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A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2009-12-09. Reviews, news of Big Pink tour, great video

As usual, a collection of links to reviews and news from blogs and a variety of Web sites about A Place to Bury Strangers. We start with a link to a 40+ minute video of the band’s performance in Amsterdam in November. The video is well done, and worth the view. 3VOOR12 – Tv 42 […]

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A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2009-11-21

A Place To Bury Strangers « Live on 35mm – by Valerio Berdini APTBS (shortened) are from Brooklyn. Easy. A classic of present times. Oliver Ackermann leads the band. He takes guitar and vocal duties but it’s definitely the axe he is in love with. (tags: aptbs cambridge uk) A Place To Bury Strangers: “Exploding […]

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Exploding Head Reviews for 2009-11-15

Album Review: A Place To Bury Strangers – Exploding Head “With larger-than-life production values, simple minimalism woven into the music, and overall just an enjoyably dark record, Exploding Head gets my vote for record of the year. Just do it. Take work off (or wait till after five), and grab this record. You will seriously […]

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A Place to Bury Strangers UK reviews for 2009-11-13

Caught Live: A Place To Bury Strangers, Japandroids | Ragged Words “But it’s with ‘I Lived My Life to Stand in The Shadow of Your Heart’, the epic closing track on Exploding Head, that Ackermann and co. firmly nail their colours to the mast. Three minutes of sugar-rush pop hooks suddenly collapse into a deafening […]

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APTBS Song of the Month, reviews, remix of In Your Heart – links for 2009-11-12

Songs of the Month- NOVEMBER/DECEMBER – WTSR 91.3FM “Hey guys, could you turn the guitar sludge down just a bit? There’s an awesome indie rock hook buried beneath layers of Crystal Stilts and Jesus & Mary Chain… though it shouldn’t be too hard for the listener to latch onto it. On second thought, don’t turn […]

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APTBS interview, reviews – links for 2009-11-05

A Place To Bury Strangers a Downlow’d via Gigbot resonating from their latest studio release “Exploding Head”, this trio has earned their reputation as one of the most sonically expansive bands performing today. (tags: aptbs interview) Music: A Place to Bury Strangers: Exploding Head, Hexfix93’s take. | “This stuff rocks out pretty hard and sometimes […]

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A Place to Bury Strangers on the road, October 2009

A few links garnered from APTBS Exploding Head North American Tour STRANGER TRAVEL APTBS travel blog (tags: aptbs) A Place to Bury Strangers – a set on Flickr pictures from One0Eyed Jack’s in New Orleans, October 2009 A Place to Bury Strangers: “Instrumental” (Live at Waterloo Records) (Video) “Oliver Ackerman has extracted himself from his […]

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Band of the Day at mog, more reviews of APTBS, 2009-10-19

A Place To Bury Strangers | SleepWalKing “The real potential of the band it’s shown on the Joy Divisionesque “Missing You”, a hot boiling magma blob where the right producer (Brian Eno?) would be able to shape out the most epic and universal piece of music of ever.” (tags: aptbs) A Place to Bury Strangers […]

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More reviews of Exploding Head, 2009-10-16

The reviews keep on coming in with the majority being very positive. A Place to Bury Strangers spikes its lethal shoegaze with sharp hooks | Vancouver, Canada | Straight.com Oliver Ackermann has what could best be described as a dry sense of humour. In fact, the singer and guitarist for Brooklyn-based noise-rockers A Place to […]

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Reviews of Exploding Head Mid from 2009-10-13 or thereabouts

Review / A Place To Bury Strangers – Exploding Head / Releases / Releases // Drowned In Sound “Ultimately, throughout its ten pieces, Exploding Head is a much more diverse collection than A Place To Bury Strangers, and far outweighs the shoegaze revivalist criticisms their detractors have labelled them with. What’s more, A Place To […]

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