On its excellent self-titled debut album there's a mild hauteur drawn from new wave, a thickness derived from shoegaze-pop and a pulse passed down from dance-punk. Read More
Maybe it's just adrenaline, but I feel like this whole year has been such a rush. Read More
From its title to its punchline, this song is clever, a coming-of-age-in-a-library tale with bodies pressed against the spines of books. Read More
The gang at Fortuna Pop! are distributing LP and CD versions of the latest effort from the indie shoegaze/C86 pop darlings The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart , an EP called Higher Than The Stars . Read More
Another showing from the NYC headliners whose SXSW performances left critics drooling over their blend of Jarvis Cocker-like grooviness and Smiths-styled jangly miserabilism. Read More
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart have been one of the coolest things to come out of 2009. Read More
New York-based musicians Alex Naidus (bass), Kip Berman (guitar/vocals), Kurt Feldman (drums), and Peggy Wang-East ... Read the full The Pains of Being Pure at Heart bio.