I had the opportunity to see Holy Fuck play last year here in Chicago and it was really one of the best shows I’ve seen all year. We were completely lifted to the ceiling and dropped on our asses to the floor by the surge of sound those boys produced! Everyone who’s been reading the music blogs has come across their song “Lovely Allen” but not many of you have heard these mash-ups of  Holy Fuck’s “Lovely Allen” and A Place To Bury Strangers‘  “To Fix The Gash In Your Head.” Not all mash-ups are meant to be, my dears, but when bands tour together and play together as these two bands have, it’s inevitable that they’re gonna create some fantastic work together.

APTBS’ second album, coming out on Mute Records is hugely anticipated, and if you’ve not got ahold of their debut album you really do need to hear this “wall-of-sound” shoegazy, psychodelica music. Buy it here…. and pick up Holy Fuck here if somehow you’ve missed the boat on that as well.

I’ve heard from APTBS’ manager (who also manages Shilpa Ray – that’s how I found him) that A Place to Bury Strangers are going to close out Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers Pianos residency in NYC on Wednesday Night. So, if you’re in the city, get yourself out to that venue and celebrate Steven’s birthday with this amazing lineup:

8 PM Sisters
9 PM Coin Under Tongue
10 PM Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers – reviewed on these pages, here
11 PM A Place to Bury Strangers

I’d kill to be in NYC this week, no lie! Darlings, this show is gonna kill. buy tickets to this show here!

APTBS Tour Dates:
Jun 5 2009 8:00P
Rock & Roll Hotel with Caverns & True Womanhood Washington DC, Washington DC
Jun 6 2009 8:00P
Metro Gallery with Dirty Projectors, Sky Drops, & Chairlift Baltimore, Maryland
Jun 13 2009 3:00P
Westword Music Showcase with Built to Spill, Cursive & the Fluid Denver, Colorado
Jun 27 2009 8:30P
Le Rock Dans Tous Ses Etats with Yeah Yeah Yeahs & Fucked Up Evreux, France

Holy Fuck Tour Dates:
May 27 2009 10:00P
Rock N Roll Hotel WASHINGTON, Washington DC
May 28 2009 10:00P
Grog Shop Cleveland, Ohio
May 29 2009 10:00P
The Magic Stick Detroit, Michigan
May 30 2009 10:00P
The Empty Bottle Chicago, Illinois
May 31 2009 10:00P
7th Street Entry Minneapolis, Minnesota
Jun 3 2009 10:00P
Nightlight Lounge Bellingham, Washington
Jun 4 2009 10:00P
The Doug Fir Portland, Oregon
Jun 5 2009 10:00P
Bottom of the Hill San Francisco, California
Jun 6 2009 10:00P
Troubadour Los Angeles, California
Jun 7 2009 10:00P
The Casbah San Diego, California
Jun 8 2009 10:00P
Plush Tuscon, Arizona
Jun 10 2009 10:00P
Lounge on Elm Dallas, Texas
Jun 11 2009 10:00P
Mohawk Austin, Texas
Jun 12 2009 10:00P
Walter’s Houston, Texas
Jun 13 2009 10:00P
Spanish Moon Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Jun 14 2009 10:00P
Bottletree Birmingham, Alabama
Jun 15 2009 10:00P
Drunken Unicorn Atlanta, Georgia
Jun 16 2009 10:00P
Pilot Light Knoxville, Tennessee