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, ...

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 ...

LESS IS MORE: Nine years ago I saw Pinback, a melodic indie rock band, in Atlanta at the now-defunct Echo Lounge. Pinback shared the bill that night with American Analog Set, an indie pop band.

San Diego’s post rock-meets-subdued pop duo Pinback has kind of been under the radar for the past five years. Rob Crow and Zach Smith took a break from recording new Pinback songs to focus on side ...