The Pains of Being Pure at Heart visited the Teragram Ballroom in support of their new album “The Echo of Pleasure,” and mixed in a Suede cover and a guest turn from Roxanne Clifford of Veronica Falls.
Also on Wednesday: Jon Bellion, Benjamin Booker, Alison Moyet, Grizzly Bear, Pom Poms, Midland, J Roddy Walston, Spindrift, HAWAI, Minnow, Sam Amidon
Incoming: Music Tastes Good, Mondo Cozmo, Bleachers, Paramore, Banks, Black Kids, Perfume Genius, Bonobo, Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Grizzly Bear, Facial, The xx, Kali Uchis, Interpol, Battles, Chelsea Wolfe, the Shins, Television, Lauren Ruth Ward, Happy Hollows, Ride, Haunted Summer, Imagine Dragons, Robyn Hitchcock, Nosaj Thing
The Pain of Being Pure at Heart’s fourth album, “The Echo of Pleasure,” is out in July. They visit L.A.’s Teragram Ballroom in September.
Behold the video for the title track from the Pains of Being Pure at Heart’s new EP. Hell, apparently, is where everything is desaturated and stylists take the day off.
Recap and photos by Michelle Shiers The New Pornographers certainly know how to master longevity – in terms of career and set length. Behind their sixth album “Brill Bruisers,” the Canadian band performed 27 songs including two encores Friday night at The Wiltern. Though a few of the members now have their own solo ventures, […]
Wednesday night’s sold-out show at the Troubadour was a fine moment for the Pains of Being Pure at Heart and their fans. Even with another live lineup change, frontman Kip Berman returned to his true twee influences for sweet and pure pop on forthcoming album “Days of Abandon.” Slated for a release on May 13 […]
I’ll have my Wednesday extra-large, please: ‣ Tycho does the first of two nights at the Fonda Theatre behind the new album “Awake.” Gardens and Villa supports. ‣ Portland sextet Black Prairie – which features Chris Funk, Nate Query, Jenny Conlee and John Moen from the Decemberists along with Annalisa Tornfelt and guitarist Jon Neufeld – plays […]
Incoming: Morrissey, Tom Jones, tUnE-yArDs, Air Life, In the Valley Below, the Mercy Beat, Jarell Perry, the Acetates, Rey Pila, Todd Snider, Hamilton Leithauser, Max Collins, the Bad Plus, Ray LaMontagne, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Jenny Lewis, Needtobreathe, Dead Sara, Afternoons, Kina Grannis, O.A.R., Tycho, Ingrid Michaelson, Acid Mothers Temple, the Pains of Being Pure at […]
The last time we heard from Ablebody, the moniker under which Christoph Hochheim records, the L.A. singer-songwriter had just self-released his debut EP “All My Everybody.” Hochheim has since rejoined the Pains of Being Pure at Heart on tour in support of the New York band’s forthcoming “Days of Abandon,” but that doesn’t mean Ablebody […]
