It’s hard to nail down exactly what type of music Pinback plays (too complex for indie rock, too self-aware for prog) but to the sold-out crown at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on Sept. 27, it was ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pinback played Neumos on Tuesday, November 10 with Joe Jack Talcum.In theory, the idea of the singer + nothing but acoustic guitar is a great one. Stripping things down to their barest, most exposed ...

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 ...

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 says he’s pretty much quitting music, saying it’s “financially irresponsible to [his] family,” as well as “ultimately humiliating to my psyche.” The Pinback and Goblin Cock frontman posted on ...

Pro surfer Clay Marzo is the star of the soon-to-be released surf film, Just Add Water. The film captures his incredible skill in the water juxtaposed against his personal challenges living with ...

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, ...

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 ...

On Monday the comic book nerd Rob Crow spent some time at Marvel headquarters in Midtown Manhattan checking in on various superheroes, before joining his Pinback partner Zach Smith for a semi-reunion ...