I have this thing for hot female members of indie rock bands. This distinguished list of mine has to include Peggy Wang from The Pains of Being Pure at Heart. A couple others jump to mind; Jenny Lewis of Rilo Kiley and Alexandra Lawnfrom Ra Ra Riot. The weird thing is they are all former girlfriends of mine, all relationships of which ended disastrously, but that is completely beside the point. (If you disagree with this statement in any way, please be sure to leave a comment to the post so I can be sure to immediately mark it as spam)
Moving on.
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart battles purity in the city that never sleeps (NYC) whilst remarkably re-sparking many’s interest in the distorted form of twee pop that was once fueled by bands like Rocketshipand the “Slumberland sound”, but faded quickly thereafter. I will say this, I like watching a bunch of geeks go nuts on stage. Unlike most modern day “pop-rock” stars, these bands actually do it for the love of the music and they are actually very talented musicians. I appreciate bands like The Pains of Being Pure at Heart who are all working day jobs, rehearsing at their offices and still finding time to reach out to their fan base. These guys are all over the Internet and a lot of that is self-initiated. Their predecessors, bands like Arcade Fire and others, started the same way and got themselves blogged all the way to the top. I see a similar fate for this band following their first LP (2009) which is self-titled on Slumberland/Fortuna Pop. With that, I will leave you with a couple of their tastier tracks.
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart will be playing The Echo is LA on 7/20. Click for tour dates.
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – Come Saturday
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The Pains of Being Pure Heart – Everything With You
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Click here to get (2009) The Pains of Being Pure at Heart.
If you are a hot female member of an indie rock band, feel free to contact me. I am a good dancer.
Although I’m not a hot female member of an indie rock band, I would like to stop by to give some props for this post. I definitely tried to buy tix to go see these guys in May but they sold out pretty quickly – oh well, guess I’ll just have to blast the album extra loud that night and just pretend I’m there.
I was going to post these guys myself- glad you did
They sound like everything I listened to in the late 80s / early 90s. Not only the songs but the production.. remarkable.