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Mary Pearson

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    August 15, 2011

    Live: High Places Play It Cool At Tammany Hall

    by Erin Rioux ​ High Places Tammany Hall Saturday, August 13 Better than: Listening to The Weeknd's record for the fourth time on repeat. The Los Angeles-via-Brooklyn duo High Places launched into their set on Saturday night with "Year Off," the first single off their forthcoming LP Origin ... More >>

  • Music

    March 30, 2010

    High Places Have Abandoned Us

    Ex-BK pop duo goes from creating a miniature California to living in the real thing

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2010

    Watch the New Glam, Grown, and Sexy High Places Video: "The Longest Shadow"

    Which you could easily subtitle "Still Life with Mary Pearson," or "High Places Closet Game on Smash." The new High Places single, "The Longest Shadow," is a lovely direction for them--like Blondie's "Rapture" turned lonely instead of coked-out, the band's wonky childishness grown into something m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2010

    High Places, Spooky House Jams, "On Giving Up"

    Really loving the woozy depressification going on with these guys. Photo by Katelyn Reeves.​Wow, word was that Mary Pearson and Rob Barber were doing something completely different for High Places vs. Mankind (out in April on Thrill Jockey) and October's "I Was Born" was pretty ethereal and da ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2009

    A Patient High Places Save Their New Song/Video for Halloween

    Your new-look High Places: sing-y, bassoon-y, spooky. "I Was Born," the single, is out today on Thrill Jockey; above is the duo's self-made video for the song, which is suitably scary and features what is either a nearly unrecognizable Mary Pearson or, alternately, an entirely different person. Th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 24, 2009

    High Places Release New Video, Mixtape

    If nothing else, this new and somewhat maddening High Places video--in which Rob Barber and Mary Pearson wander hills and dunes and trees for twelve long minutes to no particular purpose--is an excellent delivery vehicle for its song, the still-lovely and leisurely "Late Bloomer." Those looking fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2009

    High Places Relocate to Los Angeles, Join the Smell Club

    This is what happens to your face when you forsake Brooklyn Because it's important to know which blog luminaries you'll run into at the next Market Hotel show, we're here to tell you that High Places, thee of elementary-school performances and "winsome exotic-onica," are no longer a Brooklyn band, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2008

    Live: Gang Gang Dance, High Places, Conspiracies at Southpaw

    This is what happens to your face when you forsake Brooklyn Because it's important to know which blog luminaries you'll run into at the next Market Hotel show, we're here to tell you that High Places, thee of elementary-school performances and "winsome exotic-onica," are no longer a Brooklyn band, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2007

    Live: DIY Shows vs. Industry Parties

    This is what happens to your face when you forsake Brooklyn Because it's important to know which blog luminaries you'll run into at the next Market Hotel show, we're here to tell you that High Places, thee of elementary-school performances and "winsome exotic-onica," are no longer a Brooklyn band, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2007

    CMJ Day Three: Making the Most of Shitty Options

    This is what happens to your face when you forsake Brooklyn Because it's important to know which blog luminaries you'll run into at the next Market Hotel show, we're here to tell you that High Places, thee of elementary-school performances and "winsome exotic-onica," are no longer a Brooklyn band, ... More >>

  • Music

    July 24, 2007

    High on Life

    The intimate, danceable D.I.Y. psychedelia of High Places

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