Video: A Place To Bury Strangers - "Gimme Acid"

By Frank Deserto Photo Credit: Natalie Kocsis Three cheers for NYC darlings A Place to Bury Strangers ! Though astute readers of this blog may have heard hints and quick quips of the band mentioned across countless back entries, there's an explosion of news and interest surrounding them today, as they've just been confirmed as an opener for Nine Inch Nails' upcoming summer tour. The band was hand-picked alongside Crystal Castles , Deerhunter , White Williams , [...]

You may have noticed A Place To Bury Strangers has been getting a lot of attention lately. Pitchfork gave their new album a glowing review and has been featuring the band pretty regularly since. So, of course, the blogging community at large started to really take notice. Really, it was about time. We've been following the band for a few years now and are excited to have them playing at our first ever official CMJ Music Marathon showcase on Saturday at The Delancey. Here's what we wrote about them when they played a [...]

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DOWNLOAD: A Place To Bury Strangers - Never Going Down (MP3) Sorry for not posting about this earlier - it sort of got lost in the holiday shuffle. BIG FREE GREAT OUTDOOR SHOW PARTY FESTIVAL ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE THIS SUNDAY ! The first annual ' LudFest ' block party/fundraiser will take place on Sunday, September 9th. 'LudFest' is a fundraiser for the 7th Precinct Community Council, with proceeds going toward charitable functions, such as giving toys out to needy members of our community, as [...]

• A Place To Bury Strangers - Never Going Down

Having experienced A Place To Bury Strangers ' live show a number of times over the years, we were admittedly a little nervous about shooting them live. We just weren't sure if their volume and video projection would translate well to tape in the still-somewhat-geurilla way we've been shooting bands. Maybe we got lucky? This first song is called "Gimme Acid" and sounds a little bit like three guys slowly tearing the world apart. It's not on any of the DIY EP's we have of the band, so we weren't previously as familiar with it as some [...]