Blog: Houstoned Rocks

On the final night of the 2008 South by Southwest Music Conference in Austin, unassuming downtown patrons filed into Cedar Street Courtyard for a casual drink. Within minutes, A Place to Bury Strangers - most recently in Houston opening for Nine Inch Nails back in August - cleared the place, ushering an absolutely deafening set of loveless, shoegazed psychocandy. "I Know I'll See You" The effect is intentional. Guitarist/singer Oliver Ackermann owns and operates Death By Audio, an effects-pedal company whose gear has been used by [...]