Passion Pit News

If you thought that Boston-based synth-pop band Passion Pit was a coup for this year's Free Press Summer Festival , then just wait until you hear what else they have in store.

The first considerations when attending a music festival on the beach are sartorial.

The US quintet is returning to these shores for the first time since a triumphant set at the same venue in 2010.

Irresistible American dance poppers, Passion Pit announce their eagerly awaited return to our shores to perform at the Powerstation in Auckland on Thursday 25 July.

Jeremy Dennis and Robert Bannister are quietly cooking up 80s-tinged electro-alt pop that oozes romance and nostalgia.

Passion Pit's Michael Angelakos received the Beatrice Slim Media Award for helping to battle against the stigma of mental illness.

Last month at the Erasing the Stigma Leadership Awards, Passion Pit frontman Michael Angelakos was awarded the Beatrice Stern Media Award, described as an award for those who use "the power of the media to put a positive face on mental illness." Introducing the award, writer Shawn Amos said: "By shedding the weight of secrecy, Michael Angelakos ... (more)

The MSA/GPC Department of Student Activities brought Fun. to Jesse Auditorium in November.