Rickshaw Stop x Noise Pop Festival 2026 Present: THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART Living Hour Chime School — The Pains of Being Pure at Heart are an American indie pop band from New York City. The band was formed by Kip Berman (vocals, guitar), Peggy Wang (keyboards, vocals), Alex Naidus (bass), and Kurt Feldman (drums) in 2007. The band is reuniting in 2025 to celebrate 15 years of their debut, self-titled album which was included on "The 30 Best Dream Pop Albums" list by Pitchfork. — On Internal Drone Infinity, Winnipeg’s Living Hour transforms the passage of time into something both urgent and sacred. Anchored by Sam Sarty’s vivid lyricism, shaped by years as a projectionist conjuring stories in a dark theater, the band explores the quiet magic hidden in everyday life. Their fourth album drifts between dreamy noise rock, folky slowcore, and fuzzy indie-pop, coining a genre all their own:“yearn-core.”With wistful vocals, textural distortion, and poetic detail, Living Hour capture the ache of memory, the mess of feeling, and the beauty in what remains. — Marrying the pristine jangle of electric 12-string guitars with nervy, hooky songs, San Francisco’s Chime School conjures a unique and instantly recognizable form of indie pop, rooted in the buoyant, driving pulse of their 1980’s and 90’s forebearers, while still locked in a kaleidoscopic stare with the genre’s 1960’s originators.Fresh off overseas tours to the UK, France, and Spain in support of their sophomore LP “The Boy Who Ran The Paisley Hotel” (Slumberland Records) Chime School are set to return to Noise Pop 2026 to support Slumberland Records labelmates PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART.