A poet, essayist, critic, and native Oklahoman, T. Cole Rachel lives in Brooklyn in an apartment filled with ceramic cats. He is a frequent contributor to Interview, V, OUT, The New York Times Magazine, Dossier, Numero, and The Fader, is also a DJ, a part-time bartender, and is known to wear a highly-prized and often-photograhed [...]

Kip Berman can bowl, sure, but he’s best known for crooning the Pains Of Being Pure At Heart’s dreamy “life affirming” pop songs. When we wrote about “Higher Than The Stars,” I mentioned a forthcoming “Say No To Love”/“Lost Saint” single. It’s out. This...

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart turn in a slick black and white and orange video for the title track from their Higher Than The Stars EP. It was directed by Dylan Mulick and features the band performing, a lonesome girl wandering, and a fairly creepy but game-changing party that introduce new colors/lots of [...]

Before Hooray For Earth's US tour with Surfer Blood and The Pains of Being Pure at Heart this summer, the band will give a special stripped-down KEXP "Cutting Room" performance of songs

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart have been confirmed to headline the second NME Radar Live gig, which takes place in London on December 7.