Now unfortunately we’ve all heard the story of band’s gear getting stolen. But how many times have we heard of a band’s gear being stolen mid-set, then getting it back, all without halting the music?

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. With an indie act as revered as San Diego’s Pinback—consisting of former roomates ...

As mentioned in the previous post, Kevin Rose diggs Pinback. And he’s not alone. The San Diego duo has been around for years making addictive, hypnotic laptop pop, hopscotching from sci-fi classic to ...

Too quirky for emo, too mellow for punk and too underproduced for the mainstream, Pinback belongs in an honorable league with Joan of Arc, American Football and Death Cab For Cutie. Like these bands, ...

Pinback frontman Rob Crow (also of other bands and a solo artist) plans to quit music (and social media) to focus on his family. He wrote on Facebook: I’m fine. I have just come to the realization ...

In a largely positive Washington Post review of Pinback’s 2004 album, Summer In Abaddon, critic Elaine Beebe Lapriore wrote, “Indie guitar rock has lain fallow of late, bearing less fruit of interest ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... For San Diego’s Pinback, a band that’s been around for 15 years and carved a unique (if somewhat monotonous) sound, doing what is expected seems like the ...

Rob Crow is laughing at me. We’re talking Pinback’s new set of songs, and after striking out again and again on my own interpretations, I’m drawing a blank on what the songs on the band’s new album, ...

Time can be unkind to indie’s progenitors. Bands either burn out or fade away, eclipsed by the newest trend with careers measured in years rather than decades. Pinback, the Southern California ...

Pinback broke its five-year hiatus from the studio to release 2012's Information Retrieved, another round of intricate though effortless guitar-and-bass interplay courtesy of rock 'n' roll's ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook From the title alone, you can draw two possible conclusions about Pinback’s fourth full-length ...

Pinback’s Rob Crow and Zach Smith touch down on a prehistoric planet in the new music video “Sherman,” exclusively premiered below. But their space boots follow in the obscure sci-fi footprints of ...