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If you’ve been to one of these festivals before, you know, that although you’d love to see every great band there, its impossible. Don’t even try; it’s just dumb. The reality is, you’re going to have to make some tough decisions and compromises; a band you’re kinda into vs. a band you’ve heard good things...

I probably don’t look hard enough, but I get the sense that the Indie Rock Conglomerate LLC has been skimping on the heavy shit lately. So the release of something like King of Jeans on a label like Sup Pop (didn’t those cats used to only release heavy shit?) will get me pretty excited these...

Check out the audio from the interview with Cage the Elephant below Cage the Elephant Interview by pinpointmusic Pinpoint music had the opportunity to speak with Daniel and Brad from Cage the Elephant after their Outside Lands performance on August 30th, 2009 in San Francisco, CA. The chance meeting may have only occurred because of...

It is 9:05 in the morning and I’ve posted myself up against a window at the Sacramento airport. As I’m sitting on the floor awaiting my flight back to San Diego I decide to start my review of the new self-titled Air Waves EP. I take out my laptop and plug in my headphones, push...

Remember in school, when the teacher would let you watch a Disney film to try and get a certain message across, some sort of lesson in morality. Or in science classes where you got to do a fun quiz that involved lots of shouting out answers and laughing. Red In Tooth And Claw by Dublin...

On Declaration Of Dependence, Norwegian lounge crooners, Kings Of Convenience, attempt to follow up 2004’s dinner party classic, Riot On An Empty Street, with an album of even barer acoustic tunes. It’s been a steady journey for the Kings. Releasing their low key debut in 2001 to lukewarm reception, Erlend Øye went on to dabble...

There has been a void in hip-hop for the last, oh, ten years – somewhere in between the thuggy, chain-tugging, champagne-spraying, dollar bill-counting video porn and the backpack-wearing head nodders; the sexiness I think Justin Timberlake has been talking about, was lost. But guess what J-Lake (that’s what I call him), it has been found,...

Attending a Rodrigo y Gabriela show is like submitting your soul to a hot, sweaty musical threesome. Sometimes gentle and intimate, sometimes aggressive and raw it’s an experience that leaves your ears entirely satisfied while longing for more. Yes, they are a male and female classical acoustic guitar duo that can play Metallica better than...

Heavy is a word that’s thrown around a lot nowadays. Every band that manages to squeeze a CHUN CHUN breakdown between each bar of music gets called heavy but I can only validate that as mindless and angry, not heavy. Even the trendy Drone artists are labelled heavy but it’s really just sub bass rumbles....

Cuándo bebes toda la cerveza. Cuándo haces todos las drugas, Cuándo gastas todo el dinero. Cuándo está nada que hacer pero a poner en su cama de hotel y vigilas el sol arde a través de la grieta en la ventana. Sonres. Temblas. Amas el mano eso tú eres y horrores sobrio por delante. Que...

Losing Feeling at first seems an odd choice of title for the latest EP by lo-fi indie rockers No Age, seeing as feeling and emotion are sewn liberally throughout. It’s a characteristically brief affair, with 2008’s critically acclaimed Nouns and their 2007 debut album Wierdo Rippers only lasting a touch longer than thirty minutes. Losing...

Good things are afoot yet again for independent experimental record label Kranky. The Chicago based duo running the highly revered imprint have been releasing some of the most influential and groundbreaking material within the experimental Electronics and eerie Ambient circles and the brand new debut full-length from Ethernet is in no way an exception. Conceptualized...