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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fans of indie rock band Pinback received disappointing news after frontman Rob Crow announced that he is canceling all touring ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

Pinback's leader, Rob Crow, has carved out a distinct identity as a storyteller with a unique sound — as heard on solo records, in numerous side projects, and in bands such as Heavy Vegetable.

Fans of indie rock band Pinback received disappointing news after frontman Rob Crow announced that he is canceling all touring plans for the foreseeable future due to chronic tinnitus, a condition ...