The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart at Sonic Boom in Toronto

Frank Yang What happens when The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart meet the pains of being busted up in shoulder? You take advantage of the fact that said band used an off day on their touring itinerary to play an in-store a day before their official show, so as to avoid having to stand around The Opera House for three hours, possibly/probably looped on meds. Which is basically what happened on Monday night at Sonic Boom. Despite the fact that Pains’ self-titled debut was one of my favourites of 2009 , I hadn’t seen the New York outfit since their local debut that February , when their buzz was just building and their packed Lee’s Palace show was one of their largest audiences to date. I missed their next two local shows that same year, but obviously the past two...