The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Archives

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

By Double Wish | March 16, 2023

The OC band catches up with Christoph and Anton Hochheim.

By Kip Berman | May 25, 2021

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

By Christoph Hochheim | July 25, 2017

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

By Martin Phillipps | April 28, 2014

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...

By Kip Berman | June 13, 2013

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

By Kip Berman | May 1, 2013

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...

By Kip Berman | February 28, 2013

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...