Best New Bands » the pains of being pure at heart https://www.bestnewbands.com News, Reviews and Interviews Wed, 07 Feb 2018 02:08:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Bonus Tracks, Fall Tour https://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/pains-pure-heart-bonus-tracks-fall-tour/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/pains-pure-heart-bonus-tracks-fall-tour/#comments Wed, 24 Sep 2014 19:25:17 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=19094 New York – Indie pop band The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart have just released a deluxe edition of their 2014 LP, Days Of Abandon, including five new songs. In his review when the album was originally released earlier this summer, Best New Bands’ Corey Bell wrote: “The album reads like a love letter

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  1. Album Review: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, “Days of Abandon” San Francisco – Like any good band, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart—comprised of singer/guitarist Kip Berman and the various, oft-changing system of musicians that orbit him—have evolved their sound.  Over the past several years, Pains (for the sake...
  2. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart’s “Belong” Puts Them In Another League Today, Brooklyn’s The Pains of Being Pure at Heart return with Belong, their second full-length effort. The band, who found critical success with whimsical and subtle guitar-led indie pop songs like “Higher Than Stars” and “Come Saturday” seem to have...
  3. PHOX – Back On Tour This Fall With Paolo Nutini, The Head & The Heart New York – Wisconsin’s PHOX are excited to announce that they have confirmed a run of tour dates with Paolo Nutini, followed by a string of dates with The Head and The Heart. After dazzling audiences on a largely sold-out US...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/pains-pure-heart-bonus-tracks-fall-tour/feed/ 0 Album Review: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, “Days of Abandon” https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-pains-pure-heart-days-abandon/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-pains-pure-heart-days-abandon/#comments Fri, 20 Jun 2014 05:51:05 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/wp_bnb/?p=17238 San Francisco – Like any good band, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart—comprised of singer/guitarist Kip Berman and the various, oft-changing system of musicians that orbit him—have evolved their sound.  Over the past several years, Pains (for the sake of brevity, I will refer to the band as such within the confines of this

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  2. Q&A with The Pains of Being Pure At Heart “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...
  3. Album Review: The Head And The Heart, Let’s Be Still Seattle – It was hard to resist the catchy beauty of The Head and The Heart’s first album back in 2011. It might not have been the best-written collection of songs or the most groundbreaking but, really, it was a...
]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-pains-pure-heart-days-abandon/feed/ 0 Q&A with The Pains of Being Pure At Heart https://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/draft-qa-with-the-pains-of-being-pure-at-heart/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/draft-qa-with-the-pains-of-being-pure-at-heart/#comments Fri, 23 Mar 2012 06:53:25 +0000 “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

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]]> https://www.bestnewbands.com/festivals/nyc-popfest-2011-is-this-weekend/feed/ 0 The Pains of Being Pure at Heart’s “Belong” Puts Them In Another League https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/the-pains-of-being-pure-at-hearts-belong-puts-them-in-another-league/ https://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/the-pains-of-being-pure-at-hearts-belong-puts-them-in-another-league/#comments Tue, 29 Mar 2011 22:25:26 +0000 Today, Brooklyn’s The Pains of Being Pure at Heart return with Belong, their second full-length effort. The band, who found critical success with whimsical and subtle guitar-led indie pop songs like “Higher Than Stars” and “Come Saturday” seem to have found their stride in this record, which is airy and open but maintains the whispery

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