Win Tickets: Two Shows Saturday Night @ Holocene: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart & Booty BASSment
November 3, 2010 — PDXPIPELINEUPDATE: We have a pair of tickets ($25+) for The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Glasser, and Weekend at Holocene on Saturday night. To Win Tickets, comment on this post why you would like to attend. Winners will be drawn & emailed Friday, November 5th @ 3PM.
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Our partners at Holocene have two (very different) shows on Saturday night. The early show (7-11PM) features indie superstars The Pains of Being Pure at Heart plus Glasser and Weekend. Then, at 11PM, the monthly dance party Booty BASSment takes over. Full info below & on Holocene.org.
From our partners at Holocene:
Holocene presents…
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Glasser
Weekend
Saturday, November 6, 7pm – 11PM
COST: $13.00 advance, $15.00 day of show
TICKETS: Brown Paper Tickets + Jackpot Records
Drawing on the sparkling legacy of the best of 80s and 90s pop, New York City indie pop group The Pains of Being Pure at Heart update the timeless noisy pop template with a thoroughly modern viewpoint and a very distinctive, playful personality. There is something instantly identifiable about a Pains tune, and it is the essential “rightness” of their records that has captured the attention of pop fans around the world.
The band had quite a 2009, and 2010 is shaping up to be even better. They released their self-titled debut in February 2009 to universal acclaim, racking up features in magazines like Spin, Rolling Stone and NME, earning Best New Music status from Pitchfork, and touring the US and Europe non-stop. They began 2010 with a month-long tour of Japan, New Zealand and Australia, and this summer, they released a fantastic new single entitled “Say No To Love”. It's a big step forward for the band, combining The Pains' now-trademark youthful energy and infectious song craft with a more considered approach to the studio.
Glasser is the one-woman orchestra of Cameron Mesirow. Her debut album, Ring, is a singular work. It moves like the wake of a small boat in a still lake: each song its own, but leading to, and becoming, the next. Glasser entered public consciousness in 2009 with her debut EP, Apply, on True Panther, and a UK-only 12″ on the Young Turks label. The intimate, luxurious music resonated widely, despite being made by Cameron, alone and in airplanes and shoe stores, on Garage Band. Her EPs and live shows earned her attention from producers and opening tour slots with the XX, Jonsi, and Delorean.
The New York Times said “these are beautiful 
songs, both sweet and abstract, deeply felt and anodyne.” Somehow, in Glasser's efforts to make sense of her world, she has made an album with the universal lure of both a lullaby and a hymn. Check out this gorgeous new video for “Mirrorage” by Glasser
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BOOTY BASSMENT
Ryan Poulsen
Beyonda
Maxx Bass
Bass is our biz, and our biz be boomin'! FREE BEFORE MIDNIGHT, then $3!
TIME: 11pm
COST: $3.00 day of show
World domination, butts, drank, money, records, but mostly butts. From its humble beginnings in 2002 as a small birthday party for a few friends, Booty Bassment has grown into one of California's best rap-based dance clubs. Veteran DJs Dimitri Dickinson and Ryan Poulsen have turned this night into a success with monthly installments in San Diego and San Francisco, and now Portland!
November 3, 2010 at 14:17
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November 3, 2010 at 16:48
I would love to win tickets to this show because I’m a child of the 80′s and I haven’t been to a show in awhile. I really love the bands name and they could have a brand new fan if I win these fabulous tickets. I think these are good reasons to win!
November 3, 2010 at 17:42
Great bands! I picked up TPOBPAH album last year and have been really enjoying it. Holocene is a sweet venue, too.
November 3, 2010 at 17:55
I’d love to see The Pains of Being Pure at Heart and Glasser. I’m unemployed as of about an hour ago, so if I got these tickets you would be keeping a kid off the street. You know, because of the whoring and drugs that happens out there.
November 3, 2010 at 21:00
i’d love to see the pains of pure at heart because my best memories of the last last year is biking through mexico while listening to them on my ipod. i really want to see them live. cheers!
November 4, 2010 at 03:05
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November 4, 2010 at 05:45
I need to go because I clearly am NOT pure at heart, and need to learn a thing or two about the pains of it.
November 4, 2010 at 08:38
This will be my first Saturday off with my girlfriend in three years and she desperately wants to go to this show; it would be a nice surprise for her.
November 4, 2010 at 09:45
i wanna see these bands!
November 4, 2010 at 13:33
I’d kill to see them at hollerscene.
November 4, 2010 at 14:20
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November 4, 2010 at 15:35
i want the tickets. because pdx has not been good to me lately. and i don’t want seattle to suck me back in.
November 4, 2010 at 16:38
I wanna see POBPAT ’cause in addition to being talented they’re just so darn cute.
November 4, 2010 at 16:40
I need ‘so I can get away from this baby for a night. Plus, I’ll spend a lot of money on booze.
November 4, 2010 at 16:42
This sounds amazing…I’d like to go!! :)
THANK YOU!!!!!!!
November 4, 2010 at 16:43
I’d love to win tix to The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart. I mean, c’mon, have you heard the song ‘Contender’? So good.
November 4, 2010 at 16:55
i want to go
November 4, 2010 at 16:57
Hey, I am unemployed and need to see this show, plus believe it or not I have never been to a show at the Holocene. I heard of this band from a friend in LA who has the best taste in music and I must see them live.
Cheers.
November 4, 2010 at 17:01
GOONY GOO GOO
November 4, 2010 at 17:15
Growing up in New York City I knew lead singer Kip Berman from playing shows with them. They used to open for us. Back then they called themselves “???” as in three question mark symbols. It was confusing and stupid, and most people thought they were ripping off the band !!!.
Well, despite that I felt bad for the guys ’cause they sucked so bad contrary to us, who were well on our way to getting a major record label deal. Back then our band was called The Pangs of Being Pure at Heart. One night I remember giving Kip a demo of some new amazing stuff we had been working on. I told him not to lose or copy it or show it to anyone else, as it was my only copy.
I never saw him or any of the band ever again. My band dissolved shortly after that fateful day, as that tape was my only copy and having it stolen panged my heart so much I found it hard to keep up the relentless schedule of a touring band.
Then on April of last year I was watching Carson Daly and a few familiar faces appeared on screen calling themselves a slightly different name that my band (Pains instead of Pangs). I watched in horror as they proceeded to play full fledged songs based on the style and melodies in the demo tape that I had regretfully handed Kip years ago.
Now these guys are the newest “indie darlings” and I want my just dues. I need to go to this show to settle the score between me and Kip and his bandmates once and for all!
November 4, 2010 at 17:21
Huge fan. Would really love to go!
November 4, 2010 at 18:51
i dont know them, but i just listened to them because pdx pipeline seems to like them and i think now i like them. that is all for now. thank you.
November 4, 2010 at 18:51
o and i will be a great time
November 4, 2010 at 21:19
I should get to see The Pains of Being Pure at Heart because I don’t judge bands by their terrible whiny emo names.
November 4, 2010 at 21:32
o.m.geez. Let’s not kids ourselves, I really just want to shake my booty, and since I have no basement, I pretty much need to go to this dance party. Really, it would be a public service.
November 4, 2010 at 21:45
Hello~ I hope to go to the NW Film & Video Festival | Portland Art Museum’s Whitsell Auditorium.
I really want to go there because I’m foriegner so I hope to see the Festival!
November 5, 2010 at 01:38
I want to win these tickets because I love the bands and have never been to this venue!! Please! :)
November 5, 2010 at 07:55
Pick me!
I love afro-beat!
November 5, 2010 at 12:20
put me down for wanting to see the pains of being pure at heart. sounds like a great way to kick off a sweet saturday night.
November 5, 2010 at 14:03
Pains of Being Pure at Heart!
November 5, 2010 at 14:22
I would love to win the tickets to The Pains of Being Pure at Heart since my husband was roomates with them and needs to see what can happen if he would get it together.Plus we really love Holocene.
November 5, 2010 at 15:21
If you give me tickets I’ll bring my g-friends and we’ll dance our asses off!!!