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“The Village Voice’s annual Siren Festival is an exercise in excess: nearly nine hours of free music, mounds of fried clams, bushels of candied apples and unrelenting, unavoidable midsummer sunshine. Still, it’s a fun spiral — plan on stumbling off sticky, half-deaf, sunburned and deeply satisfied. This year the lineup includes Built to Spill, the Raveonettes, Spank Rock, Frightened Rabbit, Grand Duchy, A Place to Bury Strangers, Monotonix, Micachu and the Shapes, and more. “

“Over the last few years, A Place To Bury Strangers have become a heavy presence in Brooklyn, dominating the fuzz-drone scene that draws from shoegaze stars Jesus and Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine. Lead vocalist Oliver Ackermann also founded the successful pedal effects company/music space Death By Audio, which has provided equipment to bands like U2, Wilco and MBV. As a band, APTBS have recently put the finishing touches on their sophomore album, Exploding Head, set for release this October. This Saturday, they play the Siren Festival Stillwell Stage at 5:30pm.”

oliver singing solo in Germany

“- A Place to Bury Strangers (easily the best band of the day, loud loud and loud shoegaze/psychedelic/noise rock that will split your eardrums with screaming feedback and distortion, delivered by an extremely talented and enigmatic three-piece)”

“After Skywave split, the former members went on to form two bands you may be more familiar with – A Place to Bury Strangers and Ceremony. If you listen to the aforementioned, however, they both sound just like Skywave, right? Synthstatic is the all-in-one sinister jam hive to own.”

“For more then a year now A Place to Bury Strangers have been rocking New York audiences with their take on noisy shoegaze and it is quite a sight to behold, but how well that will translate to an outdoor stage prior to sunset is anyone’s guess. “