A Place to Bury Strangers + Grooms

A Place to Bury Strangers plays the type of gothy, shoegaze-friendly rock that we immediately associate with those black-clad misfits in ’80s teen movies. On its latest, 2009's Exploding Head, the band traded its beloved clouds of dense distortion for a softer approach. Opening are Grooms, who churn out tense, noisy art punk in a Sonic Youth vein.