Q&A with The Pains of Being Pure At Heart

Published in Interviews
Thursday, 22 March 2012 23:53
“You look really tired,” I told Kip Berman, frontman of New York-based The Pains of Being Pure at Heart when I was finally able to take a good look at him backstage before the band’s Kuala Lumpur show began. Exhausted and somewhat physically drained − thanks to a year on the road and countless flights − Berman commented on his scruffy facial and ...

 

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