The Pains of Being Pure At Heart

The duo are identical twins Christoph and Anton Hochheim who have played together in The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Depreciation Guild and other groups.

Kurt Feldman (Depreciation Guild, Pains of Being Pure at Heart) is a master of ’80s pop sounds as you can hear on the LP’s glistening first single.

Artists covering other artists LPs on limited edition vinyl.

UK band Flowers released their new album, Everybody’s Dying to Meet You, back in February via Kanine/Fortuna Pop. It’s a little fuzzier than their debut while still retaining their minimal, heavenly sound. (Rachel Kenedy’s gossamer voice soars as always.) If you haven’t checked that out, you can stream the whole LP below. The band have […]

The lineup for Force Field PR’s 10th Anniversary show, which happens at Baby’s All Right on March 3, has been announced: Lou Barlow, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Blow, Guerilla Toss, Neon Indian (DJ), plus more special guests to be announced…

TEEN have shared a third track from their excellent third album, Love Yes, which is out February 19 via Carpark. Where “Tokyo” and “All About Us” were on the pop side, “Please” is more contemplative and ethereal…

Bevery have announced details of their second album, which is titled The Blue Swell and will be out May 6 via Kanine Records. The band has gone through major changes since their debut — cofounder Frankie Rose moved to California and Drew Citron kept the band going herself with producer Scott Rosenthal and a rotating group of musicians, including former Drums member Johnny Pierce…

Philadelphia’s Mercury Girls won the battle over use of their name (Toronto’s Mercury Girls are now called Pavilion). With that settled, look for a 7″ out early next year on venerable indiepop label Slumberland…

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart recently released their new “Hell” single that comes with Felt and James covers (order yours), and now they did a one-off cover of another artist: Tori A…

Alex Bleeker and the Freaks begin their tour in Connecticut tonight (11/11) and it hits NYC Thursday (11/12) at Brooklyn Bowl. Since we last spoke, several guests were added to that s…