Brooklyn noise rockers A Place to Bury Strangers are releasing a new album, Pinned, this Friday (April 13) via Dead Oceans. Previously they shared a black & white horror movie-esque video for its first single and opening track, "Never Coming Back," as well as a video for the unrelenting "There's Only One of Us Left." Now they have shared a video for another new song, "Frustrated Operator." More
Brooklyn noise rockers A Place to Bury Strangers have announced a new album, Pinned, and shared a video for its first single and opening track, "Never Coming Back." Pinned is due out April 13 via Dead Oceans. More
Low, Ought, Gaz Coombes, Girl Ray, Sunflower Bean, U.S. Girls, Hinds, and More Added to the List
Jan 10, 2018By Christopher Roberts
SXSW (aka South By Southwest), the annual conference/festival in Austin, Texas, previously announced the first round of 2018 musical performers, as well as the second round. Now they have announced the third round of artists to be performing during the music portion (there's also film and interactive portions) in 2018 and it's a long list featuring 570 artists! More
"Our First 100 Days" Will Include a New Song Every Day for the First 100 Days of Donald Trump's Presidency
Feb 15, 2017By Christopher Roberts
"Our First 100 Days" is a new anti-President Donald Trump project. The good folks behind the "30 Days, 30 Songs" anti-Trump campaign during the election have teamed up with Secretly Group for "Our First 100 Days." More
Noise-rockers A Place to Bury Strangers have revealed the video for their single "We've Come So Far." It contains footage of the last show at legendary NYC club Death By Audio and is directed by the venue's co-founder, Matt Conboy. More
Following through with last week's cryptic video, Brooklyn outfit A Place To Bury Strangers announced a new album for 2015, Transfixiation, the follow up to their 2012 LP Worship. The album will hit shelves February 17th via Dead Oceans. More
With "Leaving Tomorrow," the third single off their recently-released full-length Worship, A Place To Bury Strangers has released a self-produced video that is as awesome as it is amateur. More
DeVotchKa, The Dears, and J Mascis Slated to Play the Fest
Nov 23, 2010By Lauren Barbato
Today, SXSW released a generous batch of bands that will be joining A Place to Bury Strangers, Asobi Seksu, Nite Jewel, and Erykah Badu, to name a few, in the numerous live venues of downtown Austin. More
A Place To Bury Strangers will headline a tour of the West Coast mid-June in support of their album Exploding Head, released last October. Chicago’s Light Pollution will join the band. We have the dates. More
Brooklyn's A Place to Bury Strangers and their U.K. shoegazing cousins The Big Pink will tour America together next spring. New A Place To Bury Strangers single out today.
Work With David Bowie/Paul Simon Engineer Andy Smith
Jul 21, 2009By Kyle Lemmon
If you were to put your head up to a cement mixer for several hours you might get close to the sound of the industrial-tinged experimental rockers A Place to Bury Strangers. Keep at it and eventally you may burst a blood vessel in your forehead or worse. Strangers' type of glorious din requires such a warning label. So it comes with no surprise that the cacophonous New York trio's sophomore longplayer is entitled Exploding Head—out October 6th on Mute. More
Fans storm M.I.A.'s stage and Glasvegas cancel due to a hospitalized singer
Apr 20, 2009By Mark Redfern
Day two of Coachella 2009 failed to top day one, in part because of a weak headliner. But the second day did feature strong sets from M.I.A., Jenny Lewis, and Fleet Foxes. Fans storm M.I.A.'s stage and Glasvegas cancel due to a hospitalized singer. More
Under the Radar articles on Those Performing This Weekend
Apr 16, 2009By Mark Redfern
We have posted to our website select previous Under the Radar interviews with some of the great artists playing the Coachella festival this weekend. If you're heading out to the festival, then check out these interviews at the links below to either give you a primer on an unfamiliar artist or remind you why they are one of your favorites whose set you will definitely be catching. Even if you're not hitting the desert festival, this is a great collection of back issue content newly posted to the site. More
The set times for Coachella have finally been posted to the festival website. With a nerve-shattering 3 days to go, festival goers can finally agonize over conflicts, geography and meal times. More
Oliver Ackermann on Disastrous Dates, Streaming Music, Mainstream Pop, and Star Wars
Feb 03, 2016By Mark Redfern
For Under the Radar's 13th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to 2015. We asked them about their favorite albums of the year and their thoughts on various notable 2015 news stories involving either the music industry or world events, as well as some quirkier personal questions. Here are some answers from Oliver Ackermann of A Place to Bury Strangers. The band's latest album, Transfixiation, came out in 2015 via Dead Oceans.
After watching Flashdance, there can be a lingering desire to live in a warehouse. Jennifer Beals’ character brings a cache to making a storage space that is meant for inanimate objects your home. This desire is rekindled every time that movie airs on television, and A Place to Bury Strangers’ Oliver Ackermann is not immune to it. More
For Under the Radar’s 8th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to 2010. Pick up a copy of Under the Radar’s Year End issue for interviews with: The Antlers, Bon Iver, Caribou,Club 8, Delphic, Rose Elinor Dougall, Gayngs, Hot Chip, Lost in the Trees, Love is All, The Love Language, Mogwai, of Montreal, Okkervil River, Yoko Ono, Owen Pallett, Plants and Animals, Mark Ronson, Superchunk, Tame Impala, Vampire Weekend, Sharon Van Etten, and Vivian Girls. Here’s a survey from A Place to Bury Strangers. More
At 3:32 of Pinned's anthemic opening track, "Never Coming Back," a single guitar tone with the deceptive appearance of an army decimating any enemy within its radius of destruction ties A Place to Bury Strangers' past to its present. More
A Place to Bury Strangers' noisy fuzz is its trademark. On the trio's fourth album, Transfixiation, this working noise-rock formula is not much changed. Taking cues from the Brooklyn-based, "nu-gazer" threesome's ear-splitting live shows, which primarily take place in complete darkness, Transfixiation sounds like it was recorded in such a void-and that is not at all a bad thing. More
The self-proclaimed loudest band in New York sure did run out of things to say by their third record. To be fair, Worship speaks through a tremendous instrumental palette, one that suits and occasionally upgrades the tradition of post-punk songscapes that birthed it. More
With 2009's Exploding Head, A Place to Bury Strangers screeched past the sophomore slump, receiving roughly the same critical response they did for their debut—a handful of music scribes who couldn't handle the obvious influences, and a handful who welcomed another take on the 1-2-3s of JAMCs and MBVs. More
