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The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart and the Depreciation Guild at Lee's Palace in Toronto

Feb 17, 2009, 7:51am

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart and the Depreciation Guild at Lee's Palace in Toronto

Frank Yang When last week's The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart show was announced way back in December , I figured it would be a nice little underground thing (literally and figuratively) with myself and the small but loyal posse of Toronto shoegaze devotees in the subterranean environs of Neutral. Sure, their unabashedly retro but still nearly perfect fuzz-pop in theory had mass appeal, but the same could be said for most stuff I like but never manages to catch on - it's pop music. It's not difficult. [...]

Artists: Antony And The Johnsons, Asobi Seksu, Black Kids, Dark Was The Night, The Depreciation Guild, Grizzly Bear, M. Ward, The National, The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, School Of Seven Bells, TV On The Radio, WAVVES

Tags: the national, Concert Reviews, grizzly bear, M Ward, black kids, TV On The Radio, Antony and the Johnsons, asobi seksu, the pains of being pure at heart, The Depreciation Guild, school of seven bells, wavves, dark was the night, Don Mills

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