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.
Richard Thompson Isn’t Just a Boomer Folk-Rock Guitar God
Kip Berman (The Natvral) dives deep into the folk legend’s new memoir.
Along for the Ride
Weather Diaries captures "the sound of a world continuing to spin despite our best efforts to arrest it."
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...
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...
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...
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...






