A Place to Bury Strangers playing the HI-FI, Oct. 20, 2018. A Place to Bury Strangers are a New York City-based American noise rock band, composed of Oliver Ackermann, Dion Lunadon and Lia Simone Braswell. The band, commonly known by the initials APTBS, play a heavy, atmospheric wall of sound-influenced blend of psychedelic rock, shoegaze and space rock.