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The Big Pink: Decidedly Urban
The Big Pink’s first unofficial show in NYC, a VIP night at Mercury Lounge last June, was almost their last on American soil. Though main members Robbie Furze and Milo Cordell had just spent time in the city producing A Brief History of Love at Electric Lady Studios…
A Place to Bury Strangers Grabs The Big Pink for Spring 2010 Tour
“New York’s loudest band” is set to hit the road with one of West London’s noisiest for one of the most appealing bills of Spring 2010, if a big, bad wall-of-sound is your bag. Kicking off their extensive North American trek on March 10th in San Francisco
A Place To Bury Strangers: Sweet Melodies of the Ear-Shattering Kind
The term “ear-splitting shoegaze” may seem a sly oxymoron, but Brooklyn’s A Place To Bury Strangers have never denied there is some truth to that accolade, as well as the one deeming them “New York’s loudest band.” Their own moniker, “Total Sonic Annihilation”, prominently displayed on their MySpace page, confirms they’re proud of their dangerous decibels…
A Place To Bury Strangers to Release Their Exploding Head on Mute
A Place To Bury Strangers, fresh from their sun-defyingly dark and stormy set at the Siren Festival 2009, will release their second album, Exploding Head, on Mute Records this October 6, 2009. They went in with the collective idea of making the “craziest” recording ever. The result? Over forty captivating minutes of pain that comes [...]
The Village Voice Siren Festival 2009: Don’t Call it a Comeback
It was no polar expedition, but what polar opposites bookended this year’s bill at the Village Voice Siren Festival! Kicking it off was the sweet, twee rockers aptly known as Tiny Masters of Today and to top off the evening, a gangbuster of a set by steady stalwarts Built to Spill on one stage, and [...]
Siren Music Festival Announces Additions to Lineup
Additional performers have just been announced for the 9th annual Village Voice Siren Music Festival taking place on Saturday, July 18 at Coney Island. New artists to the bill include A Place to Bury Strangers, Thee Oh Sees, Tiny Masters of Today, Justine D, and the DeadHeat DJs.
What’s CMJ? Crashin’ In and Sentimentalist Magazine Party 10.19.07
Our friends at Crashin’ In had the fabulously insane idea of putting on a marathon-of-a-party during CMJ week. Naturally, we had to be a part of it. We had some of the top bands in town from near and far playing on our tiny(ish) Galapagos stage. Foals, Jay Reatard, Foreign Born, Blackstrap, Chairlift, Shock Cinema, [...]
