The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Higher Than The Stars EP

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart have certainly flourished in 2009 with a fine début album and a couple of cracking 7″ singles. Having followed the bands progress from their self released debut EP and their first week long UK tour in a freezing February last year to a sell out show at the [...]

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Free Download Single From Tender Trap

Tender Trap have released a free single via Fortuna Pop today. It’s called Fireworks and is backed with Grand National. You can download it free here in exchange for an e-mail address.
The band play How Does It Feel To Be Loved? this coming Thursday at the Brixton Jamm which is free entry.
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The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Come Saturday

The Pains lift a third single from their excellent self titled debut long player. Come Saturday sees them at their fuzziest and doing their best to sound like a Lazy Records era My Bloody Valentine. It’s not as raw as the version released by Slumberland on their Searching For The Now series last year [...]

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The Pains Are Aiming Higher

Yesterday The Pains Of being Pure At Heart released the latest single to be taken from their acclaimed self titled debut. Come Saturday is backed with Side Ponytail coming in limited edition 7″ green vinyl and digital formats. It has been released jointly by Slumberland Records (US) and Fortuna Pop (UK).
If it’s new material you [...]

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The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – Young Adult Friction

Taken from their self-titled debut LP, Young Adult Friction is the tale of a sexual encounter in a library with regrettable outcomes for both parties. It’s the story of a boy who loses his virginity to a girl who still hasn’t got over her ex-boyfriend. So after the sexual encounter they both decide to go [...]

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The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – New Single

What better way to kick off the relaunch of indie-mp3 with news of a new single from The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart. Young Adult Friction is taken from the self titled debut album and is backed with a brand new track titled Ramona on the flip side.
The single, which is a joint release [...]

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The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

When the next indie pop revival comes around in 20 years time people will be hunting down the early releases by The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart in the same way today’s revivalists hunt down records on Sarah or Caff.
The band, championed by bloggers on both sides of the Atlantic over the past two [...]

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