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The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

Double Wish and Always You Get Nostalgic for The Strokes, Fingerboarding, and More

The OC band catches up with Christoph and Anton Hochheim.

March 16, 2023

Richard Thompson Isn’t Just a Boomer Folk-Rock Guitar God

Kip Berman (The Natvral) dives deep into the folk legend’s new memoir.

May 25, 2021

Along for the Ride

Weather Diaries captures "the sound of a world continuing to spin despite our best efforts to arrest it."

July 25, 2017

Martin Phillipps (the Chills) Talks The Pains of Being Pure at Heart’s Days of Abandon

OK — here goes me listening to Days of Abandon by The Pains of Being Pure at Heart. I believe that two albums preceded this one and...

April 28, 2014

Kip Berman (The Pains of Being Pure at Heart) Talks the Pastels’ Slow Summits

Like Sarah Records, anoraks and the oft-cited but mostly misremembered NME mixtape C86, the Pastels have become shorthand for something...

June 13, 2013

Kip Berman (The Pains of Being Pure at Heart) Talks the Killers’ Battle Born

The Strokes were meant to be the definitive American rock band at the turn of this century. Then, about two weeks before the intended U.S. release...

May 1, 2013

Kip Berman (The Pains of Being Pure at Heart) Talks Kim Jung Mi’s Now

There’s a small bar in Seoul whose shelves are lined with Korean LPs from the ‘60s and ‘70s. My friend Kelly Pratt had played Seoul back when he...

February 28, 2013