The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart cover The Magnetic Fields
Twee dreams are made of these! The Pains of Being Pure at Heart have covered The Magnetic Fields‘ Jeremy and it’s as warm, fuzzy and feel-good as you can imagine. You’ll be able to get it for your very own October 9th via Slumberland.
Eyes Downward Cast: The vanished scene of shoegaze
Today’s history lesson focuses on the perils of looking down. Shoegaze is an oddity. Easily described and circumscribed, it is a sub-genre of alternative music that flourished mostly in England between 1990-1995, and sank almost without a trace under the rising swell of Grunge in the US and Britpop (a la Suede) in the UK....
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: Good friends, good times, good music
Pals Kip Berman (guitars/vocals), Peggy Wang (keyboard/vocals), Alex Naidus (bass) and Kurt Feldman (drums) are The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: a lighthearted indie-pop band from New York City with a deceptively heavy name. Their solid and sincere 2009 eponymous debut album caught the ears of production and mixing team Alan Moulder (Smashing Pumpkins,...