I knew when I left home yesterday, after extricating myself from the myriad conference calls that dot my schedule, that seeing A Place To Bury Strangers live could either completely satisfy, or prove a massive disappointment. There was no middle ground. I had heard too many good reports from faithful moggers whose word I trust.Being too excited to possibly wait, I left home at 4pm, hopped in th...
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Who?In the mold of the Jesus & Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine, New York-based shoegazers A Place to Bury Strangers rustle up the most glorious noise imaginable. As willfully abrasive at it is inspired, the band's second album, Exploding Head, is no empty threat. And I care because?- It's intricate art. Their wall of sound is thick, but the overall sound is laden with more guitar nuance tha...
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This cover demands immediate attention, and I will comply.In this corner: Oliver Ackermann and the merry noise merchants of A Place to Bury Strangers.In that corner: Jim and William Reid, the malevolent Scottish brothers behind proto-noise behemoths the Jesus and Mary Chain, and their song "Just Out of Reach". This happens to be a favorite JAMC song for the huge bass line and MASSIVE guitar rif...
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From the YouTube site:From APTBS monster debut LP on Killer Pimp, here's the official video for "I Know I'll See You."The video was shot via webcam by Director Adam Grabarnick (adamgrabarnick.com) from his home in Los Angeles while the band were in their RV on a rainy Sunday afternoon in Ohio during their recent tour.The band was was parked at a Denny's in Delaware, Ohio prior to their show at ...
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Live from the Gibson Showroom in NYC during CMJ 08Who needs an audience to absolutely rock it... not these guys... wow!!!!
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According to their myspace, A Place to Bury Strangers are the loudest band out there now. They are performing tonight in NY but I am scared I may blow my ear drums....What do you think?They got serious raves at CMJ and the bartender at my neighborhood dive bar has been wearing their t-shirt for days.They remind me of the Smiths and JAMC with a darker shade of black...
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Its' not often you can go to a tiny city venue and see an amazing band that is clearly too good for the walls holding it in. But last night, a Tuesday of all days, for a whopping $10 per ticket, Jaye and I went to Chop Suey in Seattle to see A Place to Bury Strangers. It’s not that they were polished and slick in performance; actually they were the exact opposite…rough and loud and perfect b
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A Place To Bury Strangers (w/ Ten Kens)The Cockpit, Leeds, UK (5 Dec 2008) Last night I finally had the chance to see A Place To Bury Strangers headline a show, in the third set of theirs I've seen within the year (the first since my move from US to UK). There isn't much that I can add to my earlier raves (here and here). But this episode in Ollie Ackermann's continuing quest for a guitar sound...
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A Place To Bury Strangers is one of the two bands to come out of the dreampop band Skywave (1995-2003), the other being Ceremony. Since the first and only MOG post about APTBS so far (from June 2006, huge props to aytch!), the band have had various recordings that have been sold on CD-Rs at shows or circulated in the Internet professionally mixed, mastered, and released as an album by Killer P...
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A Place To Bury Strangers, Film School(The Mezzanine, San Francisco CA, 12/05/07)The Thermals, The Big Sleep, Scandells(Slim's, San Francisco CA, 12/05/07)San Francisco was a land of concert plenty on December 5th. A couple of months back I'd already had to decide between Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings and The Thermals. Having loved The Thermals' debut album in 2003 but not having managed to see ...
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Intro - "Locals Only":http://www.localsonlyindy.com/Locals Only is a small Indianapolis bar that bills itself as a music and art bar. This was only the second time I've been to the place, and it was the first time I'd gone to see a band play. The bar looks like it has been around for a while; then again, it's the type of bar that probably looked aged when it was new. The place has that certa...
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It's been one of those weeks at work. The kind of work days that bleed into and leave dark stains all over your real life. There were high points to the week, but they were nearly lost in the continual frustration I'm dealing with. On these frustrating days, I've been turning to A Place to Bury Strangers more and more often. I've grown to really like this band, and I think they are great to...
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Just one last post before I go out and party in 2009. (it's so weird to type that: 2009) Thanks for posting, commenting, and doing everything else that makes MOG so awesome. I hope 2008 was as good to you as it was to me, but I hope that 2009 is extraordinary for you and your family. 2009's going to be a big transitional year: new president, sure, but I'm going to college. Egad. But as long...
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You ever wonder how they work out who opens for whom on indie small-club tours? Saturday night in LA, A Place to Bury Strangers killed as an opening band for Holy Fuck. Until the day of the show, I thought APTBS was the headliner. Don't get me wrong -- Holy Fuck was great, too. But APTBS seems to be getting more buzz, and they look like a band going somewhere.On stage, APTBS lived up to that bu...
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The body has its own natural rhythm and, as both your local DJ and doctor will tell you, its own BPM.For more with APTBS, visit http://www.uncensoredinterview.com/artists/337-A-Place-To-Bury-Strangers
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