The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

Imagine if Stephen Pastel actually threw Aggi off the bridge and married Black Tambourine’s Pam Berry and had four babies that formed a pop band.

Meet The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, a New York four-piece who plays sweet & noisy POP with boy/girl vocals, blissful melodies and blistering drums.

Here are some bands The Pains of Being Pure at Heart really like (but maybe don’t sound quite like): The Pastels, The Exploding Hearts, Black Tambourine, The Vaselines, The Ramones, Teenage Fanclub, My Bloody Valentine, Nirvana, Rocketship.

Here are our friends bands that we think you’ll like: The Crystal Stilts, The Depreciation Guild, Pants Yell!, Zaza, The Manhattan Love Suicides, Knight School, Ringo Deathstarr, My Teenage Stride, Titus Andronicus, A Sunny Day in Glasgow, The Lil’ Hospital, The Besties.