The Pains of Being Pure At Heart are an indie pop band from New York, NY. Their first album was a self-released EP which came out in 2007 through the Painbow label. Their debut self-titled full length album was released on February 3, 2009 via Slumberland Records. The band name comes from an unpublished children’s story that Charles Augustus Steen III, a friend of singer Kip Berman, wrote of the same title. In Spring, 2009, the band released a second single, "Young Adult Friction" from their debut album and plan a non-album release called Higher Than the Stars in Fall 2009 with an 'a' side which is called '103'.

Albums

• The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (Slumberland, 2009)

EPs

• The Pains of Being Pure at Heart EP (Painbow, 2007)
• Higher Than the Stars EP (Slumberland, 2009)

Singles

• The Pains of Being Pure at Heart/The Parallelograms Split 7" with The Parallelograms (Atomic Beat, 2008)
• Searching for the Now Volume 4 Split 7" with Summer Cats (Slumberland, 2008)
• Everything With You (Slumberland, 2008)
• Young Adult Friction (Slumberland, 2009)
• Come Saturday (Slumberland, 2009)

• The Pains of Being Pure at Heart at MySpace
• Strange Glue - Review of 'The Pains of Being Pure at Heart' album
• Interview and Review of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart on Aural States
• Interview with Kip Berman at Culturedeluxe