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A Place To Bury Strangers a have a new album entitled Worship which comes out on June 26th via Dead Oceans.

The band issued this statement regarding their new album:

Every sound on the album is made by us and our tools; tools created by us, used on no other recordings, and purposefully built for this project. This is real. Some of it is the band being in complete control — bending, shaping and building the songs and the sounds. Other parts are the band relinquishing control and letting the songs and sounds take over and produce themselves. We are not trying to reinvent ourselves, but simply push ourselves further in all aspects of our music.

This is the second track on Worship. It is very A Place To Bury Strangers.

Listen.

Downloadable: You Are The One (mp3)

Worship will be available @ scdistribution.com in the not too distant future.

Out now is the A Place to Bury Strangers/Ceremony 7″, which is the first release in the Less Artists More Condos 7” Series.

Streamable: Burning Plastic (soundcloud)

You can purchase the 7″ @ famousclass.com. You can pay-what-you-want for the digital @ famousclass.bandcamp.com with all the proceeds going to the Ariel Panero Memorial Fund.

A Place To Bury Strangers is on tour now. More details @ deadoceans.com.

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BONUS: To Fix The Gash In Your Head (mp3)

So, GT favs A Place To Bury Strangers are getting ready to release their Dead Oceans debut. Onwards To The Wall should come out in February 2012. The EP has five brand new songs that will reportedly “melt the smile right off your face.” This here is track number two.

Listen.

Downloadable: So Far Away (mp3)

You should be able to preorder Onwards To The Wall soon @ scdistribution.com.

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BONUS: In Your Heart (mp3)

I recently heard that Parts & Labor are going on an “extended hiatus”. Here is their statement regarding the hiatus…

Dear friends,

This January, Parts & Labor turns 10 years old. We’re planning a string of celebratory shows, in which we play selected material from all of our full length albums, leading up to a big 10th anniversary blow out on February 24th, 2012.

Following these performances, we’re going to take an extended hiatus. We feel incredibly fortunate having had a decade of amazing experiences — making records and new friends, performing with so many killer musicians and artists. But it’s time for each of us to focus on personal projects for a while. We’re all going to continue to make music through other endeavors.

We’d like to thank everyone who’s supported us, bought our albums, seen us live, offered us a floor to sleep on. We love y’all. As a token of our esteem, we’re giving away a final song called “No Nostalgia (featuring Todd Bailey and Where’s The Party At)”, which was recorded during the Receivers sessions, but suddenly seems all too prescient.

Love,
Dan/BJ/Joe (Parts & Labor)

Here is that final song.

Listen.

Downloadable: No Nostalgia (mp3)

I don’t know about you, but when I heard the epic “Fractured Skies” for the first time I swear my brain melted. I had to find out who was playing, and I needed to hear more of it. This song restored my faith in punk rock. I hope it does the same for you.

Downloadable: Fractured Skies (mp3)

Instead of getting bummed out, we should all get excited for what Dan, BJ, and Joe will be creating in the future.

Upcoming NYC Shows:

• October 19th @ Union Pool (performing songs from Receivers) Jagjaguwar/Secretly Canadian/Dead Oceans CMJ Showcase w/ Exitmusic + Gauntlet Hair + Porcelain Raft + A Place to Bury Strangers
• November 18th @ Death by Audio (performing songs from Mapmaker) w/ Knyfe Hyts + Antimagic + Zulus
• December 16th @ Knitting Factory (performing songs from Stay Afraid) w/ Pterodactyl
• February 24th, 2012 @ 285 Kent Ave. (10th Anniversary Fest/Last Show) w/ Oneida + Talk Normal + more TBA

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BONUS: Changing of the Guard (Daytrotter Session) (mp3)

Noise poppers No Joy sent us these answers to our questions in this next installment of our q and also a series.

q: What is the last song you (really) heard?

a: I’m listening to the album Doppelgänger by Curve on repeat these days, another song that I can’t get enough of Lower Dens‘ “I Get Nervous”.

Listen:
Doppelgänger (youtube) by Curve
I Get Nervous (mp3) by Lower Dens

q: What is your favorite beverage?

a: Hot Toddys have been keeping me warm this winter, also a big fan of dirty martinis.

q: What is your favorite band to see live?

a: I don’t think I could ever get tired of watching A Place To Bury Strangers…

Listen:
To Fix The Gash In Your Head (mp3)
Ocean (mp3)
In Your Heart (mp3)

Watch: Deadbeat (Live @ DBA) (youtube)

q: What is your favorite venue in NYC (if applicable)?

a: We’re all big fans of Shea Stadium in Brooklyn, where we played our first NY show. Also, Death By Audio is an amazing space where we actually got to play with APTBS which was one of my favourite times seeing them, win-win.

q: What piece(s) of culture are you really really excited about right now?

a: 2010 was a really great year for music, I think we needed a revival of some sort cause the indie rock of the mid 2000′s was tired and boring. Granted there are a lot of new genres coming out, (what is “witch house“?) that might not warrant too much attention, I think there’s a few gems that are going to stick around and lead to more interesting bands. Other than that I’m really excited about the new Jonathan Franzen novel and Flavor of Love season 3.

q: Anything we should know about your latest project (whatever that might be)?

a: We’ve been touring constantly since our album came out so we haven’t had much time to work on anything, but we’ve been conceptualizing our next record and putting a lot of ideas together. The goal is basically to make it as unlistenable as possible, drawing from early UK dance and tribal beats, mixed with some goth, punk, psychedelic sounds and a lot of noise. We’ve also been trying to figure out how to use these two projectors we have to create an equally weird mix of visuals. We’re excited to get started on this.

Downloadables:
Heedless (mp3)
Hawaii (mp3)

NSFW Streamable: Hawaii (youtube)

You can purchase Ghost Blonde @ mexicansummer.com.

Ghost Blonde looks like this:

No Joy have no NYC area dates scheduled at this time. When they play, it looks something like this:

Be sure to check out the rest of the q and also a series… here.

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Beach Fossils are set to release their What a Pleasure EP on February 22nd via the Captured Tracks label. The band is crafting tunes that seem to be time-traveling in from a college radio station playing “modern rock” sometime in 1987. Bring on the jangle. Listen.

Downloadable: Calyer (mp3)

The EP looks like this:

Upcoming NYC Show:

January 29 @ Glasslands (IGIF 5 Years of Awesome Party) w/ A Place to Bury Strangers, Caveman, Guards, ARMS, Dreamers of the Ghetto

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