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Mar 10, 2012 The Pains of Being Pure at Heart By Mark Redfern and Laura Studarus

Just a reminder that the not-to-be-missed digital version of Under the Radar’s “Best of 2011” issue (available for Mac, PC, iPad, and Android via Zinio here) includes the same articles that appear in the printed version—plus 100 extra pages of editorial content not found in the print edition. Included are extra photos of Beirut, Bon Iver, The Horrors, M83, Slow Club, Summer Camp, and tUnE-yArDs. The digital version features exclusive bonus interviews with Big Black Delta, Future Islands, Hooray for Earth, Lanterns on the Lake, Metronomy, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Real Estate, The War on Drugs, Wild Flag, and Zola Jesus.

The digital issue also features a section where artists look back on the career and impact of R.E.M., featuring reminiscences from PJ Harvey, as well as members of The Drums, Interpol, Pavement, Okkervil River, and Veronica Falls.

The digital version includes additional 2011 artist surveys from: The Bees, Body Language, Canyons, Com Truise, Comet Gain, Esben and the Witch, Fitz and the Tantrums, Forest Fire, Gayngs, Iceage, Korallreven,Lanterns on the Lake, Loney Dear, Lost in the Trees, Mirah, Kathryn Calder of The New Pornographers, Plants and Animals, Zach Rogue of Release the Sunbird and Rogue Wave, Rewards, Small Black, The Twilight Sad, Wavves, Weekend, When Saints Go Machine, and Xiu Xiu.

We also have bonus survey answers from: !!!, Art Brut, Camera Obscura, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., The Dears, The Drums, The Horrors, Marissa Nadler, Okkervil River, and Vivian Girls.

Selected quotes from the digital issue:

“There’s so much shit that you don’t know, that I don’t know. People were convinced the Earth was flat. Convinced!” – Big Black Delta’s Jonathan Bates

“With In Evening Air, all those songs are about the same girl—the anger and hurt after breaking up with somebody.” – Future Islands’ Samuel T. Herring

“One time we hired a boathouse by the river and had visuals and different things going on and made it quite a special experience coming to see us live.” – Lanterns on the Lake’s Hazel Wilde

“When I was making music and fucking around with singing and living in the countryside, I never imagined that one day I would be the singer in a band.” – Metronomy’s Joseph Mount

“I think deep down every band wants to have a really big deli plate in their dressing room.” – The Pains of Being Pure at Heart’s Kip Berman

“Mary [Timony] has this wonderfully mysterious, ethereal quality to her, and I think part of that mysteriousness comes with its own form of clumsiness.” – Wild Flag’s Carrie Brownstein

“I get upset when I hear a record I really like and I realize the things that I like about it weren’t done by the person whose face is on the record.” - Zola Jesus’ Nika Roza Danilova

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