A Place to Bury Strangers at 917 Main

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      Oliver Ackermann doesn’t really want to hurt you. If you walk away from a show by his Brooklyn-based band, A Place to Bury Strangers, with permanent hearing loss, it’s not his fault. Oh, sure, he does sonically perverse things like creating a feedback loop between his guitar and amplifier and then sticking his vocal microphone into the middle of it, thus producing a sensation that’s probably not unlike having an MK3A2 concussion grenade go off on either side of your head. (And you wondered why the group’s latest album is called Exploding Head??) So the guy’s something of a sonic terrorist, but he also writes great pop songs. Really, really loud ones, some of which A Place to Bury Strangers will play at 917 Main on Tuesday (June 22). It’s an occasion that calls for industrial-grade hearing protection, and if you fail to heed this warning, don’t blame Ackermann. The guy’s probably deaf by now anyway, so it’s not as if he’ll hear your complaints.

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