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When the going gets tough, the tough get robotic. Isom Innis, the man-machine behind the Boston upstarts, Southern Belle recently underwent surgery as a result of heart arrhythmia. Doctors successfully replaced his aortic valve with a mechanical valve. Isom has since been balls to the wall busy, prepping his unique blend of melodic robo-rock for...

Outside it was 20 degrees, upstairs an inviting 75. In the basement of the Cake Shop, where Obits was playing their first night of a two night engagement, it was probably over 100; oddly enough that’s just about the perfect temperature to see these guys. Obits isn’t big on theatrics. Taking the stage in an unassuming...

If you haven’t yet allowed Nico Vega to assault your senses at a live show than now is as good a time as any. With a new tour just underway (dates below) there’s a good chance they’re coming to the ever-ambiguous “town near you”. If they aren’t coming within 500 miles of you (which is really the only excuse...

Pinpoint Music’s Top 25 Albums of 2009 You know where this conversation is going. You sit at a table of friends and strangers making friendly, inoffensive observations to perhaps increase your chances of approval, and amongst the friends and strangers you meet someone who seems like a decent person. After talking for some time, testing the waters...

The blood is real, the dick is not. The songs are sordid glam trash any GG devotee would fucking love if he weren’t so distracted by the skinhead drinking piss. The singer eating pussy. The surly bitch kicking him in the back of his head for objectifying the half-naked makeout pit. So, yeah…it’s good. It’s damage,...

Here’s the third installment in my awkward stumblings into these things called “music” and “being in a band.” The last time we were at the Bunk warehouse space in Cincinnati, there wasn’t anything in it. It was a massive, decaying, blank box of a room. You know, an empty warehouse. Not that this is necessarily a...

Simian Mobile Disco has embarked on a nation wide tour this fall and will performing in LA on Nov 24th at the Mayan Theatre. Pinpoint Music is giving away 2 prize packs that both include tickets to the show and a lot more! 1 Grand Prize winner Gets 1 copy of Simian Mobile Disco’s new album Temporary...

I needed a day off from guitarists who squeeze into tight black jeans. From lead singers wearing clever, size-too-small, t-shirts that I don’t understand. From drummers who look like their last hair cut was collaboration between Robert Smith and Flock of Seagulls lead Mike Score. More over, I needed a break...

If you haven’t seen the Rival Sons live you need to find their next tour date within three states of you, shake down your deadbeat friends for cash, and hit the road. Listening to Rival Son’s debut Before The Fire once you’ve seen them live is a completely different and more cerebral experience. The live...

MGMT, Girl Talk, MSTRKRFT, Brazilian Girls, The Streets, Passion Pit and Murs all on the same day on an island in the San Francisco Bay? Sounds like Day 1 of the 2009 Treasure Island Music Festival, arguably the better of the several San Francisco summer music festivals. Only, Pinpoint Music will never know. It may or...

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...

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...