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 […]
Also tagged A Place to Bury Strangers, cmjA 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 […]
Also tagged A Place to Bury Strangers, dc, nprCMJ: 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: […]
Also tagged A Place to Bury Strangers, cmj, ukA 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 […]
Also tagged A Place to Bury Strangers, album, cmj, reviewPERFORMING 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 […]
Also tagged A Place to Bury Strangers, review, screencapture, washington post, windowsMerry 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 […]
Also tagged A Place to Bury StrangersBNF 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 […]
Also tagged A Place to Bury Strangers, bnfDCist: 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)
Also tagged A Place to Bury StrangersUNLIMITED / CMU Daily 15.10.08 (tags: aptbs uk) Alex V. Cook: [The Record Crate] Talking Demonic and Burying Strangers Among the list of shows that one of us should go see is the Thursday appearance by A Place to Bury Strangers, a Brooklyn power trio that mines the feedback throb of shoegaze bands of yore […]
Also tagged A Place to Bury StrangersTrue Love Waits – A Place To Bury Strangers – A Place To Bury… Loud feedback can be really annoying, but not when it comes to A Place To Bury Strangers. This band is so loud that they were described as “the most ear-shatteringly loud garage/shoegaze band you’ll ever hear†by The Washington Post. (tags: […]
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