinois\">illinois<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicsnobbery.com\/2010\/03\/the-big-pink-a-place-to-bury-strangers-maxwells.html\">The Big Pink \/ A Place to Bury Strangers @ Maxwell&#8217;s &#8211; Music Snobbery<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Oliver Ackermann is the lead singer and guitar master. Like he did at Siren Festival, he swings his guitar around and sometimes plays it while he throws it around in midair.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/review\">review<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/hoboken\">hoboken<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/newjersey\">newjersey<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/nj\">nj<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/aptbs\">aptbs<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brainwashed.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=8137&amp;Itemid=1\">Brainwashed &#8211; A Place to Bury Strangers \/ The Big Pink<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">What struck me most about APTBS was the way their sound glistened and sparkled, filling up the big space, while still being littered with psychedelic nuance and microcosmic subtlety.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/aptbs\">aptbs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/kentucky\">kentucky<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/review\">review<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/artistsweetsbecker\/sets\/72157623731587004\/\">A Place To Bury Strangers-Maxwells NJ -March 28-2010-Chris Becker &#8211; a set on Flickr<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">fish-eye multiple-exposure photos<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/aptbs\">aptbs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/hoboken\">hoboken<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/nj\">nj<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/newjersey\">newjersey<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/photos\">photos<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brainwashed.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=8143&amp;Itemid=1\">Brainwashed &#8211; A Place To Bury Strangers, &#8220;Keep Slipping Away&#8221;<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">As far as immediate, red-hot rock songs go, A Place to Bury Strangers is among the best bands out there. Hell, Exploding Head could have been a punk record if it weren&#8217;t for their shoegaze affiliations and songs like &#8220;I Lived My Life To Stand In The Shadow Of Your Heart.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/aptbs\">aptbs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/review\">review<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/explodinghead\">explodinghead<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/keepslippingaway\">keepslippingaway<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nyutroubadour.com\/archives\/241\">NYU Troubadour | NOISE: New York Underground, New Media Gatekeepers<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Now, whereas Les Paul\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s initiative might be considered audacious because of what it meant to first amplify sound like this, what Ackermann does goes one step further. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s subversive and dissociative, aesthetically, because of what it means to do what he does to the sound. He does not merely amplify the frequency emitted by the pluck of a string; he bends, tweaks, scrambles and destroys it. He makes noise; neither its melodic potential nor its tonal qualities are very apparent. As a result, he is forever in conversation with the culture of subversion that Les Paul\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s audacity helped foster.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/oliver\">oliver<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/deathbyaudio\">deathbyaudio<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/aptbs\">aptbs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/commentary\">commentary<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rocknrollrunner.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/place-to-bury-strangers.html\">Rock &#8216;n&#8217; Roll Runner: A Place To Bury Strangers<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;I&#8217;m pretty jaded with most &#8216;new&#8217; bands, but Brooklyn&#8217;s A Place To Bury Strangers have grabbed my attention with two excellent albums and a fuzzed out noise fest of a live show that outdoes the Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, and, to be honest, most of the first wave of shoegazers &#8220;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/aptbs\">aptbs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/review\">review<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Place To Bury Strangers at Metro | loudlooppress.com | Amplifying Chicago&#8217;s Music Scene images from show in Chicago, March 2010 (tags: aptbs photos chicago illinois) Gig review: APTBS @ Metro, March 20 \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 they never knew what hit them | love shack, baby &#8220;I felt like they got on stage and flipped a switch [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1445,45,76,628,629],"class_list":["post-2688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-place-to-bury-strangers","tag-a-place-to-bury-strangers","tag-aptbs","tag-chicago","tag-hoboken","tag-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2688"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2702,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688\/revisions\/2702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}