2026 started strong in our local music scene and it’s not slowing down yet — check out horn-driven fun, a Carpenters tribute, George Clinton, the return of local indie darlings Pinback, and much more.

Pinback‘s Autumn of the Seraphs turns 10 this September, and in celebration of the anniversary, they’ll begin a tour that same month playing the album in full. The tour hits NYC on October 8 at Irving ...

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?

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 ...

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 ...

Five years feels like an awfully long time in the music industry. In the age of Internet marketing, when music lovers devour new songs and records daily, the amount of tunes stuffed into the same ...

When I first get him on the phone, Pinback's Rob Crow tells me he's working on the biggest project he's ever tried to accomplish -- but he won't tell me what it is. It might be misdirection or a bit ...

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, ...

The reason I love Pinback is that they’re a comforting band to listen to. That might not sound like the most thrilling of reasons, but across five albums and thirteen years, San Diego’s Rob Crowe and ...

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 ...

Rob Crow has been making music for 20+ years, and has been doing so via countless projects, but he's best known for his work with Pinback -- his long-running project with Three Mile Pilot's Zach Smith ...