Brooklyn’s A Place to Bury Strangers are releasing their seventh studio album, Synthesizer,on Friday via Dedstrange. Now they have shared the album’s fourth single, “Fear of Transformation,” via a music video. More
Plus Sunday (1994), Elias Rønnenfelt, W.H. Lung, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Sep 20, 2024By Mark Redfern
Welcome to the 30th Songs of the Week of 2024. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, Marina Mallin, Matt the Raven, and Scotty Dransfield helped me decide what should make the list. We considered over 30 songs and narrowed it down to a Top 10. More
Brooklyn’s A Place to Bury Strangers are releasing their seventh studio album, Synthesizer,on October 4 via Dedstrange. Now they have shared the album’s third single, “Bad Idea,” via a music video. More
Plus Wild Pink, Katy J Pearson, Charly Bliss, MEMORIALS, and a Wrap-up of the Last Two Weeks’ Other Notable New Tracks
Aug 16, 2024By Mark Redfern
Welcome to the 26th Songs of the Week of 2024. This week’s list covers the last two weeks, as at the end of last week I was on a mini vacation after finishing up our new print issue. This week Andy Von Pip, Matt the Raven, Scotty Dransfield, and Stephen Humphires helped me decide what should make the list. We considered over 40 songs and narrowed it down to a Top 15. More
Brooklyn’s A Place to Bury Strangers are releasing their seventh studio album, Synthesizer,on October 4 via Dedstrange. Now they have shared the album’s second single, “You Got Me,” via a music video. More
Plus Pixey, Lunar Vacation, Sampha and Little Simz, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Jul 19, 2024By Mark Redfern (with Andy Von Pip and Marina Malin)
Welcome to the 23rd Songs of the Week of 2024. This week’s list covers the last week. This week Andy Von Pip, Marina Malin, Mark Moody, Scott Dransfield, and Stephen Humphries helped me decide what should make the list. We considered over 20 songs and narrowed it down to a Top 12. More
Brooklyn’s A Place to Bury Strangers have announced their seventh studio album, Synthesizer,which is due on October 4 via Dedstrange. Today, they have released their lead single “Disgust” with a video. More
Plus Jenny Hval, A Place to Bury Strangers, Darkside, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Jan 21, 2022By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)
Welcome to the third Songs of the Week of 2022. This week there were some exciting new album announcements (Hatchie, Daniel Rossen, Melody’s Echo Chamber, Jenny Hval) and Beach House put out another five songs from their new album. More
Brooklyn noise rock band A Place to Bury Strangers have shared a video for their new single “I’m Hurt.” It is the latest release from their forthcoming sixth studio album, See Through You, which will be out on February 4 via Dedstrange. The video was directed by Dementer and Jug Face filmmaker Chad Crawford Kinkle, and is the first in a series of videos by the band, each of which will feature direction by a different horror filmmaker. More
Plus Shame, Tame Impala, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Dec 10, 2021By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)
Welcome to the 46th Songs of the Week of 2021. As the Christmas holidays creep in there are fewer new tracks of note to choose from. This week’s list is mainly populated with reliable established artists, rather than new up and comers. More
See Through You Due Out February 4, 2022 on Dedstrange
Dec 07, 2021By Joey Arnone
Brooklyn noise rock band A Place to Bury Strangers have shared a video for their new single “Hold On Tight.” It is the latest release from their forthcoming sixth studio album, See Through You, which will be out on February 4, 2022 via Dedstrange. More
Plus Sweeping Promises, Just Mustard, Aeon Station, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Nov 19, 2021By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)
Welcome to the 44th Songs of the Week of 2021. It was a fairly slow week for new songs, perhaps with Thanksgiving impending next week, but we found 10 we liked. More
See Through You Due Out February 4, 2022 on Dedstrange
Nov 16, 2021By Joey Arnone
Brooklyn noise rock band A Place to Bury Strangers have announced the release of their sixth studio album, See Through You, which will be out on February 4, 2022 via Dedstrange. The band have also shared a video for the album’s lead single, “Let’s See Each Other.” More
“Lifesize” Out Now via Sub Pop as Part of their Singles Club
Sep 14, 2021By Joey Arnone
English rock band TV Priest have shared a new song titled “Lifesize.” It is being released as a part of Sub Pop Singles Club, Vol. 6, and is available on 7-inch vinyl along with another new song, “All Thing.” The band has also announced dates for an upcoming tour in support of A Place to Bury Strangers. More
Re-Pinned Due Out October 5 via Dead Oceans; Includes Remixes by Trentemøller, No Age, METZ, and others
Jun 29, 2018By Christopher Roberts
Brooklyn noise rockers A Place to Bury Strangers released a new album, Pinned, back in April via Dead Oceans. Now they have announced Re-Pinned, a new album of remixes of the songs from Pinned, and have shared one of its tracks, a Slowdive remix of “Frustrated Operator.” More
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 22, 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 21, 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
As a band constantly in transition and seeking to explore then push new boundaries, it shouldn’t come as any surprise that Synthesizer does exactly that and more. More
Longevity is a facet that can’t be bought, yet for A Place to Bury Strangers it’s something that comes naturally. This is primarily due to the fact that they’ve never stood still, preferring instead to constantly evolve to the point where no two records ever sound the same. More
It might be over a decade (May 2008 to be exact) since A Place to Bury Strangers first unleashed their brutally uncompromising show on the city of Nottingham. 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
