A Place To Bury Strangers :: West Coast Dates
A Place To Bury Strangers wrap up their tour with The Big Pink Thursday April 15th at the Casbah in San Diego. After a month long European tour in May, the band returns to the US with a headline tour of the West Coast. Chicago’s Light Pollution will join APTBS as main support.
“Fierce enough to shake bones” says the LA Times of APTBS live and Philadelphia Inquirer says; “Ackermann’s trio always kills onstage.” The Philly Daily News writes of their live show; “Foot pedals lined the stage, lending the band their signature mix of blissed-out shoegaze and dramatic new wave. The band barely spoke, but poured their passion into the tunes, with front man Oliver Ackermann hunched over his guitar like an animal, swinging his arms wildly. His vocals—when audible—sounded a bit like Ian Curtis, and the whole thing—when viewed primarily in flashes of strobe light—seemed overwhelming and surreal. Welcome to an alternate reality. Welcome to APTBS.”
A Place To Bury Strangers’ sophomore album “Exploding Head” was released on Mute October 6th 2009 and debuted at #1 Most Added at College Radio week of release. In their 4.5 star review of the album, Alternative Press says “Like Sonic Youth before them, the trio have perfected the fine balance of loud and quiet, the result being one of the finer melody-driven noise-rock records in recent memory.” “Exploding Head” continues to rake in the praise, making year-end top-10 accolades from The Portable Infinite and a nomination for Best Band In New York from the New York Press.
Most recently APTBS have contributed an original track “Don’t Save Your Love” for Amnesty International’s PEACE atlas project (http://www.buffetlibredjs.net/peace.html).
More tour dates……………………………………Hell YEAH!
FRI 6/18 VISALIA, CA CELLAR DOOR
SAT 6/19 FRESNO, CA AUDIE’S OLYMPIC
SUN 6/20 SAN FRANCISCO, CA RICKSHAW STOP
MON 6/21 PORTLAND, OR DOUG FIR
TUE 6/22 VANCOUVER, BC 917 MAIN
WED 6/23 SEATTLE, WA VERA PROJECT
FRI 6/25 SAN JOSE, CA KSJO @ BLANK CLUB
SAT 6/26 LOS ANGELES, CA SPACELAND
